I love the background footage of smallant jumping around, failing to kill a phantom for like 1 min and then goes back to jumping around. I really gained knowledge from that
I was going to say "Oh those accidental childhood racisms are so embarrassing", but damn, doing it at that age is so much more than embarrassing. That's haunting. 10/10 chuckles from me.
Yea wearing clothing is racist now not to mention those items described ain't just the KKK you know armour actually looked like that before as long as it didn't have a cross on it then it's just a piece of clothing
Can relate to the ignorance, i grew up not knowing racism still existed, where i live it's 98% hispanic (only Mexican origin) and as a kid I thought racism used to exist but Martin Luther King Jr and Ghandi got rid of it
Ik it’s not on-topic but you just reminded me of a funny story When I was younger (can’t remember exact age) I thought that when Lincoln died, he exploded and turned into pennies. No joke, I legit thought that
Honestly I already experienced to racism in the past during my childhood as a Jewish boy who is also 1/8 Asian through my mother's side and the rest being white. My father is Jewish. Specifically this involved in antisemitism where one of my friends in my school was drawing a swastika on one of his papers and it shocked my teacher a lot. And I felt really disappointed about this.
the worst thing is not knowing you've done something wrong and everyone just kinda yells or just shoves you away silently and your asking whats wrong and noones gonna say anything
@@-Teague-Not when your experience is hearsay or history books. None of those teachers were _really_ affected by WW2, not when most if not all of them weren't even born yet, so they should really be able to handle themselves and explain in a reasonable manner without acting like they're experiencing vietnam flashbacks.
@@alzhanvoidsansado 1. WW2 still affects people who weren't born at the time, as they may have had relatives who died fighting in it or as victims of the Holocaust 2. The KKK still exist and racial hate crimes continue to happen. It's not some past thing that "oh racism used to happen but Martin Luther King Jr sprinkled everyone with holy water and now we all love black people" racism still affects people in horrible ways and should be taken very seriously. The teachers wouldn't have known at first that the KKK adjacent design wasn't intentional, so reacting strongly is fully reasonable.
This reminds me of a story a friend told me: A long time ago when he was still a small kid, there he was on the schoolyard of his elementary school with some chalk in his hand. Earlier, somewhere he saw something that looked interesting and started drawing it on the ground. Suddenly the teachers became really upset and they even called his parents to school. He had absolutely no idea why everyone was angry, what he did wrong and was just intimidated and confused. Only after his parents arrived, he was told that the thing he was drawing was really bad, but how should a maybe 7 years old kid know? Apparently he was drawing swastikas on the ground. Of a catholic elementary school. In germany.
The amount of times I have accidentally drawn those while doodling because I just think, "Let's draw scythes that are go in one direction like a windmill" but of course I'm too lazy to make it curved, so I realize and immediately connect the lines. One of these days someone's gonna be looking at my paper as I draw it and make a very bad assumption.
I remember seeing a swastikas in a Tim and Moby during class, not knowing any sort of context of it outside of what they showed of it, which was like 3 seconds and in regards to Buddhism or some other religion, I can't remember it's been so long. I thought it was neat and started drawing them since it was easy. Hadn't learned about WW2 or anything of that sort of nature yet, I was 11. No one believed me??? People really are just super quick to jump onto the "they're purposefully trying to be racist, what a bad child" even when they're children rather then the obvious much more reasonable thought of "They just don't know." I actually had to end up moving schools because of this because it spread so quickly.
oh my god my younger brother also drew swastikas on a like old letter and my mother ripped it out of his hands with him being really confused as to why because he thought it was okay considering he saw it written at school walls funnily enough this was also in germany
The way this story starts out and slowly descends into "Oh no, please not what I think it is" and then "yes, it is", is great. 10/10 storytelling. Also "accidentally does a racism" sounds like something out of Top Gear, IDK why.
TONIGHT, ON TOP GEAR HAMMOND LEDGES A FORMAL COMPLAINT WITH THE DUTCH SUPREME COURT MAY IS ISSUED A DIAGNOSIS FOR ASPERGERS SYNDROME AND DECIDES TO GET SMASHED AND I RE-INVENT AN ANCIENT MEDIEVAL WAR CRIME
“The Toyota Supra! Made in one of the best factories ever made, by multiple kkk members, she can go 0-60 in just under 2 seconds, while doing over 765 n words a minute” Staggy, here with me, is here to test out both the car and the fragility of white strangers!”
it didnt go where i thought bc when i thought of children making clothes out of newspaper i thought to myself “aw shit someones gonna get flashed” then i heard they were using white posterboard and thought “aw shit they painted the black kid white” then he mentioned the hat and i finally thought “aw shit they made a KKK uniform”
I remember my mom told me when I was little that when she and I were in the checkout line of Walmart and there was a black man in front of us I literally blurted out “look mommy that man’s made of chocolate milk” and he just turned around and laughed. She had to explain that I was autistic and didn’t know I couldn’t just say these things. Thankfully he was a really chill guy, and I wish I could talk to em to this day
I'm autistic and I had a similar event. I watched a lot of old WWII cartoons and when I was 8 I went up to a Japanese friend of mine and did the squinty-eyes thing, not understanding the severity of it and thinking she'd find it funny. She was very calm about it and was like "That's very offensive to my culture" and I genuinely felt really bad, but she forgave me. Kids are dumb lmao
I remember when i was in second grade, i heard that people's skin got a bit darker when they got a tan. My little kid mind processed that as, "Wow, black people must spend a lot of time outside!" I then proceeded to try to stay outside in the sun as long as i could to try to get a tan like that because i thought black people looked really cool. I ended up getting a really bad sunburn
It's wild because in Animal Crossing: New Leaf that actually is how that works during summer, as long as you're not using a helmet or umbrella ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In my school, all student’s projects were on a shared drive, but you couldn’t open them without a password. So you could see everyone’s titles, but couldn’t read it unless they let you But I was so confused when I got pulled into the principal’s office, and was told to give them my password, and explain why I had a file called “The advantages of being black” I had no idea what I did wrong. It was a persuasive essay on why I liked going second in chess
@@leannehetherington2164 Mostly a lot of confused looks and a couple face palms lol Everyone was too awkward to tell me exactly why I was there, so I didn’t even realize until like 5 minutes later when it just suddenly hit me ^^;;;;
@@fivebrosstopmosproblem is they stole their main symbol from eastern religions and every other part of their design is just the cliché "cool villain" stuff like leather, black and red colour scheme and skulls. Not even the most fashionable hate group in human history had a shred of originality.
One of my most painful memories from school was an accidental racism. I was in a big friend group, bunch of nerdy people and we had this corridor the like 50 of us would occupy during breaks. We all got on but it's not like everyone knew who was around them at all times. I heard someone behind me talking really fast and excited, like 300 wpm to the point where their speaking was almost unintelligible. I thought I'd poke fun at it, and made a bunch of quick sounds to imitate her speaking, kinda dumb but I was a teenager. Now, I wasn't thinking too much about what noises I was making, just wanted to say something quickly and any noise would do. What I ended up doing was a bunch of "ching" "chi" "cho" noises. The person speaking, who I didn't know exactly who it was before I turned around, was a Chinese friend of my friend. Looked incredibly intentional but I didn't even realise who exactly was speaking until I turned around. I fucking hate how dumb and awkward that was
@@doomse150 Oh yeah, looking back now it would have been bad even if it had gone well, but it was impulsive and kids are dumb. Just frustrating that like a decade on I still cringe thinking about it.
The best moment in these situations is that second where you realize that there was a point of no return, and you crossed it before you even knew it existed. There's just no recovering at that point- nothing you can do to justify the situation. You simply have to sit there and remember the moment for the next 20 years every night.
i had an incredibly odd nightmare where something similar happened. i was in a school cafeteria when i think i was reaching for popcorn or something? then for some reason i couldn't move, my eyes were shut, my mouth couldn't move, i couldn't breathe, and my joints were locked in a certain salute. for some reason after like 30 seconds it felt like i way being picked up and shortly after, cheering started. i was then thrown off a building i think. def the strangest and one of the worst nightmares i've had.
