Wherein Ryuu Sinks To A New Low

Cala here. First, hope our Canadian readers had an enjoyable Canada Day. Also hope our American readers had a safe Fourth of July. And I really hope that no one ended up with a bottle rocket in the eye or anything else that would require a visit to the nice people in the emergency room.

Right, I was gonna upload more concrit for LZ, but I found some extremely disturbing comments of Ryuu's. My apologies to LZ, but the concrit's going to have to wait.

We've covered Ryuu's sexism at least twice. We've covered Ryuu's homophobia numerous times. I stupidly thought this was the worst of it, but whoops, I was wrong.

This post has little to nothing to do with his homophobia or sexism. The problem is that it DOES deal with two kinds of bigotry I thought we wouldn't have to touch on.

Yep, this means exactly what you think it means. I stumbled on some evidence that Ryuu's a racist. At the very least I can pretty much confirm that he's severely xenophobic. I'm going to be covering both the probable racism and xenophobia today, by the bye. 

This may be offensive to some of our readers (it offended the hell out of me, honestly.) so I would suggest reading on with care.  If I use incorrect terminology at any point in this, by the way, let me know, please? I have no desire to offend anyone with this, and if I've used anything incorrectly I want to fix that. 

So exhibit the first is over here :

The downside was actually the people, no less. No manners whatsoever. Most of the shopkeepers are foriegn,[sic] too.

Okay, kids. I've talked about this with my brother from another mother, as he's English and was an extremely valuable resource while writing this (thanks a million, dude!).

He prefers to go by Yiazmat, is kind of completely revolted by how Ryuu treats people and confirmed for me what I think most people already know: London is an extremely multicultural city. And in London or anywhere else, there is of course NOTHING wrong with being an immigrant.

Unless you're Ryuu, I guess. Which I find EXTREMELY ironic because unless he's of Native descent in all probability he (like myself and every other non-Native person in the US) has multiple immigrant ancestors. Whoopsie. Anyway...

One guy was on the phone the entire time while wrapping my two mugs, never said a word to me and it was all a language I don't know

Because in the US, you've never had a cashier take a call while checking you out because no one else was able to? Really?I doubt that something fierce, personally. 

What if it was one of his family calling because someone in his family is sick or dying, Ryuu? Did you even consider that? Guessing no.

Yeah, in London, an ENGLISH major city

I'll let Yiazmat sum everything up nicely, as he's good at that. His direct response to that line of Ryuu's journal is as follows:

“It's also a very fuckin' multicultural city, douchebag. English may be the national language and the most widely spoken, but it ain't an exclusively-used one.”

And this is why Yiazzy is actually my long lost twin brother. Anyway, even pretty circumstantial evidence will back up his statement. For example, Wikipedia's article on London's demographics:

According to the Office for National Statistics, based on 2009 estimates, 69.7 per cent of the 7,753,600 inhabitants of London were White, with 59.5 per cent White British, 2.2 per cent White Irish and 8.0 per cent classified as Other White. Some 13.2 per cent are of South Asian descent, with Indians making up 6.2 per cent of London's population, followed by Pakistanis and Bangladeshis at 2.8 per cent and 2.2 per cent respectively. 2.0 per cent are categorised as "Other Asian". 10.1 per cent of London's population are Black, with around 5.3 per cent being Black African, 4.0 per cent as Black Caribbean and 0.8 per cent as "Other Black". 3.5 per cent of Londoners are of mixed race; 1.8 per cent are Chinese; and 1.7 per cent belong to another ethnic group.

Across London, Black and Asian children outnumber White British children by about six to four in state schools. [...]

Hey, guess what, Ryuu?

You don't get to walk into someone else's house and tell them how to act, how to speak, how to behave or how to dress. That's essentially what you did. A city as large and as clearly diverse as London? Stop and think for a second. There is no way everyone will speak English.

Also, English is one of the hardest languages to learn, with all the homonyms, synonyms, homophones, idioms, etc. It's extremely unreasonable to expect someone to learn to speak English just because you don't speak their language. Moving on again, and I really wish this was the last of it. No, this just gets progressively worse.

Another was from india (I could tell by the mark on her forehead)

THAT'S NOT A SIGN OF BEING INDIAN, IGNORAMUS. THAT'S A BINDI. And guess what? PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF INDIA WEAR THEM. Since you won't get off your high horse about everyone needing to speak English the least you could do is learn to read. The article I linked is a good place to start. God, this crap goes on and on:

and tried to pull a fast one on Stephie's dad about a sign - a sign said two "Fruit Shoot" drinks

On a completely unrelated note, does that sound like a euphemism or what? … Sorry, I had to make at least one joke before I went completely mad.  I'll stop. Back to the BS:

for £1. But she claimed the sign was not there, so he had to go and show her the sign, but even then, she brought a manager. Stephie thinks it's because she can't read the sign

HOW CAN SHE “PULL A FAST ONE” IF SHE HASN'T BEEN IN ENGLAND LONG ENOUGH TO LEARN TO READ THE LANGUAGE? Just because someone doesn't read English doesn't mean they're a moron or a con artist.

Anyhow, the manager made sure he got his discount because "That's what the sign said, so he's entitled to it". But a look over his shoulder showed him the sign got taken down right after, so I guess we got the last deal.

Wow, does he sound disgruntled about that or is it just me? Look, sometimes, signs aren't taken down immediately and this crap happens. It's happened to me, it's happened to you, it's happened to a bunch of people. I'd be glad I was the last one to get it instead of bitching.

So, fast forward a year or so later, he's gone back to the UK and this happens.

More specifically, this:

One scoop of ice cream for £1-80 and a Pizza Hut's "pan pizza" for £10! No thanks...

