rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

counting down to korean blackface youtubes….

specific character parodies can become metonymic of a larger group pretty easily tho. wouldn't be surprised if most people remember just haha funny accent. nb haven't seen any of the pop American culture parodies of Kim Jong but uh have encountered them second hand after team America

I know the impersonation from MADTV and Team America.

It must be hard though to impersonate someone whose voice was almost-never heard, but it can go too far.

Dayo, have you seen the semi-regular opening skit on SNL where Bill Hader plays the Chinese premier appearing side-by-side with Obama and talks about the U.S. not paying their debt?

no but sounds great

It was Forte and Hader. They don't stretch their eyes out or anything, but it's still odd to see four white comedians play Asian and African-American figures.

i had reservations about cho's kji last week, but decided not to air them during the earlier part of the discussion. the fact that it's a fairly accurate parody of a specific, horrible and rather bizarre person does help justify the approach. i'm with nhex, however, in that something about it still doesn't sit quite right.

Margaret Cho is one of the worst comedians

sad but tru

cho vs. chang

chage match

Who is chang? Not the tennis player I assume

Chang is the name of Ken Jeong's character on "Community"

Oh yeah I haven't watched the greatest show in the history of human kind that often

know what that makes you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9ATQFgu9o

man that is some comedy.

i had reservations about cho's kji last week

compared to last year?

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/543065_397389696971229_322009484509251_1155438_111226802_n.jpg

defend the indefensible: ASIA

not true, i am facebook friends with that kid.

How do people think that kid learned how to live?

Gr80 thread most likely

Exactly

http://www.cholafied.com/

aside from being terrible it's really pissing me off that they're not deviating from the same goddamn eyebrow shape / tear / lipliner color

http://cholany.com

...what in heck is chola? Thats something that apparently hasnt escaped the Americas at all o_0 is it some sort of juggalo thing?

lol

m. cholo, f. chola

o trayuomas

Oh come on, you act disingenious about aus things all the time ;P

Trayce: http://bit.ly/JPqcbJ

http://www.mistermichaeljason.com/Cholafied

Assignment:
Create a blog that reflects your interests and drive traffic to your site.

Cholafied comes from the mind of a Los Angeles kid who grew up in the 90's back when chola style was popular. Cholafied combines the nostalgia of L.A. street culture with L.A.'s obsession with fame. Los Angeles manufactures the famous. We have fandoms who are loyal to them, but like a gang initiation we beat them down so we can watch them try to get back up. I reimagine pop culture icons as L.A. gangster chicks, and jump them into a gang - into the absurd.

Result:
In one day Cholafied.com had spread to over 160 countries. In less than a month it had over 100,000 unique visitors and 10,000 Tumblr followers. It was featured on news sites (Huffington Post, LA Weekly), gossip blogs (Dlisted, Oh No They Didn’t), lifestyle blogs (Paper Magazine, Vice), and design blogs (Design You Trust, Inspire First).

Buzzfeed even dubbed it “your new favorite Tumblr”. www.Cholafied.com

I think the only reason that tumblr is successful is because ppl see the URL and start singing "so-o-o/so-o-o/so-o-o cholafied" to the tune of Da Brat's "Funkdafied"

see i heard it as same but to Sussudio

i love the dissertation level justification though, lolcollege

also from that same guy WHAT THE FUCK
http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/33588/2040681/FangBang2.jpg

FANG BANG
as an ad
for the scifi network
FANG BANG

gold star

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/beastsofthesouthernwild/

vid isn't working for me but this is the director, so i'm just gonna guess yes

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNjc4Mzc4MTk4MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDc1NDM4Nw@@._V1._SX640_SY962_.jpg

mmm... not sure tbh. nothing... obviously racist?

That mans head is a very weird shape.

going someplace "to see what the fuss is about" has a whiff of "here we are now, entertain us." why can't you go someplace cuz it sounds good, why do you have to have people "impress" you all the time?

whoa, rong thread.

works okay

By the third time I re-read that sentence, it began to make sense even in this context.

it seems like whatever the joke the ppl in the photos are in on it http://picsofaznstakingpicsoffood.tumblr.com/

I knew an (azn) girl who bought a DSLR just to take pictures of food for her food blog

i'm gonna say racist; but then again people should stop taking pictures of their food, so i give it a cautious pass if it shames any asians into stopping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uw6ZkbsAH8

maybe a lil' racist, mostly hilarious

shackle shoe: is this racist... you decide.

http://i45.tinypic.com/1fztxu.jpg

http://www.freep.com/article/20120619/NEWS07/120619061/Adidas-withdrawing-shackle-shoe-Jesse-Jackson-criticism?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp

The designer, meanwhile, says the inspiration for the shoes was a cartoon character and toy from the 1990s called My Pet Monster, which is purple and blue and is restrained by orange shackles.

That explanation did not convince Lola Adesioye, who writes in the Guardian that the whole episode reflects badly on Adidas:

"There's no doubt that Jeremy Scott, despite his assertions to the contrary, was making a statement about the enslavement of human beings. If he wasn't, he would not have used a shackle-like ankle cuff – with all of its implications.

the guardian: "that's racist"

"Blogger Rachel Tension writes on Stylite.com that pulling the shoes was “an unfortunate decision that says more about people’s propensity to 1) see racism where racism isn’t necessarily hanging around and 2) be really dumb on the internet"

blogger: "that's not racist, also u r dumb"