While waiting for our bill I saw the owner come up behind a waitress (think John Travolta at the Oscars) and bite her on the shoulder. It looked like a playful bite, not painful, but still a bite. The waitress didn't even smile, let alone laugh. A few minutes later, I saw the owner approach the same waitress and…

D. If you don't, then just comment scoldily on social media. The more words, the better.

Double privilege doesn't cancel itself out, dude. Maybe just keep it to yourself next time you're sure you have some "I know this much, so" perspective to offer.

The meanings of cultural artifacts are not permanently fixed. This is now a date-rape song.

in other words, just another voice with nothing concrete to offer. Thank you for your honesty.

"The same wedding" as the one where it was hanging on a rack?

You don't deserve some special credit for "a genuine effort to communicate." That's baseline decency, not amazing generosity. You join a conversation to undermine the complaints of person who's offended by a racially hateful post to tell them that they don't actually have grounds to be, and you're surprised that their…

I'm a native English speaker also from the U.S., so please hit reverse on the condescending explanation of what English terms mean. "Son of a bitch" can have the jocular fun sense you claim it has among established and close-knit peer groups, but so can "nigger" or "cunt," and I think we understand that on the…

I feel like you have continually avoided discussing the main thrust of why I am offended here, and I can't tell if it's because I am not stating it clearly enough or because ignoring it suits your argument better, but to be totally clear:

The reason is because those are pictures of a dress with the same design pattern, which is not the same thing as the same dress.

Thanks for the comment. I mean that without snark, because you've explained to me pretty clearly the reasoning for why people might not find TheRealKanra's comment offensive or inappropriate to the spirit of the site, something he/she apparently was above doing.

Would it be considered racist for an Englishman to say that about the French?

Yes, you've clearly shown that you're not a racist and that you care about whether what you say comes off as hateful and offensive or not. I'm going to lose a lot of respect for this site and its principles if that is allowed to stay.

There's a vast difference between toying with someone and continuing not to admit that you're wrong when you have been shown to be wrong. Seriously, apologize for the original comment or fuck off. I honestly can't believe Kotaku is even allowing it to stay up.

"You will ignore any logical explanation I provide in favor of believing your own baseless delusions."

You "made a joke" expressed hatred for an ethnic group/nation of people, and have doubled down on it after being called on it rather than apologizing or learning anything from the offense taken. You're acting as a racist acts, regardless of whatever your deep down feelings are that you think make it impossible for you…

Make the argument, or else you're just stating opinions.

Please, begin your undoubtedly predictable lecture on what "technically" a "race" actually "is," and why "the people of the nation of Japan" are "technically" not that. I sincerely want to hear it.

"Japanese isn't a race." Keep digging that hole, there.

...Aaaaand now we've identified the real underlying issues behind the argument you were having about Japan's military capabilities. This is actually massive explanatory and vindicating to see; you're a racist. Good job keeping it relatively subtle before, though, I guess.