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Not sure what to say without being labeled a racist. Granted I hate going to the movie theater, mostly because I hate damn near everyone in the theater who is not quite.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

Nothing beats a professional "finder of racism", employed by the taxpayers, to pull the race-card looking for a payday.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Not quite what?

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Holy shitsnacks!

quiet

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Black people are loud in the theater. There. I said it.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

This.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Ya know I know a certain black preacher who had some rather damning comments about this kind of thing. I'm shocked no ones brought that up yet.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

This hasn't been my experience up here in MN. Black patrons are basically indistinquishable from white ones. Which is to say, some individuals are loud or impolite, and others are not. Race isn't really a factor.

Wasn't the case in Montreal either (at least not when I lived there back in the 90s), but it is the case here in NYC. Not as bad as the Chris Rock routine makes it seem, but definitely enough to be annoying at times.

Not here. When it's someone being loud at the wrong time, it's a black person the vast majority of the time. Especially if it's a horror film.

These are the things I've found to be true of most black folks here.

They don't like dogs. Unless it's a pitbull they own.
They are loud in theaters.
They love to fish.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Black people are loud everywhere.

Exactly. If I go to see a horror film and there is a large group of my brothers and sisters there, I skip to a different theater.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

and as soon as you go making statements about vast groups of people based solely on the color of their skin, you are in fact, racist.

It's not racist to make a decision based on past experience with a common demographic. The fact that the demographic might be "black people" instead of "lawyers," "doctors," or "republicans" doesn't make it automatically racist.

I used to go to movies a lot. I'm talkin three or four a week. Know what my anecdotal experience has taught me? White people use cellphone lights or whispers to communicate, black people like to throw out commentary during the film ("Run, *****!") and Mexican people like to show up late in groups. Your mileage may vary, but I can guarantee at least two of these would happen if I went to a movie theater this evening.

Unless you go by, you know, the primary definition of racism, or something foolish like that.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Yet another lib with the white guilt complex who doesn't know what racism is. Big surprise.

You're not racist if you hate everyone equally ^-^

oh and we don't have a loud black population here, it's the asians you gotta look out for. And Lebanese, but they tend to stick to one area and you can avoid them during peak times...

I avoid cinemas just cause I like to eat, walk around, and possibly smoke, so DVDs or pirated stuff for me

nevermind. pearls before swine....

Liberals. Losing at the Internet since 1993.

Smoking is so underrated. It's at least as good as drinking. I don't do either much though.

Depends what you smoke, I guess. Alcohol is definitely preferable to crack.

Have you ever tried crack? I haven't. I like tobacco but I don't think I like marijuana.

You smoke alcohol Lenas?

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

No, The Riov is right here. If you walk into a theater, see black people, and expect them to behave in a certain way, that is racist. It may suck when they confirm your stereotype, but holding it is still racist. The problem is that you are in fact expecting them to behave in a certain way because of their race.

Oh, yes, you can say that it's "culture," and I will agree, to an extent. The question is - does their culture spring from their race? The inability to at all see it as a result of the socio-economic situation of blacks is in fact racist.

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I meant, "[drinking] alcohol would be preferable to [smoking] crack."


I have not nor do I plan on ever smoking crack. I prefer marijuana over alcohol, and I can't stand cigarettes. Cigars can be enjoyable.