rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

if ilx had avatars this would be my shit

http://i.imgur.com/ldDsH.png?1

Barenaked Lady in racist Halloween costume shockah

‏@neilstewart
Hey @UKTesco it's unacceptable you're selling racially stereotyped Halloween costumes https://www.tescoparty.com/FancyDress/CostumeThemeListing.aspx?pmo=0&gg=ma&ThemeCode=177&mo=0 … care to comment? #racistTesco

‏@UKTesco
@neilstewart I am sorry, which one do you feel is offensive?

was just about to post that! Do they REALLY need me to spell it out? Apparently so...

Miley Cyrus dresses as Nicki Minaj for Halloween:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcrpjpVikN1rk5d6vo1_1280.jpg

Honestly, if i were to be offended everytime I see a white dude with rastafari/reggae attire, I wouldn't live anymore.

well but blackface

I saw like three dudes in blackface this morning, no big deal

were they coalminers?

Tesco employees.

black face? i thought it was just excessive tan. like a tourist or something.

this is a losing argument at this point but "blackface" is a specific thing and using the term to describe every instance where someone puts on brown makeup (which often can be offensive!) is stupid

I think that was just that guy's natural skin color... I mean, if you're going to do blackface the point isn't to look like George Hamilton, rite?

in other words, DJP OTM.

idk man the one with the afro wig and bone necklace is pretty close to blackface, altho i guess they used red lipstick instead of white lipstick. obv i am using the term as shorthand, but yeah, i dont have a better quick term to go with.

i get the criticism tho and accept it, chalk it up to lexical laziness on my part

I had actually forgotten about that one and was looking at the rasta pic so I retract my pedantic bitching

we sure do have our pick of ninnies itt don't we

oh no you didn't

lol

yeah the reggae one is just kinda crappy and off, the restless natives one is next level bottle opener shit.

xpost hahahaaaa

;-)

that miley costume is pretty good

Not entirely sure that rasta guy isn't actually made of leather or beef jerky, I mean

http://i.imgur.com/ldDsH.png?1

so....... grantland definitely just awarded first prize in its costume contest (just roll with it) to a group of people in space jam costumes and one is almost definitely in blackface, right?

http://i.imgur.com/bGuGT.png

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/41395/grantland-halloween-costume-contest/?Aera

race jam

http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/68299_10100453149961367_725600736_n.jpg

Well, his ear isn't. xp

flopson idk if "tsetse fly pimp" is racist nec

miley dressing as minaj is racist?

ya a bunch of people on fb were freaking out about the photo but i dont think they'd considered that

neighborhood kid turned up dressed as nicki minaj tonight. wasn't racist tho.

tbf, nicki minaj dresses as nicki minaj every day

I am the female weezy

chris brown with a late entry!

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/73185911.html

I wonder if he lies awake at night thinking of new ways to be awful.

if there is one thing I'm pretty certain Chris Brown doesn't do, it's think

first ilx-approved drone strike?

i think we approved one on grover norquist.

wait maybe that was just me.

here's the young persons' British rock band Your Demise on an average day at the office

http://livethescene.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/your-demise.jpg

and here they are dressed up for yesterday's festivities

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcs2ehWglG1r4nv86o1_500.jpg

aw, figured somone had bit the carragher bullet

Drop Dead would not approve of that guy wearing their t-shirt...

Drop dead can refer to:

* Dropdead, a hardcore punk band of Rhode Island
* Drop Dead, a 1984 LP by the hardcore punk band Siege
* Drop Dead Clothing, a clothing brand owned by Bring Me the Horizon lead singer Oliver Sykes

LOL ok NM... I guess I forgot they were called Dropdead.

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http://youtu.be/60DUeV9y5mA

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ole-students-hold-candlelight-march-counter-anti-obama-demonstration-article-1.1198946

You can't paint all of Ole Miss with the same brush, but every time something like this comes up, I think back to this paragraph written a few years ago when racism reared its ugly head in Oxford for the 239847th time.

It is not that Ole Miss itself condones this or isn't trying to eliminate it. The chancellor, for example, has asked the band to stop playing "From Dixie With Love" if fans don't stop chanting, "The South will rise again."

They say Ole Miss is "The Harvard of the South". I mean, I'm sure the Chancellor up there has had to deal with the same issues, amirite?

The entire "hey, I told them not to do that" thing with southern universities is some apply-head-to-desk shit. When my friends were at LSU the administration kept telling people not to bring the little flags to the football games that people saw as team-supporting: purple and gold versions of a confederate flag

http://www.myspace.com/unclebuck504/photos/30994483

dying here, perfect expression