I wonder when @chrisrock became so mean-spirited? Or has he always been and I’ve just not noticed. Color means NOTHING to me.”
who is the deeply stupid person who said this
xp: people are taking offense because they are racists, basically
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
we should just stop now this will only end in an explainer letting us know exactly when fireworks became synonymous with independence day
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
but say if you did want to see some more racist tweets i cant stop you from clicking on this link http://www.egotripland.com/chris-rock-4th-july-twitter
wouldve been a better joke imho if he just left it at 'happy white peoples independence day'
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
aren't you white
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
You'll still find swastikas in Asia
several religious groups straight up replaced the swastika with different symbols iirc (which makes it extremely annoying when dumb teenagers get it tattooed on themselves bc OPEN YOUR MIND MAN IT HAS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT MEANING MAN)
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
teenagers all talk like 70s stoners imo
color means nothing to me xp
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
buddhism has def not abandoned the swastika
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
On what grounds are people taking offence?
When you see the pious, reverential way that Bachmann et al treat the 'founding fathers', largely as a way to 'prove' the providential nature of this republic, you'll understand that anything less than wholehaearted hagiographic treatment of the revoltionary period and its actors is 'hating America' regardless of the fact that the American Revolution was a disaster for Blacks and Indians and it certainly doesn't help that Jefferson's hugest blunder in the Declaration of Independence was accusing the Crown of:
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
But, nonetheless, God was guiding our deist forefather (who, incidentally defaced the New Testament).
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
@chrisrockEli Whitney invented the cotton gin so we didn’t need your lazy asses anymore.Still don’t.
what
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
I kind of respect Buddhists for not replacing the swastika. It's a calm way of saying that Hitler doesn't get to win.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
@chrisrockEli Whitney invented the cotton gin so we didn’t need your lazy asses anymore.
Obv someone who dozed through his HS history class. If anything, the cotton gin made slavery more lucrative.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
you dipshits have a whole month!
Are we sure some of those aren't just straight-up, adolescent wind-up trolling?
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
are we sure we need to repost these here?
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, July 6, 2012 3:47 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hindus too
hitler, nazis, etc just didnt have as big an impact in asia and arent nearly the cultural touchstone they are in the west is a big part of it imho - but also ya these symbols arent something its considered that you just go changing all willy nilly
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
I can't quite bring myself to admire the Swastika Laundry of Ballsbridge, Dublin for not abandoning the name /logo until the 1980s though.
http://i.imgur.com/3AiyP.jpg
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I don't really want to read these (xposts)
can we just terminate every multicellular life form and start anew?
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
Not at all, but I genuinely get confused sometimes when I read stupid shit on the net and wonder and it is the thread...
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
ShariVari is that at all related to a certain nat'l loathing for the British?
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
omg @ Swastika Laundry, how entirely unfortunate
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_Laundry
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
xxp I don't think so. They were founded in 1912 and apparently just didn't feel the need to change it.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
thank you based laundry
― contenderizer, Friday, 6 July 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
or, well, on second thought, no thanks
― contenderizer, Friday, 6 July 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
"Mom, I got a job!""That's great, honey! Where?""Swastika Laundry!""... o rly"
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
chris rock tweet is a+
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
Swastika Laundry of Ballsbridge, Dublin
this is really a joyce injoke or a morrissey b-side or something right
― goole, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
SSteam Kleaning for all your delicate whites
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
"Mom, I got a job!""That's great, honey! Where?""Swastika Laundry!""... o rly""U MAD?"
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
to get real about the chris rock tweet; i believe celebrating july 4 was considered a lynch-worthy social offense for southern black people until shockingly recently -- it was explicitly a white-person's freedom holiday
(but i'd need to comb through my ta-nehisi coates rss feed to verify this, lol)
― goole, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
I keep reading Swastika Laundry to the tune of Waterloo Sunset.
― pplains, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
the tweet is so simple and beautiful because it's so by-the-numbers Chris Rock but every response says much more about the responder than him
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
I wash my whites at Swastika Laundry but they won't let me wash a colored load :(
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
I foolishly tried to confirm the Independence Day lynching practice and now I just hate white people
is that racist?
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, July 6, 2012 4:10 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
its really not simple or beautiful, note the unnecessary exposition in the middle necessitating the middling punchline at the end - not his best work imho!!
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
how quickly will I get punched if next year I wish everyone I meet "Happy Cracker Day!"
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
In 1939, the laundry changed its name to "The Swastika Laundry (1912)"[3] to make clear the distinction between its use of the name and the symbol and the recent adoption of the symbol by the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in Germany.
?????
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
happy white pople day is clearer imho, like id prob just be thinking abt snack crackers trying to figure out wtf you were talking abt
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
xp: basically, they added the founding year to make it clear that they were around for 20+ years before the Nazis and had nothing to do with them
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
I'll be honest about July 4th. For many years I have given more thought to the fall of Vicksburg and Lee's retreat than the DOI.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
oh I see I just glossed right over the (1912) part xp
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
happy white ilxors day, lag∞n
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I looked it up and apparently all year was lynching day.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
This reminds me of being asked on the street outside the laundromat if I washed my whites with my colors.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, July 6, 2012 4:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omg is that today! *launches fireworks*
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
my post was longer but I trimmed it according to your guidelines
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
darn white of you
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
here's the coates post i was remembering -- he doesn't give many details
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/patriotism/252062/
here's the book he's talking about
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/91623/the-persistence-of-the-color-line-by-randall-kennedy
― goole, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
ha, my wife tried to hook RK up with a friend-of-a-friend who is 21 years younger than him; shockingly she didn't go for it
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link