@@Gg-tl1cc apparently the kkk are just catholic extremist and copied your uniform. They think their cleansing the world… almost nobody initially does evil but that doesn’t mean much. you can see just about anything can be distorted or corrupted. The original kkk even said a prayer before their meeting and everything.
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@@zachariz1490 I am Canadian and I was taught what the KKK was pretty early on, I would say around 11-13 years old. But not every school has the same curriculum, and the community often affects what is taught in schools. Major religion or political leaning absolutely affect what kids see early on despite those things supposedly not being allowed to affect teaching. That being said, I was told off by a classmate of mine when I was 10 or so, there was a bit of dead skin on my middle finger, and I was holding just my middle finger out as I picked it off. "You CAN'T do that, it is offensive!" I wasn't even pointing it at anyone or saying anything, just doing some bodily function without the knowledge of other peoples' ill intent.
@@zachariz1490 I keep seeing people say this, Canadians are taught more than you think lmao. We learn a lot about the US. It's just a small town thing, even some small towns in the US don't learn about stuff like that
@@LiilYogurt i am canadian. The kkk is never really taught in class. Some teachers talk about it but most of the people i know learned what it was from external sources
@@zachariz1490 I'm also Canadian, and I did learn what the KKK was in school. So like I said, it's not all of Canada that doesn't get taught it, it's just some schools do and other schools don't
When I was 4 in kindergarten, my mom asked me who my friends were. She then asked about an African American kid and I said: "No." She then asked "why?" time slowed... the answer was that I simply didn't like him... but... as a kid I was told you're not supposed to say you don't like someone, so I can't say that.... What do I say? Then I had the biggest brain blast as I formed the perfect lie answer: "His color is weird." I did not actually care about his skin color, nor did I at the age of 4 understand the implications of my answer. I remember the disappointment of my Mom when I said that answer.
@@christianp.7675 that's why i hate children but damn is it funny when they say random things while thinking they are brilliant. Depends on the context though
That reminds me of the one time i was in 6th grade and had to write a story using an entirely original character and i could never make names so i asked my friend what to do about a name and he said "switch the first letters of a characters first and last names" And so my story was the adventures of Fuck Hinn.
Something similar to this happened to me once! In my 8th grade Spanish class, we were doing some sort of unimportant activity where we were divided into teams. Each team had to choose a name to go by. My team decided on the name "Cool Kids Club," and to make it extra cool, we decided to change the c's into k's to make it the "Kool Kids Club". And that's how I learned what the KKK was!
I had the reverse of this situation at school, I was doing a project on the Sauwastika, which is the left facing Hindu swastika and absolutely not related to race in any way shape or form. A teacher saw my work, grabbed it and ripped it up while yelling at me and then attempted to drag me into the principals office. The teacher was one of those short angry losers that only became a teacher for the power, so I just pushed him off me and laughed while I walked away. I was in good terms with my principal (she had seen me without pants on before, she was sewing my pants up but it sounds funnier that way), she ended up suspending the teacher without pay and went as far as saying he should be embarrassed about his actions, not because he tried to manhandle a 16 year old but because that 16 year old manhandled him. This wasn’t the last physical interaction I had with him as he eventually got fired for multiple things but the biggest was arguably the fact he tried to take up skirt pictures of students “for evidence” of “wasted paint” because we were finger painting our girl friends legs in art class. He wasn’t fired immediately for some strange reason, probably an investigation, but he sure as shit didn’t come back to school for the week until he was
I remember having an arguement with my mother as an 8 year old because she was trying to explain racism to me (I asked how they figured out who would be a slave in early America). Apparently, the idea of disliking someone based on skin color was so unfathomable to me that I told her she was lying and that adults would never be that dumb. Man, I wish i was right. For context, I loved history, and the history channel did a lot on the civil war when I was young. This was before ancient aliens and stuff
tbf the real way they picked was just from whoever was selling slaves in the most convenient spot. then the racism was invented to try and justify the inhumanity
@@goldenfeather3687 I am Canadian and I was taught what the KKK was pretty early on, I would say around 11-13 years old. But not every school has the same curriculum, and the community often affects what is taught in schools. Major religion or political leaning absolutely affect what kids see early on despite those things supposedly not being allowed to affect teaching. That being said, I was told off by a classmate of mine when I was 10 or so, there was a bit of dead skin on my middle finger, and I was holding just my middle finger out as I picked it off. "You CAN'T do that, it is offensive!" I wasn't even pointing it at anyone or saying anything, just doing some bodily function without the knowledge of other peoples' ill intent.
Happened to me once: I'm from Germany (bet you can already tell where this is going) amd when I was in 4th grade I had really bad stomach ache once and was send to the hospital for a few days. There was a tv in my room but there were only a few channels I could watch. One of them was a history/documentation channel (called NTV) which shows a lot of Hitler and Nazi documentations. At this time I didn't understand what the holocaust was and I just watched it because the narrator had such a calming voice. I watched this channel for hours and obviously saw a lot of swastikas and I thought they kinda looked cool. When I was back in school I got bored during class and I started drawing swastikas all over the back of my hands. I sat in the front row so the teacher saw what I was doing. She instantly got really mad and went to the bathroom with me where she removed the symbols from my hand. After that I got lectured really bad for 15 minutes and I cried because I still didn't know what I've done wrong. This story still haunts me to this day 10 years later
Goddamn, dude. I’m so sorry you had to experience that. The first episode you’d coincidentally found on that holocaust documentary was the one where they didn’t explain the holocaust because they assumed the audience already knows. Paired with the fact that your teacher didn’t handle the situation accordingly. You were just a kid after all.
I remember one time the teacher gave us a large box of markers to color a drawing with. Everyone had to go up to the box and get their markers from there. I went to get a black marker to go over the lines of my drawing (I've never had the patience to color within the lines) and none of them worked. I ended up yelling something that, in my native language, could be interpreted as either “fucking black markers” (what I was trying to say) or “fucking black people” (what pretty much everyone understood). _The teacher was black._
@@minaashido518 it's not the same word. My native language is Spanish, where the grammatical subject of a sentence can be omitted. What I said was “putos negros”, which in this context can be interpreted to mean either of the translations above.
Finally, an English speaker who knows that _nazarenos_ (what those people are actually called) have nothing to do with KKK. Us Spaniards have trouble with tourists accusing us of racism every single year.
When I was 14 I decided to go out for Halloween dressed as the President of the United States. Only, I chose to go out as the current president....Who, needless to say, definitely didn't have the same skin color as me. I did blackface and not a single person, adult or otherwise, said anything about it. Small towns can be extremely sheltered from things that seem like common sense to most people.
I dunno, I feel that it's a bit more acceptable when it's halloween. I mean, you're not intending any kind of offense or stereotype portrayal, you're just dressing up as the president. Absolutely that's terrible if you were dressing up as a generic black guy, but when you're that sheltered and wholesome intent, I just can't find it objectionable
I mean, it’s not like there’s actually anything wrong with that anyway. If a black kid went as the current president, it wouldn’t be wrong for him paint his face white.
I’m gonna have to agree with Sam on this one, what you did didn’t have any racist or bad intent, but let’s just say you probably couldn’t get away with that today
why would it be a bad thing? you're not mocking him for his skin color. you're just imitating him and one of his most distinguishable features is his skin color
I’m Asian and my parents would always tell me to avoid the sun, stay in the shade etc so my skin wouldn’t get dark. That’s a can of worms in itself, but when I was 5 or 6 I just did what they told me. One day I was standing in the lunch line and my classmate was in the sun. I told him, “come stand in the shade! You don’t want to get as black as your trousers” … he was black. And also gave me a deserved stink eye lmao. I still think about it at age 20 💀
this isnt embarassing this is beautiful. i love the fact that they made an entire costume and never even thought about negative stuff or anything close to racism. if we all forgot racism exists and just see humans as human without any differences
Then we'd be forgetting extraordinarily important things. Like I get your idealism here, if racism didn't exist then racists don't exist all that that IS good. But if you try to genuinely live like this, you'll end up benefitting the racists yourself that factually do exist. We have to learn from history, not forget about it. Because then it repeats itself.
@@CCMASS Possibly. But you could also argue that it denies them of weaponry, much the same as no one feels particularly wounded by a child calling them a “poopface”, because it is clear that such a statement is just a mark of immaturity, with no real truth or weight behind it.
