rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Can we go back to how wholly inappropriate it is to make a joke about 10% of your constituency being pissed with you after four of your police officers were handed a federal indictment alleging racial profiling and harassment against them? It "being a joke" almost makes it worse; he's not taking the situation seriously enough to respond seriously, and furthermore his unserious response makes the people with the grievance the butt of the joke rather than himself and the police force.

it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not (apparently, it was? idgi)

Yes, we know.

maybe unfair bc idk if he is otherwise terrible on the same topics, but he was fumbling for some easy liberal-media-bias outs while trying to recover
xp + yes

We're kind of talking about different issues here and IMO it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not (apparently, it was? idgi)

what dan said. of course it was a joke. it was a nasty, mocking, racist joke that trivializes the serious accusations of racism made against his police department. the fact that dude was joking hardly excuses his behavior.

it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not

actually this really doesn't matter at all imho

IMO it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not

wtf no. whether it was a joke or not doesn't change the fact that he was basically saying idgaf about this issue

i'm not trying to excuse it!! to those saying "yes, we know" or "of course it was a joke", did you read the responses below mine?

actually this really doesn't matter at all imho

yes it does, that's what makes the video funny

think you guys are seriously trying to attribute shit to me that i'm not even saying, c'mon

http://images.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/37/543/000/0375430008.jpg

you should probably stop trying to explain why things are funny to you, fwiw

what makes the video funny is the weird tone-deaf double-down on the stupid position, mixed in with "oh I bet you'll twist my words to make me look bad"/"no, I think I'll just go with what you said" and the "some people think I have an ethnicity"/"I may go have tacos with the Italians" wtf statements

the intent as shown in the video is reprehensible and not at all funny, but fortunately dude is such an incompetent that you can quickly get past that and just laugh at his dumb ass

to those saying "yes, we know" or "of course it was a joke", did you read the responses below mine?

what difference does that make? you're the only one here trying to defend this "funny" racist asshole.

the only funny thing funny about the video is the sick comedy of idiotic human shittiness on public display.

So many Sylvan Reading books and not one has a frog on the cover :(

jesus, i'm not trying to defend the guy, take your pitchforks elsewhere people

go ahead and twist my words

in all fairness that reporter was being a total dick

― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 14:22 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you are seriously the worst poster on ilx, and that's saying something

i'd make fun of this guy but jesus christ he reminds me of myself and i'm kind of uncomfortable with this

See, I thought this was a sign that you'd had a breakthrough and were up to some serious thinkin, but it's not looking like the frog can change his spots.

http://ladygalore.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/thinking-frog.jpg

See, I thought this was a sign that you'd had a breakthrough and were up to some serious thinkin, but it's not looking like the frog can change his spots.

because I called out the reporter? you guys make some weird ass assumptions

Oh, it was that comment coupled w/ the display name frogs you are the dumbest asshole , which I found self-deprecatingly humorous.

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B/c I thought you identified some of your own questionable traits.

i've definitely made some bad jokes that i had to try to explain myself out of and wound up making myself look like an idiot. also I enjoy tacos. i might eat one right now...

is this racist?
https://twitter.com/retwarted

1000timesyes

like 75% of these he just did a google search for "n*gga" or "fart" and then retweeted all the ones that weren't in standard english, to showcase them as "retarted"

can't wait to read the frogbs defense

the frogbs defense
by John Grisham

1000timesyes

I always read that as 1000timeseyes.

can't wait to read the frogbs defense

he's r/ting some white people too. maybe you think he's racist against whites too.

I have white friends

whites, italians, latins, afro-americans, it's all the same to me.

Italians aren't white?

http://raidreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/dennis-hopper.jpg

Do people* still say afro-american?

*other than frogbs

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2009/10/24/129009015073555710.jpg

racist against white people

never change frogbs, never change

reverse frogsbsism

Racist against himself

So, someone says some pretty dumb-ass things. Guess what? We all have and, tbh, I feel like FBS's posting has improved at least a tiny bit since he first showed up. I feel like this has turned into one of those situations where people are jumping down the dude's throat no matter what he says. SB me for "defending" him if you want, but imho some people's reactions to his posts as of late are just as embarrassing, if not more so, as the posts they're intending to address.

not gonna sb u e but if someone watches that video and think its the journalist who has the problem then they can go get fucked tbh

Also, fwiw, that mayor is obviously an idiot but I also thought the reporter was being pretty dickish. I'm not, mind you, saying that he didn't have the right to be dick given the situation.

yah fbs is a pin cushion for lazy/entrylev zings atm

I think his posting has changed for the better but I also think promoting some level of self-consciousness about what he's saying would be good.

"baby psychology"

x-post - I thought they both came off badly.

I don't think calling a guy out for being racist is particularly dickish. He was clearly angered by what the mayor said and I think was fairly restrained while making his point and even giving the dumb shit a chance to retract or rephrase what he said.

sorry for use of "dumb" there

if I was the reporter I would have let him keep talking, the mayor is very willing to hoist himself on his own petard, without much prompting.

Anyone who defends frogbs within minutes of him bringing up "racist against whites" is on some next level trolling, imho.

Journalists should let MORE people ramble on and hang themselves, tbh. Covering up the interviewee's real thoughts and/or softening them to make him more palatable probably contributes to people not realizing how HORRIBLE their leaders are.

x-post - Yeah, because I'm a notorious troll.