rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

lol

I can think of a lot better ways to get the word out about FGM than this stunt. What's particularly egregious here is that this was supposed to be art (hence my question whether the laughing ppl were 'in on the joke', i.e. active participants) but it seems to be the kind of art that causes less light than heat in the end and it has a disturbing smugness to it. To what real extent do Swedes need additional info on African FGM? Is this a learning moment for ppl at right-wing Swedish newspapers or just sub-par trolling?

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Natalie Ferraro
i love your work. thank you for being brave and thoughtful and creative about how we look at atrocities.
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Martin Fredriksson
This piece of art is painful, absurd, abusive. And pain, absurdity and abuse should preferably take place somewhere else, where we don't have to see it. I think all the hate that is thrown at the artist now is becoming part of the piece of art itself, showing how selective people can be in what they let bother them, and what we can just ignore. We are all having a slice of this cake every day, but we usually don't have to hear the desperate horror while we carve it out. I'm disturbed, puzzled.
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Ekene Daniel
Sell out. You disgust me!
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Victoria Holt
I also think it's really sad that you're deleting some people's comments. Art is about a conversation, and you SURE started one. So own up and take the hate, you deserve it!
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Didier Pando
tu te crois malin ? conard !!! https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s320x320/540280_208772595904058_100003139573389_346865_770455583_n.jpg

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Dwayne Jackson
I get it. You were raised with nothing but white people, so you think this IS art?!? DUDE you are fucked up. Why don't you go lay in a tub of bleach. Put your head under, and INHALE. That way you can be what you want inside and out.
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Ismail Mahomed
There are three elements to making good art:
Aesthetics
Responsibility
Truth
You fail dismally at all three!!!
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Chad Gardner
it looks like voodoo art yes/no
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racist?

don't see much evidence of racism in linde's work

We are all having a slice of this cake every day, but we usually don't have to hear the desperate horror while we carve it out. I'm disturbed, puzzled.

What if we are all diabetic.

I am reasonably certain I am not having a slice of African female genital mutilation cake every day

I mean first off, my pants still fit

haha that guy literally does have a slice of that cake every day.

second, i am not simultaneously barfing and crying all the time

It's the kind of thing one would tend to remember, methinks

crying maybe xp

* the minister of culture is carving out the crotch of a screaming caricature of an african woman and feeding it to her.
* everyone's taking out their cameras

Q: Where's the best place not to be under these circumstances?

In line for seconds?

Arby's!

A: Newark

would not want to be on Facebook.com.nu this afternoon.

What kind of tea does one serve with African female genital mutilation cake? Malarial tea?

This is After getting my vagaga mutilated by the minister of culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth. Before cutting me up she whispered ‘Your life will be better after this’ in my ear.'

should this go before or after apaches on my ballot?

vagaga

rama rama-ma

RE: The cake.

It looks a LOT worse as a thumbnail. In higher res, it actually looks like a really well-made sculpture. If you changed everyone in the picture to frowning it would be 1000x easier to swallow.

that's what she screamed

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo126/theybf/June%2009/27d69cd7.jpg

Before cutting me up she whispered ‘Your life will be better after this’ in my ear.'

maybe it's funnier in swedish

i wanna make a genital mutilation hologram joke but it's not working so i'm posting this instead because i want to...

...have my cake and eat it too.

oh i see pplains was already on that trail

whenever racist cakes call, i'm already there, my friend.

No red velvet, no credibility.

Will this guy become an art star or a pariah?

I bet he's a hoot when he works behind the counter at Luby's!

"You didn't get much."
"I was going to add some peach cobbler, but the croutons started screaming at me."

I'm surprised that this thing hasn't made it to cakewrecks.com yet. Surely it must.

cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake

If cakes could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them up? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

fuckin cakes, always with the screaming

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/3023966902_515aa0d9a9.jpg

^me itt today

And they have had a bomb threat now.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bomb-threat-museum-sweden-caught-racist-cake-scandal-cake-depicted-naked-african-woman-featured-actress-blackface-article-1.1063075

(How's that for a URL, SEO Marketers?)

i bet this artist is thrilled

Here's some interesting background about the cake-troversy:
http://africasacountry.com/2012/04/18/swedish-cake/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr7ZLYPtiRs

Has anyone actually interviewed the artist about it?

xp hahahaha yes that's what i was thinking of!

http://www.racialicious.com/2012/04/18/voices-makode-aj-linde-and-that-cake/

The reaction of the assembled crowd, though, is perhaps more disturbing. They don’t seem to understand that this isn’t supposed to be “Ha-ha”-funny, and if observers ascribe their glee to a detached, condescending form of racism, I’d be hard-pressed to disagree. Really, who knows what they were thinking? Who the eff laughs at that?
- Tommy Christopher, Mediaite

yes I mean, who on Earth would laugh at an absurd screaming blackface cake, like how is that situation even fathomable

laughter can be a release of nervousness, based on an uncertainty how to react

Linde apparently posted Facebook responses to diff't questions about the cake; a youtube FAQ, so to say. This blog has compiled his videos:

http://www.womanist-musings.com/2012/04/artist-who-created-racist-sexist.html#more

this was his response to those asking why he chose to tackle female genital mutilation; it seems a bit more incoherent than the other responses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO5ALkMzOKc&feature=player_embedded

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so nervous...

I guess the only reasonable conclusion is that she thinks blackface & female circumcision are hilarious and was unaware that the public at large would react negatively to her racist worlview

much more likely that she isn't sensitive to blackface or female circumcision at all and just thought it was fun feeding cake to a colorfully dressed cake person

That is also a very reasonable conclusion