rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

pretty much my m.o. whenever i cop race humor on here.

just trying to shock some ignorance, that's all.

"Before you decide to do your edgy racial shit, go back and read some of the harsh criticism that rained down on Chapelle, Spike Lee, Whoopie & other black artists for their edgy race-related material/defence of dumbass boyfriends, and say to yourself, oh shit, and I'm a WHITE person."
- Form my forthcoming book, Fellow White People, for Your Consideration

the hell is that from.

Form my forthcoming book

aw, do I have to

we really need to get away from white people humor -- whitepeoplelikethis, Martin Mull, whatever.

Gives white people an excuse to laugh at themselves and then go dress up in blackface and roam the woods.

what a horribly-formed "book"

wait what did martin mull do?

nevermind, i'm not really ready to feel disappionted in martin mull today

^^

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089277/

will have to mull over this Mull development

he's actually a really good and smart and funny guy.

in fairness, that was in 1985

Obv a low point in white people history

I dunno, that's the year Psychocandy and The Head On The Door came out

no this was the low point in white people history

http://www.break.com/tv-shows/saturday-night-live/white-guys-wife-2161938.html

apex of white ascendance = gloomy rock dudez w big hair and eyeliner, obv

Birth of an alternative nation

During the filming of this video, only three people said something about me not really being black
Which I find disturbing.

Fight Ignorance with Ignorance

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, February 9, 2012 2:56 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/KKKramer-Is-Really-039-Busted-Up-039-2.jpg

"words, man... words"

i would just like to say DJP has been otm in this thread

fwiw this is the same guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h131v5spb90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_-JHErAP9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJnBb8p8ijM

Yeah, this is pretty similar to the Michael Richards incident, but to be honest, I'd say a lil more all like

http://insidepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/David-Duke-300x395.jpg

amirite?

this doesn't remind me of Michael Richards at all tbh beyond "white guy does something racist." The "words" thing was Michael Richards trying to cover his ass immediately after reverting to horrifying racist-beast mode, whereas the "fight ignorance with ignorance"/blackface thing was premediated

also, michael richards "accidentally" exposed his own racist hostility, then backtracked. internet comedy dude is trying to use the superficial signifiers of racism to critique the inherent stupidity of racism. and failing miserably. couldn't even watch that "asian" thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aafuYtZ3nIE

also, michael richards "accidentally" exposed his own racist hostility, then backtracked. internet comedy dude is trying to use the superficial signifiers of racism to critique the inherent stupidity of racism. and failing miserably. couldn't even watch that "asian" thing.

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, February 9, 2012 5:22 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk to me it seems more like he kinda wanted to try blackface but wasn't sure how he could make it ok

that's not the impression I got at all

to me, once you put on the blackface & try to intellectualize your defense of it, you might as well be saying 'its ok to say the nword in SOME contexts' then dropping it 45 times in a speech on how racism is bad

like, somewhere in there, part of him MUST have been on some getting-away-with-it thing

the part of him that's a "comedian" probably

that's not the impression I got at all

yeah, me either. is he getting off on "getting away with" something transgressive? hell yes, absolutely. is he specifically getting off on ridiculing black people by wearing blackface? i doubt it. but you never know...

where is that Sarah Silverman thing upthread from...? I don't remember seeing that on the actual Chapelle Show

xxxp

I kept waiting for the punchline

this guy has to be a performance artist

he prob fancies himself a performance artist

yeah, me either. is he getting off on "getting away with" something transgressive? hell yes, absolutely. is he specifically getting off on ridiculing black people by wearing blackface? i doubt it. but you never know...

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, February 9, 2012 6:23 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why do you doubt it, other than deric haircare vouching for him?

You can't tell racial jokes at a KKK meeting? You could probably get paid handsomely for the most juvenile material.

Silverman's bit came from the Jimmy Kimmell show.

"You know who's stupid? BLACK PEOPLE. Am I right?" *collects check*

why do you doubt it, other than deric haircare vouching for him?

subjective, just not the impression i get. i take the sincerity of his antiracist intent at face value, esp given the fact that he's dedicated a fair amount to it. including risking looking like a huge racist asshole.

That's in response to the video underneath his stereotype video. I couldn't watch it after seeing the Chinese hat.

I watched the entirety of the stereotype video and felt it was just too next level for me

must've been like reading Ulysses for the first time, I understand.

i have to confess that i'm responding to deej as though i hadn't tried to watch the asian thing and gotten so disgusted that i had to shut it off.

yeah this guy isnt half as genius as he thinks he is but imo that shouldn't get in the way of what he got on tape at BYU

You ask anyone who you think of first when you say Black History Month, they're going to say MLK. Man's got his own federal holiday.

(I'd say G.W. Carver, but I'm a little obsessed.)

W.E.B. Dubois, Harriet Tubman, Carver for sure, anyone black who isn't american but was influential in US or international history...

i'm confused about what we're doing here. you guys aren't just naming famous historical black ppl you've heard of, right?

well it is the rolling "is this racist?" thread

No, just ones that every US school kid has mentioned constantly for years!

My point is that going HAHA at college kids naming MLK right off the bat as an important figure in Black History isn't really "shocking".

Only some hipster kid would name Ronald Demon first and then MLK.