rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

lol @ "my hassle"

who is she? besides a hateful racist on the interwebs?

she's jeremy lin iirc

apparently she grew up in virginia and lives in NYC. i know she's a nobody and didn't have a career in the first place, and i know that even frogbs in his prime wouldn't argue about it being racist (MAYBE). i'm just more interested in figuring out the brains of people who do these things and then insist they aren't racist.

if u want to read other racist things on the internet, 8t07mf70nt is full of it

does that say pitchfork

ayo!

can't say i really understand the mentality of seeking out racists

i find that there's plenty of racist things already without getting into legit WNs. as long as they occupy their little paranoid corners they typically don't even bother anyone. of course a lot of them also claim to not be racist or hateful.

i used to be fascinated by stormfront bc i was sheltered and thought that was where all the racism in the world hid

oh shit u actually said their name + have now summoned the beast

i find that there's plenty of racist things already without getting into legit WNs.

Would... Nuke?

white nationalists (st*rmfr*nt people call themselves WNs a lot)

more terrifying than "white supremacists", imo, at least in implication

jenny hyun twitter updates:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/jennyhyun2.png

I love KFC. #YaHeard

that "Official Apology to Black Community":

Okay guys, listen up!

You are threatening me with the fact that you know my address. You guys have also started to roar your engines every so often outside of my home. I get it. This is my official apology to the black community.

I do not regret what I said, however, I now understand that there are some lines one cannot cross.

Please take this apology and do what you will with it, but hopefully, everyone will remember to stay calm, cool and collected and remember that violence is not the answer.

what a piece of shit

add "this is my official apology" to the list of things straight-up in yr face racists do that are confounding

there's no actual apology, and i don't mean it's insincere i mean she doesn't actually say anything apologetic. it's like claiming to have written an autobiography because you stapled together a pad of blank paper with the words "this is my official autobiography" on top. it's just like her "i'm not a hateful racist" bit.

i think this behavior comes down to the fact that the system/culture in america (and most of the western world probably) teaches everyone that racism is bad, being called a racist is awful and will result in your being ostracized, and the only black people worth respecting are the dead ones who stoically broke color barriers decades ago. it doesn't teach respect.

i know, right? "This is my official apology to the black community. I do not regret what I said..."

"apology" is different in her dictionary than in mine

that's the word for what you say after people get pissed off at you to get them to stop bothering you, right?

@jennyhyun's account is protected.

Im surprised it took that long.

she equates slavery with advancement opportunity, like it's getting in on the ground floor via an internship, is what i think she said. that's some pretty next-level stuff right there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ow6UfFdTbk

I just wanted to say I'm a huge fan of Kpop and I will be actively checking all liner notes and any associations you have with Kpop groups and boycotting them. Seeing how you want to eradicate my entire race I wont be supporting you.
Kosaiya 34 minutes ago

lol @ this racist cunt shitting on blacks and yet trying to sing all R&B like us.
Premedify 43 minutes ago

racist bitch
Exfire27 1 hour ago

Lol you talentless whore. Give up you pathetic piece of shit.
Conker814 1 hour ago

Keep trying, racist Bitch
mslizzy03 1 hour ago

You disgusting pig wank shit cunt.
PuRpLeBuBbLeZ818 2 hours ago

love the fact that her racism makes a billion internet assholes feel perfectly okay abt unloading grotesquely misogynist bullshit

smdh @ humanity

Yeah I gotta say the abusive shit she's copped on her wordpress blog is as ugly as what she's said herslf, which is fucking depressing.

goes to show how vicious the cycle of hatred is that things escalated from "Floyd Mayweather says something pretty racist about Jeremy Lin" to "Jenny Hyun says a lot of even more horrifying racist things about all black people" to "entire internet turns up misogyny + racism guns to full blast"

Yeah, I know.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/126/314/3cd8a33a.png?1306264975

"misogyny + racism guns to full blast"

Saturday night in the Gibson residence.

http://tracking.si.com/2012/02/19/espn-fires-one-employee-suspends-another-for-ethnic-slur-against-jeremy-lin/

the jenny hyun stuff belongs is a "holy shit, people will actually publically admit to being this damn racist?" thread

Huh

http://jennyhyun.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/apology-to-all/

Jenny Hyun has been admitted to a hospital today. She is a paranoid schizophrenic and has been battling mental illness, a debilitating disease for many years.
Friends and family of Jenny want to extend their sincere apology for any harmful statements made verbally or via the web that Jenny has made while she was in the height of a psyshosis episode. We appreciate your understanding during this difficult time for her.

"psyshosis episode"

love the fact that her racism makes a billion internet assholes feel perfectly okay abt unloading grotesquely misogynist bullshit

smdh @ humanity

otm

(Legitimate question from an ignorant person): Does schizophrenia work like that?

in my experience bipolar disorder is the one where in a manic episode people will say all kinds of really offensive shit that they don't mean. but the "schizophrenia" update looks to me like the person herself trying to come up with an out & landing on an untested one, or an extreme iteration of "he was depressed." paranoid schizophrenia involves delusions of grandeur/persecution & firm, fixed ideation, not quick backpedaling

nah dude, it totally makes you write in the third person, and not know how spelling or commas work

it's possible that en route to the hospital, she gave the password for her blog to her family so they could write a post clearing her name

and also perhaps that was one diagnosis she got at one time that her family latched on to (or can remember).

"I Am The Resurrection And The Life. No Man Comes To the Father Except By Me. Why Isn't There A White History Month? Mom, update my blog, tell them I'm sick"

hahahahahaha

clearly an invention, everyone knows there's no questions allowed in catholic ritual

lol at aero

So: There's a thing called Google Takeout, which is an initiative to increase your ability to get your data out of Google, if you want to. And it's run by an internal Google team who have called themselves the Data Liberation Front, more than a little tongue in cheek. And this is their logo:

http://www.dataliberation.org/_/rsrc/1251320114685/config/app/images/customBackground/dl-bg.png

I genuinely don't know whether this is offensive, or stupid, or whether I'm just being over sensitive. But it does remind me of the article about Rand Paul and the TSA from the GOP thread.

The logo shows bits breaking free of shackles. I am not really seeing where the racism would come into play...?

Maybe it's that the fist has a lot of connotations to black power (obviously it's used in other contexts) and using to symbolize the ability to download your contacts from Google+ kinda trivializes that?

I was under the impression that that particular fist was actually a universal symbol whose associations reach well beyond the black power movement.

lol:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/LibrariansAgainstDRM.svg

A big red fist = black power?

xxp: I'm trying to get at the heart of why Andrew thought it racist.

Yeah, racist is not I suppose exactly where I was going, though I did initially connect it with the Black Power movement (I think this is bizarrely just because... there's an arm?). I lolled at the Librarians as well, but at least they are (to varying levels of ridiculousness across their membership) struggling under some sort of oppression, where, as beachville says, reusing the iconongraphy for contacts download seems kind of O_o.