Avoid mine. For your own sanity. RUN.

zomgitsalvie: a what? Lolol

Lol. Vaki I saw that plurk when I woke up and eye rolled, stepped away. I didn't find the discussed plurk racist tbh. I found it funny

and that picture's been making the rounds on my RL fb for a while. Most of my Chinese friends found it funny, but i think it's like

Americans making fun of redneck Americans etc. it's all in the context IMO

Yeah, I can see that. That's something we were discussing (in another plurk that wasn't going completely batshit): context matters.

In/out group dynamics matters. What I find distasteful is a bunch of people who don't know anything about the Chinese language pointing and

laughing like 'Ha ha, that language sounds so dumb.' It's much different to be part of the group, laughing at yourselves.

Internet needs to be a constant balance of courtesy and sense of humour. When either gets too overwhelming there needs to be a dialback

I think we all underestimate how hard it actually is to put that into practice when our sore points are prodded