rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Gang sign vs. The lindy england

this station specializes in this shit....called up their news hotline to complain, they are so concerned about "welfare fraud" it has it's own goddamn menu option

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/kstp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBLBxb29maw

Anti-Black Pete activists go to London dressed as Black Pete to record the response of people confronted with blackface. It will make fuck all the difference in the Netherlands probably but I applaud the responses. Oh, and they bump into Russell Brand by accident.

New niece for me! So looking at baby clothes (and of course you should always dress babes up as animals) and I noticed this url. Why is 'hiphip' a tag here?

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Infant-Halloween-Costumes-Baby-Romper-Jumpsuit-Animal-Cosplay-Onesie-Suit-Hiphop-Monkey-Guenon-Animal-Style0-3/2031844800.html

For the same reason I told everyone not to get my kids monkey stuff

I would back slowly away from that website. There may some cultural confusion with some of the Chinese retailers creating their own English translations, but

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/High-quality-cool-black-Monkey-boy-Mascot-Costume-Character-Halloween-Costumes-Fancy-Dress-Suit-Free-Shipping/32222574868.html

Holy.

Anti-Black Pete activists go to London dressed as Black Pete to record the response of people confronted with blackface. It will make fuck all the difference in the Netherlands probably but I applaud the responses. Oh, and they bump into Russell Brand by accident.

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, November 12, 2014 11:50 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

... wat

anti-racists dress up as racists to prove ...

That it's racist. Point is, people in Netherlands don't consider it racist. They are not alone. In Denmark, we had a theater company doing an 'anti-racist' project where people would be put in blackface to learn about how it feels to be black. As one angry Swedish black man put in when they tried to take it to Sweden: 'If people want to know what being black feels like THEN ASK ME!!!'

There are still many Danes who thought it was an ok anti-racist project, even though it objectively pissed off a lot of black people.

the didactic plebs who made the video chose well by going to a country where disfavour for explicit cartoon racism is perfectly compatible with structural racism possibly more acute than in the netherlands itself

people would be put in blackface to learn about how it feels to be black

this is just so abysmally clueless that it is hard to comprehend. but then, it was done by theater people, so...

the netherlands had a black national football team manager sixteen years ago whereas today a dutch manager being appointed by an english football team singlehandedly raised the proportion of black professional football managers in england to a healthy 3%

http://black-face.com/blackface-world.htm

an 'anti-racist' project where people would be put in blackface to learn about how it feels to be black.

This is hilarious.

"I was greeted with scorn and ugly looks wherever I went. Power to the People."

That's funny, I remember the controversy. We grew up in such a liberal, PC area that it was waaay bad to eat at Sambo's. I had to eat there once and was mortified, afraid my super liberal church would get wind of it, my civil rights cred tarnished. It was like a Denny's. then Denny's got reamed for discrimination. With the Aunt Jemima suit and all, maybe pancakes are hopelessly racist.

― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Saturday, October 25, 2014 5:57 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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sry to interrupt i haven't read this thread in a month and that post was too much

if it was a quote-unquote politically correct area there would be no "Sambo's" it is true

"So we walk into Sambo's wearing our blackface makeup, and the manager wouldn't seat us! Not even at the counter!"

That is bullshit, but do keep up with the hostility. No one ever lived in a politically correct area. Do go on with your strange obsessions. It's the truth, your poor logic won't change it. You're transparent, and I'm not afraid of you. I've had real-life KKK members. Do try to be one tenth as scary.

That is bullshit, but do keep up with the hostility. No one ever lived in a politically correct area. Do go on with your strange obsessions. It's the truth, your poor logic won't change it. You're transparent, and I'm not afraid of you. I've had real-life KKK members. Do try to be one tenth as scary.

― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Thursday, November 13, 2014 9:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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This thread has had many posts where I have to just sit back and blink for a few minutes like I'm not sure if we've collectedly decided to just ignore them or

baiting I M Losted is a bad look tho

yeah i'm done

You're transparent, and I'm not afraid of you.

Did you just call me a ghost?

"politically correct"
2014

an 'anti-racist' project where people would be put in blackface to learn about how it feels to be black.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Black_Like_Me.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me

And the movie version. (Seen the movie, never read the book.)

http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/6061/445058_020.jpg

^ yeah that's common knowledge right? i read about it several times in grade school (always laudatory)

Popular in its day, and very well received. But James Whitmore passing as black was o_O to me even in the early 70s.

it provided a great cory matthews zinger

I read the book. He supposedly took a bunch of tanning pills.

Which you'd think every white theater major would've tried by now.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/819dgLLVR7L._SL1500_.jpg

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honestly never occurred to me but i guess so

Haha wow how has this never occurred to me

wait srsly that has never occurred to you guys, dang

when i was a kid, I made my own othello board out of wood and painted bingo chips http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

ha holy shit

The name was selected as a reference to the Shakespearean play Othello, the Moor of Venice, referring to the conflict between the Moor Othello and Iago, and more controversially, to the unfolding drama between Othello, who is black, and Desdemona, who is white. The green color of the board is inspired by the image of the general Othello, valiantly leading his battle in a green field. It can also be likened to a jealousy competition (jealousy being the central theme in Shakespeare's play), since players engulf the pieces of the opponent, thereby turning them to their possession.

source links to a time article behind a paywall

More on Zwarte Piet, 90 people were arrested in Gouda for protesting in a non-designated zone yesterday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30069240

The Gouda authorities introduced other coloured Petes, including a Cheese Pete, this year

Yup. Right wing media crying wolf saying a children's party has been ruined forever. Death threats to people who want to change the tradition. A former (social democrat) MP actually denied to shake my hand a couple of weeks back because I've published op-ed's about how we need to get rid of this blackface tradition.
At the other end I had friends of mine arrested, simply for BEING there and being black. Black people were seen as suspect simply because of the color of their skin.

Meanwhile we have a PM, Cameron's best friend Rutte, saying 'Pete is black because he is black, it's a tradition, children's party' etc. What a fucking shambles. Take away our healthcare, let banks dupe you, it's all no problem. But you want to change a racist blackface tradition? Get out of this country! That's the tendency in this 'tolerant' backwards country. Death threats are through the roof. When football player Leroy Fer shared a photo on Instagram this weekend he gets dozens of comments calling him monkey, black pete etc. The attack on black Pete brings out the blatant racism that is virile in this fucking country.

These are our culture wars, but we *will* win. This racist blackface tradition WILL go.

a MP knowing who you are seems like a pretty good humblebrag

Man.

fightin the good fight amory

We had a version of Othello on the BBC B Micro, only it was called Reversi. Loved the crap out of it and would play my dad for hours at it.

I first became aware of Othello when I was 5 or 6 years old and a commercial played regularly during afternoon cartoons. The commercial featured an old asian man who waved his hands over the tiles, causing them to flip from white to black. I begged my mom for the game, but she explained to me that the tiles did not actually do that. You had to flip them over yourself.

moms are such killjoys

I was p pissed when I got Guess Who around the same age and the faces didn't pop out of the cards and talk to me like they did to the kids in the commercial.

ultimately my parents never did help me put it together