if they were really accurate they would charge asians $2.50
― dayo, Sunday, 25 September 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
def A for effort there
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 September 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
i mean you'd have to imagine that the college republicans at berkley have really had to hone their trolling skills
I'm just imagining david spade in PCU
― dayo, Sunday, 25 September 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
isnt this something that college republicans do every year?
― max, Sunday, 25 September 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
hopefully I wld like some cheap cupcakes
― dayo, Sunday, 25 September 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001779438_bakesale31m.html
― dayo, Sunday, 25 September 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Are those prices based on some "data" email forwards or something, or are they a just a reflection of the hierarchy of races in the mind of the college republican?
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Sunday, 25 September 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I dunno why this particular attempt is getting press, think it's just cause it got the right web press
― iatee, Sunday, 25 September 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
er press press press
being a republican in berkeley already makes you a troll, you don't really have to do anything
― iatee, Sunday, 25 September 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
the UCLA chick who made that video about asians in the library needs to step her game up
― een, Sunday, 25 September 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of wonder to what degree these people understand their own opinions. It sound like a terrible thing to say, but they never seem to understand the consequences etc. of such a view.
― redflammelwaving warwife (dowd), Sunday, 25 September 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting comments on the Melb Age article on this event.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-students-spark-race-row-with-bake-sale-20110926-1ks2f.html
Normally, you see Aussies defending crappy racist "jokes" and whatever esp in newspaper comments, but curiously in this one most people are angry about it, and one lone voice of (embarrasingly nasty) dissent is a white woman claiming to be from NYC.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Monday, 26 September 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
No wonder the United States has lost it's hegemony in advanced education. They've been dumbing down the Universities and school system for the best part of 50 years now - as we have in Australia. The whole system has been devalued with this political correctness idea that no-one should get an "F" and thus we have the situation where 16 year-old are learning the maths I'd mastered in 3rd Grade.
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Monday, 26 September 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
I should have made it clearer there are one or two aus dickheads on there too (lol "Reg")
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Monday, 26 September 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
What does this have to do with racism?
― badg, Monday, 26 September 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
Haha oh right it's a comment from the article, I thought it looked weird
― badg, Monday, 26 September 2011 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
you have lost you'r hegemony in comprehension
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Monday, 26 September 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
it is worth noting that the UC system does have not (de jure) affirmative action (there is a little bit of de facto.) so this is an affirmative action protest at a school where most of the black people are there out of sportsffirmative action - pretty sure most of the BCR are fine with the football team.
― iatee, Monday, 26 September 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah not really sure what they're protesting tbh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_209_(1996)
― dayo, Monday, 26 September 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
The bake sale, run by the Berkeley College Republicans, was created in reaction to SB 185, a bill currently being considered by Gov. Jerry Brown, which would authorize California public universities to consider race, gender, ethnicity, and national/geographic origin in the admissions process.
― Kerm, Monday, 26 September 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
no, they do it regularly
― iatee, Monday, 26 September 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://clutterinclarityout.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/jerry-brown.jpgshould consider eyebrow magnificence in the electoral process
― remy bean, Monday, 26 September 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
hmmmm, this is a toughie
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/associated-press-transcription-obama-cbc-speech-racist-173438340.html
Via the AP version:"Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do."Hunter called the AP's version "inherently racist," sparring with New Republic contributing editor and noted linguistics expert John McWhorter, who argued the g-less version "is actually the correct one," noting that the president's victory in the 2008 election was due, in part, to how effortlessly "he can switch into that (black) dialect."Whatever the reason, Hunter found it offensive. "I teach a journalism class, and I tell my students to fix people's grammar, because you don't want them to sound ignorant," she said. "For them to do that, it's code, and I don't like it."It's worth noting that the same sorts of arguments arose during George W. Bush's presidency, with the White House cleaning up the president's speeches to make him sound smarter, and news outlets sometimes not doing so.According to Mark Smith, the AP reporter who filed the story, Obama was making a point by dropping his g's, making the transcription a no-brainer.
"Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do."
Hunter called the AP's version "inherently racist," sparring with New Republic contributing editor and noted linguistics expert John McWhorter, who argued the g-less version "is actually the correct one," noting that the president's victory in the 2008 election was due, in part, to how effortlessly "he can switch into that (black) dialect."
