rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Moby
@thelittleidiot why does my <3 feel so sad?

i hate to be cap'n save a moby, but i've had lots of convos with dude and everything points to the fact that dude seriously likes rap music. i think he was just making a dumb joke about the subject matter and it came off wrong.

When I talk about white supremacy in this context, I am talking about the ability of white people to move further in virtually every sphere of US life due to their whiteness. Do you think it is a coincidence that Moby’s appearance on a recent cover of ‘Wired’ is set against an all-white background with only parts of his face peeking through the monochromatic cover? Why, in a recent issue of the UK magazine, ‘Muzik’, is Moby shown on the cover with a white T-shirt, on a white background, holding a wand that radiates bright white light? These are the representational practices that continually consolidate white supremacy.

One could make the claim that Moby just worked hard, produced a lot of tracks, refined his style, and moved beyond ‘dance music’ to create an entirely new genre. In other words, he was just good at what he did and his talent was recognized. That claim is without merit. Yes, he worked hard and actually made some good rave tracks for Instinct in the early ‘90s. He subsequently moved on and fashioned full-length albums which won him praise. ‘Play’ made the top ten on a number of critics’ year-end lists in 2001. Was this album ‘adventurous’, ‘ground-breaking’, or ‘innovative’? No. There are eighteen-year old artists in the projects of Houston’s 5th Ward who made ‘electronic’ records in the same year so profoundly experimental, their influence won’t be understood for years. (This is the phenomenon of ‘screwed & chopped’ music, which I’ve not the space to talk about yet).

Moby
@thelittleidiot thats when i reach for my revolver

guys, his comment can't be racist... whiney has met him!!!

You mean

@thelittleidiot that's when I tell her that it's over.

lol oh yeah sorry, good luck usa

I don't think he tells her that it's over when black people talk about MoMa

guys, his comment can't be racist... whiney has met him!!!

― ☝ (am0n), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

lol

i hate to be cap'n save a moby, but i've had lots of convos with dude and everything points to the fact that dude seriously likes rap music. i think he was just making a dumb joke about the subject matter and it came off wrong.

― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:37 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

for someone that loves rap music, he apparently has no idea what jay-z had rapped about since like 2003

he can't be racist… he likes rap music!

cap'n pitch-a-fit-over-every-lil-racist-thing-except-when-its-a-famous-musician-youve-had-"convos"-with

Also, growing up in a small town in the middle of cornfields I can definitively confrom that "liking rap music" and "being racist" are not mutually exclusive.

"confirm" damnit

a small town in the middle of confirm?

that routine's kind of losing its luster, al

"kind of"

i didn't realize it was a routine! i was just joking about the fact that my eyes played tricks on me when i saw jon's correction and then saw there were two words that started with "conf" in the previous post. sorry if you guys think i'm being overly jokey or obnoxious or something, i wasn't trying to be mean or snarky, just off the cuff and silly.

I didn't think it was snarky or mean, just "kind of" a played out meme on ilx in general.

Anyway, lets focus on the important issue at hand - racist, vegan electronic musicians.

Then you got the Beastie Boys rapping about Boggle. I guess all the frat guys are into puzzle games now? LOL.

what meme was that? sorry idgi

http://www.moby.com/journal/2000-10-16/racism.html

racism.html

http://www.moby.com/sites/all/themes/destroyed/images/mobydotcom-header.jpg

people who have had convos with moby about rap music

Thats a lot of white people, suspect.

I don't know. I think I spot a Malaysian piano in the middle somewhere.

Chris Rock says he's not a racist, so I trust him. Dude knows a lot about racism.

i highly doubt that moby is a racist. but he did say some at least quasi-racist shit in those two tweets.

well the second one is less racist and more "i have no clue about rap music"

eat my ass, am0n

would am0n be able to say he's a "convo" with you after this exchange

WE GOT A GREAT BIG CONVO ROCKIN THROUGH THE NIGHT

though asking Chris Rock "am I racist?" gives me the same feeling as Eminem dueting with Elton John to quell all the "homophobic" talk

my dad told me off cos when i was 7 i thought the chorus was "We're gonna drive this fuckin convoy/Cross the USA"

though asking Chris Rock "am I racist?" gives me the same feeling as frogbs IMing calum to quell all the "troll" talk

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dave cool getting pretty butthurt itt

fyi, all i was trying to say is that moby was like making sure Nikki D was getting work in 1999 and going out of his way to work with Public Enemy in the '00s, and writes mad royalty checks to Spoonie G, and I'm guessing his relationship with rap music is a little deeper than "LOL BLACK PPL TALKIN BOUT THE HOOD"

but please keep trying to suzy me, am0n

i thought moby was black

you're thinking of rog from what's happening

i don't think you have to be a card-carrying racist to make the occasional clumsy unfunny racially stereotyped tweet

... but it doesn't hurt!

(sorry)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2spnSLkYUoQ/SSbaXEb17QI/AAAAAAAAAY0/FDwi1jG0LSg/s400/colonel_klink.jpg

Dan i'd already thought of that punchline then i forgot to do it

http://www.rockshirtplaza.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/524.jpg

the moby symbol is actually a broken swastika

but please keep trying to suzy me, am0n

― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (http://www.commentspamcomedy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/clown-sad.jpg), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 5:37 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPNceNV5bh8

moby: "i don't care if you're black, white, green, blue man group.."