It reminds me of one of the speeches at the H4mmond High '96 graduation. The theme of the speech was that now that we were moving on from high school we couldn't turn back. The speaker illustrated this concept by telling the story about how Hernan Cortes, upon arriving in Mexico, instructed his crew to burn the ships, so they couldn't sail back to Europe. And he made a sort of rallying cry out of this, every few minutes punctuating a point by yelling "BURN THE SHIPS!" To be honest, I think a large part of the audience just didn't get it and was mostly put off by his yelling. But there were definitely those among us who realized the racist connotations of the conquest of the Americas. We had all come up with the guy since elementary school. He was a super-sweet guy and it was apparent that he just hadn't thought the whole thing through. But there you go.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Friday, 19 October 2012 08:57 (eleven years ago) link
wait how's life were you from md?
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Friday, 19 October 2012 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
did we go to the same HS/did we already have this convo
We had this convo once!
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Friday, 19 October 2012 09:00 (eleven years ago) link
oh damn that was almost exciting
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Friday, 19 October 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
on this very thread!
rolling "Is This Racist?" thread
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Friday, 19 October 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
looooool
anyway yr story is reminding me of henry morgan, who has one of those freakishly long and detailed wikis that i got bored of reading a week ago. captain morgan rum is named after him and their recents ads have all played him out to look like jack sparrow/koolest dude, when actually he was just a privateer who pillaged caribbean islands at the behest of the british government
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Friday, 19 October 2012 09:05 (eleven years ago) link
Well, at least they've moved on from "got a little captain in you".
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Friday, 19 October 2012 09:20 (eleven years ago) link
i mean it's obvious mcnairy either didn't have the ability or the inclination to think this all the way through, and given his history of provocative slogans (he's made a bunch of accessories emblazoned with "fuck off" in loopy calligraphic script) he may have even wanted to blindly court a little controversy. but this product was being sold in the Gap & heavily promoted by GQ so it became very public. on the chance that anyone would defend that he was trying to 'reclaim' manifest destiny, as someone is likely to do, they're fucking stupid because it's not his to reclaim.
anyway in light of all this i've decided to stop production on my upcoming line of LEBENSRAUM t-shirts
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 19 October 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
Was that to be a plus-size clothing line? "Finally, a pair of jeans that give me room to live".
― the so-called socialista (dowd), Friday, 19 October 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
guilty lols
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 19 October 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
the designer is not even the only one to blame; someone from either GQ or the Gap should have spotted this and shut it down before it was even made
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 19 October 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5Wo_QpCAAEf1Vz.png
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 19 October 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
this fuckn guyyyyy
is that his new t-shirt?
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 19 October 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
"sorry you were offended" is not an apology, when will people get it
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 19 October 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ "hey, are you from md?" reoccurring on racist thread.
― pplains, Friday, 19 October 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
^^ lives in glass house, btw.
I sort of love this general human sentiment of "if I communicate a message in these words or terms than everyone is going to decode something that aligns EXACTLY w/ what I encoded, which is the only [or most correct] thing to decode, and if ppl decode something else--even if they are a large majority--then they, not I, must have done something wrong in this communication process"
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 19 October 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
"and I'm really, really sorry that they decoded this erroneously"
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 19 October 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
the intersection of intentional fallacy & white privilege, basically?
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Saturday, 20 October 2012 04:11 (eleven years ago) link
loads of entitlement to say "i have the right to apply these words to my fashion without doing a lick of research outside my own childhood nostalgia and then blame everyone else for knowing what they mean"
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Saturday, 20 October 2012 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQBTPY7gk
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 20 October 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
"there were plenty of fights / to win the land rights / but the west was meant to be / it was manifest destiny"
wtf
― Chief Queef (stevie), Saturday, 20 October 2012 09:28 (eleven years ago) link
Remember this:
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57802000/jpg/_57802534_rappaport2-1.jpg
Well now there's this
What's going on with these crazy Germans?
― Ernest Metalchats (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 October 2012 10:24 (eleven years ago) link
The establishment theaters in Germany don't let anyone onstage who didn't go to a German theater school, pretty much -- as a result, German actors are an insanely homogenous group that includes nearly no one who isn't German and from a German background.
― Three Word Username, Saturday, 20 October 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
love how the excuse in both cases is that they couldn't find an elderly black actor, like they do know young black actors but it would be just preposterous for a young actor to play an old person
― *triumphant sauce horns* (crüt), Saturday, 20 October 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKiJMB-C-10
― Three Word Username, Saturday, 20 October 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeesh
― *triumphant sauce horns* (crüt), Saturday, 20 October 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
I for one am shocked that Germans would do anything racist.
― LaMonte, Saturday, 20 October 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/enhanced-buzz-wide-4311-1350915969-9-650x500.jpghttp://video.joke.co.uk//videos/Products/wide/63433.swf
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 October 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
also available: http://www.joke.co.uk/inflatable-king-ding-penis-costume-white~63433/
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 October 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
i was a little taken aback until i saw the £ instead of the $ and then it all kinda made sense.
― charlie the luna (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 22 October 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I saw the white version of that in a costume store yesterday
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 October 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
also, yes, forks, i'm pretty sure anything involving blackface is racist
― charlie the luna (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 22 October 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
or excuse me, snazaroo brand blackface
the snazaroo threw me
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 October 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
what the hell are the batteries for
― I have done bad. I love my pj's. (zachlyon), Monday, 22 October 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
there's probably a little fan that keeps the costume inflated
― infowars.go.com (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://pinterest.com/source/stormfront.org/
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
ok not clicking that.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
to preemptively defend myself its just a random assortment of mundane images not unlike http://pinterest.com/source/ilxor.com/
i dont know what's weirder, racist women scrapbooking or unaware third parties repinning stuff not knowing where it eventually leads to.
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
kind of think it's google image search adds, which is one behavior you'd expect on pinterest, not everyone is just cultivating stuff from sites they know
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
the ilxor one is hilariously half the redhead thread (we had one, right?) and the vintage smash one
lol i was like why are there all these redhead pics...
― Nhex, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, kinda hard to figure out which one is ILX and which is the white power board.
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
;_;
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Cg2F5.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://theamericanreader.com/sasha-frere-jones-is-a-white-man
― s.clover, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit, my world has been turned upside down
― d-_-b (mh), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link