rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

^ not loading for me?

Sorry here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2016/07/19/black-olives-matter-billboard-sparks-outrage-and-pizza-sales/?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-in-the-news%3Apage%2Fin-the-news

not racist, arguably tone-deaf

I think it's like +1 for creativity, -1,000 for taste and timing and tone-deafness.

Mmm, I'm gonna go with racist. I have a hard time believing someone was both aware enough of the phrase to consider using an altered version of it in their advertising and totally unaware of how it was likely to be perceived. I just don't think they expected it to become a national news story.

Of course it's racist - or at least insensitive to race. If that crossed my desk at a firm I would veto it.

I would say bad taste evincing what is likely underlying racism, if we can split it that finely. A pun on the name isn't *necessarily* racist but the kind of person who would think it was a good idea to use that slogan either (1) doesn't take BLM seriously, because they are racist or (2) is just kind of apathetic and doesn't treat anything with appropriate seriousness.

"they" = person(s) who came up with the ad, tbc

broccoli isn't really all that anyway

they're not even real black olives, they're just crappy green olives covered in iron to make them look better.

^ topping truther

once this person noticed the pun, they might not have had a choice in the matter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witzelsucht

Thoughts? http://noisey.vice.com/en_au/read/the-frontman-for-gorilla-biscuits-said-something-dumb-about-all-lives-matter-and-a-lot-of-punks-are-pissed-off?utm_source=noiseyfbenglish

my gut is that he worded it very poorly, but in context he seemed to be saying "it is sad that the current state of affairs requires individuals to wear BLM t-shirts to remind us that they matter, because everybody of every race matters. don't let the media tell you that any one group doesn't matter".

I can see why it was interpreted the other way given the clumsy construction of the message but while intent often doesn't matter as much as message, I think Civ probably agreed with BLM at the core.

maybe not racist in itself but a thing that right wingers like to say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81dhho3JuK4

every punk should know NO LIVES MATTER

http://s205501534.onlinehome.fr/IMAGES%20EBAY/RASTA%20HIPPIE%20LOVE%20AND%20PEACE/motif%20no%20future.jpg

Blank lives mutter

one of the librarians at our local library sent us home w/ a skippyjon jones book, the fuck is this?? it occured to later that those books were discussed itt a while back and this (mostly otm) post was linked https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/05/05/speaking-mexican-and-the-use-of-mock-spanish-in-childrens-books-or-do-not-read-skippyjon-jones/

mucho fun

Yeah, even wth *tera's assurances upthread, I've never liked reading them. We have quite a few from when my son went on a chihuahua kick at age 5 though. I try to avoid dragging them out for our younger kid if I can help it.

"We're going to make our country safe again. We're going to rebuild our inner cities because our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they've ever been in before. Ever, ever, ever."

what a dickhead!

Trump perhaps?

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-african-americans-cities-228439

bingo. is it more or less racist than his son and his skittles, i wonder

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/trump-son-compares-syrian-refugees-skittles-160920133852094.html

http://io9.gizmodo.com/disney-pulls-offensive-moana-costume-off-the-shelves-1786938696

http://i.imgur.com/pb9JUUi.png

trying to read up on opinions on this only brings up the EEOC complaint and right-wing OUTRAGE in reaction. is the flag synonymous with tea partiers and their more recent incarnations? is it a confederate flag cipher?

i don't think it is necessarily racist, it has origins in the american revolution, and has been appropriated by tea partiers in recent years but i don't think it has been wholly co-opted

it has origins in the american revolution

Possible challop: I don't know how true this is but I have heard theories that the American Revolution was at least partially spurred on by the British making moves towards abolishing slavery, so I'm not sure if this flag originating in the American Revolution makes it not racist.