Poor DDP

[1BadMF]

Why is guy always getting called slurs/attacked by other fighters? Strickland and Izzy went crazy on him and then Strickland attacked him, just as the guy in the video did. TLDR: The guy, Bahati, slapped him and got destroyed by DDP in the fight.
To ask the most popular sherdog question; is Dricus a fake guy?

I love the way DDP beat him with that chinstrap guillotine.

 

[burnthehive]

Im not saying there's no ethnic lines here or there. Im saying they're not as strong that denies, for example, mixed marriages, which im the result of. All im saying is, at the end of the day, it's culture that bonds us together, and "nationalism" is one of em.
Of course there are others. Id prolly be more aligned to a Black parisian than a deeply religious muslim Brazilian, for instance. Different cultures.

I agree that it takes a particularly powerful religion to overcome ethnic or racial differences. (Say, Islam in the Middle East.) Or, it takes a dominant, all-encompassing state.

Or both.

 

[chiefwiggum]

ddp. A couple decades ago at live wcw events .we would shout white trash champion at Ddp and Chris Benoit. They always came off as pretty mad about it.

But anyways. I think duplesis or what have you is upset people thinking he’s a black guy.
Not that their is anything wrong with that…

Just my opinion.

 

[Koro_11]

I think you've failed the logic.

Anderson Silva is black and Brazilian. I think Yoel Romero may be mixed (I forget), and Cuban. Jon Jones is black and American.

Dricus is white and South African. He is not black/African.

No, if you’re arguing this same point with half a dozen others who are disagreeing with your nonsense then it’s you who failed the logic.

Dricus is African because he was born and lives on the continent of Africa. I know it’s complicated for you, but try repeating it to yourself a few times until it makes sense.

 

[JohnMandick]

Poor Dickus Dickpussy.

 

[SoSo]

It's the SA wit. It bugs the fuck out of a lot of people, but especially americans.

Fucken Southies. I grew up with a bunch of those arrogant bastards. Arrogant, but in good way kinda. Self confident scrappy bunch, especially the Afrikaans stock. Pricks, but the type of pricks you'd want at your back. Good to have a beer or 12 with after a match for sure though.

 

[burnthehive]

No, if you’re arguing this same point with half a dozen others who are disagreeing with your nonsense then it’s you who failed the logic.

Dricus is African because he was born and lives on the continent of Africa. I know it’s complicated for you, but try repeating it to yourself a few times until it makes sense.

The first part is just a lazy appeal to popularity. I'm not interested in winning a popularity contest among mid-wits in a chat forum. The last part is just Reddit-tier posturing.

A cat born in a stable isn't a horse. Dricus is South African, but he is white/European. A white child born to parents living at a military base in Okinawa isn't Asian.

 

[burnthehive]

No, if you’re arguing this same point with half a dozen others who are disagreeing with your nonsense then it’s you who failed the logic.

Dricus is African because he was born and lives on the continent of Africa. I know it’s complicated for you, but try repeating it to yourself a few times until it makes sense.

Is this blue-eyed white man born to two white parents Asian because he was born in Japan? No one in Japan thinks so. And no one in America thinks so, either.

 

[dominion]

This chump was upset because DDP clearly more African than him

 

[jitzmonkey]

You do understand that 'mericans are the only ones that call black ppl "african-americans", right? There's no "african-brazilians" or "african-irish".
Civic nationalism doesnt mean much, but it's more meaningful than race. As a brazilian, i am more culturally aligned to a black brazilian than to a white french.

FWIW, that’s indicative of the inherent racism here in the states.

 

[jitzmonkey]

Is this blue-eyed white man born to two white parents Asian because he was born in Japan? No one in Japan thinks so. And no one in America thinks so, either.

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I miss the time when the UK Prime Minister was a NYer.

 

[Poirierfan]

I think DDP has a pretty severe case of punchable face syndrome so you can't really blame people for punching it, it is pretty much out of their control.

Watching DDP fight makes you want to punch him too, it looks retarded.

 

[Killer Kadoogan]

Double Pound Playseis about to unload

 

[fortheo]

Is this blue-eyed white man born to two white parents Asian because he was born in Japan? No one in Japan thinks so. And no one in America thinks so, either.

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Japan is a closed off small island that has spent the majority of it's history relatively untouched by outsiders. National, ethnical and racial identity is easier to boil down into just a question of race in Japan because they lack racial and ethnical diversity.

Japan is a bad example when comparing to extremely ethically and racially diverse countries like Africa or brazil, or the us, for instance. Africa is far, far bigger, and more ethnically and racially diverse, thus the definition of what an African is has to also cover a grander scope.

While Japan might not accept the white men who have lived in Japan for a generation or two, many people have come to accept the afrikaners who have been in africa for 300+ years as african, or the white arabs in north africa who have been there for 1,000 plus years as africans.

The same way everyone in brazil can be Brazilian and everyone from the us can be American, not just the indigenous people. It is because ethnically and culturally diverse countries tend to expand their concept of identity beyond just that of race, or at least acknowledge that it is only part of the equation. The dogmatic stubbornness of whittling identity down to nothing but race doesn't work in diverse countries.

A cat born in a stable isn't a horse. Dricus is South African, but he is white/European. A white child born to parents living at a military base in Okinawa isn't Asian.

Another poorly chosen comparison. The concept of different human races isn't comparable to two flat out different species. Also, again, you're working under the faulty assumption that race = identity of a whole diverse continent, when race is only part of it.

That said, this is a dumb discussion. I've talked about it with many africans and they themselves have varying degrees on what it means to be african, probably because they themselves are so diverse, unlike japan....

 

[Psychedelic]

There's no doubt Dricus got defensive

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An example of not getting defensive would be Wonderboy with Colby. Wonderboy genuinely doesn't care Lol

Also Wonderboy vs Woodley.

"Why you gotta be so mean ?"

And then Woodley couldn't help but laugh and tone down the race baiting and victimhood he was embracing leading up to that fight.



Wonderboy is lowkey the GOAT at defusing the trolls.

 

[sanguinius]

FWIW, that’s indicative of the inherent racism here in the states.

Racism was invented by William F. America, founder of America.

 

[backlight]

Some idiots in this thread:

"How dare this white man claim to be African!"

 

[Koro_11]

The first part is just a lazy appeal to popularity. I'm not interested in winning a popularity contest among mid-wits in a chat forum. The last part is just Reddit-tier posturing.

A cat born in a stable isn't a horse. Dricus is South African, but he is white/European. A white child born to parents living at a military base in Okinawa isn't Asian.

Africa is not a colour you muppet, it’s a landmass.

As dumb as you are, I know you know this, too, Dricus is African because he was born there, and he lives there and he has citizenship. Dricus is as African as Jon Jones is American. According to you, there is no such thing as an American right?

Your cat in a stable argument is just a dumb comparison, absolutely no one here is saying Dricus is black.

 

[RoñaCastroJr]

I think the biggest issue is him claiming izzy, francis and usman aren't real africans. A white dude whos family was likely part of apartheid saying that is pathetic.

THIS !
FINALLY SOMEONE WITH A FUNCTIONING BRAIN IN SHERDOG

 

[evergreenrider]

Here's the thing:

Dricus is white, but claims to be African. He may be South African -- a nationality -- but he's not African. He's white/European.

To everyone else in the world, African and black are synonymous. But for some stupid, self-defeating reason, white people continue to believe that civic nationalism is meaningful. It isn't. And everyone except white people understands this.