rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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i guess the first question is, "does it look like a chapelle's show skit?"

frogbs, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link

in case u missed buzza's youtube from a few days ago before it got taken down, its at the end of this news story about said youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ3wD_yQrFY

( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link

this Asian guy seemed a little "over the edge" (although I actually loved these commercials)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hadvDHyEwE

frogbs, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/iqANC.png

( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link

i don't even get what he was even trying to say unless he was just being blatantly racist

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link

just a really horribly formed joke?

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link

lol @ moby as arbiter of the genuine

among other things

mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link

moby is truly the worst

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link

hope he gets gilbert godfrey'd for this

( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link

well, moby isn't actually doing anything

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link

that is a classic example of how Twitter is terrible

you are not talking to your friends in private, you are blasting nonsense out to everyone on Earth

stop it

CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link

guys hop on my new trending topic: http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23mobyisaracist

( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link

Seriously, Moby should not be allowed access to a keyboard (computer or musical).

shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link

well, moby isn't actually doing anything

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, August 10, 2011 1:34 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

moby was the new aflac duck :-/

thick-necked and hateful (latebloomer), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link

Can't wait to hear his shitty, ill-formed "justification".

"I like black people! Remember that video I did with the fake gold teeth and Gwen Stefani? ... What's that? That's not helping?"

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link

Maybe Moby's NASA gig in 1992 will be cancelled.

errant flynn, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link

wait...moby is the new aflac duck?

king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:14 (twelve years ago) link

yes.

( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, that's why eminem says "nobody purchases AFLAC" on his single w/ royce da 5' 9" and bruno mars

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link

you almost had me until royce da 59

king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link

if you'd said 'buys' instead of 'purchases' . . .

mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/oOVzi.png

no, no, no... i wasnt saying its absurd that black women should be in MoMa... i was just saying its so lol that MILLIONAIRE JAY-Z RAPPED ABOUT SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE PROJECTS

( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link

moby never heard that saying about "when you're in a hole", obv

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link

racist guy just thinking baout things

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/04/28/garden/28moby-span/28moby-span-articleLarge.jpg

buzza, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

Gr80 when will P4k interview you about ruining Moby's career? lol, good work man!

I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

the new hood, i guess.

☝ (am0n), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link

Can't wait to hear his shitty, ill-formed "justification".

me otm, even though it wasn't quite as great as I hoped it would be... it was still worth seeing him dig a deeper hole

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link

Very suspicious of folks who address the world as "people."

"Okay, PEOPLE. You misheard me.

"Um, PEOPLE, hello?"

"PEOPLE, U know what I'm sayin."

≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/oOVzi.png

no, no, no... i wasnt saying its absurd that black women should be in MoMa... i was just saying its so lol that MILLIONAIRE JAY-Z RAPPED ABOUT SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE PROJECTS

― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:26 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

god, what an idiot

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link

Moby
@thelittleidiot why does my <3 feel so sad?

I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link

i hate to be cap'n save a moby, but i've had lots of convos with dude and everything points to the fact that dude seriously likes rap music. i think he was just making a dumb joke about the subject matter and it came off wrong.

Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link

When I talk about white supremacy in this context, I am talking about the ability of white people to move further in virtually every sphere of US life due to their whiteness. Do you think it is a coincidence that Moby’s appearance on a recent cover of ‘Wired’ is set against an all-white background with only parts of his face peeking through the monochromatic cover? Why, in a recent issue of the UK magazine, ‘Muzik’, is Moby shown on the cover with a white T-shirt, on a white background, holding a wand that radiates bright white light? These are the representational practices that continually consolidate white supremacy.

One could make the claim that Moby just worked hard, produced a lot of tracks, refined his style, and moved beyond ‘dance music’ to create an entirely new genre. In other words, he was just good at what he did and his talent was recognized. That claim is without merit. Yes, he worked hard and actually made some good rave tracks for Instinct in the early ‘90s. He subsequently moved on and fashioned full-length albums which won him praise. ‘Play’ made the top ten on a number of critics’ year-end lists in 2001. Was this album ‘adventurous’, ‘ground-breaking’, or ‘innovative’? No. There are eighteen-year old artists in the projects of Houston’s 5th Ward who made ‘electronic’ records in the same year so profoundly experimental, their influence won’t be understood for years. (This is the phenomenon of ‘screwed & chopped’ music, which I’ve not the space to talk about yet).

☝ (am0n), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link

Moby
@thelittleidiot thats when i reach for my revolver

I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

guys, his comment can't be racist... whiney has met him!!!

☝ (am0n), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

You mean

@thelittleidiot that's when I tell her that it's over.

≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link

lol oh yeah sorry, good luck usa

I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link

I don't think he tells her that it's over when black people talk about MoMa

CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link

guys, his comment can't be racist... whiney has met him!!!

― ☝ (am0n), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

lol

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link

i hate to be cap'n save a moby, but i've had lots of convos with dude and everything points to the fact that dude seriously likes rap music. i think he was just making a dumb joke about the subject matter and it came off wrong.

― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:37 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

for someone that loves rap music, he apparently has no idea what jay-z had rapped about since like 2003

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link

he can't be racist… he likes rap music!

≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link

cap'n pitch-a-fit-over-every-lil-racist-thing-except-when-its-a-famous-musician-youve-had-"convos"-with

☝ (am0n), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link

Also, growing up in a small town in the middle of cornfields I can definitively confrom that "liking rap music" and "being racist" are not mutually exclusive.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link

"confirm" damnit

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link

a small town in the middle of confirm?

dogps (some dude), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link

that routine's kind of losing its luster, al

( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

"kind of"

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link

i didn't realize it was a routine! i was just joking about the fact that my eyes played tricks on me when i saw jon's correction and then saw there were two words that started with "conf" in the previous post. sorry if you guys think i'm being overly jokey or obnoxious or something, i wasn't trying to be mean or snarky, just off the cuff and silly.

dogps (some dude), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link

I didn't think it was snarky or mean, just "kind of" a played out meme on ilx in general.

Anyway, lets focus on the important issue at hand - racist, vegan electronic musicians.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link


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