rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Absolutely, but Laibach parody authoritarianism, they don't fetishise it.

"laibach and think of slovenia"
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lol

Detractors have accused Death in June of harboring neo-Nazi sympathies. Pearce has said, "At the start of the eighties, Tony and I were involved in radical left politics and beneath it history students. In search of a political view for the future we came across National Bolshevism which is closely connected with the Sturmabteilung hierarchy. People like Gregor Strasser and Ernst Röhm who were later known as 'second revolutionaries' attracted our attention."[11] The Sturmabteilung (Stormtroopers) were a paramilitary unit of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), and Strasser and Röhm were Nazi leaders who vyed for Adolf Hitler's power.

Protests have been staged and some performances have been cancelled due to these accusations.[12] Justification for the cancellations stem from strong aversions to the Nazi inspired symbolism of Death in June coupled with an interpretation of select lyrics as containing deliberate Third Reich-era imagery and tropes. When questioned about his interest in the Third Reich, Pearce responded:"I've an interest in all aspects of the Third Reich. It has had such a huge influence on the world, who could fail to be intrigued by it? However, I've still read more pages of Das Kapital than Mein Kampf!"[13]

lol, paging jonah goldberg

Nazis ruined swastikas for everybody too

You'll still find swastikas in Asia

Is there a thread where anybody's posting about how butthurt ppl got by Chris Rock's tweet on July 4th?

what did he say?

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/07/chris-rock-fires-up-controversy-with-fourth-of-july-tweet/

Chris Rock’s July Fourth tweet has some people in a decidedly un-celebratory mood. On Wednesday, the comedian tweeted, “Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren’t free but I’m sure they enjoyed fireworks.”

hahahahahahahaha

http://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/chris-rock-tweet.jpg%3Fw%3D420%26h%3D316
people being easily wound up there

I wonder when @chrisrock became so mean-spirited? Or has he always been and I’ve just not noticed. Color means NOTHING to me.”

chris rock otm

i mean, i know i enjoyed the fireworks

On what grounds are people taking offence? That seems like a pretty straight statement of fact.

I wonder when @chrisrock became so mean-spirited? Or has he always been and I’ve just not noticed. Color means NOTHING to me.”

who is the deeply stupid person who said this

xp: people are taking offense because they are racists, basically

we should just stop now this will only end in an explainer letting us know exactly when fireworks became synonymous with independence day

but say if you did want to see some more racist tweets i cant stop you from clicking on this link http://www.egotripland.com/chris-rock-4th-july-twitter

wouldve been a better joke imho if he just left it at 'happy white peoples independence day'

aren't you white

You'll still find swastikas in Asia

several religious groups straight up replaced the swastika with different symbols iirc (which makes it extremely annoying when dumb teenagers get it tattooed on themselves bc OPEN YOUR MIND MAN IT HAS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT MEANING MAN)

teenagers all talk like 70s stoners imo

color means nothing to me xp

buddhism has def not abandoned the swastika

On what grounds are people taking offence?

When you see the pious, reverential way that Bachmann et al treat the 'founding fathers', largely as a way to 'prove' the providential nature of this republic, you'll understand that anything less than wholehaearted hagiographic treatment of the revoltionary period and its actors is 'hating America' regardless of the fact that the American Revolution was a disaster for Blacks and Indians and it certainly doesn't help that Jefferson's hugest blunder in the Declaration of Independence was accusing the Crown of:

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

But, nonetheless, God was guiding our deist forefather (who, incidentally defaced the New Testament).

@chrisrockEli Whitney invented the cotton gin so we didn’t need your lazy asses anymore.Still don’t.

what

I kind of respect Buddhists for not replacing the swastika. It's a calm way of saying that Hitler doesn't get to win.

@chrisrockEli Whitney invented the cotton gin so we didn’t need your lazy asses anymore.

Obv someone who dozed through his HS history class. If anything, the cotton gin made slavery more lucrative.

you dipshits have a whole month!

Are we sure some of those aren't just straight-up, adolescent wind-up trolling?

are we sure we need to repost these here?

I kind of respect Buddhists for not replacing the swastika. It's a calm way of saying that Hitler doesn't get to win.

― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, July 6, 2012 3:47 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hindus too

hitler, nazis, etc just didnt have as big an impact in asia and arent nearly the cultural touchstone they are in the west is a big part of it imho - but also ya these symbols arent something its considered that you just go changing all willy nilly

I can't quite bring myself to admire the Swastika Laundry of Ballsbridge, Dublin for not abandoning the name /logo until the 1980s though.

http://i.imgur.com/3AiyP.jpg

yeah I don't really want to read these (xposts)

can we just terminate every multicellular life form and start anew?

are we sure we need to repost these here?

Not at all, but I genuinely get confused sometimes when I read stupid shit on the net and wonder and it is the thread...

ShariVari is that at all related to a certain nat'l loathing for the British?

omg @ Swastika Laundry, how entirely unfortunate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_Laundry

xxp I don't think so. They were founded in 1912 and apparently just didn't feel the need to change it.

thank you based laundry

or, well, on second thought, no thanks

"Mom, I got a job!"
"That's great, honey! Where?"
"Swastika Laundry!"
"... o rly"

chris rock tweet is a+

Swastika Laundry of Ballsbridge, Dublin

this is really a joyce injoke or a morrissey b-side or something right

SSteam Kleaning for all your delicate whites

"Mom, I got a job!"
"That's great, honey! Where?"
"Swastika Laundry!"
"... o rly"
"U MAD?"

to get real about the chris rock tweet; i believe celebrating july 4 was considered a lynch-worthy social offense for southern black people until shockingly recently -- it was explicitly a white-person's freedom holiday

(but i'd need to comb through my ta-nehisi coates rss feed to verify this, lol)

I keep reading Swastika Laundry to the tune of Waterloo Sunset.

the tweet is so simple and beautiful because it's so by-the-numbers Chris Rock but every response says much more about the responder than him

I wash my whites at Swastika Laundry but they won't let me wash a colored load :(

I foolishly tried to confirm the Independence Day lynching practice and now I just hate white people

is that racist?

the tweet is so simple and beautiful because it's so by-the-numbers Chris Rock but every response says much more about the responder than him

― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, July 6, 2012 4:10 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its really not simple or beautiful, note the unnecessary exposition in the middle necessitating the middling punchline at the end - not his best work imho!!

how quickly will I get punched if next year I wish everyone I meet "Happy Cracker Day!"