please don't use the word "epic" unless you are Ancient Greek and blind
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 6 June 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link
otm
― dn/ac (darraghmac), Friday, 6 June 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
brb building a pinata filled with fireworks.― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Friday, June 6, 2014 8:58 AM (3 hours ago)
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Friday, June 6, 2014 8:58 AM (3 hours ago)
ha, i took these at a friend's rehearsal dinner:
http://i.imgur.com/TJ8QK0a.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/CF42WnB.jpg
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
a hate crime, imo
― Dan I., Friday, 6 June 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
The main reason I asked was that I kind of felt where my friend was coming from w/r/t the pinata breaking being part of a cinco de mayo party called "Cinco de Mayhem" that was attended almost 100% by non-Mexican white people. I was just conflicted because I have such fond feelings about my family's Christmas pinata, but I thought I might have, like, a racial blind spot the way Dutch people do about Sinterklaas' 6 to 8 black assistants
― Dan I., Friday, 6 June 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
your family's pinatas have 6 to 8 black assistants?
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 18:40 (ten years ago) link
american "let's wear sombreros & get fucked on tequila" cinquo de mayo appropriation is much more questionable, imo
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
okay, sorry for xpost. where is undo.
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/l2DSLMt.gif
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 6 June 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
w/r/t the pinata breaking being part of a cinco de mayo party called "Cinco de Mayhem" that was attended almost 100% by non-Mexican white people.
See, the piñata is the part not being racist here.
― pplains, Friday, 6 June 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
i'm sure our Irish readers have similar feelings about the appropriation of St Patrick's day
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 June 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
"What do I want to drink? How 'bout one of those Decapitated Cartel Agents, you know, a little rum and tequila mixed together with grenadine.
What's that? It's St. Patrick's Day, not Cinco de Mayo? Oh yeah, well, how about an Irish Car Bomb then."
― pplains, Friday, 6 June 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link
― gbx, Saturday, 7 June 2014 00:13 (ten years ago) link
http://www.timeout.com/chicago/music/downtown-sound-omar-souleyman
Though a firm favourite of more leftfield festivals and audiences, Omar Souleyman (not to be confused with Detroit legend Omar S) is really as accessible as hummus. The Syrian singer never fails to galvanise a crowd, channelling Middle Eastern music through a techno-informed prism, and is helped out as always by his master keyboardist Rizan Said by his side.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 7 June 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
Omar Souleyman: smooth, creamy, available in 8 and 16 ounce containers in your grocer's produce section
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Saturday, 7 June 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
what ppl do on paddy's day is nothing to me as an irishman
― dn/ac (darraghmac), Saturday, 7 June 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
http://thatsthejoke.net/thatsthejoke.jpg
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 June 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/3174503/chickens.gif
― pplains, Saturday, 7 June 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
suggest ban nation
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Saturday, 7 June 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
micks I can waive
― mikelovestfu (wins), Saturday, 7 June 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
*applause*
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Saturday, 7 June 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
it's a type of it, yeah. but is it racist
― mikelovestfu (wins), Saturday, 7 June 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
i'm hispanic and i'm not crazy about speedy gonzales, primarily b/c it because it was used by white kids i grew up with as nicknames/slurs for hispanic people
― marcos, Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:36 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
many xp. i cant wait to explain to my daughter who speedy etc. also airport dude at ORD brought out a mexican joke for no reason yesterday.
― le hague, Sunday, 15 June 2014 16:06 (nine years ago) link
"Great White Shark"
unsure
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Sunday, 15 June 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
Awesome Hispanic Whale
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 15 June 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
curvy colombian crustacean
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
@lawblobWhy is there no great white shark week?
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Monday, 16 June 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Every week is great white shark week.
― nickn, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vice.com/read/austin-was-built-to-be-segregated
― *tera, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
haha
Follow Luke Winkie on Twitter.
only 90s ilxkidz will get this
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Friday, 20 June 2014 03:53 (nine years ago) link
I just saw a blackpeoplemeet.com commercial, figured there had to be a whitepeoplemeet parody, and OH NOES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwl2y-1SJ2c
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 5 July 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
Was in a 4th of July parade yesterday. The group beyond us was the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Their bagpipe player played a rendition of Hava Negila. Didn't know what to make of that.
― how's life, Saturday, 5 July 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
Rolling Stone just had an article about Texas and the gun nuts who live there. One of the Jewish participants of a gun rally drops Judah Benjamin's name and I guess stands back to give the New York reporter plenty of space to beg forgiveness.
― pplains, Saturday, 5 July 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
Is 'people of ethnicity' an actual term? I am in the UK and someone has used this in talking about 'diversity awareness' training and it sounds like a dressed-up version of 'those ethnics'.
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that's terrible. It's like saying you're only "a race" if you're not white, as if whiteness is the default/neutral from which all else diverges.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
A fb friend of mine who is black who I talk about music with a lot got a little insulted that I posted a led zeppelin song on his feed (I knew he didn't generally like them and I was curious to see if he would like The Wanton Song in light of other stuff he likes) -- he said he finds them "almost racist." I hadn't really thought of them that way before in spite of everything I know about their stealing from blues artists etc. etc., yet it sort of seemed obvious why someone could feel that way once he said it -- there's definitely something minstrely about their antics. Then again, that probably applies to like half of rock music up to a certain point in time.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
xp Right? My o/h was really taken aback by it but the rest of the email is all about how they've undergone training and built a bespoke training package for staff etc so I wondered if I'd missed something.
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
There is a fair chance that they have mixed up the terms 'people of colour' and 'minority ethnicity' in their heads , I'd have thought.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
Someone should maybe point that out to them and see if they respond.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
I would not expect a coherent response but really want him to do so...
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
there's definitely something minstrely about their antics.
Robert Plant using the term "spook music" in a tv interview a few years ago didn't help.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
well now I am humming that to the tune of "Antmusic" and fuck everything forever
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 02:29 (nine years ago) link
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 22:29 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 22:46 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"people of colour" sounds like this to me too actually
― when there's no more room in heㄥㄥ the thread will walk the earth (wins), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 06:36 (nine years ago) link
It's like a it's like someone started to say "coloured people" and then caught themselves & lamely tried to save it
― when there's no more room in heㄥㄥ the thread will walk the earth (wins), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 06:42 (nine years ago) link
It's like a
― when there's no more room in heㄥㄥ the thread will walk the earth (wins), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 06:43 (nine years ago) link
The term "people of color" always makes me want to start using the term "colorless people."
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
i bet
― balls, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
I don't see color, ability or gender. I just see translucent bubbles floating toward me on the sidewalk.
People are much easier to pop when you look at them like that.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
one of the most prominent anti-systemic racism/sj orgs in pdx is called the coalition of communities of color, and they use the term "people of color" a lot in their work... ie: "there's an 80% unemployment rate amongst people of color", etc.
initially i reacted very similarly to the posters itt when i heard the way the org used the term, but ime they are pretty damn progressive both in ethos and in the way they redefine census categories to reach more nuanced definitions of race and ethnicity (particularly wrt slavic or middle eastern or african communities, which are difficult to study using normal census categories). clearly they are supported by funds/foundations so it's difficult to say who exactly chose to use the term or who self-identifies as such, but it does seem to be embraced by all sorts of folks involved in this type of work - i'm not sure if that's necessarily a valid defense of the term, but i'm certainly more than willing to defer to others with considerably more expertise
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
this term has been in use since the mid-90s
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link