well well well, lookee who's coming to town to help out
http://annarbor.com/news/herman-cain-to-campaign-with-pete-hoekstra-at-big-sky-diner-in-ypsilanti/
http://www.annarbor.com/assets_c/2011/11/111011_NEWS_Herman_Cain_MRM_01-thumb-350x232-93979-thumb-300x198-93980.jpg
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 17 February 2012 06:58 (twelve years ago) link
don't understand the recent popularity of the name Madison tbh
Blame a generation of moms and dads who grew up watching too much HBO:
According to the Social Security Administration's statistics, from a practically non-existent girl's name before 1985, Madison rose to being the second most popular name, after Emily, given to female babies in 2001.[2] This phenomenal rise in popularity has been attributed to the 1984 movie Splash, where Daryl Hannah plays a mermaid who adopts the name "Madison" in her human form after seeing a street sign for Madison Avenue.[3] When she makes this selection, Tom Hanks's character initially protests: "But Madison isn't a name!"
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 17 February 2012 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not saying the Onion's not trying, but the non-Madison / Dakota names on the left are just A/B/C.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 17 February 2012 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
Do we have confirmation on that Onion attribution? Seems too racist for them.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
it's from the onion
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
When?
― Three Word Username, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
from the onions new spinoff, racist onion
― max, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I think sometimes they go full circle and parody racist perceptions by making racist observations
it's a troublesome look, but hey, the humor gun misfires sometimes
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
Found it, it was 1999, which is long enough ago to be somewhat comforting.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
When I first stumbled across that graphic, it was right around the time Nivea was having hits.
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
I swear that once I heard a woman calling for her child named Wachovia.
― tanuki, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
It's a good name for that, you'd really get some length out of the 'a' and 'o'.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
but it's pronounced wacho-veeea
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 17 February 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
a friend thought that name was meant to suggest "watch over ya!"
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 17 February 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
Cue the David Alan Grier "Naming children after contraceptive drugs" bit
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 17 February 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
nobody names a male baby Dakota wtf
lol tell that to my nephew
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 20 February 2012 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://blog.angryasianman.com/2012/02/hoekstra-campaign-removes-all-traces-of.html
RIP debbiespenditnow.com
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
RIP beautifully designed hate site
― D-40, Sunday, 26 February 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
You can't say the ad was not effective.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
was all ready to gis "burn world down" until I clicked
― bnw, Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
I am becoming more and more convinced that that ad company is intentionally sabotaging its clients
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://blog.angryasianman.com/2012/11/campaign-flier-features-candidates-face.html
― 乒乓, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
it's kinda more nationalist than racist cuz she wite
― iatee, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
ime, to the people who this dog whistle attracts it doesn't matter if youre chinese or chinese-american
― 乒乓, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I mean on no level can chinese-americans benefit from stereotyping but the core of this is an economic nationalism message that both parties use these days. but I think you can be something of a economic nationalist without being totally racist. like, keep the message and 'facts' and take out the dumb theme - is that still race baiting? idk.
― iatee, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
i think an ad decrying jobs lost to england or even socialist france would have a somewhat different feel
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 November 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
Debbie Stabenow won btw
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 12 November 2012 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
but I think you can be something of a economic nationalist without being totally racist. like, keep the message and 'facts' and take out the dumb theme - is that still race baiting? idk.
― iatee, Sunday, November 11, 2012 6:55 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I dont think this is possible fwiw when an easily identifiable racial minority is involved
― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
I guess what I'm trying to say is that although this is clearly racist in that it works off lol south park stereotypes, it's still mostly pushing the bigger narrative 'they're taking our jobs'. a narrative that does not benefit asian-americans either. but is not entirely untrue.
― iatee, Monday, 12 November 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
not really concerned about the 'trueness' of this tbh
― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
well what I'm more saying is that yeah, 1000 people in cleveland got this or w/e, but the big picture issue is mitt romney (and barack obama) talking about taking our jerbs back from china in front of 80 million people
― iatee, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
what I'm saying is that there's p much no way to score political points on this topic w/o also tarring asian-americans who live in this country
and the rhetoric shouldn't be about demonizing china, it should be about criticizing the companies who decide to offshore in the first place.
― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
well it's complicated. like I don't think #1 is untrue but that also doesn't mean that chinese currency manipulation hasn't been a major factor in jobs going offshore
and if we start attacking companies who decide to offshore, we're still participating in economic nationalism and promoting a sort of 'made in america' culture.
― iatee, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
okay but you wouldn't have splashover onto asian-americans, which is all I really care about tbqh
― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
I mean I get the appeal of a rarefied "technically this is true" thinking but on the ground this type of attack politics has real actual effects on actual people, no matter how carefully crafted the political message is
― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
well china's exchange rates have actual effects on actual people too! I mean w/ this particular ad it's not even 'technically this is true' but my bigger point is that the umbrella narrative that this is happening under (china takes our jobs) generally isn't considered objectionable, even by the left
― iatee, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
I think we're talking past each other
― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
/ and I think that is a much bigger problem than goofy fake chinese font xp
― iatee, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
uh this isnt really about a 'goofy fake chinese font'
― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
the takeaway box trope is awful tho i guess that & vague economic resentment the extent of a lot of ppls engagement with 'china'
― Rachel Howley-Waugh (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 12 November 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinky
― Rachel Howley-Waugh (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 12 November 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
what's it about? I basically think some dumb flyer's asian stereotypes are 'less problematic' than the big picture narratives that the entire country accepts w/r/t trade policy but #2 is harder to question / talk about
― iatee, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
xp
this sort of imagery is inherently toxic
― Rachel Howley-Waugh (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 12 November 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
taking it to fb because I don't really feel like getting into this on here
― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
us-china relations are going to get ugly enough in the next decade without this sort of crap
takeaway box is a sort of racism-by-synecdoche
― Rachel Howley-Waugh (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 12 November 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
After several campaigns by the Scottish Executive, more people in Scotland now acknowledge that this name is indirectly racist.
are you fucking kidding me?
― d-_-b (mh), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
what? a white guy thinks the racism angle isn't really a big deal? eat it edward r murrow I've got the scoop of the year
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
what? aero purposely misreads an iatee post so he can get a zing in?
the point wasn't that 'the racism angle isn't really a big deal' the point was that the racism angle that 1000 people get isn't as important as the racism angle that 300 million people get
― iatee, Monday, 12 November 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link