rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

Hmm I wonder

there's a thread dedicated to talking about actually racist things fyi

but i'm not sure what else there is to do besides say 'yep, that's absolutely racist,' shake your damn head, and move on

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115437/halloween-2013-poll-racist-costumes

43% of Americans say Halloween blackface is just fine

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I just want to know who these 21% of black people who are cool with blackface are, so I can slap them personally.

lmao at the political party breakdown

glad to see white people aren't feeling too inconvenienced by blackface, their signoff was of utmost importance

haha otm thank GOD white republicans have weighed in

should i tell my dad to stop saying "coon" to refer to raccoons y/n

nb i normally don't call him out on anything ever

That always amazes me when I hear Americans say it

Fictional Americans I mean

it's an actual thing that people say in a non-dogwhistle way! it's just jarring to hear

Just fucking pronounce the 1st syllable you lazy bastards, then you won't be using a racial slur! #protip

well then you have "coon-ass," which iirc refers to white creole types in Louisiana, right? I had a friend in college that wore a trucker hat that said "coon-ass" on it and I was mortified every time

when really they should just say this instead http://24.media.tumblr.com/d6b082611472398ac88d354ea750193f/tumblr_mtc1m85kli1s71q1zo1_1280.png

Just fucking pronounce the 1st syllable you lazy bastards, then you won't be using a racial slur! #protip

Sure, next thing you're going to want is for us to pronounce the 'O' in "opossum".

My dad won't stop talking about all the beaver he sees when he goes fishing.

lol

well then you have "coon-ass," which iirc refers to white creole types in Louisiana, right?

cajuns, yeah. there is apparently some debate as to whether or not cajuns find the term to be offensive but i've never met one of the aggrieved in person. when i first started dating the woman who is now my wife (who is not from louisiana and not hip to the lingo etc) i inadvertently horrified her by referring to someone (of whose race she was not aware) as a "coonass motherfucker."

Google Nick Saban Coonass and find this.

An African American coworker from Shreveport had a coon-ass cap or sign that he displayed prodly, so I don't think you have to be white to be one.

"proudly"

Just picturing a supervisor coming by and telling him, "just make sure the 'ass' part remains visible."

Ha. "But not just the "ass!" He displayed it at his home, not at work.

lol I can't believe I couldn't conjure the term "Cajun" back there.

http://i.imgur.com/TAb7cg0.gif

should i tell my dad to stop saying "coon" to refer to raccoons y/n

lol, and n

toilet bears!

a white sort-of-friend of mine has a solo shoegaze/loop project called 'slave names.' the name doesn't sit right with me but i don't know that it's racist. he has a webpage with only this video on the front page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SldZ-r5pHfA

Surely there is a 90s TV show he can co-opt instead.

toilet bears!

ikr??

xpost

otm. i'm leaning towards not overtly racist, but a really stupid choice. i'm slated to record and put a tape release for him. i really love his music, and i like him a lot, but i don't feel very comfortable doing it because of the name.

there was a VERY recent and VERY public incident with a local band full of actual racist rednecks called Dead Injun (!), who were publicly called out on their name/banned from a couple venues (they were always banned from mine), resulting in a ton of social fallout for me and a couple other people, therefore i'm really loathe to even start this conversation with him. :/

Cricket Australia seem to think all Indians look the same and a bunch of white people on twitter defend it and say political correctness has gone mad and how its only whites complaining and because they are white they cant be offended. The usual..

http://i.imgur.com/PhivY0i.jpg

They apologised and removed it after complaints
https://twitter.com/CricketAus/status/408399367381340160

backstory - last week an announcer got reprimanded after mocking Monty over the pa system by speaking in a fake indian 'funny' accent.

Also its been a real nasty series so far after the summers events.

ok reposted it here
rolling 2013 thread on race and racism

throwing out a flag: clearly racist

Tory party racist? My girlfriend is Chinese

crepe

“Conservatives are not racist. So many of the Conservatives have foreign wives after all.”

- so many choice quotes in that article