rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

for some reason that feels a bit off in ways pertaining to this thread, idk

i don't know if it's racist but i'd say there's a difference between the million tupac RIP tribute shirts and a shirt that turns his face into wallpaper

i feel a bit off looking at it but i cant really put my finger on whats fucked up about it

xp the disembodied head aspect definitely comes into play!!

i think it's maybe just the reductive bubble head thing, like lowering a fairly tragic figure like tupac to the level of a fictional joke character like george costanza or something.

the model isn't helping that feeling

do you think there would ever be a "kitschy" disembodied kurt cobain head wallpaper shirt?

tupac crop top -> biggie crown top -> rugrats crop top

hmmmmmm

i could see a disembodied dave grohl head wallpaper shirt but that's because he's juuuust a bit bacony.

but even that, probably not. that would be on etsy, not sold through a huge retail store.

tbf, disembodied kurt cobain head evokes a very different image

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P5aavwpJ1Cg/TlInp4IJ_pI/AAAAAAAAAVM/bhyWZIX-eis/s1600/reception-miky-t-shirt-10109719_576284_1000.jpg

http://tshirtmafia.co.uk/164-215-large/kurt-cobain-forover-27-t-shirt.jpg

lol wow

jesus the entitled #gamergate fuckwads in the flavorwire comments bitching because they won't get to watch kiddie's tv at the convention so fuck you pc social warriors breitbart bleepbloop

#ressentiment

https://twitter.com/_RebirthOfSlick/status/519847201011683328

omg

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=539562929478172&id=273380906096377

The posting in FB about the event being cancelled and ensuing comment amusement.

Also, they've already found another venue and this event is back on, apparently.

I can't see the pic on that tweet and it's driving me nuts! can you explain what happened?

Good prank, tho.

I can't see the pic on that tweet and it's driving me nuts! can you explain what happened?

This:

http://i.imgur.com/NAhi8Ka.png

After this: http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/10/black-teenager-pepper-sprayed-home-burglar%20

Omfg

The Nickelodeon thing means there's an open lane to write a proper book

white female friend changes facebook cover photo to

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10177454_10205001526063038_225353347860812822_n.jpg

try again

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10177454_10205001526063038_225353347860812822_n.jpg?oh=62e39b721d30f3ac343839df162bf33a&oe=54B15C47&__gda__=1421903856_0dc096a028d3b9c931daf0996c54062b

question is not "is this racist" but what is best way to tell friend this is uncool

re: the pepper spray incedent from up thread, see 7:45 in the following

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFHpvPwq2i8

and to think 15 years ago this idea was thought so absurd as to be used as satire. dave was always two steps ahead of things

I dunno man, I don't think that's quite true - this shit had always been going on, it's just that social media now makes it much easier to get the word out

TLG - maybe she just really likes Oprah?

maybe

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/michael-essien-forced-respond-internet-4428143

i'm thinking yes

question is not "is this racist" but what is best way to tell friend this is uncool

yr gonna have to explain this one to me

pvmic

re: the tupac shirt, at A3C this weekend I stood behind someone wearing this jersey (except black instead of red):

http://picture-cdn.wheretoget.it/gzk9ip-l-610x610-t-shirt-biggie-smalls-shirt-biggie-smalls-jersey-dope-illest-hip-hop-biggie-smalls.jpg

ok so oprah heads all good i guess

what exactly is the racist part of that

oprah heads sound suspect to me idk

was bojack horseman racist

tbrr i don't think i would actually call that person out on the oprah thing, it just made me go hm

bojack horseman just kinda sucked, maybe it got racist after the first episode, no one will ever know

yeah I don't think the Oprah thing is per se racist. I mean at worst it strikes me as in the vein of campy Arnold from Diff'rent Strokes photos (i.e. it's "lol 80's media and hair" more than "lol black person"), at best maybe she just likes Oprah.

idk strikes me as lol oprah

its just weird

bojack horseman sucked for sure, and its main character is way too similar to archer

there was a discussion here years ago about white ppl using pictures of black people in lolzy ways in twitter profile pics etc

probably itt but i have no idea what to ctrl-f for aside from j0rdan

Ah I remember that

Whiney called out a dude for using a picture of a 70s basketball player in a way that was like "lol afro" and then all the white people on ILM spent hundreds of posts trying to separate their uses of rapper profile pics from that

still not sure if my T.O.P. profile picture was racist, though i felt validated when my mother mistook him for me

yeah it shouldn't be difficult to see why it's questionable enough to go in this thread, unless you're oh haha never mind

Whiney called out a dude for using a picture of a 70s basketball player in a way that was like "lol afro" and then all the white people on ILM spent hundreds of posts trying to separate their uses of rapper profile pics from that

― 龜, Monday, October 13, 2014 6:02 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looks like it was just you v whiney but idk i didn't keep reading. i dont think its weird to use a rapper as your avatar if you are a fan of rap music any more than it was to have a poster in your room of an artist or athlete as a kid (or a "print" as an adult, ha)—it's the LOL dynamic that makes it weird ... i dont really think this is angsty white guilt parsing per se. a person who only used white athletes in their avatar would prob seem a lil suspect too

rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

thanks for finding that, i had the hubris to try opening a 9400 posts here and then chrome took ten minutes to crash

everyone is racist

We get so bombarded with images of these media celebrities that they become part of our visual language. While it's probably worth interrogating how we use the images and why, it's not realistic to expect people not to use them. I mean these are media personalities, and they're full of camp and caricature. Maybe it's not cool for a suburban white kid to put Gucci Mane as his avatar or w/e, but if so, then why is it ok for him to drive around mouthing the lyrics in his car and mimicking the videos, or to listen to it at all for that matter? I get why there can be racism in this, I just think the average teenager gets sent a pretty confusing message about how he's supposed to digest it all.