For a creature that’s known for their fashion choices of wearing a white sheet, you’d think there would be more racist ghosts.
They come from a time when it was socially acceptable to be openly racist. Plus, if you go back about 1000 years or so, it was socially acceptable to just murder entire villages because your people didn’t like their people.
But anytime you see a ghost, it’s always like “oooOOOooooOOOO!! I HAVE UNFINISHED BUSINESS ON EARTH!!!”
Like, seriously??? Why would a ghost give a fuck if his finances weren’t paid before they died?
And, can we talk about ghostbusters for a second? That one judge was like “Oooh, those are the famous criminals that were brothers! I sent them to death row”
But meanwhile they look NOTHING like humans. But somehow he instantly recognizes them. Are we led to believe they looked like ghoulish monsters when they were alive?
And the librarian looks like a human corpse. So, still human, but, like, after her body has been dead a few weeks. Are we to believe she died, and then her spirit stayed inside her rotting corpse of a body and THEN became a ghost, and retained it’s final form?
Either way…never seen a racist ghost. Which I think has to be statistically impossible.
Mostly because when you’re writing a fictional story, you need to remove everything that isn’t necessary for the plot. Is your story about racism? Then your ghost being racist makes sense. Otherwise unless it’s a gag it slows down the plot.
If we wanna get REALLY picky though…
Most ghosts probably aren’t speaking modern English either. A LOT changes in 200 years, how much slang rose and fell in that time? How much did accents change?
The concept of time was massively different too. Keep in mind before trains visiting a state could be weeks not hours. Could explain why ghosts are so patient though.
There’s also just vast differences in priorities, imagine a life where water is a constant mental calculation like your battery life on a phone. If they’re old enough that was the norm.
The ghost bartender in The Shining was racist
They are not corporeal so why would they care what your body looks like? To them it is just some envelope holding you, right? Your soul I don’t think would have race, or sex, those are embodied things, skin tone being the most superficial of all.
How come they are always from some far-off time period? You’d think someone would have encountered a ghost of someone who died a week prior by now.
Ghost licensing is predatory.
It’s easier to just wait until the ghost can be published in the public domain.
Blame Disney.I’m just imagining some douche with a broccoli haircut wondering around looking for his cell phone and muttering no cap.
My new apartment is haunted. Every night around 3 am, I hear the ghastly wails of “we’re cooked, chat” and “lol I paid the ‘phantom’ tax! Get it?”
Chat, is this real?
Spooksmaxing
no cap on god?
Chat is this rizz?
Maybe it takes time for the spirit to coalesce into our dimension, or maybe it takes them a very long time to travel all the way to heaven/hell/purgatory or wherever the heck they go through after dying and that explains the time gaps
If the rate of ghost dissipation (at which they either cross over to the afterlife or just fade) is lower than the death rate, ghosts will build up, and after a while, it will be statistically overwhelmingly likely that any random ghost is very old.
How do you know you haven’t?
It’s like Dr Manhattan, it takes time to come back together as a cohesive entity.
and what’s the deal with airplane food!?
It is pretty racist, why do they always refuse black sheets 🙄
Isnt there an award winning book about ghosts and a plantation?
Oh dip, Pillboi!
Oh Dip, Donky Doug!
Oh dip, Jason!
Oh dip, Pillboi!
Well, I’m not going to play the “it depends on the writer” card.
But it kinda does apply, even among people conveying their real life experiences. And, to forestall arguments, it doesn’t matter if it is objectively real or not, assuming they aren’t lying, they’re relating their lived experience. Whether that is a delusion or hallucination is irrelevant to this matter.
See, if you start off with the assumption that ghosts either exist, or are a form of shared delusion, then some things can be taken from that.
First, that anyone seeing a ghost is a minority because seeing them isn’t a common occurrence. Second, that regardless of anything else, the first ghost seen isn’t random. Third, that if a ghost can communicate at all (which is not a part of all reports about ghosts), it has limited time to do so.
With those probabilities in mind, if you see a ghost, chances are that it is there for a reason, that you seeing it is for a reason, and that it has to use its time with you to achieve a very specific goal.
Why would the racist ghosts start off saying “now, I’m racist, but hear me out”?
It’s that simple. Unless a ghost is haunting only a given grouping of people, there’s no benefit to expressing their racism at all. If they are haunting a race, then there’s still no need to outright say it; they’re acting on their racism and don’t care if anyone understands their motivations.
Either way…never seen a racist ghost. Which I think has to be statistically impossible.
Hetty Woodstone (“Ghosts”) hated the Irish.
I used to have a theory that ghosts weren’t spirits of the dead, but a momentary overlap of realities on loop at a certain place and what was seen was a glimpse of that reality. This only works of time is a singular experience happening all at once. I am not smart.
Because alcohol has no gender.
it’s because those were Henson workshop characters and they i think they tried pretty hard to make cool, PG-rated, kid friendly designs
anyway there are racist ghosts in the videogames, you bust Confederates
I expect its mostly just because its unpleasant and taboo. People don’t want to write nor watch that.
That said, they do show up occasionally in more adult-oriented movies. The Shining is an example that immediately comes to mind.
