rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

I didn't watch the vid because the article contradicted itself in the space of like three sentences

Think she was talking about one partic person, it's just creepy and entertaining

^

she's just ripping off gwen stefani again, gwen already buffalo bill'd her harajuku girls

saddened that only on cynical ol' ILX would a poster aimed at black people that makes a virtue of "there's no tipping" be considered racist

cue Louis clip...

I am going to an "Indian themed" party hosted by Very Rich, landowner, boarding school people tonight. It is fancy dress. The possibilities are endless. This family once had dwarfs serving drinks. I am extremely worried.

Woah

Could you develop a headache that requires you to send your deepest regrets?

ha one of my friend's parents had a party like that when he was a kid. they are very rich boarding school people, too. he remembers brownface.

This family once had dwarfs serving drinks.

I can't even.

real gs hire the dwarves to serve drinks

Show up dressed as Lord Jeffrey Amherst

So her J Pop America Fun Time Now character..........IS REAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK0AckyjsFo

"If there is such a thing as a loving form of racism, I think you've found it."

hooo boy. i don't even know...

Pushing "I'm not racist but" to the limit.

https://twitter.com/MandaSwaggie/status/218216668143419393

(I looked at her timeline and it's so full of obnoxious shit that I wonder if it's some weird sock puppet trolling exercise - either way the fact she has 46,000 followers is mindboggling)

is that somebody notable or are we going to document every troll there is now

thanks for posting that, it was really something I needed to see

Well, now we need to decide if it's racist or not.

Personally, I vote yes.

truly there is some amount of debate that can be had about whether that Twitter post is racist or not, it's certainly unclear and deserves some unpacking

I think we need to speculate about the intentions of the author. Maybe it was just a made out of ignorance, and we don't have the right context to understand what they were getting at.

Sorry DJP. Someone RT'd it in disbelief and I was staggered by it because of the number of followers but it was unnecessary. Mods can delete if they want. I sometimes forget that ignoring is an option. My fuck-up.

tbf, 46236 followers for that kinda bullshit is very 0_o

wait what

jesus christ

i hope boxxy doesnt say something racist

i went looking for boxxy on twitter and found this and i hate you whiney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHweocGg5N8

okay, so there is no "is this racist?" question with this material and it's probably long since discussed on one of the politics threads i avoid, but i hadn't heard of it and i kinda thunk dan would be amazed if he hadn't either so FEAST YOUR EYES on 40 pages of tea party comix
http://www.ep.tc/tea-party-comix/02.html
more info and 'artist statement' here

persoff's website is hella fun to explore in general
http://www.ep.tc/problems/50/31.jpg

the Kommisariat's Kontinuing Kronicles: more right-wingery in the USA, 2k11

Yeah, either that or one of the batshit rightwing cartoonists threads.

Having said that, I am totally boggling right now.

Amanda Bieber ‏@MandaSwaggie

I was 3 when the World Trade Center collapsed, but I remember everything. Worst day of my life :(

That is kind of cool, having the worst day of your life at 3 and things just get better from there

if johnny ryan had done tea party comix, it woulda been published by fantagraphix

Amanda Bieber ‏@MandaSwaggie

I had 10,000 followers on my old account and Bieber followed me and RTd me twice. I'm so mad it got hacked.

50,000 followers seems quite low for a former two time jbiebs retweetee

anyway, good feed, worth reading whole lot or just the cobain ones, 10% chance it's some sinister and brilliant auteur

that persoff website is incredible - i've never run into it before

Unsurprisingly disturbed by how hot I find boxxxy.

it's ok, man

unsurprisingly disappointed by how not hot i find boxxy

the post that had to be made

omg those bike safety comics are CRAZY.

http://i.imgur.com/1kLEo.jpghow is panel 3 not an internet meme

that website probably deserves it's own thread, but one more:
http://www.ep.tc/problems/21/01-alt.jpg

Amazing site. This 1970 Superman comic is fascinating - not "is this racist?", more "is this well-meaning but a tad condescending and indirectly responsible for the 1986 movie Soul Man?"

http://web.archive.org/web/20090430104018im_/http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y183/mathewm1/1.jpg

http://web.archive.org/web/20090430104018/http://cacb.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/lois-lane-i-am-curious-black/

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y183/mathewm1/1.jpg

it's pretty nutty but its by no way the nuttiest lois lane comic of that era...

I love that superman comic so much. I sort of remember we had a long discussion of it on ILX ages ago.

It's surprisingly well-done, given the premise's potential for disaster.