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nobody names a male baby Dakota wtf

not that that's the most objectionable one there or anything

that onion thing seems p racist in itself, in that it's basically "lol black names are stupid" framed by "lol white people wanna be fancy" and "lol asians wanna be white"

thank you for that breakdown, it was really difficult to discern

lol DJP otm

feel like im still not getting it

nobody names a male baby Dakota wtf

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:41 PM (34 minutes ago)

a lot of names on here are surprising, but no Dakota:
http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/top5names.html

e.g.:
"2000 Emily Hannah Madison Ashley Sarah"

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

There was a male Dakota in my class in college

He was black

when it was hot outside did he stay cool by "fanning"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqAauFUlt8

@tsadjatko Thanks for watching the video. I believe this is something turtlers should know about male turtles so that they don't think something is wrong with their turtle. Thanks for putting video on your site. There has been 79 viewings more since yesterday.
bevyh1 3 days ago

don't understand the recent popularity of the name Madison tbh

Always makes me think of

http://kccollegegameday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bucky_badger_no1_football01.jpg

Moonlighting fans ennit

well well well, lookee who's coming to town to help out

http://annarbor.com/news/herman-cain-to-campaign-with-pete-hoekstra-at-big-sky-diner-in-ypsilanti/

http://www.annarbor.com/assets_c/2011/11/111011_NEWS_Herman_Cain_MRM_01-thumb-350x232-93979-thumb-300x198-93980.jpg

don't understand the recent popularity of the name Madison tbh

Blame a generation of moms and dads who grew up watching too much HBO:

According to the Social Security Administration's statistics, from a practically non-existent girl's name before 1985, Madison rose to being the second most popular name, after Emily, given to female babies in 2001.[2] This phenomenal rise in popularity has been attributed to the 1984 movie Splash, where Daryl Hannah plays a mermaid who adopts the name "Madison" in her human form after seeing a street sign for Madison Avenue.[3] When she makes this selection, Tom Hanks's character initially protests: "But Madison isn't a name!"

I'm not saying the Onion's not trying, but the non-Madison / Dakota names on the left are just A/B/C.

Do we have confirmation on that Onion attribution? Seems too racist for them.

it's from the onion

When?

from the onions new spinoff, racist onion

tbh I think sometimes they go full circle and parody racist perceptions by making racist observations

it's a troublesome look, but hey, the humor gun misfires sometimes

Found it, it was 1999, which is long enough ago to be somewhat comforting.

from the onions new spinoff, racist onion

lol

When I first stumbled across that graphic, it was right around the time Nivea was having hits.

I swear that once I heard a woman calling for her child named Wachovia.

It's a good name for that, you'd really get some length out of the 'a' and 'o'.

but it's pronounced wacho-veeea

a friend thought that name was meant to suggest "watch over ya!"

Cue the David Alan Grier "Naming children after contraceptive drugs" bit

nobody names a male baby Dakota wtf

lol tell that to my nephew

http://blog.angryasianman.com/2012/02/hoekstra-campaign-removes-all-traces-of.html

RIP debbiespenditnow.com

RIP beautifully designed hate site

You can't say the ad was not effective.

was all ready to gis "burn world down" until I clicked

I am becoming more and more convinced that that ad company is intentionally sabotaging its clients

http://blog.angryasianman.com/2012/11/campaign-flier-features-candidates-face.html

it's kinda more nationalist than racist cuz she wite

ime, to the people who this dog whistle attracts it doesn't matter if youre chinese or chinese-american

yeah I mean on no level can chinese-americans benefit from stereotyping but the core of this is an economic nationalism message that both parties use these days. but I think you can be something of a economic nationalist without being totally racist. like, keep the message and 'facts' and take out the dumb theme - is that still race baiting? idk.

i think an ad decrying jobs lost to england or even socialist france would have a somewhat different feel

Debbie Stabenow won btw

but I think you can be something of a economic nationalist without being totally racist. like, keep the message and 'facts' and take out the dumb theme - is that still race baiting? idk.

― iatee, Sunday, November 11, 2012 6:55 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I dont think this is possible fwiw when an easily identifiable racial minority is involved

I guess what I'm trying to say is that although this is clearly racist in that it works off lol south park stereotypes, it's still mostly pushing the bigger narrative 'they're taking our jobs'. a narrative that does not benefit asian-americans either. but is not entirely untrue.

not really concerned about the 'trueness' of this tbh

well what I'm more saying is that yeah, 1000 people in cleveland got this or w/e, but the big picture issue is mitt romney (and barack obama) talking about taking our jerbs back from china in front of 80 million people

what I'm saying is that there's p much no way to score political points on this topic w/o also tarring asian-americans who live in this country

and the rhetoric shouldn't be about demonizing china, it should be about criticizing the companies who decide to offshore in the first place.

well it's complicated. like I don't think #1 is untrue but that also doesn't mean that chinese currency manipulation hasn't been a major factor in jobs going offshore

and if we start attacking companies who decide to offshore, we're still participating in economic nationalism and promoting a sort of 'made in america' culture.

okay but you wouldn't have splashover onto asian-americans, which is all I really care about tbqh