rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

probably shaking his head so hard it falls off his neck

Pretty much.

Someday, you will understand

This is kind of like giving someone a business card that says "turn over for great discount" on both sides and watching him flip it over and over and over for 3 hours

discus

first, we need to define the term "racism", which I believe has not been done to my liking yet

legit lol

ok then, let's take it from the top folks!

I am glad that I will be away from the internet all weekend.

what do you see in this image?

http://www.frogstore.com/images/d_10981.jpg

because, the only thing I see is a bunch of frogs. and I'M the racist one!?

I was in the middle of trying to figure out what the clusterfuck was about when I was pulled up abruptly by this.

besides some references to things more deep-seeded in black culture

NOT "DEEP-SEEDED." THE PHRASE IS "DEEPLY SEATED." "DEEP-SEEDED" IS THE RESULT OF PEOPLE HEARING THINGS WRONG AND THEN TYPING AS THOUGH THEY HAD UNDERSTOOD WHAT THEY HEARD. THANK YOU.

I could care less

ninth google result for "deep-seated" (no adverb aero): http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/cspanjunkie/barack-obama-has-deep-seated-hatred-wh

NOT "DEEP-SEEDED." THE PHRASE IS "DEEPLY SEATED." "DEEP-SEEDED" IS THE RESULT OF PEOPLE HEARING THINGS WRONG AND THEN TYPING AS THOUGH THEY HAD UNDERSTOOD WHAT THEY HEARD. THANK YOU.

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, January 27, 2012 5:59 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this has been driving me nuts lately thank u

holy shit I think frogs just made a funny

two funnnies. he got all wry at the end of the day

http://s18.postimage.org/d526kgwl5/frogbslollz.jpg

Americans, please tell me what to make of this from a Murdoch tabloid:

WHAT does the self-titled "new king of pop" do on his day off, you might ask? Well, shop, of course.

While his contemporaries tend to head out for a fried chicken feed, Big Day Out headliner Kanye West made a beeline for Sydney's fashion hub within hours of landing.

http://i.imgur.com/awnBU.jpg

haha wtf

I... don't get it?

black people eat fried chicken

also Kanye lives off nectar

mmmm, i would kill for some fried chicken right now.

i thought maybe "fried chicken feed" was some weird australian junk food that's sold at food stands at fairs and festivals where they put actual chicken feed in a fryer and kanye's contemporaries here were a bunch of aussie bands playing the festival

you think too much.

Its blatantly saying "while other black rappers would go and eat fried chicken, Kanye be shoppin".

And that is the most fucking embarrasing thing Ive ever read but then again it is a Murdoch paper so why am I even suprised.

While the other black-fellas would rather go eat watermelon, the star of the minstrel show prefers to go cakewalking in his choicest finery:, a black derby hat, a carnation conspicuous in his button hole, a polka-dotted ascot and white gloves.

^gold

Ah no I totally get that, but I hadn't clicked through to the article, so when someone posted the Sydney Confidential image, I though they were saying the picture was racist! Lots of "Is it the weird C-crossed-with-quote-marks?"

lol did this moran transpose "off-color" with "off-the cuff"?

http://i.imgur.com/em7p8.png

"off-collar" what

he could probably care less.

off-collar, the stain remover

"off-color" probably not a wise way to characterize a racially offensive remark, but this guy has already proven that his aptitude for putting his foot in his mouth so

it was a perfectly turtleneck apology

I'm kinda feeling very minorly sorry for this guy now tbh, his remarks were stupid but he just looked like he was dumbly flailing and knew it. Which leads one to wonder how he ended up in a post such as mayor, but still.

dont feel sorry for him trayce

Oh for reals i know its a wasted thought, I'm just soft.

I'm working on a project that falls under Washington DC's Chinatown zoning overlay and has a bunch of signage requirements that go with it. This is an example from the design guidelines of what the city thinks is a good and appropriate sign in 2012:

http://i43.tinypic.com/vctboz.jpg

(insert comical gong sound)

It is food you eat with chopsticks don't you see?

lol DC Chinatown

Home of the Verizon Center! And Fuddrucker'a! And, apparently, one apartment building filled with elderly immigrant Chinese.

I would describe that Ming's signage design as more as stereotypical than racist, in that it doesn't carry any genuinely negative imagery. Ain't nothing inferior about chopsticks. They're used daily by a couple billion people. The typeface is also ugly as sin and stereotyped, but it is based on the look of calligraphic brushstrokes, which seems legit, although very poorly done.

You seem to associate these things with truly racist images, like exaggerated "r" for "l" accents, comical slant-eyes and buck teeth, but taken as themselves they just look like crappy design to me, not racism.

I could care less

― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, January 27, 2012 7:17 PM

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aimless otm

xp am0n otm

btw that type face even has a name, 'Chinesey' or 'chop suey' or something.

sometimes i make up imaginary american chinese restaurants by mixing & matching common name elements, like

lucky garden
panda moon
fortune house
bamboo palace

so - is that racist?

Usually the English name isn't even a translation of the Chinese right next to it.