rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

reminds me of that dude who had all the beverages for different types of ladeez in his place

I wasn't aware of this stereotype where black people couldn't stop singing inside McDonalds.

no idea if that's racist or not but she is very funny

Didn't laugh, but I wasn't offended. There is something about the running gag of an African-American slipping into jive after eating some Mickey D's/home cooking/listening to the Gap Band that gets a little old, but I'm a little too removed from it to really look down upon it to make a judgement.

reminds me of that dude who had all the beverages for different types of ladeez in his place

― the late great, Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:28 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha tfg i had forgotten

I didn't really laugh, but she's super-cute.

who was that dude

"got the green tea for the erykah badu headwrap wearin b*tches"

she is super cute but that grey top is sorta nasty looking, like her much better in florals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBRL7D0wcXM

haha oh yes, mr chi city

'droppin vagina panties'

mcdonalds woman should be on tv, real talk

uh, she is on tv

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1018068/

There are more movies on this list than the Benjamin Harrison and Rutherford Hayes pages combined.

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0053706/

Nothing to do with racism. The Henry Kissenger page likely has more anyway.

http://www.theawl.com/2012/05/the-definitive-list-of-white-music-stolen-by-black-people

ugh

'stolen'

guys

is this racist?

i guess that's what we're all asking ourselves, right?

the headline just seems offensively dumb and inflammatory but i guess that's the linkbait huh

the awl sux

i'm not really grasping the point but no, i don't think so

a shame how the staple singers stole 'slippery people' from the talking heads, never forget

its a tongue in cheek response to a silly onion av club article

never heard this cougar/me'shell cover of wild night, pretty dreadful

i LOVE that cover of wild night!

wish it were more.. tongue-behind-cheek

well rest easy knowing that i would not be so hard on it if i hadn't watched the video. mellencamp goes down a lot smoother when i don't have to look at him. also wild night is one of those songs where i can't really understand how a cover would ever be necessary.

this list would have been funnier had they just matched up random songs with similar titles that sounded nothing alike, or if every pair had been the wrong way around as opposed yo just a couple

It took three tongues in three cheeks to write that article.

that's sexy

yo just a couple

many times I have cursed the proximity of 't' and 'y' on the keyboard but never louder than today

no no! thank you so much.

is it racist to satirize rap if, by all indications, you've never actually heard rap?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ2ZVWyOVRI

lol you guys got trolled by the awl

need frogbs' input on this one

RE AWL: cute response to a serious-face article from butthurt white boy

butt hurt >>> http://www.avclub.com/articles/our-white-people-problems-problem-why-its-time-to,72974/

is this das racist?

that Onion article seemed legit to me

the problem with the original article is that the real reason to stop using "white" as pejorative is because it doesn't work

certainly hasn't stopped people from trying

The whole point in saying "white people" pejoratively is to treat white people as reductively as white people treat other races.

Like how does dude walk away from the Roots/Mad Men comparison being like "Wow, that doesn't get white people at all" instead of being like "It's really unfair to peg watching one of the most highly viewed TV events of all time as something indicative of the black experience in america"

...

because that wasn't the point of the article, maybe

i really feel bad for white ppl. their lives are so safe, so bland and boring :(

The whole point in saying "white people" pejoratively is to treat white people as reductively as white people treat other races.

― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten)

the only people i know who bemoan "white people" are white people.