rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Why's he talking about white girls?

for reference:

She's blonde,
She's blonde,
Comes along the sidewalk.

She's Blonde,
Leave a trail of blue and black,
Up to you fighting back.

She's Blonde,
Steel chains,
A noose of charms on our necks.

I find out nothing when we talk and sit,
Blue heart passion and watch the set.

Easy to fall, when part of your skull starts to break away,
Cheaters walk, down the block behind this evil street.

She's a white girl well I'm living with a white girl,
She's a white girl well I'm living with a white girl-

Nineteen,
Nineteen.. losing her man to an old girl.

Nineteen,
Drain every beer left over at home,
and listen to ghosts in the other room.

I Can't!
Why not? You're alone inside his keeping.

Oh I'll replace your drunk old man,
Sit in the parking lot and hold your hand.

Easy to fall, when part of your skull starts to break away...
Drugged and in love out at a club pulling me outside.

She's a white girl, well I'm living with a white girl,
She's a white girl, well I'm living with a white girl-

Easy to fall, when part of your skull starts to break away...
drugged and in love out at a club pulling me outside.

She's a white girl well I'm living with a white girl,
She's a white girl well I'm living with a white girl

having just finished re-reading We Got the Neutron Bomb my guess is this song is about the young lady that Exene moved out to California with, who was by all accounts something of a bitch who would pull white-supremacist provacateur type stuff to get a rise out of people.

blanking on her name at the moment.

Not racist. Someone else could make the argument for exploitative, but it's a stretch to say that the Kings of Leon have any hatred or intolerance toward black people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ

Now apologize for making me watch a Kings of Leon video for two minutes.

Yeah, I guess exploitative and colonialist (is that the right word?) more than captial-R RACIST, but still like; who does a video treatment that;'s like "OK, you're hugging black kids for four minutes"

i think it's hard to call a music video 'exploitative' -- what are they exploiting these kids for? no one watches music videos. they have no impact, unless you're lady gaga

colonialist maybe, but remember that KOL are the most popular band in europe

racist, clearly not

would've preferred video featuring band being murdered by black kids

http://altreport.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/09/kings-of-leon-hires-choir-of-black-children-to-make-their-new-mp3-sound-more-soulful.html

It reminded me of a generic John Cougar Mellencamp video. Had they been white kids, it would've looked like 70% of the videos on CMT.

Still waiting for an apology.

Yeah, I guess exploitative and colonialist (is that the right word?) more than captial-R RACIST, but still like; who does a video treatment that;'s like "OK, you're hugging black kids for four minutes"

obv the answer is "the dude who directed the new Kings of Leon video, whose name somehow has not yet made it to the bits of the Internet you can hit within 5 minutes of using Google"

(that more than anything else is making me lol, like whoever this was basically went "I'll do this for you and it will be awesome! I don't want any credit tho" *waits for shitstorm*)

carles is slippin -- passion pit already did the "hire a choir of underprivileged minority youths" thing

he's not even listed on the mtv site, which is usually v good about putting directors up in there

gonna lol if it was Hype Williams

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

Ha, I didn't even consider that. Google as two different literal sources.

I can't recall the last time I encountered, let alone ate, hard shell tacos.

I do. It was a couple months ago in New Mexico, where hard shell tacos are not only popular, but standard afaict.

I don't think "street tacos" is a racist term but i do think it's intended for an audience who is not taco-literate

they're not realllllly 'standard' here but they are pretty common (and delicious!)

no hard tacos anywhere in Oregon that I have seen

probably bc oregon isn't in the southwest? gbx is more informed than i am; i only know that i ordered tacos two times in rural New Mexico and was served delicious crunchy hard shell tacos.

makes sense!

We make hard tacos at home but order soft tacos from outside.

New Mexico is sort of known for its own distinctive fusion take on Mexican, right? Just like Texas. Checking out wiki adds this little tidbit of data:

"Taco – a corn tortilla fried into a trough shape, it is filled with meats or beans, and fresh chopped lettuce, onions, tomatoes, and cheese.

The term can also refer to the soft, rolled flour-tortilla variety popularized by fast-food chains (a soft taco), and the flat, unfried corn style favored in Mexico (a "street taco"), but most corn tortillas for tacos are fried in New Mexican cuisine."

At least around here (so I presume in Mexico as well) you would never put lettuce or tomatoes on a taco.

the tacos at el parasol (small local chain) are fried hardshell and i love them

also i think hardshells are not uncommon in parts of mexico, tacos dorados

We make hard tacos at home but order soft tacos from outside.

exactly the opposite in my kitchen -- i make tacos at least 3x/week but they are always corn tortilla with whatever available filling i happen to have. the only real taco tragedy here are tortillas that haven't been toasted and are functionally raw. no thx.

either way it seems to me that 'street tacos' are a term to help the taco-illiterate distinguish between types of tortilla before ordering them at a restaurant

xpost Aka as flautas.

Meanwhile, deviating from Thursday taco talk:

Joe Biden's America... pic.twitter.com/7CLTCafNwM

— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) February 22, 2024

First reply rules:

And yet y’all made Jesus white so what’s your point

— D2 - Duan Dempsey (@duandempsey) February 22, 2024

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.