rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

these kinds of exhortations always make me feel conflicted because on the one hand I do believe in values that I feel should be universal, but otoh advocating hard for these values can, if not done carefully, impinge on the cultural sovereignty of the people you're trying to help and should, if possible, happen or involve their own agency? otherwise it's a lil' too much White Saviour Bringing Culture and Salvation

In Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, V-Day commits ongoing support to build movements and anti-violence networks. Working with local organizations, V-Day provided hard-won funding that helped open the first shelters for women in Egypt and Iraq; sponsored annual workshops and three national campaigns in Afghanistan; convened the "Confronting Violence" conference of South Asian women leaders; and donated satellite-phones to Afghan women to keep lines of communication open and action plans moving forward. V-Day was instrumental in the founding of Karama, a program working in Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon that works to build upon and strengthen efforts to end violence against women by bringing together local women's organizations and other civil society groups in collaboration, analysis and advocacy at national, regional and international levels.

I would really like to like them, it just seems like an oddly oblivious video for an organization like this one.

"yahoo! we made it and are awesome; pull yourself up by your bootstraps out of your terrible situation and we will acknowledge you as awesome too"

yeah this is how it came across to me too.

i'm with crut dayo and orbit here; seems pretty tasteless and tone deaf

there's already been a response apparently with the offset of https://twitter.com/POCRising
that video is by eve ensler, eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRhkrHxSf6I

is this racist or just 100% terrible

is this creepy?

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beautiful-Interracial-Pregnancy/244114675611286

ugh no doubt it's creepy in a fetishy way

guessing somewhere in this thread's eight billion posts is an example of "interracial couples = racism is over omg u brave souls"

Did you seriously just have to ask if that was creepy? Do you have eyes? Can they read words?

It appears to be just a bunch of selfies. This would be less creepy if it were a pr0n website.

there's a sentence I never expected to read

but true!

but is fetishizing race in that way racist? i think it is, because it hypostatizes racial difference and also objectifies people as sexual "types."

it's gross. enough for me.

fair enough. i think it's also racist though.

this thread had some discussion of that topic: Best Arguments for Miscegenation: The Biracial Hotties Thread

Just the thread title cracks me up a little.

Arguments Against: "I'm racist," "I have antiquated views on things," "Child will have more boxes to tick on survey forms"

Arguments in Favor: THEY'RE HOTTIES.

sexy blonde impregnated with superior black seed.

jesus.

yeah the profile picture of that page is kinda... troubling...

there's some weird, creepy racial cuckold fantasy stuff in the comments too

racist, but also a sex thing

racism: it makes some ppl horny

http://imgur.com/gallery/1IoM5AK

uhh

http://imgur.com/gallery/Qd95kbP

that link ^ was in the comments, no idea of its veracity

well one of those two links looks more like a shoop

Here's how I saw it this morning:

http://i.imgur.com/0MMzzLQ.gif

whatever happened to Summer Glau...

A friend of mine who teaches kindergarten in Texas recently attended a mandatory teaching seminar hosted by the school. After one of the workshops all the teachers were given complimentary dolls.

uhoh

Texas

http://products.lakeshorelearning.com/learning/Multicultural-Puppets

http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/media/images/logo.gif

I have to admit I was impressed to see "Ghanaian" and "Nigerian" puppets instead of "African"

low bar

Puppet play becomes a multicultural experience with this adorable Mexican girl! The plush puppet features an authentically detailed outfit…plus a movable mouth and arms that are easy for small hands to control.

http://angerbanjo.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/gobfranklin.jpg

When did GOB hook up with a Navajo?

http://i.imgur.com/AIyFBOz.jpg?1

Red Bull is responsible for that crap.

you in Vienna too, TWU?

Very nearby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxW1bI5H70I

BLACK POWER.
AFRO COFFEE eine Hymne an die Seele Afrikas.

Die Zeit ist reif für ein neues Bild von Afrika, das nichts mehr mit kitschiger Touristenfolklore und überkommenen Klischees zu tun hat. AFRO COFFEE hat es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, der Welt dieses Bild zu zeigen.

Yeah, they talk a nice game, but it's Didi Mateschitz and his marketing crew out of Salzburg. Really, really sleazy.

The coffee is not certified Fair Trade and they don't say where it's grown other than that it's certified organic. All smoke and mirrors using the sort of benevolent racist imagery that sophisticated Eurolefties love.

No more clichés about Africa *shows drawings of black ppl in 70s gear and Afros*