Still waiting for an apology.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
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*)
― juggalo iglesias (HI DERE), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
carles is slippin -- passion pit already did the "hire a choir of underprivileged minority youths" thing
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 September 2010 19:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
he's not even listed on the mtv site, which is usually v good about putting directors up in there
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 20 September 2010 19:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
gonna lol if it was Hype Williams
― juggalo iglesias (HI DERE), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
the video and song are both unmentionably terrible w/ stupid and retrograde notions about race but i don't think they are simply ~racist~
― Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sophie Muller directed it.
― Kerm, Monday, 20 September 2010 19:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
OK, how about this?
http://gawker.com/5643372/this-weeks-new-yorker-cartoon-caption-contest-winner-pretty-racist
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
more offensive for not being funny
― bnw, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
that was a fake
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
this isn't a thread for lol racism, fyi. keep that shit to "encyclopedia of racist products" or, like, 4chan
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
strictly concern trolling in here.
― Kerm, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
I figured it was some soccer thing. Wouldn't have been surprised if it had been real.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
take it to i love footy
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 04:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
love the gawker update where they act like they understood the joke from the beginning
― jeff, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 05:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
barf
maybe LJ is right about ilx being the smartest message board
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 05:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://hipsterhitler.com/
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 05:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
gawker isnt a message board
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 05:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
ilx is my favorite blog
― markers, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 05:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
MIXMASTERRACE
EASTSIDEWESTSIDEGENOCIDE
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 05:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― 4 my muthafuckin mods (crüt), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 06:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 06:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
are the finns a race?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 06:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 14:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3),
jesus way to zing an entire bord of innocents wtf
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 14:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
Subtle "Americans don't like soocer and aren't racist" undertones there
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 14:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah really i'm getting some prety bad vibes offa this zorn character. bet he's norwegian/icelandic thor worshipper
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 14:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
zorn smash
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 15:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
is this chorus racist?
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 18:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
?
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://dasracist.net/
― am0n, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
idk singing about sippin syrup like three 6 and getting "slizzered"
it's a bit 3oh3 minstrel
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
i can def see that
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Man, if it's wrong to make fun of people who drink cough syrup to get high, I don't wanna get high.
― doobieborther, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― zomg_bong.mp3 (Kerm), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
glad I'm broke, on a dell, and had chili for lunch then.
― zomg_bong.mp3 (Kerm), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
black people eat Whole Foods salad bar, too
― sarahel, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
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*
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think you've anticipated an exciting new direction for Pitchfork Reviews Reviews
― sarahel, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
God, this fucking thread. Is this racist? Is it? Well? I need something to be outraged about, fuckin' tell me!!! Ugh.
― SourPatchCorpse, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
i dont think anyone is really all that outraged tbh
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Was Dr. King's morning coffee fair trade or unregulated?
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
we can't be sure, can we, so let's kick it up to 0.8
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/15/new-orleans-shooting-not-national-news
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 21:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
i remember horrible twenty yo irish dudes ordering bud in proper pubs like and grinning as if they'd just gotten champagne for everyone and i hated them, and then i looked at my guinness and felt like a tourist
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 16 May 2013 05:00 (1 month ago) Permalink
Is tar baby a racist phrase?
― now is not the time for motorboating (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 23 May 2013 21:18 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
etymologically, it refers to a figure made of tar, which some sort of folktale figure (Bre'r Rabbit? Anansi? both?) punched and then got stuck to.
But it sure does sound racist.
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Thursday, 23 May 2013 22:44 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
weird site don
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 May 2013 22:58 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
1. jesus christ yes "tar baby" is a fucking racist term wtf why is this even a question2. this:
This isn't the first time Politico's Romano has used racially-coded language on MSNBC. In March, in the heat of the gun control debate, Romano attacked NRA spokesman Wayne LaPierre as a "tired old white guy."
is some all time moving the goal posts shit in that article
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 23 May 2013 23:25 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
what is "tired old white guy" code for
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Thursday, 23 May 2013 23:28 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
NRA spokesman
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 May 2013 03:53 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
i remember horrible twenty yo irish dudes ordering bud in proper pubs like and grinning
My people!
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 24 May 2013 05:34 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
http://elitedaily.com/sports/the-dumbest-college-athletes-of-all-time/
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 10 June 2013 15:35 (1 week ago) Permalink
Yes it is racist, and I am a bad person for having clicked that link.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:16 (1 week ago) Permalink
ty for clicking though, now I know I don't have to
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Monday, 10 June 2013 17:28 (1 week ago) Permalink
Can't tell you you're welcome, too busy showering myself for ever and never feeling clean again.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:58 (1 week ago) Permalink
theres a whole elite daily thread full of choice content which u are now obliged to read
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 10 June 2013 18:14 (1 week ago) Permalink
took one for the team
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 June 2013 18:18 (1 week ago) Permalink
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Sunday, 16 June 2013 15:31 (3 days ago) Permalink
In any other city, that would probably fly.
― pplains, Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:26 (3 days ago) Permalink
You know what they say - white on the outside, watermelon in the middle.
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:11 (2 hours ago) Permalink
i would probably eat that
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:12 (2 hours ago) Permalink
looks like it's sticking out its tongue
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:21 (2 hours ago) Permalink
I cannot stand "watermelon." Would love to know what the industrial name for that flavor is.
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:21 (2 hours ago) Permalink
Yellow on the outside, gay in the middle.
i have a controversial opinion: golden oreos are 100x better than regular oreos
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:23 (2 hours ago) Permalink
COOKIE-IST
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:24 (2 hours ago) Permalink
i'ma go buy a thing of those oreos, unless this thread determines them to be racist
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:25 (2 hours ago) Permalink
there's nothing racist about the delcious flavor of watermelon
― PappaWheelie on the zeitgeist (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:27 (2 hours ago) Permalink
watermelon juice, now that's what's up
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:32 (2 hours ago) Permalink
i think i could probably eat an entire watermelon in one day, perhaps even one sitting... but i'd probably have to tether myself to the bathroom for at least 8 hours afterwards
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:43 (2 hours ago) Permalink
Watermelon is one of those "is it worth the effort" fruits.
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:44 (2 hours ago) Permalink
and the answer is almost always "YES, GOD YES"
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:46 (1 hour ago) Permalink
It's too messy!
I like it when someone has cut it up and taken out the seeds though. Then it's pretty good.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 17:24 (20 minutes ago) Permalink
Sometimes the mess is fun but it's sort of an eat it outside only fruit for me because it's just too juicy and gets everywhere. Yes, I am five.
Also, are those Oreos real?
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 17:25 (19 minutes ago) Permalink
No part of those Oreos have been within a mile of a watermelon or any part of a watermelon, until they reach a grocery store and are shelved within 100 yards of the produce dept.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 17:28 (16 minutes ago) Permalink