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is anti-semitism racist or not, because this guy at the bar I frequent is convinced that Birth Of A Nation was produced by Jews & that the Jews control the media etc etc

I know it sucks either way just wanted 2 know ur opinions

Of course anti-semitism is racism. It's just that racism against Jews has acquired a term of its own, probably because discriminating them has been so prominent historically.

Where it gets tricky is when anti-Israel or anti-Zionist statements are equated with anti-semitism; of course some anti-Israel/anti-Zionist people are also anti-semitists/racists, but many of them aren't. But your case is pretty obviously racist because the target is Jews as a whole, not Israeli politics or anything.

are the finns a race?

Ca. 300 Finnish Jews fought in the War alongside the German Army[3][4]. The field synagogue operated by the Finnish army was probably a unique phenomenon in Europe.

Guess they didn't have Google then either.

take it to i love footy

― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3),

jesus way to zing an entire bord of innocents wtf

Subtle "Americans don't like soocer and aren't racist" undertones there

yeah really i'm getting some prety bad vibes offa this zorn character. bet he's norwegian/icelandic thor worshipper

zorn smash

is this chorus racist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4s6H4ku6ZY&ob=av3n

?

http://dasracist.net/

idk singing about sippin syrup like three 6 and getting "slizzered"

it's a bit 3oh3 minstrel

i can def see that

Man, if it's wrong to make fun of people who drink cough syrup to get high, I don't wanna get high.

How does all the lol ghetto retard stuff on lamebook.com fit into this thread? Not sure if I'd rather it be real or fake.

i think a bunch of well-off white people looking at it on their MacBook Pros and laughing at it through a mouthful of Whole Foods salad bar is pretty racist

glad I'm broke, on a dell, and had chili for lunch then.

black people eat Whole Foods salad bar, too

so like, on a pitchfork scale of 0.0 to 10.0, where 10.0 is a lynching, and 0.0 is Martin Luther King Jr. enjoying a cup of coffee while making breakfast, in his pajamas, humming a soft song to himself, where would the MacBook Pro thing fall? where does this comment fall?

I think this thread, while started with the noblest of intentions, has been a failure. And the reason I believe it has failed is that we (as a society) are so resigned to simply declaring something racist or not, as if it's binary, instead of attempting to quantify exactly how racist something really is, using numerical scales.

that scene from Louie where the school bus breaks down in Harlem and he reassigns the black kids the window seats: greater than 1.2?

*folds hands, rests elbows on desk, places chin on fingertips, looks up and slightly to the left, thinks*

i think you've anticipated an exciting new direction for Pitchfork Reviews Reviews

God, this fucking thread. Is this racist? Is it? Well? I need something to be outraged about, fuckin' tell me!!! Ugh.

i dont think anyone is really all that outraged tbh

Was Dr. King's morning coffee fair trade or unregulated?

Exactly, this thread isn't about being outraged at these things, it's about discussing them, and learning from them, and analyzing peoples motivations, gaining valuable insight into contemporary race relations, and proposing solutions for a more equitable society. Which is why it is essentially ineffectual, and why we should focus on merely assigning submitted material a score.

we can't be sure, can we, so let's kick it up to 0.8

xp that is not for me, as a MacBook Pro owner, to say

jk i don't really own one of those racist fuckin computers ;p

venti frap all over the keyboard

black people eat Whole Foods salad bar, too

― sarahel, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 3:19 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

white people live in "ghetto"s too, but hilarious that you missed my point so wildly

http://i55.tinypic.com/20ur8gm.png

― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:41 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

3.9 imo, though it depends what you were eating when you posted it

meth is a white trash drug last time I checked, but ok?

stop being rooster racists

So it's only OK to laugh at Mexicans when they do white trash drugs?

I'm more laughing at the rooster, honestly

you better be

also, mods plz delete jpg from thread, there's a reason thats on 77

in case l0rena googles "20ur8gm.png"

OMG GOOGLE FOR http://i55.tinypic.com/20ur8gm.png AND FIND LORENA

ahahaha

Your search - 20ur8gm.png - did not match any documents.

when ppl talk abt "traditional african culture"

I'm reading a column in a COLLEGE NEWSPAPER about Obama "getting his grove back"

This is kinda racist right?

GROOVE*********

That one is questionable. I doubt intentionally racist, but certainly guilty of trying and failing to be "witty".

bohemian groove

orange grove- racist, sectarian

Ok actually this was based off a bill Clinton quote

I bet this chick is still kinda racist, but my apologies

Clinton can't be racist because he was the first black president.

Oh there are definitely Black people in that bubble, usually they are powerfully/famous enough to believe they are The Special One that gets a pass

At any rate I was less reacting to whether it’s a good idea to post this type of thing to this thread and more to the macro point that this stuff is dismissible as crank fringe nonsense/trolling. It’s very much mainstream life and has been for longer than any of us wants to admit.

>> Twitter may be a “Nazi app” but it’s one just about every member of the US govt uses.

What do you mean “but”? I think you mean “so”.

xxpost Yeah, Kanye spread the George Floyd fentanyl story.

xpost That's why AOC and Mamdani are on there, sure.

I mean, my OG post is less about specific racist content and more about my general fatigue at seeing constant racist content on Twitter, none of it lining up with how I see the world, and wondering just how many people believe in this shit and if its on the rise

― EsBeeKid (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, May 28, 2026 12:39 PM (yesterday)

30% of america, and yes, it's on the rise, particularly as people who have no patience for racism continue to walk away from outlets that promote racism

agree with DJP that it's important to talk about this sort of thing. i think it's also important _how_ we talk about it? "whiney why are you still on twitter" is a reasonable response, on a personal level, and _what_ whiney is talking about is worthy of acknowledging.

xpost That's why AOC and Mamdani are on there, sure.

― The Quaker Gurvitz Army (President Keyes), Thursday, May 28, 2026 1:48 PM (yesterday)

they're prominent elected politicians living in a political system dominated and run by fascists. leftist politics is a process of constant negotiation with a racist, oppressive system. in the case of both AOC and Mamdani they have chosen to work within the american political system (a decision i strongly support), which in turn _strongly suggests_ certain compromises.

They use it as a means of communication to supporters (a lot of whom never jumped to BS), dissemination of info to reporters (who are largely still on twitter) and trolling of Republicans (who are all there.) The ilx claims of "Nazi app" are ahistorical to a lot of the ways it has been used even after Elon bought it.

But ilx is a smug place.

New board description

ILX is a snug place

twitter is not just a nazi app
there is also cope