rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Aw, thanks Al. I miss those kids. One of them msg'd me on FB the other day, I need to write him back. You know, I could start a whole thread just based on their facebook posts because they're hysterical, heartbreaking and fascinating all at once but I could/would never actually do that. Not even on 77.

kind of reminds me of that old "Movie Comics" comic strip that constantly used the word "ghey" and defended it saying "it doesn't have a meaning! it's a made up word!" which is the only way to make it more offensive and less funny

here we go

y'know, that "Tard" blog wd be one level of disgusting, but the sanctimonious "don't call me out on my shit" in the FAQ and elsewhere actually ratchets it up 3 or 4 extra levels of fucking disgusting

otm

yeah it sounds like it was written by a publicist. are there really two people behind that blog?

hate to admit I chuckled at this:

We are assigning the word "tard" to all of them as a way of classifying all of them together. For instance, when Riti says something about "her tards," she is referring to everyone in her class.

urgh, that is like this younger woman who a friend has been hanging with who keeps saying things are "gay"

My first thought is: People still do that? I thought, even outside of believing it's offense and worth stopping, that it stopped being a thing people said because it was in the popular lexicon foreeeeeever. I guess she's originally from a small town?

Then he said that he had mentioned it to her, and he thinks she keeps doing it to "mess with him." I think I find that even more offensive?

I thought "tard blog" was a Tucker Max thing that supposedly was written by a nonexistent teacher friend of his? Not even going to click that link to see if it's a mirror of the same thing

For instance, when Riti says something about "her tards," she is referring to everyone in her class.

when "children" or "students" or "young people" just won't do

that blog's been around a long time iirc, or at least a blog with that title.

it's like they're reclaiming the word for ignorant shitfuckers or something

tard: n., A student in a class that is set aside for children with some sort of special need, e.g. metal retardation

very unique new definition of the meaningless word "tard"

"that's so ghetto" vs "that's so gay"

vs "that's so retarded"

vs "That's So Raven!"

Considering one of the posts on the first page talks about using an Apple IIe with the students, I'm guessing this may be pretty old.

At least with ghetto, there's at least an implication of it being lower class or cheap or ostentatious or something that lives up to one of a half dozen stereotypes

As opposed to "This restaurant closes at 10PM? That's so gay!"

Considering one of the posts on the first page talks about using an Apple IIe with the students, I'm guessing this may be pretty old.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:33 PM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha maybe they INVENTED 'tard' ::chinstroke::

My first thought is: People still do that? I thought, even outside of believing it's offense and worth stopping, that it stopped being a thing people said because it was in the popular lexicon foreeeeeever. I guess she's originally from a small town?

idk if this is US/UK thing part 100000000 but afaict calling things gay is as popular as ever and in no way determined by the population of where you live

Has there ever been a thread on "conversations that happen at least every two months" on ILX?

Considering one of the posts on the first page talks about using an Apple IIe with the students, I'm guessing this may be pretty old.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:33 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not sure jon realizes how underfunded american schools are

lol

I mean, I know school districts are all about keeping old machines around forever, but I can't imagine even the most ass-backwards district still using CD-ROM games.

Again, I must be spoiled by my group of friends and immediate family

nb I don't know what the thing you're referring to is re the "younger woman" xp to self/mh

www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/TardBlog

Has there ever been a thread on "conversations that happen at least every two months" on ILX?

― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:35 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i don't think so but there really should be

that thread idea is soooo gay

The troubling thing for me about how the ghettohikes is less how it's presented than how it will probably be taken by a lot of its audience. Yes, the name is kind of offputting, and yes, the transcriptions are kinda blackface or something, but most of what the kids say is very funny, and I think the whole thing would be kind of innocuous if it wasn't for the fact that there was a whole built in audience of people who are reading this as "LOL BLACKS R DUM"

http://twitter.com/#!/GhettoBusDriver

now find one more and write a gawker article about it

http://twitter.com/#!/GhettoSommelier

I'm 28. I have a full time job bringing urban students new computers.

oh lol its a real twitter

now find one more and write a gawker article about it

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:46 PM

^ nick denton

The troubling thing for me about how the ghettohikes is less how it's presented than how it will probably be taken by a lot of its audience. Yes, the name is kind of offputting, and yes, the transcriptions are kinda blackface or something, but most of what the kids say is very funny, and I think the whole thing would be kind of innocuous if it wasn't for the fact that there was a whole built in audience of people who are reading this as "LOL BLACKS R DUM"

― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah but i mean...kids saying funny or odd things is one of the most renewable resources on earth, if a particular batch gets 'tainted' i don't think it's some tragic waste of lols to not look at that one stupid twitter or write the whole thing off as unsavory

i mean sure if you wanted to create a filter that allowed you to read it as "kidhikes" and found-and-replaced every "dis" or "dat" as "this" or "that" sure you'd have some decent guilt-free entertainment but is it really worth it?

http://twitter.com/#!/TweetsLMAO/status/157549013317586944

the ghettobusdriver one is obviously fake. the wildlife trip one, idk for sure, but it has the ring of truth.

"I drive a bus of troubled urban children (of all races) to school every day. I write the best stuff down and post it here."

maybe too pedantic but doesn't 'of all races' defy the proper definition of 'ghetto'? ok well fair enough, you're not a racist bus driver and most likely not a bus driver at all, just some guy with a funny twitter account who likes laughing at america's underclasses, good job

maybe too pedantic but doesn't 'of all races' defy the proper definition of 'ghetto'?

yes, actually they should be jewish

holy shit, the youtube wine reviews posted on ghettosommeleir's blogspot (titled 'hood wine')

xpost yeah but I mean tbh what's funny about it does have something to do with it being kids from the ghetto who have very little experience with wilderness, and my point isn't really that it should be scrubbed of any racial identifiers and made into generic "lol kids" so much as the fact that it sucks that a lot of people won't just read something like that with affection and appreciation as opposed to, well, racism.

@GhettoHikes seems a more plausible scenario than texts from Bennett but if they're based on real things the kids say they have to have been paraphrased into abstraction - it reads to me like a total BBC3 comedy scriptwriter's idea of what 'street yoof' say

like I didn't find texts from Bennett that funny (altho when someone - forks? - said something about it reading like a ventriloquist/dummy act it became instantly more endearing to read for me) but you at least got the impression that Mac Lethal actually took time to think about the character and get into the part y'know

it reads to me like a total BBC3 comedy scriptwriter's idea of what 'street yoof' say

IDK, it reads pretty real to me, whereas the bus one comes off totally canned

yeah ghetto hikes seems pretty plausible imo

although i bet the guy hears/types "dat" even when they say "that" sometimes, like that one young jeezy review on pitchfork

the reason it sounds real is because the kids actually say sharp, witty, irreverent things and not just dumb patsy lines

haha ok I didn't even look at the bus one until now

if anything that just seems like someone writing jokes on his own (eg the "start her car" one) then throwing them up on twitter

as the number of racist quotable twitters increases, the chance of a racially sensitive one appearing approaches 1

well 'not being racist' isn't really a thing you can (or should have to) applaud people for doing, not-racism is everywhere if you think about it