rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Know you next Tuesday, alright?

lol

https://www.thefader.com/2021/03/03/perfume-genius-ag-cook-remix-describe-music-video?utm_source=tftw

.@perfumegenius shares @agcook404 remix of "Describe."
https://t.co/iZusHVoxdp pic.twitter.com/MmmmEULOp5

— The FADER (@thefader) March 3, 2021

wtf is this

i have been trying to figure out what i'm supposed to be looking for

It's a video directed by a white guy featuring a remix done by a white guy of a white guy's song, where the white guy who is credited as the performer is depicted as a Black man who steals... whimsy, I guess? at gunpoint.

Yeah— it reinforces the idea of the "Black criminal" from the outset. It's...not good.

I mean, dude is also portrayed as a cross-eyed, dancing, limb-flapping goofus

sorry - i didn't mean to cast doubt on it, it does seem fucking...weirdly awful. i shouldn't have skipped around the video, when i first watched it, but i hate this music and didn't want to listen to all of it. i skimmed around and missed the context, plot, and the part before the masks go on.

i don't really have a good feel for how mainstream popular any of these people are, but the song seems to fucking suck so hopefully it will sink to the bottom of the ocean

Stealing Whimsy, airing Tuesdays at 9:00pm EST starting this spring, only... on TBS

I'm also just going to come out and say that as a white gay dude, I always thought that PG was precious and for the sort of white gay dudes who think they're "alternative" but are actually very middle-class and boring men who like buttsex

I was going to say "he's one of those dudes on Facebook with 850 shirtless white twinks and one Black woman he met at work in his friend list"

That too, probably.

Does anyone remember that indie rock video that was filmed like a Wes Anderson movie but ended with a guy literally shitting on another guy’s face and it was during the two years every music website was “sex positive” so some site was like “THIS MUST BE TAUGHT IN EVERY SEX EDUCATION CLASS”

I would like table’s opinion on that video too

Like, it was “precious” but also had shit play

Was it The Decemberists?

I can’t believe I found it on the first page after searching “best music videos gay sex”

https://vimeo.com/channels/1428424/200672866

“It’s educational, sometimes voyeuristic, and absolutely engrossing. May they show it in sex-ed classes someday.”

my opinion on that video was uh it was fine

weird tangent

but good to know that pooping on whiney is a nono

triumph.jpg

Let’s move away from literally shitting in someone’s face to metaphorical shitting in someone’s face:

DC got a new mural and I.......... pic.twitter.com/rfatnAeMfX

— Tiffany Flowers (@MsFlowersTweets) March 3, 2021

i legit just said "what the fuck" out loud to my dogs.

gah. there is a mural near my neighborhood that i feel rageful about but i mean...at least ours isn't that? oofffffff

a mural of RBG i mean

I keep going back to it and saying "who is the audience for this" and thinking the answer is "white liberals in my hometown"

Glad I live in an area where one of the largest and most beautiful murals is of gay communist opera singer Paul Robeson.

has the muralist had to apologize yet because i am already guessing what the apology reads like in my head

Paul Robeson was gay?

I don't know if he was bi, but he married a woman and had some p scandalous affairs with other women

Jfc that was an autocorrect. He was not. In fact, he was quite the opposite lol

i was gonna say that scandalous affairs with women are not exactly a sign of homosexuality if you're a man but it is possible i am underinformed

it is a sign of homosexuality when your phone autocorrects things to "gay" ;)

Was the autocorrected word "a"?

the algorithms know everything these days

I think what table meant was that the phone autocorrected "gay communist opera singer Paul Robeson" from "Gaz Coombes"

I'm trying to imagine living near a giant Gaz Coombes mural and for some reason the picture in my mind has the terrible face tattoos from the RBG mural I linked

it was probably "ag," tbf— I sometimes type so fast on my phone that I'll swipe a letter trying to get to another, in this case the "c" in communist.

i am, it turns out, very gay.

xpost DJP lol

Muralist left out the crying Santorum kids

At least it's her with a GF tattoo and not the other way around.

oh god

Ruth bader have my money

table's autocorrect changes "the" to "gay" which is why his real username is "gay table is gay table"

I'm also just going to come out and say that as a white gay dude, I always thought that PG was precious and for the sort of white gay dudes who think they're "alternative" but are actually very middle-class and boring men who like buttsex

― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Wednesday, March 3, 2021 10:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I was going to say "he's one of those dudes on Facebook with 850 shirtless white twinks and one Black woman he met at work in his friend list"

― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, March 3, 2021 10:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

otm. i mean i'm somewhat middle class and boring, and love buttsex, but god i can't stand this guy's voice lol.

I'm also just going to come out and say that as a white gay dude, I always thought that PG was precious and for the sort of white gay dudes who think they're "alternative" but are actually very middle-class and boring men who like buttsex

A gay communist opera singers?

Let’s move away from literally shitting in someone’s face to metaphorical shitting in someone’s face:

🐦[DC got a new mural and I.......... pic.twitter.com/rfatnAeMfX🕸
— Tiffany Flowers (@MsFlowersTweets) March 3, 2021🕸]🐦

Here's a Medium article about that mural

https://medium.com/free-thinkr/rbg-goes-to-anacostia-e9ca99b1a164