another questionable one - getting "the itis"
one time i let "niggardly" slip in conversation and felt really bad about it afterwards
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 September 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kimberley-strassel-mueller-may-have-trump-in-his-sights-but-hes-been-very-good-to-obama-and-his-team
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 7 December 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
This might not be the right thread to bring this up in (so many racism threads...), but I find this developing story of bigoted ass showing interesting.
https://www.houstonpress.com/news/franci-neely-appears-in-viral-video-yelling-at-a-family-taking-birthday-pictures-11228931
It's been bouncing around local social media this week. The person in question was initially thought to be some rich rando, but as the linked story reveals, this person is actually a pretty major Houston socialite, somebody who's on a load of Charity honor roles and has, like, buildings and shit named after them.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
Are you really wondering if that was racist?
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 22 February 2019 01:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NINTCHDBPICT000481760748.jpg?w=960
WHAT THE DUCK? Waitrose axes ‘racist’ chocolate Easter ducklings after customers complain dark brown figure is labelled ‘ugly’The Trio of Easter Ducklings were temporarily pulled from shelves while new labelling was put on packagingWAITROSE has apologised over a "racist" Easter duckling product after customers complained the dark chocolate one was labelled "ugly".The £8 box set of white, milk and dark chocolate ducklings upset some people for being marked "fluffy", "crispy" and "ugly".It was temporarily pulled from shelves by the high-end supermarket so the packaging could be redesigned after a "small number" of customers were offended.The Waitrose Trio of Chocolate Easter Ducklings are now available to buy again in shops and online.Although not made explicitly clear by supermarket bosses, it's thought that the name "ugly" may have been chosen as a reference to the classic fairy tale song The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen.The song is about a "stubby and brown" duckling which is mocked and shamed by other ducklings, but grows into a beautiful white swan.One Twitter user shared a picture of the chocolate product and wrote: "Crispy, Fluffy and Ugly - trio of Easter ducklings at Waitrose."Ugly is the dark one on the right."Overheard women saying 'this is not right', I agree, doesn't look good at all."Thousands of other options... Why ugly?"A Waitrose spokesperson said: "We are sorry for any upset caused by the name of this product, it was absolutely not our intention to cause any offence."We removed the product from sale several weeks ago while we changed the labelling and our ducklings are now back on sale."
The Trio of Easter Ducklings were temporarily pulled from shelves while new labelling was put on packaging
WAITROSE has apologised over a "racist" Easter duckling product after customers complained the dark chocolate one was labelled "ugly".
The £8 box set of white, milk and dark chocolate ducklings upset some people for being marked "fluffy", "crispy" and "ugly".
It was temporarily pulled from shelves by the high-end supermarket so the packaging could be redesigned after a "small number" of customers were offended.
The Waitrose Trio of Chocolate Easter Ducklings are now available to buy again in shops and online.
Although not made explicitly clear by supermarket bosses, it's thought that the name "ugly" may have been chosen as a reference to the classic fairy tale song The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen.
The song is about a "stubby and brown" duckling which is mocked and shamed by other ducklings, but grows into a beautiful white swan.
One Twitter user shared a picture of the chocolate product and wrote: "Crispy, Fluffy and Ugly - trio of Easter ducklings at Waitrose.
"Ugly is the dark one on the right.
"Overheard women saying 'this is not right', I agree, doesn't look good at all.
"Thousands of other options... Why ugly?"
A Waitrose spokesperson said: "We are sorry for any upset caused by the name of this product, it was absolutely not our intention to cause any offence.
"We removed the product from sale several weeks ago while we changed the labelling and our ducklings are now back on sale."
― sexual consent... on the blockchain (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
Isn't the whole point of Andersen's tale – the reference is abundantly clear – that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
A bird by its plumage, rather. Wouldn't want this to get too self-reflexive.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
Crispy duckling?
― jmm, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
I need a ruling on this one:
https://i.imgur.com/INoxIHk.jpg
First time I heard this "play on words" was 30 years ago from one of my dad's friends. It was the punchline to a racist joke about a black man who dropped his wheel of cheese down the side of the hill, whereupon my dad's friend picked it up and carried it home.
I haven't heard that joke told again since 1989.
BUT I have heard plenty of well-meaning folks make the same pun since then. It's always made me a little uncomfortable, since I remember hearing that joke, but also because it's a "play on words" revolving around a supposed African American dialect. However, I see the pun made so often, I'm starting to wonder if this is just me. Kinda like how I grew up thinking the word "fart" was a profanity, but now you just about hear it said in Disney movies.
