rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

MIXMASTER
RACE

EASTSIDE
WESTSIDE
GENOCIDE

― 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

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

― 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

― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

venti frap all over the keyboard

― jeff, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 20:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 22:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

oh nevermind

― UTW, USA, ILX LIFER (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:29 (4 days ago) Permalink

I don't understand how you type out #mondaysniggers, read what you wrote, and think "looks good! *submit*"

― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:33 (4 days ago) Permalink

tbf, u just did

― UTW, USA, ILX LIFER (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:34 (4 days ago) Permalink

yeah but I'm a giant racist

― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:36 (4 days ago) Permalink

feel like there's a whole nursery rhyme that goes with that now

― goole, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:37 (4 days ago) Permalink

I wouldn't.

― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:38 (4 days ago) Permalink

half suspect that susan boyle deal was a PR having a laugh

― goole, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:41 (4 days ago) Permalink

'avin' a laff, i should say

― goole, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:41 (4 days ago) Permalink

maybe even a larff

― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:42 (4 days ago) Permalink

oi dat's an anal bump der innit

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:49 (4 days ago) Permalink

The biggest question of all is: Why the hell would someone in Ireland drink Coors Light? Water tap's broken?

I often wonder why someone anywhere would drink Coors Light.

― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:54 (4 days ago) Permalink

^ fair enough. You got to really be thirsty in Atlanta.

Snigger. I don't even feel right typing that word. We always said snicker anyway.

― pplains, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:05 (4 days ago) Permalink

why Atlanta?

― I will forlornly return to my home planet soon (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:13 (4 days ago) Permalink

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

― ḉrut (crüt), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:17 (4 days ago) Permalink

i love coors light

― gr8080, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:20 (4 days ago) Permalink

I drank the shit out of some Coors back in high school. I'll still rank it above Budweiser.

― pplains, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:23 (4 days ago) Permalink

savages

― the late great, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:25 (4 days ago) Permalink

My school
My beer
My Coors Light, Coors Light, Coors Light, Coors Light
Coors Light, Coors Light, Coors Light, Coors Light

― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:26 (4 days ago) Permalink

drinking coors light, everybody will be dancing tonight

― ḉrut (crüt), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:32 (4 days ago) Permalink

silver bullet of diarrhea

― AMERICA IS ABOUT RIESLING (jjjusten), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:41 (4 days ago) Permalink

access to coors light is the unifying principle behind all my father-in-law's hobbies

― joygoat, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 20:09 (4 days ago) Permalink

I honestly don't know if I've ever had Coor's Light. I mean surely I must have at some point but yeah.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 20:46 (4 days ago) Permalink

the only time I've enjoyed drinking Coors Lite was on a private beach in Puerto Rico

― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 20:47 (4 days ago) Permalink

Pretty sure I'd enjoy drinking pretty much anything on a private beach in Puerto Rico.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 20:49 (4 days ago) Permalink

If Irishmen are drinking Coors Light, I hope they're drinking them in tawdry "American Bars" that are just as tacky as the "Irish Pubs" we have around here.

― pplains, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 21:07 (4 days ago) Permalink

crossing an ocean wipes away a lot though, right?. folks in countries on the other side of the north atlantic are horrified USians drink amstel light like it's a classy beer, i thought.

― goole, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 21:08 (4 days ago) Permalink

stella is the classiest

― the late great, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 21:10 (4 days ago) Permalink

yeah that too!

― goole, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 21:17 (4 days ago) Permalink

Good ol classy wife beater

― Studied keyboard mash (tsrobodo), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 21:21 (4 days ago) Permalink

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/15/new-orleans-shooting-not-national-news

― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 21:24 (4 days 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 (3 days ago) Permalink