rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Yeah that's becoming standard practice these days for open access journals

Should also add that paying to make your paper open access is also a common option for high impact journals.

Weird business model...

Scientists want their work to be widely available. Publishers want $$$$$ for the doubtless valuable service they provide. Paid-for open access does make a kind of sense if you buy into the idea that commercial academic publishers should exist in the first place.

http://www.suntimes.com/23168076-418/chicago-man-to-harvard-pay-me-more-for-rare-documents-or-ill-burn-them.html

i feel like if he had gone public with his statement about harvard's insulting offer and wanting his kids to go to college with the money, that that would have been powerful enough to shame them into increasing the offer without the threat of destroying the documents. harvard's offer does seem pathetic.

http://blackinasia.tumblr.com/post/64363259939/one-of-my-followers-asked-me-to-post-this-on-their

Good lord, her post in defense of her Africa-themed party has this gem "If anything this was to celebrate the amazing country and people."

Had no idea the Klan had made it to Africa.

that's a ghost costume

I do like her little "how could I, I never" apology in the face of the picture of the Klan costume with a dude who was in the picture commenting underneath it "only a little racist, lol"; like, try a little harder ffs

I can't even

i want to go teach english in the beautiful country of africa

bullseye

Jesus Christ. That's..... next level

The Pan-African dream lives!

http://covers.openlibrary.org/w/id/6824041-M.jpg

Shopping while black: http://nypost.com/2013/10/22/barneys-busted-student-for-being-black-suit/

Good on him for telling the store to shove their merchandise afterwards.

Why would he keep it?

another article on it: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/barneys-accused-stealing-black-teen-article-1.1493101

If the cashier claimed it was a fake credit card, the only conclusions I reach are that they're either hella incompetent or racist, or most likely both. I've seen fake credit cards w/ a legit card number on them, during the brief year I worked in retail - most of them that a 19-year old would use are very crude and easy to spot, especially on the back. And I'm fairly sure they see no shortage of Chase cards in that place, to know what they're supposed to look like. Plus, couldn't the cashier have run the same check that the cops did? Since Trayon was there, I'm fairly sure all he'd have had to do was give permission to verify the account.

dude's only crime is being a Juelz Santana fan, but nobody should go to jail for that! fuck Barneys.

also typically fake credit cards often can't be scanned, they often rely on the cashier having to enter the credit card number manually.

he'd keep it because it is a cool belt, right

hell no

he would return it and buy it from someplace that wouldn't profile him

I can't think of any black person I know who wouldn't return the belt, because all of them understand that stores operate off of profits and oftentimes commissions and none of them would want that clerk to get any type of compensation for being a racist

stores operate off of profits and oftentimes commissions

That's the part I don't get. The biggest racists in the world will happily take someone's money and stfu so they'll come back. Staff of Barney's must've been really bored, rich and racist that day.

Yeah, I didn't think that through. No reason for him to keep it and reward a company that profiled him.

IMO he should sue for whatever amount he's suing for plus an entire outfit of his choice

Stopping him a block away seems really abnormal. Walmart won't even come after you if you've made it out to the parking lot. (IF YOU'RE A THIEF IN THE FIRST PLACE.)

yeah, I was being ridiculous, fuck em

didnt a guy get killed by a walmart staffer chasing him into the parking lot?

I think that's why they won't chase you anymore.

surprised that they changed the policy tbh

"i mean....we stopped the shoplifter, didn't we?!"

Walmart acknowledging that the crap it sells worth much, much less than civil suits and bad publicity.

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/244010/28/Walmart-employees-fired-after-stopping-robbery

not the same incident, but you get the idea

[i was jk]

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7150380032/h4849CA54/

idgi

guy is going to sue wal-mart and be a zillionaire, duh

Huh. Incomes at the lower end so meagre now they have to decriminalise shoplifting to stop people dying in inconveniently large numbers

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adult-Golly-Fancy-Dress-Costume/dp/B00DM2O4K0/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

Hmm I wonder

there's a thread dedicated to talking about actually racist things fyi

but i'm not sure what else there is to do besides say 'yep, that's absolutely racist,' shake your damn head, and move on

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115437/halloween-2013-poll-racist-costumes

43% of Americans say Halloween blackface is just fine

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I just want to know who these 21% of black people who are cool with blackface are, so I can slap them personally.

lmao at the political party breakdown

glad to see white people aren't feeling too inconvenienced by blackface, their signoff was of utmost importance

haha otm thank GOD white republicans have weighed in

should i tell my dad to stop saying "coon" to refer to raccoons y/n