rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Hahaha Dan that did not occur to me but it very well could be! DELICIOUS, THE IRONING IS

ironically racist school codes apparently turn me into Yoda

id guess its a prep school pleb-phobe thing?

or can state schools make inane rules too idk

He doesn't go to prep school, so it's not that

no irish, no faux-hawks, no dogs

if yr childs hair is less than 2" long then it means u are currently glassing a suspected nonce in an estate pub

racist against nonces

camel jockeys on your shorts - is it racist?

every time this thread pops up, i think "yes"

haha

those shorts aren't racist - they're excellent!

^ advertising slogan?

i don't think they're racist per se but maybe, uh, orientalist? is orientalism a type of racism?

those aren't 'jockey shorts' tho, are they? is it some kind of visual pun

(fyi i just googled jockey and apparently tim tebow is their spokesobject heh)

is orientalism a type of racism?

edward said certainly thought so

bam

Those boxer shorts just have a bunch of old clip art of camels, from the nineteenth century, judging from the style, and the great majority of the camels are riderless, although I did see one camel that had a rider in a burnoose, which seems more of an accidental artifact of the clip art source than the main point of the design. The artist who designed them probably had nothing more in mind than 'camels look cool' and 'this clip art is free' and 'maybe people will buy these'.

yeah, i don't really get what is even orientalism about these shorts unless you believe ppl riding camels on shorts are always an example of orientalism? i get that maybe part of their appeal rests of the exoticism of, say, camels over horses. tho there are plenty of shorts with horses on them.

there are also ~pyramids~ and ~the sphinx~

egypt, man.

http://images.travelpod.com/users/elizabetharps/1.1267376424.walk-like-an-egyptian.jpg

They do the sand dance don't you know

is orientalism a type of racism?

edward said certainly thought so

― face depalma (stevie), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:06 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i believe he even said so.

right said ed

http://yoisthisracist.com/

been around for a while, dude's already got a writing gig at grantland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E2B_yI8jrI

€50 says that's a German ad agency.

What the fuck was that??

"I am gonna SUBJUGATE. BILL."

Let's look and see how a news article on how listening to white people music makes you racist negates itself in just three paragraphs!

A new study undertaken by the University of Minnesota has suggested that listening to mainstream rock music can make people 'racist'.

Researchers played a host of different music genres to 138 students for seven minutes. The students were then told they were part of a study to work out how funds should be distributed within their college. Then they were offered a range of different ethnic groups to divide the money between, reports the Daily Mail.

Apparently, after listening to mainstream rock music like Bruce Springsteen, the white students favoured other white students in regards to sharing college funds, over black and Latino students. Meanwhile, the white students who had listened to more ethnically diverse pop, including Akon and Gwen Stefani, were fairer towards other ethnic groups.

in fairness, in MN Gwen Stefani would be considered Japanese

the vapors predicted it

Assume it means Akon & Gwen Stefani (ie Gwen Stefani ft Akon).

i had an IRL "Is This Racist?" moment yesterday:

was getting lunch, talking to the asian guy working behind the counter. another customer, a black woman, points to a row of different types of a fruit-flavored beverage, says she'll have "any flavor." he picks up the watermelon-strawberry flavor, says "how about this one?" she says sure, transaction completed, me being the only person present who silently raised an eyebrow at any of this.

reminds me of a 'this is racist' moment i had last summer. i was buying water ice at a local Rita's (this is an east coast thing fyi), and i asked the [white] guy manning the counter for a recommendation. he shrugged and i asked him what seemed to be popular. he said, "well, you know in this neighborhood you can't really trust the taste." i couldn't believe that meant what i thought it meant so i naively (trolly?) asked, "what do you mean?" and he said, paraphrasing, "black people have bad taste in food." i was o_O.

shipley's post is the spirit of the thread, Mordy is just saying a racist thing that happened.

xp: holy shit

no justice no peace fuck the thread police

i'm trying to come up with a 'the food was kind of blah' joke but i don't have the energy

lol goole

reminds me of a 'this is racist' moment i had last summer. i was buying water ice at a local Rita's (this is an east coast thing fyi), and i asked the [white] guy manning the counter for a recommendation. he shrugged and i asked him what seemed to be popular. he said, "black, white, purple, green, whatever."

shipley's post is the spirit of the thread, Mordy is just saying a racist thing that happened.

thank you http://gallery.mtbr.com/data/mtbr/500/thumbs/thread_police_badge.jpg

the same company that is selling those camel shorts is selling these hoodies

http://www.porhomme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/supreme-arabic-hoodie-pullover-spring-summer-2012-ny-1.jpg

now is it racist?

no?

would it be racist if you wore the hoodie with the shorts?

what is that arabic word?

no, but you would look like a female college sophomore

(is that sexist?)