rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

rad as hell

and yeah, nice cover for an iffy collection

Another stylist friend got into shitloads of bother a few years ago when a designer decided a day or two before the show to cast heavier models in the name of diversity. My friend, who is Asian and did not have a problem with this concept, nevertheless quit because the stupid production designer didn't think 'wait a minute, maybe it would be an idea to put the models in non-sample size underwear and clothes' and after friend's departure, wound up sending the larger-sized models out in too-tight underwear and sample knits. These poor women looked wrong and the production designer tried to blame my friend for dropping them in the shit while congratulating herself and the designer for deigning to include these women.

not Rick Owens fault but Jesus:

"They came onto the stage stomping their feet, beating their chests, snarling their lips and growling like wild, wonderful beasts..." - Wallpaper

oh dear lord

wtf

i mean there was a lot of mean-mugging sure but "wild wondrous beasts" woah woah woah what

its pretty radical just that the models are moving and doing so much. i like this show, but the critiques and concerns expressed above are otm too

Hopefully those not on academic networks can read this:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full

Science journalist (ie the high impact journal Science) writes a paper based on falsified data & submits to a number of pay-to-publish journals in order to expose poor peer-review processes at these journals. There was a lot that I found questionable about this whole exercise, but this stood out:

The fictitious authors are affiliated with fictitious African institutions. I generated the authors, such as Ocorrafoo M. L. Cobange, by randomly permuting African first and last names harvested from online databases, and then randomly adding middle initials. For the affiliations, such as the Wassee Institute of Medicine, I randomly combined Swahili words and African names with generic institutional words and African capital cities. My hope was that using developing world authors and institutions would arouse less suspicion if a curious editor were to find nothing about them on the Internet.

What I found most depressing was that Aline Noutcha didn't have a credit card. Nigeria is hardly the poorest of African countries. Also, pay to publish?! Really?

Yeah that's becoming standard practice these days for open access journals

Should also add that paying to make your paper open access is also a common option for high impact journals.

Weird business model...

Scientists want their work to be widely available. Publishers want $$$$$ for the doubtless valuable service they provide. Paid-for open access does make a kind of sense if you buy into the idea that commercial academic publishers should exist in the first place.

http://www.suntimes.com/23168076-418/chicago-man-to-harvard-pay-me-more-for-rare-documents-or-ill-burn-them.html

i feel like if he had gone public with his statement about harvard's insulting offer and wanting his kids to go to college with the money, that that would have been powerful enough to shame them into increasing the offer without the threat of destroying the documents. harvard's offer does seem pathetic.

http://blackinasia.tumblr.com/post/64363259939/one-of-my-followers-asked-me-to-post-this-on-their

Good lord, her post in defense of her Africa-themed party has this gem "If anything this was to celebrate the amazing country and people."

Had no idea the Klan had made it to Africa.

that's a ghost costume

I do like her little "how could I, I never" apology in the face of the picture of the Klan costume with a dude who was in the picture commenting underneath it "only a little racist, lol"; like, try a little harder ffs

I can't even

i want to go teach english in the beautiful country of africa

bullseye

Jesus Christ. That's..... next level

The Pan-African dream lives!

http://covers.openlibrary.org/w/id/6824041-M.jpg

Shopping while black: http://nypost.com/2013/10/22/barneys-busted-student-for-being-black-suit/

Good on him for telling the store to shove their merchandise afterwards.

Why would he keep it?

another article on it: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/barneys-accused-stealing-black-teen-article-1.1493101

If the cashier claimed it was a fake credit card, the only conclusions I reach are that they're either hella incompetent or racist, or most likely both. I've seen fake credit cards w/ a legit card number on them, during the brief year I worked in retail - most of them that a 19-year old would use are very crude and easy to spot, especially on the back. And I'm fairly sure they see no shortage of Chase cards in that place, to know what they're supposed to look like. Plus, couldn't the cashier have run the same check that the cops did? Since Trayon was there, I'm fairly sure all he'd have had to do was give permission to verify the account.

dude's only crime is being a Juelz Santana fan, but nobody should go to jail for that! fuck Barneys.

also typically fake credit cards often can't be scanned, they often rely on the cashier having to enter the credit card number manually.

he'd keep it because it is a cool belt, right

hell no

he would return it and buy it from someplace that wouldn't profile him

I can't think of any black person I know who wouldn't return the belt, because all of them understand that stores operate off of profits and oftentimes commissions and none of them would want that clerk to get any type of compensation for being a racist

stores operate off of profits and oftentimes commissions

That's the part I don't get. The biggest racists in the world will happily take someone's money and stfu so they'll come back. Staff of Barney's must've been really bored, rich and racist that day.

Yeah, I didn't think that through. No reason for him to keep it and reward a company that profiled him.

IMO he should sue for whatever amount he's suing for plus an entire outfit of his choice

Stopping him a block away seems really abnormal. Walmart won't even come after you if you've made it out to the parking lot. (IF YOU'RE A THIEF IN THE FIRST PLACE.)

yeah, I was being ridiculous, fuck em

didnt a guy get killed by a walmart staffer chasing him into the parking lot?

I think that's why they won't chase you anymore.

surprised that they changed the policy tbh

"i mean....we stopped the shoplifter, didn't we?!"

Walmart acknowledging that the crap it sells worth much, much less than civil suits and bad publicity.

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/244010/28/Walmart-employees-fired-after-stopping-robbery

not the same incident, but you get the idea

[i was jk]

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7150380032/h4849CA54/

idgi

guy is going to sue wal-mart and be a zillionaire, duh

Huh. Incomes at the lower end so meagre now they have to decriminalise shoplifting to stop people dying in inconveniently large numbers

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adult-Golly-Fancy-Dress-Costume/dp/B00DM2O4K0/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t