rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

the video and song are both unmentionably terrible w/ stupid and retrograde notions about race but i don't think they are simply ~racist~

Sophie Muller directed it.

OK, how about this?

http://gawker.com/5643372/this-weeks-new-yorker-cartoon-caption-contest-winner-pretty-racist

more offensive for not being funny

http://www.bitterwallet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/zBOSA-500x375.jpg

that was a fake

but it was racist because someone realized that they could spell "nigger" by a video game and they set up a soccer video game and took a photo of it and sent it all over the internet

so yes, racist

this isn't a thread for lol racism, fyi. keep that shit to "encyclopedia of racist products" or, like, 4chan

strictly concern trolling in here.

I figured it was some soccer thing. Wouldn't have been surprised if it had been real.

take it to i love footy

love the gawker update where they act like they understood the joke from the beginning

barf

http://i55.tinypic.com/25oxf7k.png

maybe LJ is right about ilx being the smartest message board

http://hipsterhitler.com/

gawker isnt a message board

ilx is my favorite blog

MIXMASTER
RACE

EASTSIDE
WESTSIDE
GENOCIDE

is anti-semitism racist or not, because this guy at the bar I frequent is convinced that Birth Of A Nation was produced by Jews & that the Jews control the media etc etc

I know it sucks either way just wanted 2 know ur opinions

Of course anti-semitism is racism. It's just that racism against Jews has acquired a term of its own, probably because discriminating them has been so prominent historically.

Where it gets tricky is when anti-Israel or anti-Zionist statements are equated with anti-semitism; of course some anti-Israel/anti-Zionist people are also anti-semitists/racists, but many of them aren't. But your case is pretty obviously racist because the target is Jews as a whole, not Israeli politics or anything.

are the finns a race?

Ca. 300 Finnish Jews fought in the War alongside the German Army[3][4]. The field synagogue operated by the Finnish army was probably a unique phenomenon in Europe.

Guess they didn't have Google then either.

take it to i love footy

― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3),

jesus way to zing an entire bord of innocents wtf

Subtle "Americans don't like soocer and aren't racist" undertones there

yeah really i'm getting some prety bad vibes offa this zorn character. bet he's norwegian/icelandic thor worshipper

zorn smash

is this chorus racist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4s6H4ku6ZY&ob=av3n

?

http://dasracist.net/

idk singing about sippin syrup like three 6 and getting "slizzered"

it's a bit 3oh3 minstrel

i can def see that

Man, if it's wrong to make fun of people who drink cough syrup to get high, I don't wanna get high.

How does all the lol ghetto retard stuff on lamebook.com fit into this thread? Not sure if I'd rather it be real or fake.

i think a bunch of well-off white people looking at it on their MacBook Pros and laughing at it through a mouthful of Whole Foods salad bar is pretty racist

glad I'm broke, on a dell, and had chili for lunch then.

black people eat Whole Foods salad bar, too

so like, on a pitchfork scale of 0.0 to 10.0, where 10.0 is a lynching, and 0.0 is Martin Luther King Jr. enjoying a cup of coffee while making breakfast, in his pajamas, humming a soft song to himself, where would the MacBook Pro thing fall? where does this comment fall?

I think this thread, while started with the noblest of intentions, has been a failure. And the reason I believe it has failed is that we (as a society) are so resigned to simply declaring something racist or not, as if it's binary, instead of attempting to quantify exactly how racist something really is, using numerical scales.

that scene from Louie where the school bus breaks down in Harlem and he reassigns the black kids the window seats: greater than 1.2?

*folds hands, rests elbows on desk, places chin on fingertips, looks up and slightly to the left, thinks*

i think you've anticipated an exciting new direction for Pitchfork Reviews Reviews

God, this fucking thread. Is this racist? Is it? Well? I need something to be outraged about, fuckin' tell me!!! Ugh.

i dont think anyone is really all that outraged tbh

Was Dr. King's morning coffee fair trade or unregulated?

