rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

hahahahaha

in fairness that was a sacrifice because those slaves could no longer chew his food for him

omg djp that is a fucking intense lol of horror, A+

"fucking intense lol of horror" would be a cool 77 thraed

I kind of went to a bad place on this thread today

I blame C++

and Ted Nugent

same old strawmen

In 1939, the laundry changed its name to "The Swastika Laundry (1912) after a visitor from the future explained Wikipedia naming terminology to them

true story, i had searched for the word "cracker" to see where the discussion of that word started itt, and then i had that ctrf+f still open on my browser when i clicked over to a tab where i'd been looking at an old blog entry, and learned that i'd referred to Stargate as "Norwegian crackers"

http://i.imgur.com/7TQQK.jpg

lefsa isn't like crackers, it's more like a tortilla but sweeter. you put butter and brown sugar in in and roll it up.

PARIS, July 6 (Reuters) - Female French footballers are still precluded from wearing headscarves even though world soccer's rule-makers lifted the ban on the hijab this week.
The French Football Federation (FFF) said in a statement on Friday that it had to "respect the constitutional and legal principles of secularism which prevail in our country and which feature in our statutes.
"In these circumstances (the FFF) does not authorise female players to wear headscarves."

are you guys debating whether nazis are racist?

no, crackers

http://www.thevichygovernment.com/res/cds/rubbish_full.jpg

ok, fine xp

http://i.imgur.com/E6nvB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/LXSfP.jpg

MOT SMERTER!

dayo your dismissive "ok, fine" is hurtful towards my Norwegian heritage and, therefore, racist ;_;

norwegian crackers are dangerously flaky

Jeg beklager, her la oss ha en fred cracker ^_^

for real lolz at Stargate as "Norwegian Crackers"

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17sbe76ewwo75jpg/original.jpg

(Via.)

oh lord

all this white girls not racist

disclaimer: this is Utah

when you are it you will shit bricks

gah "when you see it"

fuck iphone

When you are it you will ask "what? there's women, there's color, what?"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ASgAQ2KipIE/T_J35N8szGI/AAAAAAAARAw/rUFDxAbwCJY/s1600/3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9Q6HD.gif

That gif just sucked away most of my will to live

This should get you all the way to suicide, then.

http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2011/01/bristol.gif

Flag waving's kind of a thing in her family, tho

You know what I love as an antidote to racism and people saying stupid shit is yoisthisracist.com. Did ilx do that already? Sometimes shit is way less complicated than I think and I like to be reminded and put back int the right head space.

it's 100% definitely been bigged up on ilx, 95% probably itt

takes way too long for me to show all msgs now though

i like yo is this racist mostly but i always want to write him really long emails when he answers questions about religion

one time i did write him a long tumblr question when he answered something about female circumcision and he responded to me personally but didnt publish it

that is a topic more suited for a site called "is this fucked up?" imo

His tone irks but he's usually right

I think his tone is joyous. It brings me joy.

john terry

http://www.morganspier.com/events-details.php?day=1343620800

Is this racist? Its this great new spot that opened up in Philly with great DJs and a great chef doing the food, etc, and they have a night called Jamaican Soul where they play roots, reggae, and Jamaican soul, and they also just started doing nightly food specials and that night it was $10 for really quality jerk chicken, fries, and fried plantains (and also a craft beer, whoo Philly)

Got into an argument with my boyf who says the name Jamaican Soul is racist, and that the whole thing fetishistic, and the idea of having a food special that correlates culturally w a DJ night is way problematic and wrong. I disagreed bcz from my (somewhat limited) understanding of Jamaican food/music, it seemed fairly authentic and not caricaturey (e.g. like tropical cocktails and Bob Marley and paper Jamaican flags everywhere and fake dreads) and they weren't billing it as like !!JAMAICA NIGHT!!, and it seems equally problematic to say "you cannot play music and serve food w the same cultural influence w/o it being racist"

it's only racist if they play "Dreadlock Holiday"

is the name supposed to be a play on "piers morgan," cuz if so, that's definitely racist

No it's not, it's just a dumb name. They do tons of different things (Todd Terry, Alan Braxe, The Juan Maclean, etc)

true story, my dad (among other ventures) opened a nightclub in the late 90s, there was a weekly r&b / hip-hop night and he actually thought it was a good idea to sell fried chicken and cornbread on that night. which was definitely racist (sorry, dad).

BUT re: your question, I don't think attempted authenticity is prophylactic against racism, i can see how it might play as a kind of ethnic tourism. i don't think the food / music pairing is not necessarily offensive but maybe promoting it as an 'authentic' 'Jamaican Soul' experience is maybe pandering to a sense of exoticism that's a little icky -- especially if there are no jamaicans involved (are there?)

Playing Julian / Damian Marley: Not racist
Ziggy / Stephen Marley: Borderline
Anyone w/out a career outside the Melody Makers: GTFO

Not sure why calling a night of reggae Jamaican Soul is racist. Jamaican Soul is a musical reference, no? At worst, the food special is maybe a bit tacky.

uhh this all depends how it's done