rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

also wrote an article for National Post this March solely centered around Israeli civilians that have been displaced due to Hezbollah rockets and their plight, while making zero mention at all about the death toll Gaza civilians have suffered whatsoever, or even mentioning them outside of referring to them like the entire nation of people who live there is a warring party. i'm good w/ this dude getting dragged

Forster has contributed an article that was published in both RealClearPolicy and Quillette

OK, all done here. Thanks for dumpster diving on our behalf.

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.

jacquesface

tipsy moosra

I saw that Sam Forster tweet and was waiting for the punchline... is that actually what he has done and written about?

I mean it's great we'll finally get to read about what racism is like I guess