how did this woman manage to figure out how to turn on a computer
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Monday, 19 March 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
I think she is pointing out that in a post-racial world, Mr Obama is free to identify as any aspect of his heritage that he chooses. Because she is an idiot.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
Is Heinz's 57th flavour all of the others mixed together? Because that is the only way that statement would make any sense.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
i think of this a lot in terms of the "epistemic closure" argument from the past few years, santorum's bizarro theorizing, etc: we're in some kind of deep post-atwater universe where there are just a lot of people who are native believers of the paper-thin excuse-making bullshit pushed out by their political forbears
― goole, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
*looks for Heinz 57 on Census Form.*
*Takes a bite out of ribs*
"Oh, good. There it is."
― pplains, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
i do appreciate that Roger Friedman, Forbes Contributor went to some different dictionaries to vet that partic statement tho
― goole, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
i still dont understand how "idiot does racist thing" is national news
― the ineffable genius of DJP (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 March 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
the gun store in my home town used to sell "running n***** targets" where's that dude's 15 minutes of Facebook fame?
― the ineffable genius of DJP (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 March 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
she's just using every single racist defense every other white person uses after they use the word. fills out the bingo card real good.
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
oh except this
“I do find it amazing and entertaining that one of our stickers has become a racist thing,” Ms. Smith told me. I asked her if she thought the “N” Word was a bad word? “No,” she said, ” because I don’t use it. I have kids here around me that are black kids. I call them my own kids. I’ve helped black families…to guide them in the right direction. Paintball is one of these things. We like to laugh and have a good time. That’s our way of life.”
this whole paragraph is just surreal
Paintball is one of these things. We like to laugh and have a good time.
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
i don't care if i shoot you with white paint, black paint, purple paint...
― the ineffable genius of DJP (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 March 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
"look when i use the word 'kike' i just mean someone who is untrustworthy and greedy. sure it ONCE meant a jewish person but that's not what it means to me"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 19 March 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
Paintball is one of these things. We like to laugh and have a good time. That’s our way of life. There are seats for those who are waiting.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 19 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
"Heinz 57" is a colloquialism people use to refer to dogs that are no particular breed. I've heard it applied to people, but really, in the US for most people who are white you're generally considered a weirdo if you start picking apart your ancestry in serious conversation.
That is, outside of St. Patrick's Day, when that 1/16th Irish bit of you is incredibly important
― mh, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
I'm a big mixture of races. I'm white, off-white, eggshell, light beige...
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
I've got some cream inside of me.
― pplains, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
gross
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 19 March 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
andrew farrell OTM
― Lester the Unlikely (crüt), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/19/fabrice-muamba-twitter-troll-prison
Racist troll plays not-racist bingo.
The court heard Stacey tried to claim his account had been hacked. He also tried to delete his page.
"I don't know why I posted it. I'm not racist and some of my friends are from different cultural backgrounds."
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
man this whole thing is tragic but now I'm hungry for Heinz 57, does anybody know if that shit has anchovy paste or something, thinking about picking up a bottle just to move this whole racial dialogue forward
― plastic surgery dizbusters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
no anchovies in heinz ketchup afaik
― Lester the Unlikely (crüt), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
somehow, jail time strikes me as an absurdly excessive punishment for not-specifically-threatening racism on twitter, but i'm from the 18th century, so what do i know?
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
i don't expect most to agree with me but i support treating verbal abuse and physical abuse similarly under the law.
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
can ILX have a new "Suggest Jail" option plz
― Lester the Unlikely (crüt), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
xp also that article only posted one of the things he said
Jones said other Twitter users criticised Stacey, prompting him to post a series of other offensive and racist comments.
i imagine everything else he said was less tame
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
This is the sauce referred to, I believe:
http://www.netfoodie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/heinz57recipe.jpg
― Aimless, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know why I posted it. I'm not racist-"
I'mma stop you right there
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
i have heard other white ppl say they are 'heinz 57' to mean lots of different kinds of europeans in their ancestry
― goole, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
hope they give this fucker the death penalty!
― frogbs, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
"I'm not a racist. I acknowledge that black people exist and that I've had occasion to share the same general geographical space with them. So...case closed, I guess."
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really care about flagging your posts, frogbs, so i'll just remind you that you're tiresome instead.
― horseshoe, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
what's the twitter for the guy who got arrested?
― the late great, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
curious what sort of racist tweeting can get you arrested in the uk
I'm not racist. I have French, German, Scottish friends...
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
i don't care if you're white, white, white, or purple
― Mordy, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really care about flagging your posts, frogbs, so i'll just remind you that you're tiresome instead
imo this kind of posting is much worse than just hitting flag post
― frogbs, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
subtle try, freud
― less of the same (darraghmac), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Like my mom always said, if you can't say something nice about a person... click on the Flag Post link.
― Aimless, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
frog post
― pplains, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JYVEu.gif
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://savethefrogs.com/art/2009/images/Frog-with-Flag-Michael-John-Kongo.jpg
― frogbs, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
"LOL, Fuck Muamba. He's dead." wasn't the tweet that got the authorities' attention, right? I should certainly hope not. Anyway, what were the tweets that got the cops after him?
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, they don't say what the actual offending tweets were. probably for the best that they're not reprinted.
― Lester the Unlikely (crüt), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
"According to the dictionary [the N word] does not mean black. It means a low down, lazy, sorry, low down person. That’s what the N word means."
what dictionary is this???
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
hasn't Elvis Costello argued the same thing? ("Oliver's Army" uses the word but really isn't about black people)
― frogbs, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― max, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
don't trust elvis costello's cred on this issue
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
no elvis costello is well-known to be a really sensitive, intelligent interrogator of race
― max, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Woman Is The Low Down, Lazy, Sorry, Low Down Person Of The World
― Lester the Unlikely (crüt), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link