rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

I did follow the link but only looked at the images

http://i.imgur.com/IxQD1kp.gif

http://www.eonline.com/news/683013/kelly-osbourne-to-donald-trump-if-you-kick-all-latinos-out-of-america-who-is-going-to-clean-your-toilets

makes u think

i mean, it doesn't seem exactly racist to point out that, in America, latinos aren't always offered especially fair employment opportunities, and they're often hired to do less glamorous jobs for people like Donald Trump?

people are treating this like Kelly Osbourne said that the only things Latinos can do are clean her toilets and buy her records

"i get what she meant" etc etc but c'mon, it's an insensitive and foolish thing to say when you're debating the issues on television
"in America, latinos aren't always offered especially fair employment opportunities, and they're often hired to do less glamorous jobs for people like Donald Trump" is obvs different from "but who will clean your toilets"

uh immigrants from countries not full of rapists, obviously, duh

I could be... Trump

I was planning on giving the toilet cleaning job at my estate to the person who flosses my teeth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpx0USkDGWE

this didn't have to go here but

https://medium.com/@b4e2015/racists-probably-started-a-white-student-union-at-your-school-they-re-all-fake-5d1983a0b229#.sae7lbczm

students

Had to look a few times at the last few letters of that link

http://sfist.com/2015/12/17/stanley_roberts_again_calls_out_asi.php

the selling the food angle is pretty shitty

dunno why their ethnicity needs to be mentioned at all tho

someone from Glide posted in the comments:

I'm a Glide member and have participated at the grocery bag giveaway...

This is something we're aware happens and, essentially, we turn the other eye intentionally because...

1) We ensure that everyone that comes on time (and many that come late) get groceries
2) This happens but its small number of people, relative to the thousands that are helped
3) Many elderly Asian households in SF are well below the poverty line and depend on food and financial assistance
4) The line takes a significant amount of time to get through; if they are desperate enough to wind through it multiple times for the small amount of money they will make selling them piecemeal on the street. Well, we've provided help to them too

In the end, its a small thing that we don't really see as an issue at all. No we are not going to stamp peoples hands and shame those that come back. Its a pitty that for many here, the faint whiff of injustice (and really, beating on the poor for doing what they can to get by?) creates this animosity towards the poor in general.

For fucks sake, we helped 6,000 to have a chance to have a holiday meal. Focusing on that.

the headline is specifically about "Asian" sellers, the article mentions that "most" are Asian...gross imo

yeah that's p fucked up

if Glide's okay w it then I don't care, really. I've volunteered there before, they are a great institution.

massive respect for the Glide member in the comments.

That entire story is disgusting.

(To be clear, I am not talking about the people selling food.)

Ugggh the racist posts in that thread are basically how my school's entire community talks about Asian immigrants. Somehow the Russians, Ukranians, etc etc white Christian immigrants aren't "lowering property values" but Chinese-Americans are. It's a really toxic stew around here.

A large department store-type property remains vacant for many years, until finally the Salvation Army rents it out. Now no businesses will occupy any of the other storefronts on that block or across from it because no one wants to be associated with people who shop at the Salvation Army (apparently not just suburban highschoolers and theater majors) or have them as customers. Churches with food pantries help only to their own congregation or those known to their congregations--they don't put signs up in public or seek to serve the general public. I walk into the school office and three people who work with children every day are complaining about Chinese immigrants, right in front of me, like it's perfectly normal. Eventually I'm going to need a way to wash my brain besides soaking it in wine.

Have you considered making up business cards that say "shut the fuck up" and handing them out to these people?

I have to work with these people.

Working here is like being a spy behind enemy lines basically. One wrong word and I'm kaput (or at least will have several months' worth of relationship repair work to do, as has already happened).

Have you considered drafting an anonymous friend to shadow these people and hand them "shut the fuck up" business cards?

I am interested and would like to subscribe to this newsletter.

Gotta be some way to leverage that in the gig economy.

Shut The Fuck App

omg let's workshop this

"shaming these ladies, who are mostly of Asian descent," -- ah the classic "racial ascription subclause," now a unique grammatical feature of the english language.

(can't find the ", who is black" thread for some reason)

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-park-nazis-20160401-story.html

Is this anti-semitism?

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/04/20/nobody-at-snapchat-thought-using-a-blackface-bob-marley-filter-for-420-was-a-bad-idea/

Rolling 2016 Thread on Race

ps: yes, it is IMO racist

you could write a pretty crazy book about all of the legal and commercial things that have gone on with the marley estate

Boris Johnson, a cunt

ah yes, the inheritable distaste for the UK

Johnson, Goldsmith and Cameron all going racist in the run up to the mayoral elections and EU referendum

going

Sir Lynton Keith Crosby, AO (born 23 August 1956)[1][2] is an Australian political strategist who has managed election campaigns for right-of-centre parties in several countries.[3] Crosby has been described as a "master of the dark political arts", "the Wizard of Oz", and "the Australian Karl Rove". In 2002, he was called "one of the most powerful and influential figures in the nation" by The Age.

well, yes, of course (xp)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HoON0hvFCw

priceless reaction

belongs on the "rolling 'this is racist' thread" but anyway

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/watch-former-trump-apprentice-stars-cringeworthy-and-racist-i-want-to-be-neenja-video/

I tapped out during the second full-vocal-yellowface verse, this is horrific

not even gonna

https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/nWxurwDF2tFnXLqt8OIj8FDBij0=/0x29:497x309/1310x737/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/50144221/CnpBb8SUsAA772m.jpg

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