rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

I am reasonably certain I am not having a slice of African female genital mutilation cake every day

I mean first off, my pants still fit

haha that guy literally does have a slice of that cake every day.

second, i am not simultaneously barfing and crying all the time

It's the kind of thing one would tend to remember, methinks

crying maybe xp

* the minister of culture is carving out the crotch of a screaming caricature of an african woman and feeding it to her.
* everyone's taking out their cameras

Q: Where's the best place not to be under these circumstances?

In line for seconds?

Arby's!

A: Newark

would not want to be on Facebook.com.nu this afternoon.

What kind of tea does one serve with African female genital mutilation cake? Malarial tea?

This is After getting my vagaga mutilated by the minister of culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth. Before cutting me up she whispered ‘Your life will be better after this’ in my ear.'

should this go before or after apaches on my ballot?

vagaga

rama rama-ma

RE: The cake.

It looks a LOT worse as a thumbnail. In higher res, it actually looks like a really well-made sculpture. If you changed everyone in the picture to frowning it would be 1000x easier to swallow.

that's what she screamed

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo126/theybf/June%2009/27d69cd7.jpg

Before cutting me up she whispered ‘Your life will be better after this’ in my ear.'

maybe it's funnier in swedish

i wanna make a genital mutilation hologram joke but it's not working so i'm posting this instead because i want to...

...have my cake and eat it too.

oh i see pplains was already on that trail

whenever racist cakes call, i'm already there, my friend.

No red velvet, no credibility.

Will this guy become an art star or a pariah?

I bet he's a hoot when he works behind the counter at Luby's!

"You didn't get much."
"I was going to add some peach cobbler, but the croutons started screaming at me."

I'm surprised that this thing hasn't made it to cakewrecks.com yet. Surely it must.

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If cakes could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them up? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

fuckin cakes, always with the screaming

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/3023966902_515aa0d9a9.jpg

^me itt today

And they have had a bomb threat now.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bomb-threat-museum-sweden-caught-racist-cake-scandal-cake-depicted-naked-african-woman-featured-actress-blackface-article-1.1063075

(How's that for a URL, SEO Marketers?)

i bet this artist is thrilled

Here's some interesting background about the cake-troversy:
http://africasacountry.com/2012/04/18/swedish-cake/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr7ZLYPtiRs

Has anyone actually interviewed the artist about it?

xp hahahaha yes that's what i was thinking of!

http://www.racialicious.com/2012/04/18/voices-makode-aj-linde-and-that-cake/

The reaction of the assembled crowd, though, is perhaps more disturbing. They don’t seem to understand that this isn’t supposed to be “Ha-ha”-funny, and if observers ascribe their glee to a detached, condescending form of racism, I’d be hard-pressed to disagree. Really, who knows what they were thinking? Who the eff laughs at that?
- Tommy Christopher, Mediaite

yes I mean, who on Earth would laugh at an absurd screaming blackface cake, like how is that situation even fathomable

laughter can be a release of nervousness, based on an uncertainty how to react

Linde apparently posted Facebook responses to diff't questions about the cake; a youtube FAQ, so to say. This blog has compiled his videos:

http://www.womanist-musings.com/2012/04/artist-who-created-racist-sexist.html#more

this was his response to those asking why he chose to tackle female genital mutilation; it seems a bit more incoherent than the other responses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO5ALkMzOKc&feature=player_embedded

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/524703_337071523023373_135799796483881_957463_646738037_n.jpg

so nervous...

I guess the only reasonable conclusion is that she thinks blackface & female circumcision are hilarious and was unaware that the public at large would react negatively to her racist worlview

much more likely that she isn't sensitive to blackface or female circumcision at all and just thought it was fun feeding cake to a colorfully dressed cake person

That is also a very reasonable conclusion

I suppose the optimal time to capture her nervousness on camera would be during the (possibly multiple) times she initially tried to cut the cake

leo stotch

It seems to me that the cake was a trick in what was really a piece of performance art. Show a (mostly) rich, white audience a disgusting, violent racial stereotype in a context where they think it's safe to accept it, and watch them gleefully participate in a very grotesque spectacle. The cake wasn't meant to be an actual statement against FGM, it was a prop Mr. Linde used to make a very dark point. Whether it's OK for a man living in Sweden to use that iconography to make that point is an open question, but I really don't think the cake was meant to be the art on display. The artwork was the group of white people cutting up the body of an African woman and eating it and laughing, while somehow still under the impression that they were making a statement against FGM.
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would like to think that this was the case, but...

but what?

i think the minister was just showing she was happy to play along? "ah yes, ART, how subversive and delightful."

I want to know who got the first piece of cake