rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

I would've all wrote "Hey, Obama! Figure a Socialist like you would be using Arm & Hammer!"

http://i.imgur.com/EbIjFTi.gif

I feel that was half-hearted but I will always root for Osama thumbs-up

my wife found some notes on a comedy sketch in progress (or is it an actual starbucks order???) on the ground by an apartment building up the street.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/photo4_zps89009bd6.jpg

hey guys i've got a comedy idea, the Warsaw 'ghetto'. its poland in 1942 and the jews of warsaw have been herded into appalling conditions in a tiny quarter of the city but instead of being starved and terrified they're all like 'thuglife, bee-yatch' lol

carmel machiado for me please

don't gimme Any a dat

Ralph Machiado

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/black-donor-sperm-mistakenly-sent-white-mom-jennifer-cramblett-suit-n215801

A friend-of-friend on facebook posted this. The outrage about being sent the wrong donor sperm is in the right, but making a case that it's extra damaging because now they have a black kid in a racist town is... uhh...

"I don't want her to ever feel like she's an outcast," Cramblett told NBC News.

Not all her friends and family members are racially sensitive.

Sorry, I can't babysit for my grandchild because she's black? jesus christ

Attorney: This Was Not Like Ordering Pizza

tbf she does need to move the fuck out of Racisttown, Ohio, but this angle in the lawsuit is going to do wonders for this kid's psyche some day

The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown
The child, Payton, is now 2 years old and already experiencing prejudice in Uniontown

towns that look like oniontowns but aren't

tbf, a being black kid born to a lesbian couple in that part of the country sounds like you're going to have a bad time of things

""Getting a young daughter's hair cut is not particularly stressful for most mothers, but to Jennifer it is not a routine matter, because Payton has hair typical of an African American girl," the suit says. "To get a decent cut, Jennifer must travel to a black neighborhood, far from where she lives..."

jfc

btw the answer to this thread's question is always, invariably, yes

I can't even begin to process this

Attorney: This Was Not Like Ordering Pizza

Oh come on, you can't post that and not this:

http://i.imgur.com/gA6pNsk.png

*contemplates "PLAY VIDEO" icon, thinks "I believe I will pass", calmly flings despondent self into oncoming traffic*

I've been through Uniontown many times, and if anything, I'm shocked to discover that there is an out lesbian couple living there. It's about 98-99% white and not lacking in Confederate flag stickers on bumpers. (Yes, Confederate flag stickers in Uniontown. I know.)

how on earth is the kid going to process this, from her own mother? that she's not good enough?

This should be linked to as well: http://jezebel.com/mom-suing-sperm-bank-over-biracial-baby-gives-on-camera-1641750642

In the segment from Fox 8 News in Cleveland, Cramblett stresses that she is taking legal action not because she doesn't love her biracial daughter Payton, but because of the gross neglect committed by Midwestern Sperm Bank.

"She just has a way about her that lights up the room," Cramblett says of Payton. "...I would... never imagine my life without her."

"I was just floored by the fact that [the insemination] was so easily messed up," she added.

I mean for better or worse the woman clearly has a malpractice case. And she doesn't appear to want her daughter to bear any of the brunt of this.

This woman absolutely has a case. It's just that pursuing this case seems destined to completely destroy her daughter, particularly when she reads all of this for herself.

Oh God, they gave me a Lutheran by mistake.

donor #294 lists Massachusetts as one of his hobbies

the lawsuit gives the impression that who she is is something to be ashamed and embarrassed about and tbh there could still be a lawsuit but why go all over the news with it?

I can sort of see suing them because they fucked up the order, but going through all of these "but I have to drive her to a different town for haircuts now!" whining is what's pushing this into the Y column.

"What will my neighbors think? Oh, they'll be so disgusted!"

Would she have sued if she had gotten the large-boned bartender who plays the drums? I know I would have.

More like suing because she got the Jack Black sperm, in that case.

I'd be lying if I said "bone size" on the sperm donor catalogt wasn't sending me into fits of giggles

the malpractice case makes sense. agreeing to do press to support the case seems fucking stupid.

"We didn't think we'd get enough money to move with a malpractice suit so forced their hand by spelling out how hard it is to have a black child"

i feel like the only person in the world who is maybe too dumb or too insensitive to understand the malpractice part of it. how are there "damages" due to getting sperm other than the sperm they asked for? but that's a different topic and the answer is yes this is racist but not the most racist thing.

The situation is analogous to someone being administered the wrong medicine. The difference is that complaining about the side-effects of someone giving you the wrong medication is understandable and relatable, while complaining about the side-effects of accidentally having a biracial child and making that the meat and potatoes of your malpractice lawsuit is racist.

in terms of malpractice getting the wrong sperm is pretty heinous - whether it's the wrong sperm (not your race) or the wrong sperm (not your husband's) is irrelevant. But if they're saying they should get more money because of race...yeah that's racist.

This is semi-complicated by them needing donor sperm, so one could argue that who the donor was wasn't as important as it would be for a heterosexual couple doing some fertility process, but one could also point out that that argument flies in the face of the expected practice around sperm donation and what the baseline expectations are when you walk in the door (ie, you will receive the sperm that you selected, not some random sperm that could be from anyone).

yeah i don't think marriage should define the "importance" of whether a woman has a right to know what sperm she's being impregnated with

or the importance of a medical practitioner getting it right

my point in bringing up that argument was to highlight how absurd and discriminatory it is, which does not excuse the absurd and discriminatory explanations given for the lawsuit

yeah i know we're on the same page

i am just not seeing how heinous it is. i mean if you had wanted one white person's sperm but were accidentally given another white person's sperm, and--importantly--you found out about it (in a way other than the child having some genetic defect, or it not being your husband's when you wanted your husband's), there would be a breach of the clinic's duty to give people what they asked for. but no damages. i do not practice in the area of medical malpractice and do not want to. also i'm going outside to contemplate this not on the internet.

Because by removing her agency in donor selection you're coercing her into an unwanted pregnancy, effectively.

I mean, if donor selection was no big deal, they would just dump all the sperm into a giant vat and hook you up to a spigot when it was time for implantation

that is a really horrifying image and I should delete it no no do not submit this fuck

yeah to be clear i'm not a fan of any "you owe us for the damages inherent in having a biracial child" talk, i just think any place that fucks up who gets what sperm should be sued and possibly shut down on that alone.

^^^