Exactly, this thread isn't about being outraged at these things, it's about discussing them, and learning from them, and analyzing peoples motivations, gaining valuable insight into contemporary race relations, and proposing solutions for a more equitable society. Which is why it is essentially ineffectual, and why we should focus on merely assigning submitted material a score.

we can't be sure, can we, so let's kick it up to 0.8

xp that is not for me, as a MacBook Pro owner, to say

jk i don't really own one of those racist fuckin computers ;p

venti frap all over the keyboard

black people eat Whole Foods salad bar, too

― sarahel, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 3:19 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

white people live in "ghetto"s too, but hilarious that you missed my point so wildly

http://i55.tinypic.com/20ur8gm.png

― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:41 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

3.9 imo, though it depends what you were eating when you posted it

meth is a white trash drug last time I checked, but ok?

stop being rooster racists

New man on the Woke A.I. Vikings

I wonder if there's any huge pop culture phenomenon that could have caused an A.I. image scraper to link dark skin and the phrase "founding fathers"...? nahhhh

Oh no, don't ask it for a picture of a mermaid

history messin'

History messin' is the best part of this. It sounds exactly like a stinger that Kelly would be say at the bottom of one of those Onion cartoons.

HISTORY
MESSIN’

Josh: at my nearest taqueria, "Mexican style" is their shorthand for saying that you only want onion, cilantro, and lime juice.

Their approach is generally Yucatecan, I think, but they'll make you an "American style" with lettuce and tomato.

I don't think I have had a hard-shell taco since maybe 1985 (Old El Paso, from the grocery store). So I guess for me, all tacos are soft tacos. As a result, I stopped saying "soft tacos." I just call them tacos. "Street tacos" is nonsense because I will happily eat a taco in any location.

"Street corn" is another matter. One can just say esquites if that's what you mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNGr_D2J9k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpBHc8px_U

whew, order restored

https://i.imgur.com/eGiLH59.png

Lionel Messin'

sleep that's where I'm a woke AI Viking

First reply rules:

Sheer brilliance.

at my nearest taqueria, "Mexican style" is their shorthand for saying that you only want onion, cilantro, and lime juice.

see what's funny is that in my experience, this is what you should get when you order a street taco, and what the taco trucks near me in Oakland used to sell as "tacos." Usually would come with a nice little bag of escabeche, too.

my god an image of a "founding father" that isn't congruent with the historical fact that america was foundationally a white supremacist ethnostate centered around on race-based chattel slavery

also wtf is with those fingers lol

re: woman pope - did anyone else grow up hearing the anti-catholic "pope joan" myth? it's so fucking grand guignol. if i didn't know any better i would've thought antonin artaud came up with it.

Some versions of the legend suggest that subsequent popes were subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a so-called sedia stercoraria or 'dung chair' containing a hole, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles before announcing "Duos habet et bene pendentes" ("He has two and they dangle nicely"),[17] or "habet" ("he has them") for short.

Black Vikings sounds like a terrible British current wave of post-punk band name

AI should stick to its intended purpose: Making ahegao hentai of the Wild Thornberries

Okay but are they fucking the animals or each other

the AIristocrats!

What would be in a cocktail called the Black Viking?

2oz blackstrap rum (black)
1/2 oz lime (for scurvy)
1/2 oz Cherry Heering float (blood)
rub rim with honey (Mead)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMA2Kc7TiO0

Seth MacFarlane is producing this I'm sure he'll keep everything above board

They roped Steph Curry into slapping his name on this? It also says Norman Lear is producing and he even got higher billing than McFarlane, in spite of the fact he's dead.

Ouija-ing it in

Animation famously takes three months total from pitch to screen.

Lear because he produced the original Good Times, I presume.

Yeah, it's like how anytime anyone makes a Halloween thing they have to cut John Carpenter a check, or how anytime anyone makes an Alien thing they have to cut Walter Hill a check.