Whatever the reason, Hunter found it offensive. "I teach a journalism class, and I tell my students to fix people's grammar, because you don't want them to sound ignorant," she said. "For them to do that, it's code, and I don't like it."
It's worth noting that the same sorts of arguments arose during George W. Bush's presidency, with the White House cleaning up the president's speeches to make him sound smarter, and news outlets sometimes not doing so.
According to Mark Smith, the AP reporter who filed the story, Obama was making a point by dropping his g's, making the transcription a no-brainer.
― frogbs, Monday, 26 September 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think it's that tough. Whatever McWhorter's politics (he's a slightly left-leaning centrist who voted for Obama, who unfortunately also sometimes plays a right wing hack on tv), I think he's a fair-minded, middle-of-the-road linguist.
― bamcquern, Monday, 26 September 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think that dialect is necessarily black and I'm kind of wondering if that was the real context McWhorter's quote was in!
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Monday, 26 September 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's why I posted it here. personally I don't think this is anything but most of the posters on this board are a little more sensitive than I am on those issues
― frogbs, Monday, 26 September 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
But yeah, it is not anything. More of a journalistic accuracy in quoting debate than anything.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Monday, 26 September 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Despite the outcry, organizers said the sale would go forward unless they were threatened with physical violence. Mr. Lewis said Republican groups from nearby colleges — including the University of California, Davis; California State University, Sacramento; and Saint Mary’s College of California — had called to say they were sending carloads of supporters to the bake sale.
oh my god...they're multiplying
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5peC9wFu64w
― dayo, Sunday, 2 October 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/joelherrick/obama%20fried%20chicken.jpg
I would guess there's a 1% chance your average chinese person knows about the stereotype
― dayo, Sunday, 2 October 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
Is this racist?
― crutbeef (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 2 October 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
yep
― dayo, Sunday, 2 October 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
isn't China the place where they made & sold Darkie Toothpaste until about a decade ago?
― pork tartare (Eisbaer), Monday, 3 October 2011 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ebKDFxiia8/TPfyKmogVdI/AAAAAAAAIn4/UQnLLwPdwHU/s1600/darlie.jpg
actually, it was Taiwan.
― pork tartare (Eisbaer), Monday, 3 October 2011 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
same difference
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Monday, 3 October 2011 10:34 (twelve years ago) link
WTF why is Barack Obama making Asian stereotype face? I mean with the squinty eyes and mongoloid expression.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners), Monday, 3 October 2011 10:52 (twelve years ago) link
Also that changed toothpaste is still offensive to me, it reminds me of when white people could barely deal with Lena Horne.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners), Monday, 3 October 2011 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
Was watching this great video of Quincy and Herbie fooling around with a Fairlight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6QsusDS_8A
But then was o_O at the question at 5:20. Is this racist?
― ste throkes (Ówen P.), Monday, 10 October 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
Actually, it's 5:05 or so. Don't skip ahead! Great video!
― ste throkes (Ówen P.), Monday, 10 October 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
That was an awesome video.
The question itself could have been phrased better, especially since it almost sounded like a contrast was being made between "sophisticated" and "African". It certainly doesn't seem like that was the intent and Herbie gave a great response to it nonetheless.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 10 October 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RrIk7.png
― dayo, Saturday, 22 October 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
was at a kid's bday party last week where there was facepainting, one little (white) boy insisted that he wanted to be facepainted as a "ninja" so the facepainter tried to oblige by painting his entire face black. you can imagine what the end result looked like. the parent was sort of mortified/afraid to walk home without washing it off. kid was completely oblivious (obviously).
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
the facepainter could have just given him a TMNT mask
― dayo, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
"After Obama shook hands and chatted with a young African American boy who looked to be about 10, and then moved on, the boy turned to the white man he was dining with and said, 'I’m never going to wash my hand again.' "
From:Obama L.A. visit: President makes unscheduled stop at Rosco's Chicken and Waffleshttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/obama-roscoes-west-la.html
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I thought this was a better candidate for this thread:
ALSO:Man in gorilla mask and carrying stun gun robs taco stand
Man in gorilla mask and carrying stun gun robs taco stand
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
― ste throkes (Ówen P.), Monday, 10 October 2011
herbie's response is used as the start of this (excellent) Aybee mix for lwe
http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/podcast/lwe-podcast-101-aybee/
― post, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/notokay-avatar.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, meant to post that to the blueface thread.
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link