@@spindash64 your intentions are good, but comparing systemic racism to a child calling another child "poopface" is pretty demeaning to people that deal with real hate speech. There is more weight behind the harm in racism than there is in bullying.
If everyone forgets about racism then so do racists meaning they would not know what they are and with nobody to remind them they would no longer be racist
When he said "we taped white poster board all over his body," I audibly said, "Oooh no." I looked over at the chat and around the same time I started to put it together, the chat started to fill with, "oh no." Ant keeps going and describes how the entire school saw what they did and reacted with "oooooooh no." I think that's a pretty unanimous reaction there. Although props to the small town school for actually being filled with decent people, I guess.
In spite of him saying the newspaper outfits were complex and took weeks, I had pictured an elementary school classroom and was blown away when he said "we were 16" lmfao
Before y'all go and wonder what kind of weird education Smant got to not know about this at 16 years old, remember he grew up in Canada, not the US! Edit: Gotdang, folks, I'm just out here saying people from other countries are considerably less likely to have learned about a hate group from the US, who are entwined in US history to the point that most people in the US have heard of them, I'm not throwing any shade at Canadians. Calm yo jets, those of you who keep misinterpreting this.
Yes this is a great point Thanks the vast native cultures in Canada (as well as a lot of others) it's pretty accepting of it all, ESPECIALLY in small towns Unless they are taught it or experience it, kids here are usually blissfully unaware of racism, especially something as bad as the KKK
Oh there are plenty of places in the US where you'll be taught that racism is dead and the KKK doesn't really exist anymore so what does it matter, too :)
My unintentional racism: I was going to a French school, and I was 7. There was this older Tunisian kid who called me a dirty Turk. So, as a reflex I called him a dirty Tunisian as a reply. I knew this was something offensive to say but I didn't think it was something racist but something about that individual only. As a life lesson, I got hit with racism from the French teachers too, because that kid didn't get in any trouble, but I did.
Not racism since that is about your countries, not your race, also, punishing one of two when both did the same act is fucking stupid. Commiting that same act towards a child is even more fucked up considering these were authority figures. Punishment doesn't equal education, you were forced to carry a belief that you were bad when everyone else carried on doing that bad thing. That is just manipulation and abuse.
This brought back a memory where I was at a friend's birthday party, and it was just about time to bring out the cake and, me being a sucker for cake, said out loud "YEESS! CAKE-CAKE-CAKE" very quickly and all excitedly in a sort of chant like way with my fists closed bouncing in front of me. Now reading it like this might not be as obvious to recognize how similar that sounds to the name of a certain group, but they all took a pause and looked at me, to which I was completely baffled as to what was wrong. Didn't take me too long to figure out my unintentional mistake 🥲 We all laughed it off (they were all my closed friends fortunately) but man alive that was embarrassing lol
Funny story i am native american and our school celebrated thanksgiving in middle school with a group lunch, pretty much lunch but extended. Since it was a holiday they let us dress up, they asked me if i wanted to dress up. I said and im quoting myself directly "I dont want to dress up like a dirty white person." i got suspended over thanksgiving day for school. best 3 day weekend ever.
Idk why the simple “we were 16” at the end just made it so much funnier to me, like I guess I find it funny you managed to go 16 years without knowing of the KKK and then you figure them out like that lmao.
pretty sure he is canadian so it's possible he never heard of it. I'm sure if i made a survey about it a lot of people wouldn't know what it is here in canada
There's a surprising amount of people who don't know the KKK Just goes to show how the education system does everything except educate, even outside of America
Once I completely nonchalantly said f*ggot online when coming up with odd names for a discord server. Well, ten minutes later a friend was super pissed at me. After an hour of confusion it came down to bc I wasn't gay I couldn't say that word and she was on the brink of blocking me before I managed to explain that I had no idea what it meant (still don't to this day) and that I couldn't say it, I only repeat it bc she said it to me a week or so before. Months prior, another kid blocked me and kicked me out of a group chat *I MADE* bc ownership swapped hands unintentionally and he was capable of doing so. He sent a middle finger emoji when I said hello after waking up, I laughed and said "Seattle hello", a joke my mother used to tell when me and sibs when we were too young to understand what road rage was much less flipping someone off. He freaked, blocked me and kicked me from my own group chat thinking I doxxed him, turns out he lived in Seattle. Goes to show, being clueless can end horribly 😂
Old comment, self-identifying f4g here, f4ggot is a slur often used against LGBT+ people to degrade them as subhuman. A f4g/f4ggot also refers to a cig, drawing the comparison of a queer person to a disgusting cigarette or a bad habit, as being gay or trans used to be considered mental illnesses or sinful vices. Same with queer. Both slurs have been sort of reclaimed and co-opted by parts of the community, which is why we now have the Q in LGBTQIA+. Idk if you'll read this but I hope it helps 👍
@@Dargon818 Another LGBTQ+ person here, to clarify, at least in Western LGBT communities, queer is completely reclaimed and a general-use term from what I know (it's still considered bad sometimes outside of the West, though.) Generally, in the West at least, with the word "queer", I'd say pretty much nobody considers it a slur anymore. The community is often referred to as a whole as the "queer community". Not so with f*g. Those of the LGBTQ+ community that willingly use the F slur not as a slur, but as a reclaimed word to describe themselves, are a very small minority. Use "queer" to describe a Western LGBTQ+ person and you're fine. Describe them as a "f*g" and you're almost certainly getting punched in the face. "Queer" is still somewhat risque outside of Western communities from what I know, but I very easily could be wrong about that.
reminds me of when my friend in middle school or maybe younger said “konnichiwa” to an Asian guy and bowed with her hands together… he made a weird expression and said “I’m Vietnamese” and we were both just confused that there was apparently a difference 🤦♀️😭
This reminds me of something similarly accidentally racist I did back in summer camp. As a really young kid, I had no idea about racism or slurs, and was a bit of a random child. There was one time I started to rhyme things with "beggar", I don't remember context, just the act itself. I could not understand why the counselors got so upset when I got to "n"...
I had a box of junk and shit I would collect in elementary school, and my teacher found a joint that I accidentally found and grabbed, and I nearly got expelled from 2nd grade for this. I had no idea drugs beyond alcohol and tobacco even existed. Luckily they knew that a second grader who didn't even know what a joint was probably wasn't smoking it, so I wasn't expelled.
Okay. Thank God they had common sense. I guess you were in elementary but, it is surprising to find out when kids actually start learning about certain things.
At my school, we had a "blackout" game when we were facing our rival school's football team. One of my friends (who wasn't the brightest but was a really cool dude) covered their whole face in black paint to show their school spirit. Suffice to say, when we told him, he immediately rushed off to the bathroom to try to scrub it off. Ignorance is bliss.
@@MrBobert225 Idk, I'm Canadian and grew up in a town of like 1,500 people. I knew who the kkk were at like 10 years old. He must have either grew up in a super hick town, been super ignorant, or just not realized what it looked like until it was too late. The only concession I can give is that my town was in Southern Ontario. If he grew up in a small town in like the maritimes, northern Ontario, or one of the prarie provinces maybe that makes sense. Cause some of those places can be really fucking remote.
How old were you when you learned about the Uyghur genocide? The Rwandan genocide? The Coal Wars (not a typo)? Were you 14, 15, 16? I feel like your education failed you if by then you didn't know about such horrible human rights crises happening on the other side of the world. No matter how small your town is. See? You could use that logic for anything, the simple truth is that information isn't universal and you can't expect everybody to learn everything. It's just silly.
@@areadenial2343 If I, a Dutch person, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, knew about the KKK (and the Rwandan genocide as well I must add), surely a Canadian with their perfectly fine school system would as well? The Uyghur genocide didn't happen until 2014, so that's not an real comparison. The coal wars didn't have long lasting repercussions to the entire world like the kkk did. It's more akin to the US civil war, which I also knew about at that age.
