rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

xposted from Tim McGraw thread: Tim McGraw Announces 2014 Sundown Heaven Town Tour

http://tasteofcountry.com/tim-mcgraw-2014-sundown-heaven-town-tour/

McGraw was 1 when when the Civil Rights Act was signed, and the closest "sundown town" to his home in Start, Louisiana was Pollock, which was like 90 minutes away. It would not exactly shock me if he didn't know what this meant, but I guess someone could have spoken up.

SAlso people will probably always say sundown to mean nighttime/twilight. The word is definitely not exclusive to racism afficianados.

I speak English and am aware of the literal definition of "sundown" — It just frustrates (but doesn't surprise) me that people in the country music industry would have such a poor understanding of the history whose signifiers they trade in. I agree w/Whiney: It would not exactly shock me if he didn't know what this meant, but I guess someone could have spoken up.

I guess

maybe i'm the real racist

Who knew Gordon Lightfoot was such a racist.

Don't talk shit about Gordon Lightfoot

Maybe it's the earth's rotation that is the real racist.

"the watchman's gone" off sundown is all time

kkkopernican heliocentrism

tell me about the word "yankee". if a person (white, southern) uses that a lot, is it generally a problem? i realise it's not quite a confederate belt buckle, but something about it.

that whole damn album is amazing, christ

come on y'all the word "sundown" is not the issue here it's "sundown town"

i hardly ever use the word "yankee" & i only use it in certain cases where i'm speaking for a particular point of view that is not necessarily my own. e.g.

I think most people from the deep south would think I talk like a yankee though

― Mmm yes hello (crüt), Monday, December 23, 2013 4:50 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but thinking more deeply about the context of that word makes me not want to use it even in that context. the extent to which it's hideously offensive has only recently occurred to me tbh. :/

Is it offensive? I've never taken it seriously.

I think it carries as much baggage as the knee-jerk disdain for "southerners" or the broad generalizations about "the south" that you might hear in other parts of the country. It's not really used above the mason-dixon at all, unless you're referring to the baseball team.

It's especially a non-starter in the midwest/west as there's no real historical context. I might be a yankee to some in the southeastern US, but being called such has no real associations for me

i will use the word yankee to refer to particular northeast attitudes, cultural phenomena -- i think it's as offensive as calling someone "whitey" imo

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/21/russian-socialite-zhukova-racist-chair-naked-black-mannequin?CMP=fb_gu