rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

I think I first heard the nacho/not-your thing on Seinfeld when Elaine said it. I didn't think of it as a dialect joke.

yeah I’ve never heard it framed as a dialect thing. it was always just a regular old pun.

There is a restaurant in Baltimore called Nacho Mamas. I had never heard the joke.

is the idiom (?) of ‘not wanting to be thrown in the briar patch’ racist?

how long has the circle/OK hand gesture been a white power thing? i had not heard of it before the kavanaugh hearings

It’s stupid as hell. I use that emoji when I wanna use it bc they don’t own it.

https://medium.com/s/story/does-the-ok-sign-actually-signify-white-power-or-what-6cf3309df985

the reason they do it is to make libs look like morons

I seem to recall an article months back arguing that point

To quote that article I linked to, re: Zina Bash:

Instead of acknowledging her *actual* politics—working for possibly the most overtly racist administration since Americans literally owned other Americans—leftists, liberals, and centrists got caught up in a circle jerk about whether a hand sign that members of the far right have been using to troll us since at least 2015 has any significance.

libs are perfectly capable of making themselves look like morons, stfu white power dipshits

Pareene had a great piece the other day about how the youths immediately recognize this shit for what it is because unlike respectable adult media they're not busy dousing everything in gallons of smarm. it's almost always very clear when people are doing shit like this to demonstrate solidarity with racists.

it sucks because there's also the age-old "circle game" which we did when we were kids and now you got conservative media screaming "oh now the circle game is RACIST?? I told you they were nuts!!"

^yeah

https://i.imgur.com/af7LWpb.jpg

I mean, it's a pacifier.

https://i.imgur.com/3FB3fA4.jpg

But...

http://www.startribune.com/iowa-home-with-confederate-nazi-displays-gets-vandalized/566243672/

Only person that's supposed to judge me is the Lord." Yeah, no, I can judge you too, and I judge you to be a racist moron.

Stark said he had already sold the painting of a flag with a swastika. He said he displayed it in his front yard because the buyer dared him to do it.

Art can be powerful, but we strongly disagree with the use of monkeys as images in the fight against racism and were surprised by the total lack of consultation. @SerieA_EN pic.twitter.com/M7wFjhsfj2

— AC Milan (@acmilan) December 17, 2019

Yet another facepalm moment of fighting racism in Italy.

I do not understand what is happening there as my first reaction to the picture was "is this a Planet of the Apes throwback" and not anything to do with fighting racism

The Italian football association thought it wise to use a monkey image in different kit colors to send out the message that they are against racism aimed at black players (which is rife in Italian football and way, way out of control recently, w/ bananas thrown on the pitch, monkey sounds chanted at players etc).

At my most lenient I understand it as an odd twist on the "doesn't matter if you're black or white or purple etc" argument. But using monkeys to send out the message you don't want black players to be compared to monkeys? Because monkeys can, apparently, be all colours? Idk man...

Okay, omglolwtfsob

every part of this story is upsetting

A Black Man Had The Cops Called On Him At A Bank While Trying To Deposit A Racial Discrimination Settlement Check https://t.co/E2hJ5erDMk via @juliareinstein

— julia reinstein 🚡 (@juliareinstein) January 23, 2020

I think we can safely say "yes, that is racist" here.

yeah i think i'm okay with that tbh

TCF sucks.

jesus fucking christ

"we could not verify that these checks were valid"
"o rly, then how come Chase was able to deposit them with no issues"
"... the employee working with him is black, that counts in our favor right"

I am over here literally affronted over the deployment of the "we have black employees" defense

I want to flood their email with pictures of Candace Owens

he literally got them on the phone with his attorney, with the police present, and the bank is like "Maybe that's not really your lawyer."

Good on him for closing his account

Also, and it feels odd to say this, but good on the police for not escalating this the way that the bank clearly wanted them to (I am assuming that since dude walked out with his checks, they didn't overly hassle him)

A lot of the Detroit area people I know use "Livonia" as shorthand for all the super-racist white flight suburbs as it borders Detroit but is 92% white. I've heard anecdotes about the city trying to enforce residency requirements to use city parks and that at some point the police used the code "NIL" to justify pulling over any black motorists.

"N***** In Livonia," I assume?

Indeed

I've heard anecdotes about the city trying to enforce residency requirements to use city parks

they do this in the Philly suburbs too

I want to flood their email with pictures of Candace Owens

cruel but fair

Extra shitty/inept that the bank spokesperson stated the amounts of the checks and I saw in another article they stated the amount he had in an existing account.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/us/ball-state-university-police-seat-change-trnd/index.html

When Sultan Benson, a senior at Ball State University in Indiana, arrived at his Marketing 310 class on Tuesday, his usual seat was taken. His professor, Shaheen Borna, suggested he move to an empty seat toward the back, which he did, Benson told CNN.

But about a half hour into the class, another student left and Borna asked Benson to move up. But Benson was already settled. He'd unpacked his stuff, and his laptop was already out and charging.

When Benson asked why he had to move, the situation escalated.

"Either move your seat or I call the police," Benson recalled Borna saying.

"Are you really about to call the police?" Benson said he asked at the time.

The answer was yes.

what the

Christ what an asshole

https://hyperallergic.com/541260/diversity-initiative-canceled

the advertising ploy, which reimagined literary figures from Peter Pan to Frankenstein’s monster as people of color...

Ok, you can just stop right there.

You knew it would be involved somehow

Collaborating with the advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day New York on the project, the two companies say they used an artificial intelligence (AI) program to “scour the pages of 100 classic literature books that portrayed white characters on the cover and revealed several books in which the protagonist’s race was never specified, only assumed.”

https://i.imgur.com/z5VprLK.jpg

lol, whoops

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/may/11/you-should-ask-china-trump-terminates-press-conference-after-clash-with-reporter-video

Donald Trump's press conference on coronavirus testing ended abruptly after a terse exchange with two female reporters. Asked by CBS's Weijia Jiang about his focus on international comparisons rather than US deaths, Trump snapped: 'Don’t ask me, ask China that question'. After being asked by Jiang, who is Asian-American, why he had directed the remark at her, Trump cut off the CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins as she asked a question and walked away from the podium

How can any of us truly know if the president has racism in his heart?

did we not update this last month when he accused Yamiche Alcindor of being "threatening"? because he was certainly racist then, as he is all the time, and I haven't even gotten into this new thing yet.

I watch the PBS NewsHour every night, and because it's the most boring, most level-headed news show on TV I rarely ever experience any sort of human emotion while watching it. But the night after that press briefing in the rose garden when he called Yamiche "threatening," when Judy Woodruff told her on-air that she's an excellent journalist and they're all really proud of her, and Yamiche took the compliment like a pro and was all "wow, thank you" and then kept going with her report and not showing signs of being choked up about it until about twenty seconds later when she pretty obviously started processing Judy's pretty sweet public acknowledgement of her professionalism and drive while being insulted by the fucking President, that a did a little thing to me. she's always kinda nervous and awkward in the way that any determined young reporter would/should be and I couldn't fucking believe it when Don went full-on asshole to her.

Yeah, he has racism in his heart. I can honestly say I have no doubt about it whatsoever.

Christ what a racist asshole