Try being Australian....first time I saw anything about the KKK as a kid I thought their costumes were cool and my friends and I started to draw lots of characters that looked like them, make stuff in art that looked like them etc.... Later on learned they were bad people...oops. School's fault imo for bad education.
not the school's fault. It's not like they had any big influence in australia. Wouldn't have learnt anything from australia besides where it is on a map without internet. Correct me if i'm wrong but i don't think they taught you the mass shooting in montreal's polytechnic school and how it changed the way firearms were treated in canada because it doesn't have anything to do with you in theory. In France there is a celebration in some old villages where people wear exactly the same outfits as the kkk. It doesn't make them racist. Not everything is about americans
@@zachariz1490 Nah, my first experience where I saw the costumes and the follow on to how they were a racist group was all taught at school. I have a feeling that the first time I saw them the message didn't quite get across and then a couple months later as the year progressed it sunk in. You'd be surprised at the varied history they taught in Australian schools through the 90's & early 00's. Most of it I don't have a hope of remembering more than a vauge impression.
I actually have a similar story, but somehow way worse. My school had a black history month assembly and near the end the dance teacher came onto the stage to announce the next performance, but dressed almost exactly like a kkk member. Like almost exactly like one. It had to have been for something else, maybe the dance class was doing a dress rehearsal for something else but was there REALLY no time to change out of it, Mr. Maine??? Everyone made jokes like "when you have black history month at 10 but a kkk meeting at 9" for weeks
I saw the title and thought "Oh, it was probably one of those symbols that nobody tells you is racist and you've seen in a thousand contexts where it isn't racist but suddenly someone tells you 'you can't do that, you should know better,' like a gallows or something," but the actual content of the video... The actual occurrence... Holy shit
I had a similar experience, at least not at an older age, but, my school literally made me do blackface, I was like 8 in 3rd grade, we were doing a christmas event and I was like some kind of santa’s helper, but they decided that I should paint my face black, now I’m not american, so its not like anyone found it racist, but damn, if I was american, that could have caused some problems
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the funniest part of this to me is the end where he says "we were 16" because until that point i thought it would have been when he was much younger
right I absolutely died when he said that
Yeah same, I thought he was gonna be like 8 or 9
I was thinking 12 maybe, 16 makes it funnier though lmao
I was thinking 10 at the latest. XD not 16.
and the fact that he says it like, "oh yeah we were 16 we def. could not have known"
I love the background footage of smallant jumping around, failing to kill a phantom for like 1 min and then goes back to jumping around. I really gained knowledge from that
ya just can't think in minecraft while talking lol, at least I can't
I was dying inside every time he missed the phantom
I just couldn't focus because he kept missing
That's literally all I could focus on. I was screaming in my mind for him to just pull out the bow
i just couldnt pay attention to anything else how did he take 2 mins to kill a single phantom lol
I was going to say "Oh those accidental childhood racisms are so embarrassing", but damn, doing it at that age is so much more than embarrassing. That's haunting. 10/10 chuckles from me.
like that's past edgy 13 year old
Yea wearing clothing is racist now not to mention those items described ain't just the KKK you know armour actually looked like that before as long as it didn't have a cross on it then it's just a piece of clothing
naw its not haunting lol youre overreacting
@@spimbles haunting, as in like something really cringey you did that you remember when you're 30 and it keeps you awake at 3 am.
I mean they were so stupid to join a group not even do the assignment and the did this the guys are just really that fucking dumb not racist lol
Alternate title: Smant fails to kill a single phantom for 3 minutes straight
lol i'm glad someone else noticed that
lol i'm glad someone else noticed that
lol i'm glad someone else noticed that
lol i'm glad someone else noticed that
@@SeanikaShizlol im glad someone noticed that
Can relate to the ignorance, i grew up not knowing racism still existed, where i live it's 98% hispanic (only Mexican origin) and as a kid I thought racism used to exist but Martin Luther King Jr and Ghandi got rid of it
Hey that's not too bad, some grown ups still think the same
That's really funny
Ik it’s not on-topic but you just reminded me of a funny story
When I was younger (can’t remember exact age) I thought that when Lincoln died, he exploded and turned into pennies. No joke, I legit thought that
@@seanpokefan7429 that didn’t happen? ☹️
Honestly I already experienced to racism in the past during my childhood as a Jewish boy who is also 1/8 Asian through my mother's side and the rest being white. My father is Jewish. Specifically this involved in antisemitism where one of my friends in my school was drawing a swastika on one of his papers and it shocked my teacher a lot. And I felt really disappointed about this.
the worst thing is not knowing you've done something wrong and everyone just kinda yells or just shoves you away silently and your asking whats wrong and noones gonna say anything
Yeah. None of it’s literally your fault in the matter. Goes to show how much these historical events affected people that it drives them nuts.
@@dfquartzidn6151yeah I would say murderous hate crimes affecting people strongly is reasonable
@@-Teague-Not when your experience is hearsay or history books. None of those teachers were _really_ affected by WW2, not when most if not all of them weren't even born yet, so they should really be able to handle themselves and explain in a reasonable manner without acting like they're experiencing vietnam flashbacks.
@@alzhanvoidsansado
1. WW2 still affects people who weren't born at the time, as they may have had relatives who died fighting in it or as victims of the Holocaust
2. The KKK still exist and racial hate crimes continue to happen. It's not some past thing that "oh racism used to happen but Martin Luther King Jr sprinkled everyone with holy water and now we all love black people" racism still affects people in horrible ways and should be taken very seriously. The teachers wouldn't have known at first that the KKK adjacent design wasn't intentional, so reacting strongly is fully reasonable.
@@alzhanvoidsansadoDo you think the KKK was a WW2 thing??
This reminds me of a story a friend told me: A long time ago when he was still a small kid, there he was on the schoolyard of his elementary school with some chalk in his hand. Earlier, somewhere he saw something that looked interesting and started drawing it on the ground. Suddenly the teachers became really upset and they even called his parents to school. He had absolutely no idea why everyone was angry, what he did wrong and was just intimidated and confused. Only after his parents arrived, he was told that the thing he was drawing was really bad, but how should a maybe 7 years old kid know? Apparently he was drawing swastikas on the ground. Of a catholic elementary school. In germany.
The amount of times I have accidentally drawn those while doodling because I just think, "Let's draw scythes that are go in one direction like a windmill" but of course I'm too lazy to make it curved, so I realize and immediately connect the lines. One of these days someone's gonna be looking at my paper as I draw it and make a very bad assumption.
@@sparkfrog777 same! Almost. I drew stick fans and the bent lines were the motion lines
I remember seeing a swastikas in a Tim and Moby during class, not knowing any sort of context of it outside of what they showed of it, which was like 3 seconds and in regards to Buddhism or some other religion, I can't remember it's been so long. I thought it was neat and started drawing them since it was easy. Hadn't learned about WW2 or anything of that sort of nature yet, I was 11.
No one believed me???
People really are just super quick to jump onto the "they're purposefully trying to be racist, what a bad child" even when they're children rather then the obvious much more reasonable thought of "They just don't know."
I actually had to end up moving schools because of this because it spread so quickly.
oh my god
my younger brother also drew swastikas on a like old letter and my mother ripped it out of his hands with him being really confused as to why because he thought it was okay considering he saw it written at school walls
funnily enough this was also in germany
Oh. Oh my god. I did not expect that
The way this story starts out and slowly descends into "Oh no, please not what I think it is" and then "yes, it is", is great. 10/10 storytelling.
Also "accidentally does a racism" sounds like something out of Top Gear, IDK why.
TONIGHT, ON TOP GEAR
HAMMOND LEDGES A FORMAL COMPLAINT WITH THE DUTCH SUPREME COURT
MAY IS ISSUED A DIAGNOSIS FOR ASPERGERS SYNDROME AND DECIDES TO GET SMASHED
AND I RE-INVENT AN ANCIENT MEDIEVAL WAR CRIME
Tonight!
I make a costume...
James wears a costume...
Richard does racism.
“The Toyota Supra! Made in one of the best factories ever made, by multiple kkk members, she can go 0-60 in just under 2 seconds, while doing over 765 n words a minute” Staggy, here with me, is here to test out both the car and the fragility of white strangers!”
