rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

happy white ilxors day, lag∞n

I foolishly tried to confirm the Independence Day lynching practice and now I just hate white people

Yeah, I looked it up and apparently all year was lynching day.

I wash my whites at Swastika Laundry but they won't let me wash a colored load :(

This reminds me of being asked on the street outside the laundromat if I washed my whites with my colors.

happy white ilxors day, lag∞n

― 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*

my post was longer but I trimmed it according to your guidelines

darn white of you

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

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

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, July 6, 2012 3:42 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's key to note that most of the buddhist swastikas go the other direction

this is sort of like an asian red cross

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Swastika_Society

ooh TNC, points off for "less" instead of "lest"

thus ends the content-free contributions of DJP

in this day and age, the swastika laundry co. would have sued the arses off the nazis for copyright infringement and hitler would have been all damn son and probably would have had to adopt a little picture of a penguin or something instead

then Munsingwear would have had a go

(yes I know the timeline is off)

Btw, I'm still chuckling about goole's Morrissey b-side comment upthread

google munsingwear find a lot of tightie whities :(

Man, reading about the Swastika just reminds me what a second-rate aesthete Hitler was.

in re: founding fathers worship I got into it briefly w/some dude on Twitter talking about how much the founding fathers sacrificed. I sent him a link I got from Davey D about how George Washington pulled his slaves' teeth to use for his own

in fairness that was a sacrifice because those slaves could no longer chew his food for him

if somebody called me a cracker i think i would find that more funny than offensive.

I got called a cracker at a gas station once. (I may have even posted about it here.) I was more bemused than anything.

Getting called a "cracker" by an angry dude at a gas station: C/D?

its illustrative of the nature of the american racial dynamic that theres really not any name you can call a white person thatll make them feel bad abt being white

"hipster" duh

hahaha

lmao

racist and/or oppressor seem to do pretty well
unless you're being racist or oppressive and then it's all high-fives and bottle openers

lol no

just imagining someone calling someone else oppressor

to be fair, forks attended PCU

racist is dece but it only works in the context of doing something that could be construed as racist, if youre just standing there waiting to cross the street and someone calls you racist youd just be like huh what

tbf you r wearing an offensive tshirt tho

I wonder if I could sell bumper stickers that said "my other car is racist"

if you've never been labeled the oppressor, you've never really been to college imo

is your other car a VW?

imagine the gas station cracker story ending with dude saying "Fuck you, you racist"
much more effective

it's a Ford Porch Monkey

I should probably feel much, much worse about that joke than I do

^^ afraid to laugh at that joke

xp

you should be afraid not to, cracker

hahahahaha

in fairness that was a sacrifice because those slaves could no longer chew his food for him

omg djp that is a fucking intense lol of horror, A+

"fucking intense lol of horror" would be a cool 77 thraed

I kind of went to a bad place on this thread today

I blame C++

and Ted Nugent

same old strawmen

In 1939, the laundry changed its name to "The Swastika Laundry (1912) after a visitor from the future explained Wikipedia naming terminology to them

true story, i had searched for the word "cracker" to see where the discussion of that word started itt, and then i had that ctrf+f still open on my browser when i clicked over to a tab where i'd been looking at an old blog entry, and learned that i'd referred to Stargate as "Norwegian crackers"

http://i.imgur.com/7TQQK.jpg

lefsa isn't like crackers, it's more like a tortilla but sweeter. you put butter and brown sugar in in and roll it up.