rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

So it's only OK to laugh at Mexicans when they do white trash drugs?

I'm more laughing at the rooster, honestly

you better be

also, mods plz delete jpg from thread, there's a reason thats on 77

in case l0rena googles "20ur8gm.png"

OMG GOOGLE FOR http://i55.tinypic.com/20ur8gm.png AND FIND LORENA

ahahaha

Your search - 20ur8gm.png - did not match any documents.

when ppl talk abt "traditional african culture"

I'm reading a column in a COLLEGE NEWSPAPER about Obama "getting his grove back"

This is kinda racist right?

GROOVE*********

That one is questionable. I doubt intentionally racist, but certainly guilty of trying and failing to be "witty".

bohemian groove

orange grove- racist, sectarian

Ok actually this was based off a bill Clinton quote

I bet this chick is still kinda racist, but my apologies

Clinton can't be racist because he was the first black president.

^racist?

http://www.theroot.com/buzz/led-zepplin-front-man-spooked-black-music

Led Zepplin Front Man 'Spooked' by Black Music
By nsenga.burton
Created 09/22/2010 - 18:30

Robert Plant refers to black music as "spook music."

Fresh from the "We can't make this up file," Led Zepplin front man Robert Plant said that "spook music" is one of his favorite genres of music. When did he do this? On a recent appearance on The Today Show. While promoting his new album Band of Joy, Plant opened up about his influences. "[British people] didn't really have the musical knowledge as you guys have [in America]," said Plant. "So we tapped as much American 'spook music' as we could -- as much blues -- mixed it up and nobody liked it. But the feeling of freedom was fantastic." Take the needle off the record. The man whose work is clearly an appropriation of black culture, doesn't know that "spook music," is a derogatory term for black music? Wow. We won't mention the time period of when Led Zepplin ruled the airwaves. He should appropriate some more black culture and call himself "The Great Pretender," because that is what he appears to be.

^^^sounds highly unlikely, show me the clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS5GHOkCCgY&feature=player_embedded#

massive facepalm

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.