Jeremy Clarkson does a racism
it didnt go where i thought bc when i thought of children making clothes out of newspaper i thought to myself “aw shit someones gonna get flashed”
then i heard they were using white posterboard and thought “aw shit they painted the black kid white”
then he mentioned the hat and i finally thought “aw shit they made a KKK uniform”
I remember my mom told me when I was little that when she and I were in the checkout line of Walmart and there was a black man in front of us I literally blurted out “look mommy that man’s made of chocolate milk” and he just turned around and laughed. She had to explain that I was autistic and didn’t know I couldn’t just say these things. Thankfully he was a really chill guy, and I wish I could talk to em to this day
I'm autistic and I had a similar event. I watched a lot of old WWII cartoons and when I was 8 I went up to a Japanese friend of mine and did the squinty-eyes thing, not understanding the severity of it and thinking she'd find it funny. She was very calm about it and was like "That's very offensive to my culture" and I genuinely felt really bad, but she forgave me.
Kids are dumb lmao
@@lesigh3410 They indeed are but at the same time it's kinda sweet that it ended nicely lol
@@Metrocysh Yeah, the girl handled it in a really good way ngl, surprisingly mature for an elementary schooler
@@lesigh3410 🤓 Umm not actually if she considered eye shape to be cultural rather than genetic 🤓
@@spelcheak don't make me shove you into a locker nerd
When it's a 3 minute clip you know it's gonna be wild. Smant also seems to have a full second delay on his reactions while storytelling, who knew
The second he specified it was white posterboard, my heart dropped. You knew exactly where it was going.
I love how if you watch the chat, you can see exactly when it starts to dawn on some people what happened.
Despite it doesn't have a cross so it could just be a piece of armour so technically no harm no foul
I didn't get it until he said they made a cone out of it
@@mosesbenjaminangelouy3153I still don’t get it… Help!
@@immortalsun it basically looks like the uniform of a very racist group
really makes you think how quickly the KKK must have thrown their uniforms together :P
Yeah lol
I can colour their outfits in with sharpie and make it look better
@@Stibly and called it BBB instead
“Black Boy Band”
@@the_jingo Who says it's Black Sharpie? There's a whole rainbow of Sharpies out there. I'd call it the RRR (Rainbow Rock Religion)
@@heyoyo10gaming4 in this world it only exist black and white sharpie and for people who think too much there’s also gray sharpie
As soon as he said "White poster board", I knew exactly what was coming next.
Same, I was like no they didn't. Then he said cone and I thought holy shit they actually did
At first i thought they'd tape it to a non-white kid, basically white washing, But this is worse lol
I thought it was going to be something with black face but then he said white poster board and I was like "oh noo"
@@gammagames1413 oh my god this
Can someone explain? I didn't understand
I remember when i was in second grade, i heard that people's skin got a bit darker when they got a tan. My little kid mind processed that as, "Wow, black people must spend a lot of time outside!" I then proceeded to try to stay outside in the sun as long as i could to try to get a tan like that because i thought black people looked really cool. I ended up getting a really bad sunburn
Hey I mean at least this was a positive thing about black people 💀
Sun blackface attempt
It's wild because in Animal Crossing: New Leaf that actually is how that works during summer, as long as you're not using a helmet or umbrella ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i used to think that too but i didnt do the burning thing
In my school, all student’s projects were on a shared drive, but you couldn’t open them without a password. So you could see everyone’s titles, but couldn’t read it unless they let you
But I was so confused when I got pulled into the principal’s office, and was told to give them my password, and explain why I had a file called “The advantages of being black”
I had no idea what I did wrong.
It was a persuasive essay on why I liked going second in chess
This is cracking me up so much lmao, I hope you didnt get in any trouble
@@leannehetherington2164
Mostly a lot of confused looks and a couple face palms lol
Everyone was too awkward to tell me exactly why I was there, so I didn’t even realize until like 5 minutes later when it just suddenly hit me ^^;;;;
@@emoimo4171 Lmao thats amazing, glad you got out of it with a funny story to tell
Plot twist, they knew it was about chess, and were just -that- annoyed when they saw a student trying to argue against having the initiative.
Absolute legend
Just goes to show how uncreative hate groups are, that a couple kids accidentally reinvented their most prevalent uniform in a 30-minute rush job.
right??? thats hilarious 😭
Not really, I mean the N@zis looked suave as hell.
@@fivebrosstopmosthe n@zis stole the swastika design, literally peak laziness
@@fivebrosstopmosproblem is they stole their main symbol from eastern religions and every other part of their design is just the cliché "cool villain" stuff like leather, black and red colour scheme and skulls. Not even the most fashionable hate group in human history had a shred of originality.
@@MikaraYT Actually, it's cliche villain stuff because everyone copied them.
Smallant is a great storyteller. This one in particular is one of my favorite stories lol.
One of my most painful memories from school was an accidental racism. I was in a big friend group, bunch of nerdy people and we had this corridor the like 50 of us would occupy during breaks. We all got on but it's not like everyone knew who was around them at all times. I heard someone behind me talking really fast and excited, like 300 wpm to the point where their speaking was almost unintelligible. I thought I'd poke fun at it, and made a bunch of quick sounds to imitate her speaking, kinda dumb but I was a teenager. Now, I wasn't thinking too much about what noises I was making, just wanted to say something quickly and any noise would do. What I ended up doing was a bunch of "ching" "chi" "cho" noises. The person speaking, who I didn't know exactly who it was before I turned around, was a Chinese friend of my friend. Looked incredibly intentional but I didn't even realise who exactly was speaking until I turned around. I fucking hate how dumb and awkward that was
@@doomse150 Oh yeah, looking back now it would have been bad even if it had gone well, but it was impulsive and kids are dumb. Just frustrating that like a decade on I still cringe thinking about it.
The best moment in these situations is that second where you realize that there was a point of no return, and you crossed it before you even knew it existed. There's just no recovering at that point- nothing you can do to justify the situation. You simply have to sit there and remember the moment for the next 20 years every night.
I did something similar
i had an incredibly odd nightmare where something similar happened. i was in a school cafeteria when i think i was reaching for popcorn or something? then for some reason i couldn't move, my eyes were shut, my mouth couldn't move, i couldn't breathe, and my joints were locked in a certain salute. for some reason after like 30 seconds it felt like i way being picked up and shortly after, cheering started. i was then thrown off a building i think.
def the strangest and one of the worst nightmares i've had.
@@aperson1 You're so real for that.
I love how you can see the exact moment chat realises where the story is going.
From a few “oh no”s to a lot of “OH NOOO”s
the funniest part of this story is him failing to kill the phantom for like two minutes straight
I mean... During Spanish Holy Week it would have had a different meaning xD
Pensé lo mismo hace unos días xdd. Me di cuenta de que los extranjeros que no estén muy enterados se harían muchas preguntas al verlo
@@Gg-tl1cc Es muy típico que cuando viene alguien de USA se escandaliza al verlo xD
@@Gg-tl1cc apparently the kkk are just catholic extremist and copied your uniform. They think their cleansing the world… almost nobody initially does evil but that doesn’t mean much. you can see just about anything can be distorted or corrupted.
The original kkk even said a prayer before their meeting and everything.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition
@@gammagames1413 1e12e12e1rc muy chappatty burrito el diorito oh noohs diorahae el burrito el bomb el toilet el taco el burrrrittoeputramade avkevjeve muy chappatti oh nossss
Everyone’s shocked about smant having been 16 in relation to not knowing the klan and not why his school was holding a newspaper fashion show.
and most people forgetting that he is canadian so it's really likely that he was never taught in school what the kkk was
@@zachariz1490 I am Canadian and I was taught what the KKK was pretty early on, I would say around 11-13 years old. But not every school has the same curriculum, and the community often affects what is taught in schools. Major religion or political leaning absolutely affect what kids see early on despite those things supposedly not being allowed to affect teaching.
That being said, I was told off by a classmate of mine when I was 10 or so, there was a bit of dead skin on my middle finger, and I was holding just my middle finger out as I picked it off. "You CAN'T do that, it is offensive!" I wasn't even pointing it at anyone or saying anything, just doing some bodily function without the knowledge of other peoples' ill intent.
