not quite what I meant
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
Speaking of racial insensitivity, introducing the Bob Marley Snapchat filter!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/20/snapchat-and-kylie-jenner-in-hot-water-over-blackface-filter
― nickn, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
please tell me this is another ridiculous cash-in licensing deal with the marley estate
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
omg according to Snapchat, it is
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 19:35 (eight years ago) link
after seeing the recent offerings from the Marley Beverage Company at the store, I had no doubt
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 19:36 (eight years ago) link
Even ClickHole is getting in on the act:
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13055420_1703145313259061_1465614224259570121_n.jpg
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
Twenties are for buying drugs - please leave the nasty old white guy on them!
― Fake Sam's Club (I M Losted), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 20:00 (eight years ago) link
What, they should put her on the dollar coin so commuters can use them for underground railroad tokens?
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link
imo Franklin's portrait on the hundred looks most stoned
Jackson looks too sympathetic on the twenty, he was a harsh sumbitch
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
given the nationwide gouging of urban transit, we'd need to carry a bag of Tubman dollars pretty soon. xp
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
i am told jumping the turnstiles is the correct way to do it
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/722880185796849672
UPDATE: New $20 bill will keep an image of Andrew Jackson on the back, with Harriet Tubman on the front of the bill.
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/722886259488653312
Also, Alexander Hamilton will remain on the front of the $10 bill, with an image of women who marched for suffrage on to the back.
― goole, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
literally gotta hear both sides
sad lol
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 20 April 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
I guess this means they're taking the WTC off the $20 too.
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link
About time - I mean, that building's not even there anymore.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 23:47 (eight years ago) link
Well, I've got some news for you about General Jackson and Harriet Tubman.
― pplains, Thursday, 21 April 2016 00:45 (eight years ago) link
are you fucking kidding me
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 21 April 2016 01:17 (eight years ago) link
2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE84g6Dn1qM
― some men just want to watch the world Bern (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
http://www.wboc.com/story/31811636/racially-charged-cartoons-cause-stir-at-wesley-college
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/racists-cartoons-in-college-newspaper-spark-outrage-among-students_us_5720c649e4b0f309baef44c7
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChfqguoUUAA0HwM.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChfqgwLUkAQQEaM.jpg
― goole, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link
ok I feel bad about it but I am giggling
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link
The hoe cartoon is a super easy joke. The other cartoon is a full-on horror show and dude's quote explaining himself is a fucking nightmare.
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 16:09 (eight years ago) link
doesn't even seem to be a christian school. weird.
― (⌒_⌒)ノ (contenderizer), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
Bryheim Muse is an abysmal name for the ages
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
someone has taken up our most potent form of criticism:
https://www.boldomatic.com/shop/products/orLVDQ
― goole, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link
the absurdity and amazing bad quality of "I'm late for my abortion" cartoon is killing me
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
when people make political cartoons that pass the onion's fake political cartoons in absurdity
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:44 (eight years ago) link
in all caps and italics
― ulysses, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link
The "jokes" of those strips are offensive enough, but why someone published shitty artwork by someone who couldn't draw in the first place also gets a slot further down on the list.
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link
"But, it's like his opinion. And you knowhttp://thescript.thetake.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Big-Lebowski-White-Russian.jpeg
― Elvis Santana (stevie), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link
arts teacher gf sent me this tempest in a teapot
https://alternateroots.org/why-we-must-have-inclusion-diversity-and-equity-in-the-arts-a-response-to-the-national-association-for-music-education/
http://www.artsintegrity.org/controversy-over-equity-diversity-inclusion-in-arts-education-at-an-nea-convening/
― ulysses, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link
also "ALAANA" is a new one on me; is this in common use anywhere but in the ivory tower (no pun intended)? No ILX hits on search.
There is a growing conversation around the term ‘people of color,’ with some entities advocating for the use of ‘African, Arab and Native American (ALAANA),’ in addition to white, Asian and Latin@. Because the remarks in question herein speak of ‘black’ and ‘Latino,’ and attributed quotes include the term ‘minority,’ Arts Integrity has elected to utilize the broad term ‘people of color’ for the purpose of this essay and will be taking the new language under advisement for the future.
