rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFytHoXdG3E

not your father's long duk dong

CNN is stirring controversy with an article that calls the upcoming NBA All-Star Game "Black Thanksgiving."

The article, by longtime NBA analyst David Aldridge, calls All Star Weekend a "national holiday" for African Americans, and quotes USC professor Todd Boyd as saying that "the NBA All-Star weekend has turned into a celebration of African American culture by extension."

The article also ran in the middle of the front page of CNN's home page (scroll down for a screenshot).

But some of the hundreds of commenters who flooded the story were not happy. "Shame on you CNN for perpetuating the racism in America...and for what, to get readers? Are you that desperate?" commenter yippidy wrote.

"You managed to include every Black stereotype known to the Western world in this article," rockhanna said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/18/cnn-black-thanksgiving-nb_n_825335.html#s242844&title=Courtney_Browne

i get the impression it's not a big deal to make fun of indians (like ppl from india) in the us right?

yeah its totally ok

we make fun of them all the time

http://tvtastic.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/outsourced_nbc_tv_show_logo.jpg?w=569&h=320

(t&b again)

teal and orange. I can't do abbrevs in my head anymore.

Eh? Outsourced was a pretty good and thoughtful comedy about cultural differences, and it didn't really make fun of Indians at all.

Outsourced is now a terrible sitcom on American tv

Oh, I didn't know that. That poster is from the movie, though.

no, it's not.

Hmm, I guess you're right... The main guy and girl look pretty similar to the actors who played them in the movie, that's what fooled me.

That's racist.

Haha!

Tried so hard to persevere with that show. So very hard.

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

competition for the kings of leon in the racial naivete stakes

last night's episode of Outsourced was all kinds of ugh

I really don't know why I watch it

why don't u outsource your terrible tv viewing to some indian people with parody apu accents and quirky yet loveable ethnic traits who can phone u and give u the episode synopses for tomorrow's office chit chat?

so straight up, are you Dom or just doing a great impersonation of him

Outsourced is now a terrible sitcom

hmmn it's true i have been doing a lot of business class passantinoisms recently

Even worse than that, it's not even a sitcom. It's one of those comedies resembling a poorly produced reality show.

No it isn't!

i'm thinking that in the absence of the ayatollah weingarten, we can reorient the kulturkampf back towards the old world, adding a distinct flavour of english cultural pessimism to ilx' trademark brand of bitter sniping and relentless negativism towards mnstrm media outlets

Snarkhchivan

http://scglondon.com/scg_images/text_brand_synergy3.gif

i'm thinking that in the absence of the ayatollah weingarten, we can reorient the kulturkampf back towards the old world, adding a distinct flavour of english cultural pessimism to ilx' trademark brand of bitter sniping and relentless negativism towards mnstrm media outlets

i think you need to get some kind of a hobby

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4289529461_c19decfd28.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg3tIERI-D4

i guess the real question is, does anyone think this is not racist?

she looks racist to me

"i'll be deep into my studying... getting it all down... when all of a sudden I'm about to reach an epiphany..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NevytosR4XA

actually this probably belongs on the "yes this is racist" thread

also lol @ the azns in the library vid

"all of a sudden, when I'm about to have an epiphany..."

LIBRARY AZN is a trending pejorative in the 2k10s

i laughed at that azns asleep in libraries tumblr thing once

dayo if that youtube gal met u irl and said EUGH, U R SUCH A LIBRARY AZN (via you liking libraries, iirc)

how would u respond?

I would probably say "CHING CHONG CHANG CHOW" and wag my finger at her

actually htat would probably be pretty racist of me :/ idk maybe I'd ask her out on a date, to the library, we could sit by the microfiche section

http://asianssleepinginthelibrary.tumblr.com/

its so sweet how shes all 'aaanyway thank you for listening and have a nice day' at the end

we held hands in the TR-TZ oversized section

my biggest problem with college libraries is that they become these pools of self-flagellators, like it becomes a contest to see who can stay there the longest, and "I've been in the library for the past 2 weeks" becomes this sort of badge of pride, it's rly gross

i was never one of those ppl but i would always advocate to my friends that there should be some credit system for going to the library so that when finals came around you got preferential treatment over ppl that obv only came for finals and were rude ppl that didn't know how to exist politely in a library

do people go to the library just cause its a good quite place to work or are they actually looking at books

they go to meet asian girls

it's like 50-50 right now but will probably be 90-10 within the next decade

i got books like maybe five times in four years and that was only because something i was working on required an actual book source

but so much stuff is just archived on databases now esp if you're in a liberal arts/classic field

dont they know they can just call asian girls on their phones xp

college libraries are not even that good of a place to study unless you go into one of the attic cages and seclude yourself -- otherwise you could distract yourself for hours just by running into ppl you know and/or people watching

i think most ppl go to just to be like "i got out of the house, which is something that humans do"