rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

or, perhaps using contenderizer's 'sense and compassion' model, i'd acknowledge that you can and maybe should take offence at anything you consider suitable, but maybe pick your battles?

The word 'Spaz': classic or dud?

Thank you darragh, thats kind of what I was getting at. Pick yr battles indeed. I mean, yes, oppresive abuse sholdnt be tolerated, but come on.

darraghmac, i'm not sure if you're talking directly to me, but i actually don't really have strong feelings either way on "dumb," i was just sharing POVs i've encountered about it. i don't really use it anyway, and i've sort of agreed with that strict idea about intelligence since i was in HS albeit for entirely different reasons. but as i said it's not one of those things that's as easy as self-censorship-goodbye-done.

with the intelligence thing, i do think it's always interesting that the two metrics we use (in american society anyway) to quantify intelligence, the IQ test and the SAT, were created by eugenicists trying to prove white intellectual superiority.

i'm sometimes tempted to hammer my (generally pretty flexible) principles into these weirdly rigid logical mechanisms - which typically results in nonsensical pronouncements and cognitive dissonance. i get all het up and forget that common sense and compassion are a better default position than ironclad if-then integrity.

ya, i understand. before i became ensconced in anti-racism stuff (which i barely even am, have not even read a whole bell hooks book loooool) my brain would act the same. i think my brain a year and a half ago would malfunction if it jumped to how it is right now, but i guess that's normal in any situation when your priorities shift.

no, zach, just a muddled response to what i missed overnight tbh

The actual effectiveness of grading intelligence is (actually) another thread and i think everyone pretty much agreed that standard models/systems are far from perfect. I just measure wheel rims myself.

i think there's an obvious and enormous difference in using a word like 'dumb', which emerged from a medical term but is used, what, 99% of the time without any reference to that term in any meaningful basis, and using a racially pejorative term which genuinely can't/hasn't/may never evolve in language usage sufficiently far from the origin.

one last thing: you would be surprised how many white people defend their usage of the n-word by saying its meaning has evolved. i think i've read the line "i just use it to mean 'a bad person'" a million times.

well i would 100 defend their right to do that

-_-

i wasn't suggesting you were. actually i regret posting that, comparing marginalizations isn't cool, nm, sorry.

ha srsly don't mind me

Zach where do you go to college

backstage (on left) terrorizing plastic newborns

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8194/gunsyg.jpg

Only racist if the baby is Jewish

omg TOTALLY the wrong thread

hahaha

The actual effectiveness of grading intelligence is (actually) another thread and i think everyone pretty much agreed that standard models/systems are far from perfect. I just measure wheel rims myself.

http://rvecafe.com/Assets5/bike01f.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLd3dYK6_Vs

mainly cuz it's a white guy

lol "mainly"

it's p well established that they're all racist

Yeah pretty racist but "which John Lee" can actually be a relevant question ime. "which Eric Pak" not as likely.

Side note: no video entitled "Shit _____ _____ say" has, to my knowledge, ever been funny

The NYers one made me giggle but that was mainly because of the "All I've had to eat today was a bagel" line.

yeah the ny one was okayish

I was trying to figure out if the guy in it was horatio sanz

lol really? I don't know who he is but I'm p sure it wasn't Sans.

no it's just some rando comedian

i like "shit white girls say to black girls" but on balance i wish the whole "shit ____ say" had never happened

I haven't watched that one. . . .

The NYer one just reminded me of those YOU KNOW YOU'RE A MISSOURIAN IF… type emails I get every once in awhile.

"shit no one says" was pretty funny i thought

lold at the first 20-30 seconds of "shit people say about the shit people say videos"

i like "shit white girls say to black girls" but on balance i wish the whole "shit ____ say" had never happened

― horseshoe, Friday, January 20, 2012 1:35 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh then you should DEFINITELY watch the brian williams "rock center" segment on it

yeah "shit no one says" was pretty funny

I don't know where to put this but this story just depresses the hell out of me

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teens-detained-brutal-beating-chicago-boy-appears-youtube-video-article-1.1007573

idk why it surprises/depresses me in 2012 but I find it surprising and depressing that there's a knowyourmeme entry on it already

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/chicago-teens-beating-video

yeah i've seen clips of that video too many times... really brutal

Zach where do you go to college

― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, January 20, 2012 8:10 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just graduated u of maryland

If you have any tolerance for those things, I liked "Shit polys say"

oh damn in college park? my wife is in grad school there

o shit what's she studying

microbiology/virology

welp there's a 100% chance i've never been in the same room as her

haha

oh yeah i figured, it is a giant giant school, just sayin

microbiology/virology

!!!

what...people are scientists, it happens y'know

i do know in fact!

Someone has to save Gwyneth Paltrow.

lamp are you a microbiologist? fess up

im working on my doctorate in somewhat related field

oh badass