― ulysses, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link
How exactly is that a tempest in a teapot?
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 16:11 (eight years ago) link
it's apparently confined to one small niche (arts education politics) and not being picked up on by any big media that i've seen yet. this guy butera is obviously patently wrong if he's speaking/behaving as quoted but he is explicitly denying some of her statements and reportage as "misinterpretation". He has since been suspended pending investigation.
― ulysses, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
He has since been suspended pending investigation.
the end
― da vinci beaver testicles (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link
...wishful thinking i know
― da vinci beaver testicles (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
http://gawker.com/gunbroker-com-shuts-down-george-zimmermans-auction-1776314827
From the comments: "I’m a black man who’s lived most of my life in America, and this is just pretty much how it’s always been.
If you want to really get into it, I think it stems from guilt, shame, and the logical end of the “just world” fallacy.
The average white family is worth $134,000, while the average black family is worth $11,000. There’s a huge discrepancy there. It’s pretty easy to understand if you point at a system of institutionalized racism and say, “That system there is designed to keep black people down.” Easy answer so far.
But this is America. Land of the free. Bootstraps. Work hard and make something of yourself! So you run into a problem, because the idea of an institutionalized system that disempowers some people means that other people are getting privilege. Now you’re getting into the difficult part.
If America is a country where you can make yourself to be whatever you want to be, then people who are white and relatively well-off must be harder working, smarter people who make better decisions, right? But if there’s a system that routinely disempowers people of color, then is that person who’s white REALLY as smart and hardworking as they think they are?
Now you start getting into an existential crisis. A person who is white accepting a concept like “white privilege” means accepting that they got benefits to get them where they’re at, not that they did it all themselves. And that cuts to the core of their character, their self esteem, and everything they’ve worked for.
Look at Donald Trump. He got started because his dad gave him a “modest” loan of a million dollars. Obviously ANYBODY could do what he did, he just happened to be better at it than anyone else. Trump’s entire brand is based around the idea that he’s so awesome and did all this stuff himself because he’s so great, not because he was born privileged and rich.
Agreeing that institutionalized racism is real and that white privilege is real means saying to one’s self that they got benefits and privileges they didn’t earn, and that maybe they’re not as good and smart as they think they are. That’s a come-to-Jesus moment most people aren’t willing to face up to."
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
On point, from the comments: "I remain in complete awe that George Zimmerman is still alive. He should be in awe as well, and stupid shit like this suggests he sure isn’t."
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2016/05/17/steven-adams-oklahoma-city-thunder-golden-state-warriors-game-1/84477378/
The most amazing thing to me about all of this is the comment reaction of "he's from New Zealand, maybe he didn't know" which cements my belief that people really are willfully dim.
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link
that is honestly kinda what i thought it was, a silly gaffe
― Nhex, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 22:47 (eight years ago) link
Mr. Veg recently conveyed some interesting personal experiences with NZ racism, so yeah I'm not convinced by that excuse
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 22:53 (eight years ago) link
I think his own admission makes it clear in the article. Dan's point is about the commenters (why Dan is reading the comments I have no idea).
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 22:53 (eight years ago) link
Yeah no, Australians also use that "we dont know about your history" BS all the fucking time, no goddamn excuse in 2016.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 23:03 (eight years ago) link
I like when americans are like "well, they don't really have racism in Australia so they can't understand"
doubling down on not knowing anything about other people
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 23:05 (eight years ago) link
Oh I'm well aware there's shitloads of racism down under too
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 23:16 (eight years ago) link
We dont have racism? Geez do people think that? We have an underclass living in a literal 3rd world environment in this country.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 23:53 (eight years ago) link
Isn't there also a long and fairly recent history of Australian white supremacy politics oh hey look yes there is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 23:58 (eight years ago) link
I think we're all on board with the "Australia has racism" theory.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 00:09 (eight years ago) link
They didn't ship other human beings en masse to be used as slaves for three centuries, but you probably don't want to get into a conversation with some of them about boats either.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 00:11 (eight years ago) link
Our racism is surely different than in the US: its all about "we grew here, you flew here"/"go back where you came from" BS. And it is very ugly. Anyway I'm sure I'm preaching to le choir here on this.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 00:18 (eight years ago) link