@@zachariz1490 I keep seeing people say this, Canadians are taught more than you think lmao. We learn a lot about the US. It's just a small town thing, even some small towns in the US don't learn about stuff like that
@@LiilYogurt i am canadian. The kkk is never really taught in class. Some teachers talk about it but most of the people i know learned what it was from external sources
@@zachariz1490 I'm also Canadian, and I did learn what the KKK was in school. So like I said, it's not all of Canada that doesn't get taught it, it's just some schools do and other schools don't
When I was 4 in kindergarten, my mom asked me who my friends were. She then asked about an African American kid and I said: "No." She then asked "why?" time slowed... the answer was that I simply didn't like him... but... as a kid I was told you're not supposed to say you don't like someone, so I can't say that.... What do I say? Then I had the biggest brain blast as I formed the perfect lie answer: "His color is weird." I did not actually care about his skin color, nor did I at the age of 4 understand the implications of my answer. I remember the disappointment of my Mom when I said that answer.
Children can say the darnedest things without ever having a shred of a clue what they're saying XD
@@christianp.7675 that's why i hate children but damn is it funny when they say random things while thinking they are brilliant. Depends on the context though
You're not wrong for that in the least. It's perfectly natural to desire to associate with your own people.
@@budgetcoinhunter oh no, it wasn’t even that, I did not care at all about the color of his skin, we just didn’t share any interests
This is a perfect example of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Props to actually trying to make a costume though. If I was in that group I would just call absent that day
That reminds me of the one time i was in 6th grade and had to write a story using an entirely original character and i could never make names so i asked my friend what to do about a name and he said "switch the first letters of a characters first and last names"
And so my story was the adventures of Fuck Hinn.
That's accidental swearing, not accidental racism.
@@glowstonelovepad9294 you're an accidental birth
He made a wizard costume!
The "group" referres to themselves as Knights and Wizards.
He made a very old fashioned armour that people who fight in battle wore
A grand one if I do say so myself
Don't worry Ant we all do an accidental racism sometimes.
Speak for yourself, only white peopl- oh.
@@mellowcon1361 oh no
@@mellowcon1361 *looks up the definition of racism*
*sees your comment*
Not accidental tho
@@mellowcon1361 leave kid
Something similar to this happened to me once! In my 8th grade Spanish class, we were doing some sort of unimportant activity where we were divided into teams. Each team had to choose a name to go by. My team decided on the name "Cool Kids Club," and to make it extra cool, we decided to change the c's into k's to make it the "Kool Kids Club".
And that's how I learned what the KKK was!
I did the same thing but I told my brother instead, he didn't even explain what it was-
Don't worry it's also the abbreviation of a group of Filipino rebels in the 1800s who fought against the oppressive Spaniards
I had the reverse of this situation at school, I was doing a project on the Sauwastika, which is the left facing Hindu swastika and absolutely not related to race in any way shape or form.
A teacher saw my work, grabbed it and ripped it up while yelling at me and then attempted to drag me into the principals office.
The teacher was one of those short angry losers that only became a teacher for the power, so I just pushed him off me and laughed while I walked away.
I was in good terms with my principal (she had seen me without pants on before, she was sewing my pants up but it sounds funnier that way), she ended up suspending the teacher without pay and went as far as saying he should be embarrassed about his actions, not because he tried to manhandle a 16 year old but because that 16 year old manhandled him.
This wasn’t the last physical interaction I had with him as he eventually got fired for multiple things but the biggest was arguably the fact he tried to take up skirt pictures of students “for evidence” of “wasted paint” because we were finger painting our girl friends legs in art class.
He wasn’t fired immediately for some strange reason, probably an investigation, but he sure as shit didn’t come back to school for the week until he was
holy shit dude that guy's mental
panty-shots????? man that's not good
And then everybody started clapping
@@elliotglaser1718 actually no, I eventually got expelled.
but sorry you had a boring life, i guess.
Sounds like that teacher had a large hooked nose, and ears lower than the eyes.
I remember having an arguement with my mother as an 8 year old because she was trying to explain racism to me (I asked how they figured out who would be a slave in early America). Apparently, the idea of disliking someone based on skin color was so unfathomable to me that I told her she was lying and that adults would never be that dumb.
Man, I wish i was right.
For context, I loved history, and the history channel did a lot on the civil war when I was young. This was before ancient aliens and stuff
Aww. That level of innocence is actually very sweet. I wish you'd been right, too. Thanks for sharing.
tbf the real way they picked was just from whoever was selling slaves in the most convenient spot. then the racism was invented to try and justify the inhumanity
I bet she was proud of you. I had a similar experience when a movie hinted at racism and I blurted out "That makes no sense"
I was just amazed at how many attempts it took him to kill that phantom
The “we were 16” comment really caught me off guard, I thought he was like 8
Thing is, he grew up in Canada, so he probably wasent taught about it.
@@goldenfeather3687 I am Canadian and I was taught what the KKK was pretty early on, I would say around 11-13 years old. But not every school has the same curriculum, and the community often affects what is taught in schools. Major religion or political leaning absolutely affect what kids see early on despite those things supposedly not being allowed to affect teaching.
That being said, I was told off by a classmate of mine when I was 10 or so, there was a bit of dead skin on my middle finger, and I was holding just my middle finger out as I picked it off. "You CAN'T do that, it is offensive!" I wasn't even pointing it at anyone or saying anything, just doing some bodily function without the knowledge of other peoples' ill intent.
I knew someone who would day that kids grow up too fast
And then would say how 16 year olds were acting like they were 8
Happened to me once:
I'm from Germany (bet you can already tell where this is going) amd when I was in 4th grade I had really bad stomach ache once and was send to the hospital for a few days. There was a tv in my room but there were only a few channels I could watch. One of them was a history/documentation channel (called NTV) which shows a lot of Hitler and Nazi documentations. At this time I didn't understand what the holocaust was and I just watched it because the narrator had such a calming voice. I watched this channel for hours and obviously saw a lot of swastikas and I thought they kinda looked cool. When I was back in school I got bored during class and I started drawing swastikas all over the back of my hands. I sat in the front row so the teacher saw what I was doing. She instantly got really mad and went to the bathroom with me where she removed the symbols from my hand. After that I got lectured really bad for 15 minutes and I cried because I still didn't know what I've done wrong. This story still haunts me to this day 10 years later
Goddamn, dude. I’m so sorry you had to experience that. The first episode you’d coincidentally found on that holocaust documentary was the one where they didn’t explain the holocaust because they assumed the audience already knows. Paired with the fact that your teacher didn’t handle the situation accordingly. You were just a kid after all.
I hate it when people get mad at you but don't tell you what you did wrong.
You did absolutely _nothing_ wrong. The hooked cross is an ancient symbol coming from the Big Dipper as Earth goes through its yearly orbit.
I remember one time the teacher gave us a large box of markers to color a drawing with. Everyone had to go up to the box and get their markers from there. I went to get a black marker to go over the lines of my drawing (I've never had the patience to color within the lines) and none of them worked. I ended up yelling something that, in my native language, could be interpreted as either “fucking black markers” (what I was trying to say) or “fucking black people” (what pretty much everyone understood). _The teacher was black._
Why are markers and people the same word
Birthing a child
Doctor: It’s Ballpoint Pen
@@minaashido518 it's not the same word. My native language is Spanish, where the grammatical subject of a sentence can be omitted. What I said was “putos negros”, which in this context can be interpreted to mean either of the translations above.
It was so cool of Smant and his group to bring attention to Spanish Easter, some really neat and ancient traditions in there
Finally, an English speaker who knows that _nazarenos_ (what those people are actually called) have nothing to do with KKK. Us Spaniards have trouble with tourists accusing us of racism every single year.
@@jorgegonzalezavila9376 learned about it in Spanish class last year, it’s pretty cool
I love how you can see the exact moment chat catches on.
That story was painful but not as painful as him missing the phantom 10+ times hahaha
the moment he said the word "cone" I knew what happened, and it seems like chat also did
he missed that phantom a total of 8 times
They're tough to his ok 😢
When I was 14 I decided to go out for Halloween dressed as the President of the United States. Only, I chose to go out as the current president....Who, needless to say, definitely didn't have the same skin color as me. I did blackface and not a single person, adult or otherwise, said anything about it. Small towns can be extremely sheltered from things that seem like common sense to most people.
