rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

actually, within the field it's known as IBS

i liked 'shit birds say'

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/let_them_eat_tacos_mayors_regrettable_response_to_police_abuse_of_latinos.php

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/554/facepalm.jpg

i chuckled

holy hell, I'd heard about this but I hadn't seen the video

how in the world

not entirely sure thats not some tosh point zero skit

I had to turn it off when he said "I might go out and get tacos in the Italian community"

that is a really amazing video

Wow. That motherfucker just keeps going. One of his advisors off-camera likely sprained something giving the mayor the "cut-off" gesture.

http://i.imgur.com/R8xhh.gif

That. guy. is. amazing.

Wow, his tongue just sunk all the way down in his gut and he just kept going with it.

Gave it the equivalent of the PURPLE BROWN GREEN WHITE OR BLACK treatment.

http://www.maturo2011.com/photos/1.jpg

http://cdn.theatlanticcities.com/img/upload/2012/01/25/taco2/largest.JPG

chips, guacamole, and meatballs

you guys I can't stop laughing at this dude

taco bellissimo

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joe-Maturo-Jr/118816084863224?sk=wall

Nancy McBeth
If East Haven doesn't nip this issue in the bud, your good city will become a Third World country. The city will see an exponential explosion in the Latino population. Look at what has happened to southern California.

I can't change my display name yet again this week but "I may have tacos for dinner tonight" is calling to me.

with the italian community or

*looks at what has happened to southern California*

Nancy McBeth
If East Haven doesn't nip this issue in the bud, your good city will become a Third World country. The city will see an exponential explosion in the Latino population. Look at what has happened to southern California.

― buzza, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:21 PM

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash2/273443_686045385_5659154_n.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u3rxdrzQFuw/STfN1CEB-9I/AAAAAAAAHaE/yQvfcW2oPOQ/s320/Spaghetti_Taco.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj4izpsUnv1qeajrpo1_500.jpg

i'd make fun of this guy but jesus christ he reminds me of myself and i'm kind of uncomfortable with this

tacos to you

i'd eat that http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

http://www.memedr.com/images/151-foul-bachelor-frog-taco-night-every-night.jpg

^^^ IRL LOL

in all fairness that reporter was being a total dick

No, he gave the mayor a chance to apologize or otherwise weasel out of his racist comment. Instead, the mayor doubled-down on his batshittery.

If more reporters were total dicks like that, a lot of politicians wouldn't get away with nearly as much of their bullshit.

I mean, there was a non-offensive way to make the (still stupid) point I think he was reaching for: "I believe in repairing relations by supporting businesses, so I encourage all residents of East Have to go out and patronize Latino-owned businesses. I myself plan to visit a Latino-owned restaurant for dinner this evening; we are a strong, diverse community that can come together and support each other." Instead, he went with "well, I may have tacos for dinner tonight" and, when called on it, didn't say "hmm, maybe that was a poor choice of words, but what I mean is blah blah blah". He said, "well I'm Italian, and some people think that's an ethnicity, now go ahead and twist my words"

wait, you mean he wasn't just making a joke?

Did you watch the video before deciding to play cap'n-save-a-racist?

Yeah, it looked to me like he was trying to make a joke, which backfired in his face, and then he tried to make it look as though it was a serious response through some grand display of twisted logic. Did you think he was being serious?

whiney is banned and ^^this shitbird is still here

ilxpriorities

this really is lost on you, huh

no man, i really agree with everything the mayor said. tacos, spaghetti, or whatever Chinese people eat - we all need to support our particular communities through actions we may or may not choose to take

pls guide me great sage from the somethingawful / twoplustwo forums

wait wtf whiney is re-banned? how the hell'd that happen

I hit the road for a week and hell breaks loose

he got banned but its cool http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

what did whiney do now?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=74956

idgi

this thread has 2500 msgs I'm not loading the whole thing

in all fairness that reporter was being a total dick

― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 14:22 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

frogbs! this is like you considering the onion paterno article 'tasteless': you get to be a dick, & the seemingly dickishness 'insistence' of your behaviour excuses itself, if it's for the right reasons. i get that he was not behaving in a regular way, or was being awkward; he wasn't obeying a compliant, polite social norm that one would obey if the guy wasn't spitting bullshit, and that 'dickishness' was appropriate.

that's also called, being a reporter. it's his job.

yes, & dan otm. it's sorta like that recent times article thing, should we just print bullshit