Horrible.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 10:54 (four years ago) link
jesus.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 11:20 (four years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/12/entertainment/sarah-silverman-blackface-scli-intl/index.html
I think this is a ridiculous overreaction to a great sketch that was a top-to-bottom condemnation of racism and blackface
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 12 August 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
She did a huuuuuuge mea culpa for thatvepisode on her current show (I Love You America) last year, which was interesting
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 01:57 (four years ago) link
What's the word for when someone apologizes for something they shouldn't need to?
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
I was sure Chris Cuomo would figure into this thread revive.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 13 August 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link
Absolutely essential story: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 10:42 (four years ago) link
This cosmic balance sheet underpins the national conversation—ever more robust—about reparations for black Americans. In that conversation, given momentum in part by the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “The Case for Reparations” in this magazine in 2014, I hear echoes of Mississippi. I hear echoes of Hamer, the Scotts, Henry Woodard Sr., and others who petitioned the federal government to hold itself accountable for a history of extraction that has extended well beyond enslavement. But that conversation too easily becomes technical. How do we quantify discrimination? How do we define who was discriminated against? How do we repay those people according to what has been defined and quantified? The idea of reparations sometimes seems like a problem of economic rightsizing—something for the quants and wonks to work out.
Economics is, of course, a major consideration. According to the researchers Francis and Hamilton, “The dispossession of black agricultural land resulted in the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars of black wealth. We must emphasize this estimate is conservative … Depending on multiplier effects, rates of returns, and other factors, it could reach into the trillions.” The large wealth gap between white and black families today exists in part because of this historic loss.
But money does not define every dimension of land theft. Were it not for dispossession, Mississippi today might well be a majority-black state, with a radically different political destiny. Imagine the difference in our national politics if the center of gravity of black electoral strength had remained in the South after the Voting Rights Act was passed.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
I just watched that clip and loooooooooooooooool
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
straight outta that sopranos episode
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 13 August 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
I've never heard of "I'll ruin your shit" before
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 12:03 (four years ago) link
I'm simultaneously like "what ridiculous nonsense" and "RUIN HIS SHIT, CHRIS; STRAIGHT UP MURDER HIM"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
How to solve racism in 'Murica forever:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/15/white-professor-investigated-quoting-james-baldwin-use-of-n-word-laurie-sheck
― pomenitul, Thursday, 15 August 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
Sheck told Inside Higher Education that a white student had objected to her language. According to Sheck, she questioned the student about her objection, who said she had been told by a previous professor that white people should never use the term. At the end of term, the student gave a presentation about racism at the New School.
comedy descending notes played on a muted trumpet
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 August 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
or trombone rather
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 August 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
Ugh: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-gas-assault-mischief-1.5294412?fbclid=IwAR2WP-FrKOb62cgb0kOrGAsi5eHdTGTL2XfLBRYrfedUMRzqYju9uATB91o
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
That Justin Trudeau is out of control.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 06:49 (four years ago) link
Ugh indeed.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 08:34 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/09/26/newspaper-reported-that-mans-ancestors-were-slaveholders-hes-suing-defamation/
― j., Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
they really should add on to that lonely slave heritage statue that was an auction block: "the Tayloe family traded slaves here, probably still would if they could" and just let the lawsuits roll
― mh, Thursday, 26 September 2019 04:00 (four years ago) link
that case SLAPPs
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 26 September 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
otm
― mh, Thursday, 26 September 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
in all the right places
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 26 September 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
you guys, this story is like a series of racist nesting dolls
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/us/carson-king-aaron-calvin-des-moines-register-trnd/index.html
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
I have been actively trying to ignore it, as it gets dumber with every update.This is the best coverage imo: https://deadspin.com/is-beer-money-sign-man-sorry-for-old-racist-tweets-1838457224
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
ha
I can't wait for the editor's old racist tweets to resurface
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
It's a Gannett paper, so the salary is crap and the majority of the staff is probably below age 25. I give it.. a day or two at most
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
I can't spare the brain cells to investigate the entire timeline of this but at least one of the racist tweeters involved was 16 at the time? Do I understand that correctly?
Gotta say I'm glad there was no social med when I was 16 to catalog the things I firmly believed at the time bc the evangelical church told me to. o_____O
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Not saying 16 yos shouldn't be held accountable, just saying I'm grateful to be old.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
Yeah I mean, I think this largely played out correctly? Dude raised money, shit was brought up from his past, he gave what I thought was a legit apology, the corporate sponsor did the predictable corporate sponsor thing, the hospital is still getting money, everything is good and golden.
