rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

I think the majority of people in the US really have absolutely no idea, what with it being more of a notional idea. I had to correct a friend who was leading kind of a wandering lifestyle as she said something about 'being somewhat of a gypsy." I think I volunteered "nomad."

is it me or do Asian epithets seem to go by more and more these days without reprisal? just seems how a lot of people in this area have deemed it acceptable territory........

a lot of the asian-american kids I know make asian jokes to the point where I get uncomfortable

wayneandwax wayne marshall
did one of my students really write "black face menstrual shows"? #yikes #hopethatwasautocorrect
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I think more Americans probably connect "gypsy" with the notion of Stevie Nicks than they would with any ethnic group.

As in the common colloquial phrase, "I really feel Stevie Nicksed on that deal"

I think more Americans probably connect "gypsy" with the notion of Stevie Nicks than they would with any ethnic group.

signs you're spending too much time on ilx

No but really, I bet there's a bunch of people think that "gypsy" is a lifestyle choice or something.

im a gypsy rasta, dont h8

Anti-Roma hatred, even among 'enlightened leftists' in Britain, is the last acceptable bigotry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkC9cK8Hz0

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can't wait for the english version to come out!

lulienlaluna 1 day ago 42

Idk just listened to that for the first time, more than half of the lyrics pass me by, I can't hear what he's saying. I know nothing about his "flow" or image, if he's difficult to understand more often that youtube comment seems like an innocent pun to me?

It's the edited version so 30% of the words are missing, rendering it unintelligible. Not sure that was what the commenter was getting at though. Maybe they mean a version where the main basketball metaphor is replaced by one from netball or field hockey.

u need to lulienlaluna if they are a racist

in america there's this idea that anything that isn't proper white person english isn't english

u need to ask them if they are american too

i would guess they were from the land of big bottom birds judged by that comment btw

the english versioun

http://shop.lululemon.com/products/clothes-accessories/men-tops/Pacific-Run-Long-Sleeve-28632?cc=9547&skuId=3431023&catId=men-tops

Check out the different colour options for this shirt...

Yeah, kinda racist that they use a black guy to model a black shirt when they don't use a plum heathered dark slate wee stripe guy to model a plum heathered dark slate wee stripe shirt

"once our internal temperature heats up"

^ take it to the grammar thread

I'm not sure if it's racist, I just thought it was an odd choice to have the same white model for the other three colours, but when you click "black" you get a black model.

It's ill advised I think

What's weird is that the "black" shirt worn by the black man isn't actually black! It's more grey isn't it?

it's lighter than the other grey shirt!

Yeah, it's weird the other two grey shirts are called "dark slate heathered dark slate classic stripe" and "black herringbone", but that one is just "black" (instead of "black TV static" or whatever would be appropriate). That's why it feels like some ill-thought joke.

Anti-Roma hatred, even among 'enlightened leftists' in Britain, is the last acceptable bigotry.

surprisingly and worryingly true in Ireland as well. When EU enlargement happened in 2002 or whenever, news people considered it perfectly reasonable to ask ministers whether this would mean that Ireland would be flooded by Roma.

More recently a prominent commentator and moron in one of our more reprehensible newspapers has been ranting about how his area of Dublin has been taken over by Roma beggars. Apparently there were no beggars in Ireland before Roma immigration.

come come there's lots of acceptable bigotries in ireland!

thought the revive was going to be about this

http://www.racialicious.com/2011/11/15/yes-there-are-black-people-in-your-hunger-games-the-strange-case-of-rue-cinna/

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6031/6345630935_451525e36c.jpg

wow I hate ppl

(just saying wht everyone is thinking)

i thought it'd be about terry/suarez/blatter

the reaction to the lenny kravitz casting makes me hate people, but the reaction to the rue casting is mindboggling. she's very clearly black in the book.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6054/6345681315_f615461e93.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6345681325_e35948c511.jpg

"Ew,"

does hollywood actress or not?!!!!!!

?!... ?!!!!!!

just saying wht everyone is thinking?!?!?!?!!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

dying at the number of people who have no clue who lenny kravitz is either, definitely this is young adult fiction

"white, sweet and loving as a man"

wait lenny kravitz is black

"this guy is not cute at all!" o_O

what is hunger games is it like twilight

not thinking lenny kravitz is attractive is like the #1 sign that u are hella racist

yeah the "sweet and loving" thing is insane, but that girl's words seem chosen at random.

Hunger Games is like Battle Royale

hunger games is a YA dystopian trilogy that is not entirely dissimilar to twilight

I haven't read it, but I was led to understand it was less pathetic and more bloodthirsty, like a toned down Battle Royale

Hunger Games is like Battle Royale

― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, November 18, 2011 1:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol i just read the hunger games wiki all why are there one million things w/this exact plot so dumb, but then i was like wait battle royale is the best movie

battle royale was only ok

tbf, Lenny Kravitz does have a nose.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Sulla_Glyptothek_Munich_309.jpg/393px-Sulla_Glyptothek_Munich_309.jpg