I dunno, I feel that it's a bit more acceptable when it's halloween. I mean, you're not intending any kind of offense or stereotype portrayal, you're just dressing up as the president. Absolutely that's terrible if you were dressing up as a generic black guy, but when you're that sheltered and wholesome intent, I just can't find it objectionable
I mean, it’s not like there’s actually anything wrong with that anyway. If a black kid went as the current president, it wouldn’t be wrong for him paint his face white.
I’m gonna have to agree with Sam on this one, what you did didn’t have any racist or bad intent, but let’s just say you probably couldn’t get away with that today
Don't worry about it, the Canadian president did it a lot as an adult and nobody bats an eyelid. If you did it as a child, it's all good.
why would it be a bad thing? you're not mocking him for his skin color. you're just imitating him and one of his most distinguishable features is his skin color
I’m Asian and my parents would always tell me to avoid the sun, stay in the shade etc so my skin wouldn’t get dark. That’s a can of worms in itself, but when I was 5 or 6 I just did what they told me. One day I was standing in the lunch line and my classmate was in the sun. I told him, “come stand in the shade! You don’t want to get as black as your trousers” … he was black. And also gave me a deserved stink eye lmao. I still think about it at age 20 💀
There's just so many layers to how much of an oof this story is
Come stand in the shade! You don't want to get as black as your trousers :skull:
this isnt embarassing this is beautiful. i love the fact that they made an entire costume and never even thought about negative stuff or anything close to racism. if we all forgot racism exists and just see humans as human without any differences
Then we'd be forgetting extraordinarily important things. Like I get your idealism here, if racism didn't exist then racists don't exist all that that IS good. But if you try to genuinely live like this, you'll end up benefitting the racists yourself that factually do exist. We have to learn from history, not forget about it. Because then it repeats itself.
@@CCMASS
Possibly. But you could also argue that it denies them of weaponry, much the same as no one feels particularly wounded by a child calling them a “poopface”, because it is clear that such a statement is just a mark of immaturity, with no real truth or weight behind it.
@@spindash64 your intentions are good, but comparing systemic racism to a child calling another child "poopface" is pretty demeaning to people that deal with real hate speech.
There is more weight behind the harm in racism than there is in bullying.
@@spindash64 Bro idiots get offended by being called anything nowadays
If everyone forgets about racism then so do racists meaning they would not know what they are and with nobody to remind them they would no longer be racist
When he said "we taped white poster board all over his body," I audibly said, "Oooh no." I looked over at the chat and around the same time I started to put it together, the chat started to fill with, "oh no." Ant keeps going and describes how the entire school saw what they did and reacted with "oooooooh no." I think that's a pretty unanimous reaction there.
Although props to the small town school for actually being filled with decent people, I guess.
I’ve litwrally watched this four times and still don’t get what’s racist about it or why it’s so obvious as soon as he mentions poster board.
This sounds exactly like my level of innocence/ignorance lol
That was the moment Ant realised he needed to get good at speedrunning
I read the title as "smallant accidentally does a racist man" 💀
💀
I didn't know that my grandpa was gay.
In spite of him saying the newspaper outfits were complex and took weeks, I had pictured an elementary school classroom and was blown away when he said "we were 16" lmfao
Before y'all go and wonder what kind of weird education Smant got to not know about this at 16 years old, remember he grew up in Canada, not the US!
Edit: Gotdang, folks, I'm just out here saying people from other countries are considerably less likely to have learned about a hate group from the US, who are entwined in US history to the point that most people in the US have heard of them, I'm not throwing any shade at Canadians. Calm yo jets, those of you who keep misinterpreting this.
Yes this is a great point
Thanks the vast native cultures in Canada (as well as a lot of others) it's pretty accepting of it all, ESPECIALLY in small towns
Unless they are taught it or experience it, kids here are usually blissfully unaware of racism, especially something as bad as the KKK
Oh there are plenty of places in the US where you'll be taught that racism is dead and the KKK doesn't really exist anymore so what does it matter, too :)
????? What's being Canadian have to do with anything
@@weshansen7892 weirdly different countries have different histories and cultures
As a Canadian, we know plenty about racism and history. And definitely the kkk, small towns just be like that some times
My unintentional racism: I was going to a French school, and I was 7. There was this older Tunisian kid who called me a dirty Turk. So, as a reflex I called him a dirty Tunisian as a reply. I knew this was something offensive to say but I didn't think it was something racist but something about that individual only. As a life lesson, I got hit with racism from the French teachers too, because that kid didn't get in any trouble, but I did.
Not racism since that is about your countries, not your race, also, punishing one of two when both did the same act is fucking stupid. Commiting that same act towards a child is even more fucked up considering these were authority figures. Punishment doesn't equal education, you were forced to carry a belief that you were bad when everyone else carried on doing that bad thing. That is just manipulation and abuse.
Alternative response: "You're Tunisian; incidentally, I think your attitude is quite dirty!"
Bruh, I’m so sorry only you got punished.
this is why we clown on the French
@@LittleCart them damn cheese eating surrender monkeys
This brought back a memory where I was at a friend's birthday party, and it was just about time to bring out the cake and, me being a sucker for cake, said out loud "YEESS! CAKE-CAKE-CAKE" very quickly and all excitedly in a sort of chant like way with my fists closed bouncing in front of me. Now reading it like this might not be as obvious to recognize how similar that sounds to the name of a certain group, but they all took a pause and looked at me, to which I was completely baffled as to what was wrong. Didn't take me too long to figure out my unintentional mistake 🥲 We all laughed it off (they were all my closed friends fortunately) but man alive that was embarrassing lol
Him attempting to kill that phantom infuriated me
To be fair, that was bound to happen at some point with the costumes only being able to be made out of newspaper and tape lol
Funny story i am native american and our school celebrated thanksgiving in middle school with a group lunch, pretty much lunch but extended. Since it was a holiday they let us dress up, they asked me if i wanted to dress up. I said and im quoting myself directly "I dont want to dress up like a dirty white person." i got suspended over thanksgiving day for school. best 3 day weekend ever.
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Was the food good though? Curious
@@FruitSlicer25 god no it was cafeteria food but with juice instead of milk
I love how the second he starts saying that he wasn't exposed to much outside of the town, everyone in chat just starts saying "oh no"
SIXTEEN YEARS OLD? YOUR SCHOOL DID NOT TEACH HISTORY ALL THAT WELL
damn that thing was fucking him up lol
Idk why the simple “we were 16” at the end just made it so much funnier to me, like I guess I find it funny you managed to go 16 years without knowing of the KKK and then you figure them out like that lmao.
pretty sure he is canadian so it's possible he never heard of it. I'm sure if i made a survey about it a lot of people wouldn't know what it is here in canada
There's a surprising amount of people who don't know the KKK
Just goes to show how the education system does everything except educate, even outside of America
@@zachariz1490 the Klan operated in Canada though...
@@Yakal001 *Yankee Land
@@dennisgoatimer1079 Gringo land
Once I completely nonchalantly said f*ggot online when coming up with odd names for a discord server. Well, ten minutes later a friend was super pissed at me. After an hour of confusion it came down to bc I wasn't gay I couldn't say that word and she was on the brink of blocking me before I managed to explain that I had no idea what it meant (still don't to this day) and that I couldn't say it, I only repeat it bc she said it to me a week or so before. Months prior, another kid blocked me and kicked me out of a group chat *I MADE* bc ownership swapped hands unintentionally and he was capable of doing so. He sent a middle finger emoji when I said hello after waking up, I laughed and said "Seattle hello", a joke my mother used to tell when me and sibs when we were too young to understand what road rage was much less flipping someone off. He freaked, blocked me and kicked me from my own group chat thinking I doxxed him, turns out he lived in Seattle. Goes to show, being clueless can end horribly 😂
Old comment, self-identifying f4g here, f4ggot is a slur often used against LGBT+ people to degrade them as subhuman. A f4g/f4ggot also refers to a cig, drawing the comparison of a queer person to a disgusting cigarette or a bad habit, as being gay or trans used to be considered mental illnesses or sinful vices. Same with queer. Both slurs have been sort of reclaimed and co-opted by parts of the community, which is why we now have the Q in LGBTQIA+. Idk if you'll read this but I hope it helps 👍
@@catboysephiroth560 I won't lie, I don't particularly give a shit, but thanks for taking the time to explain it anyway 👍
@@Dargon818 so you're not clueless, just purposefully ignorant, gotcha
@@Dargon818 Another LGBTQ+ person here, to clarify, at least in Western LGBT communities, queer is completely reclaimed and a general-use term from what I know (it's still considered bad sometimes outside of the West, though.) Generally, in the West at least, with the word "queer", I'd say pretty much nobody considers it a slur anymore. The community is often referred to as a whole as the "queer community". Not so with f*g. Those of the LGBTQ+ community that willingly use the F slur not as a slur, but as a reclaimed word to describe themselves, are a very small minority. Use "queer" to describe a Western LGBTQ+ person and you're fine. Describe them as a "f*g" and you're almost certainly getting punched in the face. "Queer" is still somewhat risque outside of Western communities from what I know, but I very easily could be wrong about that.