Where it gets funny is when the reporter's shit pops up
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
I feel dumber every moment I hear about this story, and never need to hear coworkers talk about it again, but here we go
1. Guy holds up stupid sign with his venmo address asking for beer money for busch light at state's largest college football event2. Fans send him ridiculous amount of money3. He vows to send money to a children's hospital, beer company says they'll match it and send him a bunch of beer. Dumb ploy makes good for everyone, ok so far4. Local paper reporter decides to check out guy before publishing another article, finds idiot racist teenage tweets5. Paper reaches out to guy saying they found this, deciding what to do with it6. Guy preemptively tells everyone he was an idiot teen, is no longer idiot teen7. Paper writes round-up on all that has happened, tries to make clear they were preempted7a. College football fans go nuts trying to figure out how to cancel their nonexistent newspaper subscriptions8. Beer company still going to donate money, not going to give guy free beer8a. Some fans with poor reading comprehension think beer company is not giving money to hospital, vow to never drink their beer again9. Reporter who initially found racist tweets investigated by roving mob of online college football fans, racist tweets found9a. Fans attempt to destroy reporter in addition to paper, salt earth
I have not worked from the office today and have heard nothing more
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
xp yeah, everything resolved relatively ok, other than the college football fans who are trying to figure out where to aim the torches and pitchforks still roaming around. apparently the reporter is fired now?
the governor was/is proclaiming a state day after the beer donation guy, but I'm unsure whether it was before or after the racist tweet debacle. I'm assuming after, because the governor is an idiot
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/from-the-editor/2019/09/26/carson-king-tweet-editor-response-investigation-iowa-childrens-hospital-donations/3780741002/
I'm hoping this dies, but I'm also wondering if the beer guy's going to be outed as the son of a racist cop
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
you get a milkshake duck! and you get a milkshake duck! everybody gets a milkshake duck!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
everybody IS a milkshake duck inside a larger, slightly more racist milkshake duck
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
it's completely wild to me that companies, like newspapers, let reporters use their existing twitter accounts (and get them verified) when they become reporters
and also amazing that people would want their twitter presence, including all existing tweets, linked to their employer in that way
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
I KNOW RIGHT
I say absolutely NOTHING about my job on Twitter and am prepared to nuke the entire account if I ever become famous and I haven't really said all that much that's controversial
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
xxp to djp, see now THAT i would truth bomb!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 27 September 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
lol this reminds me of my friend who is very good at many things but was very naive about social profile in the past. his idea was that he has no real regrets portraying any part of his life to the world, nbd
so he was a little confused when a friend asked him to remove pictures of her at a party at his place, or at least remove her name, but came around to it. the final nail in the coffin was probably when he absent-mindedly posted a picture of his new drivers license because the picture was funny, and forgot to obscure details. you've heard of identity theft? that's how you get identity theft.
I did say naive, right? going to stick with that out of kindness
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
looooooooool
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
The longevity of these accounts is fascinating. There have been enough times where I dive into someone's Facebook photos and then scamper right back out as soon as the sixth-grade church camp photos appear.
Not saying I'm without a little guilt: Beeps has already gotten on to me after she found kid photos of her on my Instagram. But Beeps! I said, that account is locked and private!
Good thing she hasn't found this place yet.
Anyway. Good thing this is an Iowa newspaper. Otherwise, we'd be waiting on "This just in... Newspaper endorsed Dred Scott decision..."
― pplains, Saturday, 28 September 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2016/08/half-of-wisconsins-black-neighborhoods-are-jails/495152/
Sharing this info on the Young, Gifted, and Black Coalition’s blog, Blank explains that he used the Racial Dot Map to identify where predominantly black neighborhoods—defined as “a certain area where the majority of residents are African Americans”—are located throughout the state. There are 56 of them, 31 of which are either jails or prisons. There are 15 cities where the only black neighborhood is a jail. The city of Winnebago claims it has an African-American population of more than 19 percent, but most, if not all, of that black population is located among one of four correctional facilities there. It’s perhaps no wonder that Wisconsin perennially comes up as the worst place for African Americans to live in the country.
old but, man
― j., Saturday, 23 November 2019 03:26 (four years ago) link
oh god
brad pitt jamaican king pic.twitter.com/dnOf9fw0f2— florence niggh (@ohfIux) December 8, 2019
― "Big Joe Fuck and the Bogalusa Maniac" (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 9 December 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
lol wtf is that from
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 9 December 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
meet joe black, whose title was apparently more literal than i realised at the time of its realise
― a synthesis of Trotskyism and Ufology (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 9 December 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
I'm wiping away tears at my cubicle from stifling laughter
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 9 December 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
Brings back memories:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwDgA9LUVMA
― pomenitul, Monday, 9 December 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
https://hyperallergic.com/533465/mellon-foundation-pulls-1-5m-grant-after-unc-settles-with-neo-confederate-group
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
Kind of glad I never did get around to grad school as UNC Chapel Hill would have been my first choice for what I wanted to study
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/19/us/wyoming-students-white-robes-and-hood/index.html
hmm
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link