rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

there aren't enough o_O 's in the world for that

I don't know exactly what's going on there... the body of the cake looks like a pretty clear version of the Willendorf Venus. The head tho...

wait

that's actually someone's head coming up through the table

http://karmadecay.com/r/WTF/comments/se39j/just_the_swedish_minister_of_culture_and_sports/

Makode Aj Linde, the artist who created the installation and whose head is part of the cake cut by the minister, wrote about the "genital mutilation cake" on his Facebook page.

(unable to locate said facebook page)

what the fucking fuck. How does something like that even get made?

That's...worse that it's a real head? The photo with the torso cut open and the cake inside being red is making my head spin. The whole thing is a horror movie to me.

okay this caption made me lol: Just a girl eating a black girl cake.

Aaaaahhhh! Didn't notice that or the fact that she was being fed cake of herself!

So is the artist the head?! This is fucking weird.

ahhhh shit, the teeth.

Makode Aj Linde

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZR6DZo6vcxU/TX6GL_2x6lI/AAAAAAAAEhE/lLnntWfDnCg/Nya+Kontoret-17.jpg

artist's page does not dispel the clouds of wtf

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Makode-Linde/92718443762

it's racist, it's scary, it's dehumanizing and worse yet, Tom Petty pulled it off so much better in that one video.

So a committed anti-nationalist white woman ritually circumcizes a Willendorf Veunus shaped cake made by a black gay guy for an art day. There are so many buttons to push here, my mind boggles. The aesthetics are <insert adjective here that I can't even begin to think of>

I'm inclined to say this is not racist and just a really weird art piece that requires a lot of context to get. The Willendorf Venus + African/black artist + attempts to address issue of genital mutiliation (?) would indicate there's a good deal more going on here than meets the eye

it is still very WTF obviously

My brain can't reason its usual "it's okay because it's a black guy underneath that cake" argument.

I am reacting to this like it is an edible, interactive version of the Britney-giving-birth sculpture

…with Jeff Koons trapped inside.

I think shakey's right, certainly if you saw it by itself in an art gallery it would give you pause for thought. but when the picture is of a smiling white woman cutting into it surrounded by smiling and laughing white photographers - the o_O is overwhelming.

Yeah, which I'm assuming was, at least in part, what the artist was probably going for.

I'm kind of w/Laurel on this. Even if I give the Swedes involved the benefit of the doubt as a different culture, etc..., I still can't get over the idea of objectifying a victim whose plight one deplores into a red-centered cake.

If it's meant to be generate publicity through shock, it's probably relatively good value for money, though

what if the cake tastes terrible

well, now the world is aware of genital mutilation. sort of

no way man that red velvet stuff is the bomb

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once you go red velvet, you'll never reshelve it

I bet that's what it is, too

The ”maimed” corpse of an African woman has sparked an outcry in social media.

Left out the word "delicious".

did anyone else watch the video

bureaucrat swedes smiling appreciatively thru constant screaming from the cake.

wait what

this is like a Monty Python sketch come to life

holy shit

it's a very long 47 seconds

The screaming and what she whispered to him make this quite surreal

IMO the video answers the "is this racist?" question but raises about a bazillion others (foremost of which is "WAHT?")

did not make it through all 47 seconds

the thing is though the page we're reading the story from seems to have chosen "nig*er cake" as its own descriptive and then put it in quotes so I suspect there are some levels of Swedish politics here. OTOH I don't know how many levels it takes to get away from HOW IS THIS NOT A TERRIBLE IDEA.

After all the many headspinning aspects of this, I am now very curious where the phrase in quotes in that first FriaTider headline came from.

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mind blown

have to say that it's quite an impressive performance piece/sculpture/conceptual stunt, but i do not think i would have been able to eat any of that cake

the recommended youtubes that pop up are pretty O_o

"Let them not eat cake."

saw an episode of baseball wives where one wife gets another wife a realistic looking porcupine cake or something that also had red cake inside

There's lots of Sweish politics going on here: this is going viral because Swedish nationalists are pissed that she's cutting off state funding for their newspaper, so they're sending this around as a "gotcha!" moment.

saw an episode of baseball wives where one wife gets another wife a realistic looking porcupine cake or something that also had red cake inside

― dayo, Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:51 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Steel Magnolias has a bit about the groom's cake at a wedding being in the shape of a giant armadillo with grey icing and blood red cake. Maybe the b-ball wives were spoofing that. Sounds p similar.

100% with aero here; my guess is that the cake itself is a piece of very transgressive and extreme performance art that somehow has federal funding. The original article linked to though only blocks out one of the 'g's in n----- and seems to have some sort of vendetta against one of the attendants for cutting funding to a nationalist newspaper who is known for spouting off 'racist' beliefs, so I'm actually wondering if the article itself is actually more racist than the cake...?

yeah TWU otm xxp. Like as shocking as the cake is, it is probably akin to like The Swans playing at George HW Bush's Inaugural Ball

As far as I can tell, Fria Tider (the website linked to above) is a right-wing Sweedish Nationalist news organisation.

The URL made the cake sound like it came from Niger.

that's what I was expecting

in retrospect, I don't really know why; possibly the clearest example of my subconscious blatantly lying to me in order to preserve my sanity I've had in a while