So after some brief consultation with Yiazmat and some calculations of exchange rates in summer 2011, we worked out that that's roughly $2.50 US for a scoop of ice cream. And that's apparently a medium pizza, which wrks out to roughly $15 US.

Which, considering tax is already worked in over in the UK, is PROBABLY WHAT HE WOULD PAY IN AMERICA FOR A PIZZA AND ICE CREAM, DEPENDING ON TAX AND THE PLACE YOU ATE AT.

Do your research before flapping your cockholster like that,please. (And thank you Mr. Ron White for coining that phrase.)

Right, you're thinking this is all just vaguely xenophobic, right? Yeah, about that... I'd stop reading right about now if racism is a serious trigger for you, actually. As I don't want anyone breaking stuff out of fury.

Because this isn't xenophobia. This is out and out racism. I'm not even gonna try to transcribe this, as it pisses me off pretty badly.  There's a screenshot contained instead.

_{There are... NO words.}

How this particularly awful bit of bigotry came into existence? Well, in this quiz, he refers to his race as 'Cocasion[sic]'.

This lead to someone called Hoodcom asking what Cocasion[sic] is, with good reason. Because, well... It's spelled Caucasian, and as I've already stated, Ryuu's language skills are pretty damn poor. Bordering on 'barely literate' at times, really.

Back to this... Whatever this horrifying display of jerkassery is. This clusterfuck of a racist comment. Hey, that works. So where do I start with this? I think I'll start with implication that there's only three races, because that's actually the least awful.

In Ryuu's mind, I guess "white," "black" and "Asian” are all that matters. Ignoring the fact that "white," "black" and 'Asian' aren't even races. You aren't from Whiteland, Ryuu.  And neither are your ancestors.

And of course, Ryuu ignores the existence of Native Americans (who are an extremely diverse group of people in and of themselves), people of Hispanic descent, Pacific Islanders, Middle Easterners and a whole bunch of other races and cultures that I can't fit in here without making this a HUGE post.

Well, crap. I'm really not looking forward to this, but now we're at the more seriously offensive part of the post. And I have to tackle the rest of it now.

But first, time for a quick break before the worst of it so I can try and put this off a bit more because holy shit this is really uncomfortable for me . Have some of my friends' first impressions when shown the comment:

Yiazmat: "...... Holy....”

Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way: “.... WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. Fucking fuck sakes!”

Rinku: “Holy fuck, Ryuu. You don't say shit like that. What the hell is wrong with you?”

A friend of mine offline: “WHAT. WHAT. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT.”

Patch: “WOW. WOW, dude. I... wow, two in one sentence.”

EDIT (6 July '12): itinimac: "WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD IS THAT? That's... Far too much. O.O"

EDIT (7 July 2012): Alethea: ".... If I ever have a child like this, shoot me. And shoot it, because I don't want it running loose in society."

Ryuu, I know this comment was made in 2007, but you were nearly 18 years old.

YOU SHOULD KNOW YOU DON'T CALL ANYONE OF AFRICAN DESCENT WHAT YOU DID AT THAT POINT IN YOUR LIFE. NO ONE BORN BEFORE PROBABLY 1950 SHOULD BE USING THAT PARTICULAR WORD UNLESS THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT A SCHOLARSHIP FUND. HOLY SHIT, I AGREE WITH RINKU. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?

As if that wasn't enough, he managed to stuff two large doses of bigotry into one fucking sentence. The other remark? Yeah, racism against Asians.

Home furnishings can be oriental. I'm told there's a brand of ramen with a flavor that's described as oriental. BUT A PERSON IS NOT ORIENTAL.

Like with the previous term, that's a definite no-no if you were born after 1950 or so. But for some reason this isn't super-well-known. However, people from Asia are just that: ASIAN. And if you know their actual ancestry or country of origin, even better! In that case, whether the individual is Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc., you should use their nationality instead of just Asian.

Actually, that applies to ANY person. If you know their country of origin/ancestry, use it. Don't just call them [general catchall]. Sometimes they may be [ancestry/country of origin]-[country they/their parents immigrated to], i.e. Chinese-American, Irish-Canadian, etc.

And if you know someone of Native descent and you're aware of their tribe, you say they're from that specific tribe, not Native American. I didn't think I'd ever have to explain this to a fucking adult.

So I could go on all day here, but the long and the short of it is that Ryuu, you are a disgusting person and if you were able to get your head out from your own backside, we would have a lot less shit to throw at you.

Also,, I kind of lied when I said this post had little to nothing to do with Ryuu's sexism. I saw this comment on his page while writing this entry and felt compelled to mention it.

_{Oh for god's sake, are you twelve? No. I'm embarrassed}

_{on your behalf.}

It looks like another round of generic kissing his girlfriend's ass, right? But If you supposedly love someone that much, why not praise her for some of her own attributes? You know, the ones that have nothing to do with you.

Everything about that (except 'she's incredibly generous', and damn that's pretty vague) focuses on how she kisses his ass. He gave us a whole spiel about how he'd sworn a vow to begin dislodging his head from his own rectum, but he's done nothing to live up to it.

Ryuu, you may recall I told you I wouldn't believe a word of you trying to change until you began showing it. You're doing a very poor job in that regard, and still show very visible signs of sexism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and being an egomaniac. And that's why we've had to add a Bigotry tag.

On a closing vaguely humorous note, while I was screencapping the pretty horrendous racist comment. this article  popped up on dA's journal portal. On how to receive critique and not look like a wankstain. 

Yiazmat's take on the (very kind) article once he'd finished with it:

"Man, it felt like that whole article was directed at Ryuu. That is not a good thing." 

Ain't that the truth.