rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

recognize
i also did not know that it's pronounced bonny bear; for some reason this makes me like him a bit better

j0rdan getting mad about the bon iver tumblr is hilarious and weird like deej getting mad that the MIA thread for having new answers after the super bowl

maybe start a tumblr with screenshots of their posts

haha

i also did not know that it's pronounced bonny bear; for some reason this makes me like him a bit better

i'ts not, though, is it? thought it was "bone ee-VEAR" (rhymes with "bear").

idk i think me getting aggy over the bon iver tumblr is a bit in character

named after his hero Bonnie 'Prince' Bear

Bon Eau Claire

http://i.imgur.com/EYC1T.png

No Autechre?

max otm

oh- tee -care

bonton biever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MA6UndC3z60#!

There's six series of that?

are you horrified or intrigued?

So now that I know how it's pronounced can I ask another question? BI is just a dude? I assumed it was a band. lol.

he was named after Bon Scott iirc

lolling at dudes who are behaving as if they did not know that they were into a indy folksinger that most Americans have never heard of.

BI is just a dude? I assumed it was a band. lol.

Justin Vernon is the dude's name, Bon Iver is a nom de plume or a band depending on how many people are playing

vernon is just his middle name tho, his full name is: Justin Vernon Bieber

How about this:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/06/hoekstra-wont-apologize-for-super-bowl-ad/?iref=obinsite

We had an entire thread on that. Search "spenditnow".

shit. I thought we had a thread on that. Can't find it though.

thread devoted to www.debbiespenditnow.com

Somehow it seems to still be a little too ok in *educated liberal* circles to imply that Chinese people are a bunch of clone drones:

http://static.cdn.realviewdigital.com/global/content/GetImage.aspx?pguid=FC9071DC-DD99-441F-A727-1B74670350BC&width=232&i=2012-02-06&folio=031

(The New Yorker)

http://www.thegrio.com/politics/new-york-magazine-published-picture-of-obama-evolving-from-ape-to-human.php

http://i.imgur.com/S4VmO.jpg

xp http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/08/15/undifferentiated-groups-of-asians-as-ad-props/

although I suppose people will point to the beijing olympics opening ceremony and say hey, they want to be treated like that

Somehow it seems to still be a little too ok in *educated liberal* circles to imply that Chinese people are a bunch of clone drones:

― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 6:22 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is so true. i remember a couple of years ago hearing a story on npr about...something about Asian students coming to the US for college...and the entire piece had a really annoying crypto-"yellow menace" feel to it but then the reporter actually came out and said, "these students aren't necessarily automatons, though; they're well-rounded" or something like that and i was like "..."

I prefer my automatons to be made in America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDY89LYxK0w

as suggested on the sociological images blog, this is the magical negro manifesting as an entire country.

How much of the supposed deference in the cultures of East Asia stems from their traditions of authoritarian rule and how much is the result of colonialism?

you had me at "From the Director of Shakespeare in Love"

How much of the supposed deference in the cultures of East Asia stems from their traditions of authoritarian rule and how much is the result of colonialism?

― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:47 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

i dunno, compare contrast w other previously colonized countries/cultures/peoples. if a typical effect of colonial rule is "supposed deference", then...

Yep, pretty sure this is racist:
http://images.thepostgame.com/sites/default/files/JeremyLin%5B021612%5D_345x259_1.jpg

Not only offensive but dumb as heck and aesthetically sub-par.

where is the companion "everyone knows this is racist" thread

^^^ worst Neil Young song

irl lol

That really came from the MSG Network!

http://p.twimg.com/Al62eDPCQAEBwJF.jpg

whoa

guessing someone just got fired and ESPN mobile is going to rethink their 3am headline editing shift

These are absolutely astonishing. You get a lot of the same things when US news / culture outlets are dealing with Indian / Pakistani Americans. The advances made by black and latino groups in not being openly demeaned by people who would want to be viewed as not racist should have been a rising tide that lifted all boats - i can't fathom how anyone can think that stuff like this is remotely acceptable.

Wow that is appalling.

Trying to think of a non-racist reason to choose that particular expression and I cannot.

(In this context I mean.)

see he used that word himself so it's ok, right? (wrong)

That is fucking insane.