rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

That… could have been thought out a bit more.

In the middle of a discussion abt Epcot's World Showcase and it's reductiveness and how it is obv problematic in many ways but is it totally 100% awful or is there some redeeming quality in attempting to expose youngsters to the world outside of America?

I am a white Irish man living in England and own a rubber duck dressed as a hasidic jew but I bought it at the holocaust memorial in berlin. Well?

I mean yes, when you take cultures and reduce them to a theme park attraction it is like the very definition of cultural tourism/fetishization, and in a way it's saying "We don't want the real modern/current/authentic France or Japan or China or Mexico, we want this really romantic and idealized version that is prob stuck in the past" but idk in my experience visiting it seemed to scratch a bit deeper than the surface and isn't as caricaturey as one might imagine, and the idea of "Hey kids, other cultures/things exist too!" seems less than totally insidious to me.

But it does seem like a not completely inauthentic representation of the histories of cultures (in lieu of what is current and modern)

I got this phat-ass sombrero at the Mexico pavillion

I am a white Irish man living in England and own a rubber duck dressed as a hasidic jew but I bought it at the holocaust memorial in berlin. Well?

I am a white Irish man living in England and own a rubber duck dressed as a hasidic jew but my girlfriend bought it at the holocaust memorial in berlin, so really I have no public comment on this.

Does the duck swim in a quackvah?

wheres the thread to post things that are obviously racist?

http://i45.tinypic.com/10dy0pd.jpg

xp to djp

Because why not: Roger Fidelity's own election day thread, one to the public

That Jewish duck is awesome.

Posts that effortlessly etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCN6dyjAvEc

britishist maybe

yeah maybe
WHAT IS HE SAYING LOLOLOLOLOL
um, it's pretty clear what he's saying?

i've seen american tv shows do that for british white ppl too tho

that is totally Britishist

also I cop to watching TMZ but really I just want to punch everyone on that show in the privates

the kids are on youtube, they're downloading all the music

what the fuck doesn't TMZ understand? Plus, I think the "????"s are there to trick you into not hearing the actual normal-assed English words that are coming out of this guys mouth.

normal-arsed iirc

sounds pretty clear to me, but i am british?

all of those white dudes are douches though, that's pretty obvious.

don't forget the black dude with dreads

i'll never forget how funny it was the first time i saw a liam gallagher tv interview w/ subtitles

Sunny got on to me for watching The Young Ones with subtitles. Like I'm supposed to know what the hell a bilo is.

shit i'd actually looked away from the vid by that poin.t "its the same language we speak... its the same language." yes, and that's why the dude was entirely intelligible.

Gallagher brother interviews should just be dubbed over with tracks of cats fighting and car crashes and the sounds of bones breaking.

pplains, that reminds me of the difference I found in the 80's between European countries that watched American shows dubbed and those that watched them subtitled. The subtitlers all spoke far better English than the dubbers.

That makes so much sense. Subtitles allow you to get both languages at once and after awhile, it has to meld.

I definitely now know what a bilo is.

i don't know what a bilo is...

anti-apartheid activist?

close, but not quite

it's a pen?

only if you're starring in an old Charlie Chan movie.

you meant biro surely pp. (p)rick say "in biro!" on that show iirc. nfi what bilo is aside from an aus supermarket chain.

Maybe. You'll have to forgive me, British is like a second language.

if only there were subtitles you could consult

So this Saving The Pearls piece of crap from upthread continues to have fallout.

oof

damn. the whole thing just blows my mind. "racism is just as bad when the coals do it. don't you see?!?"

if you use the term "reverse racism" you need re-education

is "re-education" code for "punching"

I was hoping it was a code for "DJP goes to your house to explain why you are wrong"

which, in turn, is code for "punching"

you do what you gotta do, man

the "coals" vs. "pearls" business is such a dead giveaway.

"uh yeah, despite the fact that the society in question hates white people, they use a word suggesting value and beauty to describe them. why? well just, just ... just because, okay? coincidentally, that's also why they use a word for something dirty and common to describe black people. funny, huh?"

Wasn't her reasoning that in her fictional society, pearls were useless whereas coal was useful, so 'coal' was a good thing? Yeaaaaaaaah. Not a stretch at all.

the author couldn't metaphor herself out of a bulletproof mercedes with a grocery bag in it

lol