@@auroraa4050 So what you're saying is it's the LGBTQ version of the N word xD
I knew exactly what was going to happen as soon as he said "Newspaper and tape"
reminds me of when my friend in middle school or maybe younger said “konnichiwa” to an Asian guy and bowed with her hands together… he made a weird expression and said “I’m Vietnamese” and we were both just confused that there was apparently a difference 🤦♀️😭
the minecraft background makes this even funnier
That’s Donkey Kong Country
I can’t tell what is funnier the story or the fact you couldn’t kill the phantom for half the video
"we were 16" well that explains everything I guess?
I think he said it to show just how dumb they had been not as an explanation
innocence is truly a bliss
This reminds me of something similarly accidentally racist I did back in summer camp. As a really young kid, I had no idea about racism or slurs, and was a bit of a random child. There was one time I started to rhyme things with "beggar", I don't remember context, just the act itself. I could not understand why the counselors got so upset when I got to "n"...
that's more funny than anything tbh
Well given the context of the word used that isn't rascist can't have one rule for one and another rule for another because that's racist
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@@DarkStarCoreXomg its da core guy again, elooo :))
@@dry4smash946 whoa hi there dryforsmash
I had a box of junk and shit I would collect in elementary school, and my teacher found a joint that I accidentally found and grabbed, and I nearly got expelled from 2nd grade for this.
I had no idea drugs beyond alcohol and tobacco even existed.
Luckily they knew that a second grader who didn't even know what a joint was probably wasn't smoking it, so I wasn't expelled.
Okay. Thank God they had common sense. I guess you were in elementary but, it is surprising to find out when kids actually start learning about certain things.
As soon as he said "white cone" i knew
as soon as he said "newspaper fashion contest" i knew
The moment he mentioned the white cone helmet, i think its safe to say thats the moment everyone caught on if they hadnt already
"Poster Board"
"Wrapping around"
I smell an inbound racism
16?? That's 100% on the school. How did they manage to not teach that kind of thing for this long??
him failing to kill the phantom for so long triggered the hell out of me and i have no idea why
I love the background footage used here
seeing him struggle to beat a phantom is funny
I laughed so hard at this 😂😂 Love it.
im more suprised by the amount of time he missed those phantoms
"we were 16, we were 16"
that just makes it 10 times better 😂😂
At my school, we had a "blackout" game when we were facing our rival school's football team. One of my friends (who wasn't the brightest but was a really cool dude) covered their whole face in black paint to show their school spirit.
Suffice to say, when we told him, he immediately rushed off to the bathroom to try to scrub it off.
Ignorance is bliss.
I was entranced at how long he fought that phantom, I had to rewatch this just to hear the story
As soon as he said "a nice tall cone" I was like *OH NO*
the worst part is how much times he missed that phantom i feel like im going to implode
i didn't realize what was going on until he mentioned the pointy hat haha
The best way to avoid accidental racism is to be racist on purpose
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
I feel like his education failed him if he didn't know that at 16. No matter how small that town is.
Canada tho
@@MrBobert225 I'm Dutch and I knew about the KKK at 16. I don't even live in the same continent.
@@MrBobert225 Idk, I'm Canadian and grew up in a town of like 1,500 people. I knew who the kkk were at like 10 years old. He must have either grew up in a super hick town, been super ignorant, or just not realized what it looked like until it was too late. The only concession I can give is that my town was in Southern Ontario. If he grew up in a small town in like the maritimes, northern Ontario, or one of the prarie provinces maybe that makes sense. Cause some of those places can be really fucking remote.
How old were you when you learned about the Uyghur genocide? The Rwandan genocide? The Coal Wars (not a typo)? Were you 14, 15, 16? I feel like your education failed you if by then you didn't know about such horrible human rights crises happening on the other side of the world. No matter how small your town is. See? You could use that logic for anything, the simple truth is that information isn't universal and you can't expect everybody to learn everything. It's just silly.
@@areadenial2343 If I, a Dutch person, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, knew about the KKK (and the Rwandan genocide as well I must add), surely a Canadian with their perfectly fine school system would as well?
The Uyghur genocide didn't happen until 2014, so that's not an real comparison. The coal wars didn't have long lasting repercussions to the entire world like the kkk did. It's more akin to the US civil war, which I also knew about at that age.
This might be one of my favorite smallant clips ever.
dude literally skipped casual and went right to ranked
The "we were 16" killed me. I thought they were like 8.
Yeah
Try being Australian....first time I saw anything about the KKK as a kid I thought their costumes were cool and my friends and I started to draw lots of characters that looked like them, make stuff in art that looked like them etc....
Later on learned they were bad people...oops. School's fault imo for bad education.
not the school's fault. It's not like they had any big influence in australia. Wouldn't have learnt anything from australia besides where it is on a map without internet. Correct me if i'm wrong but i don't think they taught you the mass shooting in montreal's polytechnic school and how it changed the way firearms were treated in canada because it doesn't have anything to do with you in theory. In France there is a celebration in some old villages where people wear exactly the same outfits as the kkk. It doesn't make them racist. Not everything is about americans
@@zachariz1490 Nah, my first experience where I saw the costumes and the follow on to how they were a racist group was all taught at school. I have a feeling that the first time I saw them the message didn't quite get across and then a couple months later as the year progressed it sunk in.
You'd be surprised at the varied history they taught in Australian schools through the 90's & early 00's. Most of it I don't have a hope of remembering more than a vauge impression.
Just paint 'em purple, say it's Spain's traditional Easter march
@@zachariz1490 *Yankees
@@zachariz1490Australia is full of violent racists , especially towards Asians.
"There ARE no accidents." -Master Oogway
Watching chat realize where the story is going is so funny
And on that fateful day, smant learned the horrendous truth that is history
Innocence lost
Sounded like they accidentally replicated the KKK costume due to being in a rush rather than innocence
I actually have a similar story, but somehow way worse. My school had a black history month assembly and near the end the dance teacher came onto the stage to announce the next performance, but dressed almost exactly like a kkk member. Like almost exactly like one. It had to have been for something else, maybe the dance class was doing a dress rehearsal for something else but was there REALLY no time to change out of it, Mr. Maine??? Everyone made jokes like "when you have black history month at 10 but a kkk meeting at 9" for weeks
The comments going "oh no" as he started describing the hat was hilarious
Ignorance can be bliss, but sometimes it's really, really not.
I saw the title and thought "Oh, it was probably one of those symbols that nobody tells you is racist and you've seen in a thousand contexts where it isn't racist but suddenly someone tells you 'you can't do that, you should know better,' like a gallows or something," but the actual content of the video... The actual occurrence... Holy shit
The best part of this whole thing is his final quote: “We were 16, we were 16.”
Sounds like an amazing costume good job
It’s honestly really surprising that you didn’t know what the outfit was at 16. Schools fucking suck.
@@edgyanole9705 KKK expanded into Canada in 1924.
My favorite part is how he struggled to land even one hit on a phantom
The fact that it took so long to kill the phantom makes me angry
Canadian parliament would have given him a standing ovation
I had a similar experience, at least not at an older age, but, my school literally made me do blackface, I was like 8 in 3rd grade, we were doing a christmas event and I was like some kind of santa’s helper, but they decided that I should paint my face black, now I’m not american, so its not like anyone found it racist, but damn, if I was american, that could have caused some problems