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
When I was a child, everyone who told me this joke used a Mexican boy as the character who dropped the cheese. 🤔
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
(IOW, it's not just you)
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
Having never heard the joke in spoken form, it took me a while to figure it out. But I did. It's racist.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
I saw an ad for Subway yesterday where the slogan was iirc "NACHO AVERAGE SANDWICH" and am kind of amazed that a whole marketing team and whoever else thought that works as a collection of words you see for a few seconds at a time in the street
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
puns don't really work that way
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
I don't get the 'speed zone' thing
― kinder, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
A pun on Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
especially since a 'speed zone' invariably denotes a lower speed limit and that is exactly what the ad is supposed to be promoting.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
I'm hungry for a big plate of notyo's
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
hmm... this one's iffy.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
See the irony here for me is that the joke's never been about Hispanics.
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:35 (five years ago) link
Machismo = excessive manliness
Machismo = excessive cheesiness
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
Nachismo, gah
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
Nachismo = excessive racialness
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link
btw, don't do this to nachos you guys.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
personally i wouldna chose to
― he once took my hand and poked Neil Armstrong in the butt (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
You know what I'm taco about.
― pplains, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
i guess the question here is can a bad pun overcome its historically racialized context once that context becomes, uh, highly attenuated
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
Somebody's response to an advert for an upcoming Africa day being 'when is Ireland Day' & not liking being told March 17th.Going on to say it's a religious day when I thought it was a widespread commercial event across most of the globe.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
ireland is my favorite continent
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
(xp) Celebrating a Welshman, of course.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
I think I first heard the nacho/not-your thing on Seinfeld when Elaine said it. I didn't think of it as a dialect joke.
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
yeah I’ve never heard it framed as a dialect thing. it was always just a regular old pun.
― buttigieg play the blues (crüt), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
There is a restaurant in Baltimore called Nacho Mamas. I had never heard the joke.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 23:22 (five years ago) link
is the idiom (?) of ‘not wanting to be thrown in the briar patch’ racist?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 12 April 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
how long has the circle/OK hand gesture been a white power thing? i had not heard of it before the kavanaugh hearings
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
It’s stupid as hell. I use that emoji when I wanna use it bc they don’t own it.
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
https://medium.com/s/story/does-the-ok-sign-actually-signify-white-power-or-what-6cf3309df985
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
the reason they do it is to make libs look like morons
― Mordy, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
I seem to recall an article months back arguing that point
― call me cismale (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
To quote that article I linked to, re: Zina Bash:
Instead of acknowledging her *actual* politics—working for possibly the most overtly racist administration since Americans literally owned other Americans—leftists, liberals, and centrists got caught up in a circle jerk about whether a hand sign that members of the far right have been using to troll us since at least 2015 has any significance.
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
libs are perfectly capable of making themselves look like morons, stfu white power dipshits
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
Pareene had a great piece the other day about how the youths immediately recognize this shit for what it is because unlike respectable adult media they're not busy dousing everything in gallons of smarm. it's almost always very clear when people are doing shit like this to demonstrate solidarity with racists.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
it sucks because there's also the age-old "circle game" which we did when we were kids and now you got conservative media screaming "oh now the circle game is RACIST?? I told you they were nuts!!"
― frogbs, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
^yeah
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/af7LWpb.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
I mean, it's a pacifier.
https://i.imgur.com/3FB3fA4.jpg
But...
http://www.startribune.com/iowa-home-with-confederate-nazi-displays-gets-vandalized/566243672/
Only person that's supposed to judge me is the Lord." Yeah, no, I can judge you too, and I judge you to be a racist moron.
― A breezy pop-rock feel fairly typical of the mid-'80s (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 December 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
Stark said he had already sold the painting of a flag with a swastika. He said he displayed it in his front yard because the buyer dared him to do it.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 16 December 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
Art can be powerful, but we strongly disagree with the use of monkeys as images in the fight against racism and were surprised by the total lack of consultation. @SerieA_EN pic.twitter.com/M7wFjhsfj2— AC Milan (@acmilan) December 17, 2019
Yet another facepalm moment of fighting racism in Italy.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
I do not understand what is happening there as my first reaction to the picture was "is this a Planet of the Apes throwback" and not anything to do with fighting racism
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link