rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

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

it's complicated because he's a part of our group of six high school friends who still hang out and consider ourselves a "group" and everyone else in the group is at least annoyed with him but still consider him a part of the group, etc. and he emphasizes the racist stuff around me because he knows it gets to me. he's just one of those typical nerds who will not hear ANYTHING about how their actions are wrong. i don't really see him anymore and decided to ditch him completely after the blackface thing, but it's proven v difficult when my four other friends just go "eh what can you do, that's just how max is"

actually al shipley you might know him irl, he writes for the citypaper

I think a lot of groups of friends have the one asshole who keeps being included for some unknown reason. Wild card? Reminds me of the Trainspotting thing where they describe what a sociopath Begbie was, and then they're all like, "What are you going to do? He's a mate.."

my high school group had that, but then I moved to MA for college

And then he found you on ilx?

lol

i don't really see him anymore and decided to ditch him completely after the blackface thing, but it's proven v difficult when my four other friends just go "eh what can you do, that's just how max is"

new board description

actually al shipley you might know him irl, he writes for the citypaper

― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Sunday, January 8, 2012 4:09 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wait waht i need some hints or a code or something

zachlyon

his name is max, he started as an intern maybe two years ago and occasionally reviews movies

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!

One of the minor quirks of the original customersucks board (about 10 years ago) was the periodic complaints about, er, 'purple people'.

Dr. Sheb Wooley's been dilligently working on a cure for that for 53 years.

the thing that always bugged me is that the song clearly implied that the flying creature that ate people was itself the color purple.

yet Sheb throws a curveball when he mentions "eatin purple people and it sure is fine". so the people he eats are purple? dude musta been hella thin considering Prince and his minions were still decades away

so the punchline of the song bothers you?

what can you do

Important detail in the racist receipt story: “Some of the tweets I’ve gotten back are, ‘Why are you going to Papa John’s when you live in New York City?’” she said.

Also: he was insistent that they aren't offensive in england Even if this were true, how the hell would that make it OK to give one to you in the USA, where, by inference from his own statement, they are unquestionably offensive?

lol don't people realize that it's much less work to apologize than bend over backwards to weakly indicate you didn't do anything wrong...not to mention it's like, the RIGHT thing to do.

honest question:

Has anyone ever made a real apology that actually mattered in the TMZ age? I mean, I though KKKramer sincerely apologized and that dude aint getting any work any time soon.

that dude wasn't getting work before his outburst either. whereas mel gibson is doin alright.

mel gibsons apology was shit tho

there was one, but i forgot who

no one with powerful friends (lolroman polanski) ever has to sincerely apologize, they just have to wait

Elvis Costello.

his name is max, he started as an intern maybe two years ago and occasionally reviews movies

― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Sunday, January 8, 2012 11:18 PM

http://www2.citypaper.com/about/masthead.asp

never underestimate ILX's ability to blow up someone's spot

xp "research assistant" apparently

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

the only people I know who say this are a friend who was born in the US but lived in China from ages 2 - 7 and her lily-white best friend from college; usually they are saying it to each other about Lucy Liu

neither of them is particularly into hip-hop, aside from Ludacris

that dude wasn't getting work before his outburst either. whereas mel gibson is doin alright

uhh is he? his "comeback" movie barely grossed $1m and i'm not sure if any movie producer would touch him at this point. he couldn't even hold down a cameo on Hangover 2.

his "comeback" movie was about a dude who could only communicate with the world via a hand puppet, I'm surprised it grossed even that much

sesame st themes that didn no wait

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

the only people I know who say this are a friend who was born in the US but lived in China from ages 2 - 7 and her lily-white best friend from college; usually they are saying it to each other about Lucy Liu

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Monday, January 9, 2012 3:23 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

At my old job the (mostly black and/or latino) kids I worked with used it pretty frequently to describe themselves or one another if they had even slightly almond shaped or small eyes. Not that it means anything but I heard it used pretty often then.

I remember telling one of my girls that she probably shouldn't use that term when she was saying she hoped her baby got her eyes and she was like "Why not? It's a good thing - I love my chink eyes!" :/

yeah FYI Gibson's career is over (thankfully)

As much as I want that to be true, I doubt it. He'll never be as big as he once was, but he'll get more chances.

little mister sundance