He was trying to be edgy and/or sophisticated and thinking he could get away with it because other people with sophisticated senses of humor would understand what he was doing.
― beachville, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
do you guys talk to your barbers while getting a haircut, I don't it's kind of awkward
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
I could not imagine how I would feel talking to a blackface artist if I were to get it done
I cut my own hair.
― beachville, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
However, I defer to the services of a professional when blacking up. : \
― beachville, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ a lot of you, srsly
this is really OTM: He was trying to be edgy and/or sophisticated and thinking he could get away with it because other people with sophisticated senses of humor would understand what he was doing.
the problem is that the tagline that baldly states this pops up about 10 minutes after his intended audience has hit stop and said "what a fucking racist"
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
I can't wait to see Jay Leno black up and go Jaywalking.
Ooohhhh wait. You said "sophisticated."
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
what does the explanation say, i can't risk watching more of that shit at work.
― bnw, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
i'd like to see someone put on blackface and then put on whiteface, some real next level shit
― omar little, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit!
― beachville, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/gorsh.jpg
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
if you just keep covering your face in alternating layers of black and white paint on your face, does it stop being racist at some point? assume you are not on acid.
― the greates (crüt), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Just for the sake of perspective, I'm being more emphatic than I might otherwise in my defensiveness because Dave's one of the more aggressively decent dudes I've known. I didn't honestly expect my personal opinion of him to affect anyone's opinion of his video.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
er, no "on your face." xpost
― the greates (crüt), Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― D-40, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
During the filming of this video, only three people said something about me not really being blackWhich I find disturbing.Fight Ignorance with Ignorance
Which I find disturbing.
Fight Ignorance with Ignorance
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
aggressively decent
I think of myself as kind of "passively ok"
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
"Fight Ignorance with Ignorance" seems to be the name of the show/deal/whatever he's running, which if this video is anything to base it on is sub-Borat-style ambush games intended to get the interviewee to embarrass the shit out of themselves.
I don't think this is particularly well done given how he has come across to everyone itt except like two ppl as a massive racist (one of whom knows him IRL, lol)
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
i thought we'd already gone through a big discussion w/ a huge OTM nabisco post & people understood that divining who is and isn't technically 'a racist' on stuff like this is total point missing
that's troo, but i think it is important to keep yr eye not just on what people are doing in a mechanical sense but why they're doing it and what they're trying to say. does not excuse dude's dumbass comedy video, of course.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
It's obvious what this this guy's intentions are. Mostly, though, he biffed it and made a lot of people mad. Even if he had somehow pulled off the video successfully, he was still walking around campus in blackface and no one had any context.
Sure, he drew attention to the fact that almost none of the people he spoke with called him out for being in blackface, but maybe every one of them has a friend who knows that they were just trying to be a part of this sophisticated, edgy thing and they're really very smart and etc
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
lol exactly
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:59 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the road to hell is paved with etc
― D-40, Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
"etc" = "dumbass comedy videos"
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
white dudes trying to say something with comedy videos about racism which involve racist imagery or language seem to be more interested in the shocking lols than in saying anything (cf 'the amazing racist', if anyone remembers that piece of work...)
― omar little, Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
pretty much my m.o. whenever i cop race humor on here.
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
just trying to shock some ignorance, that's all.
"Before you decide to do your edgy racial shit, go back and read some of the harsh criticism that rained down on Chapelle, Spike Lee, Whoopie & other black artists for their edgy race-related material/defence of dumbass boyfriends, and say to yourself, oh shit, and I'm a WHITE person."- Form my forthcoming book, Fellow White People, for Your Consideration
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
the hell is that from.
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Form my forthcoming book
aw, do I have to
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
we really need to get away from white people humor -- whitepeoplelikethis, Martin Mull, whatever.
Gives white people an excuse to laugh at themselves and then go dress up in blackface and roam the woods.
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
what a horribly-formed "book"
― the greates (crüt), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
wait what did martin mull do?
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
nevermind, i'm not really ready to feel disappionted in martin mull today
^^
― the greates (crüt), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089277/
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
will have to mull over this Mull development
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
he's actually a really good and smart and funny guy.
― the greates (crüt), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
in fairness, that was in 1985
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
Obv a low point in white people history
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, that's the year Psychocandy and The Head On The Door came out
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
no this was the low point in white people history
http://www.break.com/tv-shows/saturday-night-live/white-guys-wife-2161938.html
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
apex of white ascendance = gloomy rock dudez w big hair and eyeliner, obv
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
Birth of an alternative nation
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
During the filming of this video, only three people said something about me not really being blackWhich I find disturbing.
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, February 9, 2012 2:56 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/KKKramer-Is-Really-039-Busted-Up-039-2.jpg
"words, man... words"
― dave cool, Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
i would just like to say DJP has been otm in this thread
fwiw this is the same guy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h131v5spb90https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_-JHErAP9Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJnBb8p8ijM
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 9 February 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, this is pretty similar to the Michael Richards incident, but to be honest, I'd say a lil more all like
http://insidepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/David-Duke-300x395.jpg
amirite?
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 9 February 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
this doesn't remind me of Michael Richards at all tbh beyond "white guy does something racist." The "words" thing was Michael Richards trying to cover his ass immediately after reverting to horrifying racist-beast mode, whereas the "fight ignorance with ignorance"/blackface thing was premediated
― the greates (crüt), Thursday, 9 February 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
also, michael richards "accidentally" exposed his own racist hostility, then backtracked. internet comedy dude is trying to use the superficial signifiers of racism to critique the inherent stupidity of racism. and failing miserably. couldn't even watch that "asian" thing.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 February 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aafuYtZ3nIE
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 9 February 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, February 9, 2012 5:22 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk to me it seems more like he kinda wanted to try blackface but wasn't sure how he could make it ok
― D-40, Friday, 10 February 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link