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<p>It&#39;s easy to form an opinion about someone else&#39;s baby name choices. We&#39;re only human, after all.</p><p>But one man found out the hard way that sharing your negative opinion on someone else&#39;s baby name is usually a controversial move, to put it lightly.</p><p>The man <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/fjsk40/aita_for_making_a_white_people_joke_when_i_am/">asked for advice on Reddit</a> after he mocked a friend&#39;s neighbor for naming her baby something that struck him as overly caucasian. After another friend protested that he was being racist, he&#39;s asking: who&#39;s in the wrong here?</p><p>And yes, all parties involved are white AF.</p><h2>The too-white-to-function name comes courtesy of his friend&#39;s neighbor:</h2><blockquote> <p>So a couple of weeks ago I was hanging out with some pals at school break. One of my friends was talking about how her neighbour, who is absolutely lovely but is very much a White Suburban Mum with a Minivan stereotype, has just had a babygirl who she named Mackinleigh, spelled just like that.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>When he learned about little Mackinleigh&#39;s name, he scoffed and offered his opinion:</h2><blockquote> <p>When she said the name/showed us how it was spelled I laughed a bit and went &quot;oh yeah, sounds about White&quot;. It&#39;s not that funny a joke, I&#39;ll grant you, but my one friend took major offence to it.</p> </blockquote><h2>His friend complained that he was being racist:</h2><blockquote> <p>She said making stupid jokes like that about white people is racist and said that if someone had a stereotypical name to another race I wouldn&#39;t say like &quot;oh yeah, sounds about Black/Asian/whatever&quot;. I replied &quot;well that wouldn&#39;t work for the pun&quot;. She called me racist again and walked off. Most of my mates reckon I&#39;m in the right, but a couple of them said it was a dodgy/uncomfy joke.</p> </blockquote><h2>Now he&#39;s wondering who&#39;s in the wrong:</h2><blockquote> <p>What do you reckon, unwashed impartial masses of Reddit? Am I alright for making my lame white people joke given I am a white people? Or am I some terrible dirty racist to be cast out from society for my heinous Crimes Against Whitey?</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Most people agree that what he did was no big deal &mdash; and it certainly wasn&#39;t racist.</h2><p>therecovering put it simply, saying:</p><blockquote> <p>Lol, you&#39;re [not the a-hole]. That name does sound about white.</p> </blockquote><p>SuperiorTroy pointed out that unless she&#39;s this much of a crusader at all times, she really doesn&#39;t have a leg to stand on:</p><blockquote> <p>she&rsquo;s obviously sensitive. I bet she doesn&rsquo;t make this big of a scene when she hears actual racist jokes</p> </blockquote><p>Jaedeite pointed out that racism against white people in a majority-white country by definition isn&#39;t racism:</p><blockquote> <p>It is a white af name. Also- I&#39;m white with a Sociology degree, and being white in a white majority/controlled nation you can&#39;t face racism. Racism requires a systematic oppression towards a group/minority. It would be predjudice at best- not racism.</p> <p>Even if you were black making the same white person joke I&#39;d say NTA.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>MabelodeTheFaceless raises several good points:</p><blockquote> <p>A white person talking shit about other white people? NTA.</p> <p>If Chris Rock<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4"> could say the s*** he said about other black people back in 1996</a>, when I don&#39;t see the problem with what you said about other white people.</p> <p>And even if you weren&#39;t white, as a white person I figure white people ought to be able to take a joke. We took everything else, didn&#39;t we?</p> </blockquote><p>Touch&eacute;. Just one thing: don&#39;t make this kind of joke in front of the mom who named her kid that, okay? She might call the manager on you.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Man asks if he was wrong to mock a baby's name for being too 'white.'

It&#39;s easy to form an opinion about someone else&#39;s baby name choices. We&#39;re only human, after all.But one man found out the hard way that sharing your negative opinion on someone else&#39;s baby name is usually a controversial move, to put it lightly.The man asked for advice on Reddit after he mocked a friend&#39;s neighbor for naming her baby something that struck him as overly caucasian. After another friend protested that he was being racist, he&#39;s asking: who&#39;s in the wrong here?And yes, all parties involved are white AF.The too-white-to-function name comes courtesy of his friend&#39;s neighbor: So a couple of weeks ago I was hanging out with some pals at school break. One of my friends was talking about how her neighbour, who is absolutely lovely but is very much a White Suburban Mum with a Minivan stereotype, has just had a babygirl who she named Mackinleigh, spelled just like that. When he learned about little Mackinleigh&#39;s name, he scoffed and offered his opinion: When she said the name/showed us how it was spelled I laughed a bit and went &quot;oh yeah, sounds about White&quot;. It&#39;s not that funny a joke, I&#39;ll grant you, but my one friend took major offence to it. His friend complained that he was being racist: She said making stupid jokes like that about white people is racist and said that if someone had a stereotypical name to another race I wouldn&#39;t say like &quot;oh yeah, sounds about Black/Asian/whatever&quot;. I replied &quot;well that wouldn&#39;t work for the pun&quot;. She called me racist again and walked off. Most of my mates reckon I&#39;m in the right, but a couple of them said it was a dodgy/uncomfy joke. Now he&#39;s wondering who&#39;s in the wrong: What do you reckon, unwashed impartial masses of Reddit? Am I alright for making my lame white people joke given I am a white people? Or am I some terrible dirty racist to be cast out from society for my heinous Crimes Against Whitey? Most people agree that what he did was no big deal &mdash; and it certainly wasn&#39;t racist.therecovering put it simply, saying: Lol, you&#39;re [not the a-hole]. That name does sound about white. SuperiorTroy pointed out that unless she&#39;s this much of a crusader at all times, she really doesn&#39;t have a leg to stand on: she&rsquo;s obviously sensitive. I bet she doesn&rsquo;t make this big of a scene when she hears actual racist jokes Jaedeite pointed out that racism against white people in a majority-white country by definition isn&#39;t racism: It is a white af name. Also- I&#39;m white with a Sociology degree, and being white in a white majority/controlled nation you can&#39;t face racism. Racism requires a systematic oppression towards a group/minority. It would be predjudice at best- not racism. Even if you were black making the same white person joke I&#39;d say NTA. MabelodeTheFaceless raises several good points: A white person talking shit about other white people? NTA. If Chris Rock could say the s*** he said about other black people back in 1996, when I don&#39;t see the problem with what you said about other white people. And even if you weren&#39;t white, as a white person I figure white people ought to be able to take a joke. We took everything else, didn&#39;t we? Touch&eacute;. Just one thing: don&#39;t make this kind of joke in front of the mom who named her kid that, okay? She might call the manager on you.

It&#39;s easy to form an opinion about someone else&#39;s baby name choices. We&#39;re only human, after all.  But one man found out the hard way that sharing your negative opinion on someone else&#39;s baby name is usually a controversial...