rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Meanwhile, deviating from Thursday taco talk:

Joe Biden's America... pic.twitter.com/7CLTCafNwM

— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) February 22, 2024

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And yet y’all made Jesus white so what’s your point

— D2 - Duan Dempsey (@duandempsey) February 22, 2024

New man on the Woke A.I. Vikings

I wonder if there's any huge pop culture phenomenon that could have caused an A.I. image scraper to link dark skin and the phrase "founding fathers"...? nahhhh

Oh no, don't ask it for a picture of a mermaid

history messin'

History messin' is the best part of this. It sounds exactly like a stinger that Kelly would be say at the bottom of one of those Onion cartoons.

HISTORY
MESSIN’

Josh: at my nearest taqueria, "Mexican style" is their shorthand for saying that you only want onion, cilantro, and lime juice.

Their approach is generally Yucatecan, I think, but they'll make you an "American style" with lettuce and tomato.

I don't think I have had a hard-shell taco since maybe 1985 (Old El Paso, from the grocery store). So I guess for me, all tacos are soft tacos. As a result, I stopped saying "soft tacos." I just call them tacos. "Street tacos" is nonsense because I will happily eat a taco in any location.

"Street corn" is another matter. One can just say esquites if that's what you mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNGr_D2J9k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpBHc8px_U

whew, order restored

https://i.imgur.com/eGiLH59.png

Lionel Messin'

sleep that's where I'm a woke AI Viking

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Sheer brilliance.

at my nearest taqueria, "Mexican style" is their shorthand for saying that you only want onion, cilantro, and lime juice.

see what's funny is that in my experience, this is what you should get when you order a street taco, and what the taco trucks near me in Oakland used to sell as "tacos." Usually would come with a nice little bag of escabeche, too.

my god an image of a "founding father" that isn't congruent with the historical fact that america was foundationally a white supremacist ethnostate centered around on race-based chattel slavery

also wtf is with those fingers lol

re: woman pope - did anyone else grow up hearing the anti-catholic "pope joan" myth? it's so fucking grand guignol. if i didn't know any better i would've thought antonin artaud came up with it.

Some versions of the legend suggest that subsequent popes were subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a so-called sedia stercoraria or 'dung chair' containing a hole, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles before announcing "Duos habet et bene pendentes" ("He has two and they dangle nicely"),[17] or "habet" ("he has them") for short.

Black Vikings sounds like a terrible British current wave of post-punk band name

AI should stick to its intended purpose: Making ahegao hentai of the Wild Thornberries

Okay but are they fucking the animals or each other

the AIristocrats!

What would be in a cocktail called the Black Viking?

2oz blackstrap rum (black)
1/2 oz lime (for scurvy)
1/2 oz Cherry Heering float (blood)
rub rim with honey (Mead)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMA2Kc7TiO0

Seth MacFarlane is producing this I'm sure he'll keep everything above board

They roped Steph Curry into slapping his name on this? It also says Norman Lear is producing and he even got higher billing than McFarlane, in spite of the fact he's dead.

Ouija-ing it in

Animation famously takes three months total from pitch to screen.

Lear because he produced the original Good Times, I presume.

Yeah, it's like how anytime anyone makes a Halloween thing they have to cut John Carpenter a check, or how anytime anyone makes an Alien thing they have to cut Walter Hill a check.

yes this ought to fix everything pic.twitter.com/bAGJCi1ZRt

— kep (@keplyq) May 28, 2024

Why did I read this at work

I’m going to have to explain to my coworkers why I’m making this face

is the argument that people who object to them hitting their kids are being implicitly racist against people of colour, because people of colour are more likely to hit their kids, or that people who object to them hitting their kids are being racist against whites, because they're getting flack that non-white people don't get for doing the same thing?

why can't it be both

it's basically claiming it's a racist double standard, which is of course nonsense

The convoluted thinking and absurd racist claims from that couple are pretty gobsmacking. I mean everyone rationalizes, but not everyone rationalizes so fucking awfully.

Not at all gobsmacking, the dumbest people on earth will be lining up to high five them for so thoroughly owning the libs.

Guarantee Elon Musk has forwarded that link to all eight of his baby mamas.

the "tu quoque" line of arguing is always suspect, like, when minorities claim racist double standards, they're usually talking about things that actually not a big deal that they get disproportionate criticism for while white people get none.

they're not saying "WELL YEAH I MURDERED SOMEONE AT A CHUCK E CHEESE BUT IT'S OK BECAUSE OTHER RACES MURDER AND NOBODY CRITICIZES THEM FOR KILLING PEOPLE". not to mention, Adrian Peterson's child abuse got him indicted and his career destroyed, so, uhm, yeah, people do actually care about it, beating your kid like is actually illegal, and AP probably got way more flack than a white player would have gotten in the same circumstance.

Adrian Peterson came to mind immediately for me, too

I’m going to have to explain to my coworkers why I’m making this face

― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Tuesday, May 28, 2024 2:27 PM

They must be used to seeing it by now.

I'm literally stunned by this. Like how grown-in-a-vat/raised-in-an-underground-bunker sheltered do you have to be to have thought this was a good idea? Sorry, just being Canadian doesn't come close to covering it.

http://x.com/ForsterSam/status/1795492082636795958

For those who can't see it, the tweet reads: "Last summer, I disguised myself as a Black man and traveled throughout the United States to document how racism persists in American society.

Writing Seven Shoulders was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done as a journalist.

It’s out on May 30th"

And here's a picture of Mr. Blackface himself:

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1223685835213635585/AtC1SVQN_400x400.jpg

FTR, the Amazon description of his booky wook contains the phrase "...in order to taxonomize the various types of racism that persist in modern America." Ooh! Ooh! I bet I know which one he decided was the worst!

Black Like Me 2 wasn't a sequel I expected this year

the Amazon description of his book also includes the sentence "Seven Shoulders is the most important book on American race relations that has ever been written", so I don't think he's oblivious, just trolling

it only being 193 pages means it's going to be less an analysis more than a personal log recording one sentence descriptions of discrimination he faced while in "disguise", like here a racism, there a racism, everywhere a racism

uh

even Rachel Dolezal is like “dude no”

That’s funny, I have a sort of similar pitch I’m trying to sell where I travel around Canada discreetly disguised as a moose.

Forster has contributed an article that was published in both RealClearPolicy and Quillette about the movie Joker and white people committing crimes that suggests to me this dude has the intelligence of a peanut