rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

god this isn't that hard, there is a (usually p obvious) difference between liking/appreciating/being a fan of someone and using their image for ironic lols in a way that is racialized or playing off stereotypes

i don't see an image there, the guy's name is just "Pepper LaBeija". not sure where the ironic lols are coming from. it is because he is not, in fact, Pepper LaBeija?

Because the name implies it's a black man who dresses as a woman and it's actually a white man who dresses as a man?

I mean, unless you're using some new definition, that is textbook irony

well, my twitter handle implies that I'm an owl (actually, I'm human)

IMO people who name themselves after a celebrity don't really imply anything but them being a fan of that celebrity

also it's not clear to me you tried at all to understand the specificity of elmo's observation; it's not really transportable to kobe bryant.

is there any way I can explain this that won't have people jumping down my throat?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/08/28/frog1.jpg

xpost: no, but please keep trying :-)

think there's a frog in yr throat

I see a CRUCIFIED FROG and I'm like "why a cup? why an egg?"

yo, what are the implications of having a varg vikernes avatar? that's cool rite?

― Mordy, Friday, January 6, 2012 10:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok obv nobody else is gonna say it

no

no, that's not cool mordy

i'm sorry

― carpy deems (darraghmac), Saturday, January 7, 2012 1:57 AM (14 hours ago)

not even the shopped pic of varg with the cat?

ironic fetishization of an unrepentant racist is one of hipsterdom and ILX's lowest moments

^^^^^^^^

and liverpool's

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/054/743/2987957120110724-22047-8avbwa.jpg

ironic fetishization of an unrepentant racist is one of hipsterdom and ILX's lowest moments

― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, January 7, 2012 4:20 PM (2 hours ago)

How do you know the cat is racist?

the fact that ilx'ers keep getting trolled by varg references blows my mind

sandy varginas

Taken last week in a seaside town in England:

http://i41.tinypic.com/2q2k5qa.jpg

'LOVELY GOLLIES'

holy shit

genuinely thought labour had incinerated the last of those

they were emancipated by act of parliament last year, and now are free to settle in seaside giftshops throughout england

There's still a hardcore of golly-fanciers out there. Not sure there's a a middle ground between owning none and owning fifty. They generally seem to be confused, but not particularly vindictive, people of pensionable age who can't see what all the fuss is about.

lol tories

that was an xpost but i mean

They were on jam jars less than ten years ago, iirc. I've no idea how that went on for so long.

There's still a hardcore of golly-fanciers out there. Not sure there's a a middle ground between owning none and owning fifty. They generally seem to be confused, but not particularly vindictive, people of pensionable age who can't see what all the fuss is about.

― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Saturday, January 7, 2012 7:48 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

My parents used to be friends with a couple like this. Several rooms in their house were entirely decked out in golly art - painting, statues, dolls etc. They obv were the type of people you're describing but the one time I was in their house it really freaked me out. My mom warned me beforehand but it was still pretty jarring and very O_O to me.

lyons tea still had animated minstrel tv ads until maybe mid 2000's

hoooooly fuck i just remembered that my friend that i do not like got me one of those for christmas a few years ago because he was insistent that they aren't offensive in england (he took a semester abroad) and they were relevant in some comic book or something. this is the same friend who did blackface for halloween. fuck.

they were relevant in some comic book or something

That would be League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier.

also available in braille

xp yeah that was it

your friend sounds like a horrible, horrible person. who comes to this country and what they get out of it when they go back to the states is 'golliwogs aren't offensive there'

ugh

tbf ur country is, by that token, a horrible horrible country

I don't rly believe that tbf

lol no wait misread you nm

tbf england is a horrible, horrible country

ya but i didn't want to have to be the one to say it

They generally seem to be confused, but not particularly vindictive, people of pensionable age who can't see what all the fuss is about.

Yeah that basically describes my grandma who used to collect golly pins from Robinsons jam, she's got loads of them.

kirsty should have made up a golliwog as one of her WI craft fair entries imo

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/papa-john-customer-pizza-joint-called-a-chink-article-1.1002304

I thought I remembered a similar story but couldn't quite recall, so googled "racist receipt" and hey! It looks like this is a charming common practice among cashiers!

he was insistent that they aren't offensive in england

No, they are.

this is the same friend who did blackface for halloween

Why the fuck is this person your friend? I mean, even in a 'friend I don't like' capacity?

Cracking up so hard at "my friend I do not like"

He added that the employee responsible for the receipt was a teen — who he believed was misguided by “hip hop culture.”

...and possibly violent video games.

and Rob Schneider movies

Oh my god that receipt story

I am horrified and cracking up at the same time

PP, what video game uses that kind of language?

I dunno. I just thought it was funny dude was blaming hip-hop.

I mean, to be fair, I've heard the phrase "chinky eyes" dozens upon dozens of times in my life and approximately 100% of these occurrances were rap songs

well everything's okay then

PP, what video game uses that kind of language?

http://gta.wikia.com/Chink