also Kanye lives off nectar
― summer sun, something's begun, but uh-oh those tumblr whites (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 January 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
mmmm, i would kill for some fried chicken right now.
― scott seward, Sunday, 29 January 2012 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
i thought maybe "fried chicken feed" was some weird australian junk food that's sold at food stands at fairs and festivals where they put actual chicken feed in a fryer and kanye's contemporaries here were a bunch of aussie bands playing the festival
― markarles (some dude), Sunday, 29 January 2012 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
you think too much.
― scott seward, Sunday, 29 January 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
Its blatantly saying "while other black rappers would go and eat fried chicken, Kanye be shoppin".
And that is the most fucking embarrasing thing Ive ever read but then again it is a Murdoch paper so why am I even suprised.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Sunday, 29 January 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
While the other black-fellas would rather go eat watermelon, the star of the minstrel show prefers to go cakewalking in his choicest finery:, a black derby hat, a carnation conspicuous in his button hole, a polka-dotted ascot and white gloves.
― Aimless, Sunday, 29 January 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
^gold
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Sunday, 29 January 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
Ah no I totally get that, but I hadn't clicked through to the article, so when someone posted the Sydney Confidential image, I though they were saying the picture was racist! Lots of "Is it the weird C-crossed-with-quote-marks?"
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 January 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
lol did this moran transpose "off-color" with "off-the cuff"?
http://i.imgur.com/em7p8.png
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 29 January 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
"off-collar" what
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Sunday, 29 January 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
he could probably care less.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 29 January 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
off-collar, the stain remover
― buzza, Sunday, 29 January 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
"off-color" probably not a wise way to characterize a racially offensive remark, but this guy has already proven that his aptitude for putting his foot in his mouth so
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Sunday, 29 January 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
it was a perfectly turtleneck apology
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Sunday, 29 January 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
I'm kinda feeling very minorly sorry for this guy now tbh, his remarks were stupid but he just looked like he was dumbly flailing and knew it. Which leads one to wonder how he ended up in a post such as mayor, but still.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Sunday, 29 January 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
dont feel sorry for him trayce
― #YOLO #NAMASTE (D-40), Monday, 30 January 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
Oh for reals i know its a wasted thought, I'm just soft.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Monday, 30 January 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
I'm working on a project that falls under Washington DC's Chinatown zoning overlay and has a bunch of signage requirements that go with it. This is an example from the design guidelines of what the city thinks is a good and appropriate sign in 2012:
http://i43.tinypic.com/vctboz.jpg
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
(insert comical gong sound)
― You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
It is food you eat with chopsticks don't you see?
― mh, Monday, 30 January 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
lol DC Chinatown
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
Home of the Verizon Center! And Fuddrucker'a! And, apparently, one apartment building filled with elderly immigrant Chinese.
I would describe that Ming's signage design as more as stereotypical than racist, in that it doesn't carry any genuinely negative imagery. Ain't nothing inferior about chopsticks. They're used daily by a couple billion people. The typeface is also ugly as sin and stereotyped, but it is based on the look of calligraphic brushstrokes, which seems legit, although very poorly done.
You seem to associate these things with truly racist images, like exaggerated "r" for "l" accents, comical slant-eyes and buck teeth, but taken as themselves they just look like crappy design to me, not racism.
― Aimless, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
I could care less
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, January 27, 2012 7:17 PM
http://www.incompetech.com/Images/caring.png
― am0n, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
aimless otm
xp am0n otm
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
btw that type face even has a name, 'Chinesey' or 'chop suey' or something.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes i make up imaginary american chinese restaurants by mixing & matching common name elements, like
lucky gardenpanda moonfortune housebamboo palace
so - is that racist?
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
Usually the English name isn't even a translation of the Chinese right next to it.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
Like it'll say 'Fortune Garden' in English but the Chinese is actually 'Pork Restaurant' or something.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
fail to see how that Chinese ad is any different from the Mexican ones with mariachis etc., I dont see Chinese people having a problem with it outside of maybe "come on, this isn't what our restaurant ads look like"
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
have you asked your chinese friends their opinion?
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
I don't have any Chinese friends.
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
oic
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
I used to work with an impro troupe that did a show in the country, where they got into a load of dreadful stereotypes with varying responses:
Italian accent with-a words-a ending like-a this-a and godfather hand gestures – uproarious laughter
French 'haw' noises and cheap gags about bread sticks – uproarious laughter
Chinese 'velly solly' gags – DEAD SILENCE
It seems to be down to whether the culture is *perceived* as a minority; to view e.g. the Chinese as a 'minority' in this day and age is condescending and absurd imo. Sorry if this ends up as another giant clusterfuck but I seriously dgi.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
the chinese are indeed a minority in washington, dc
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry if this ends up as another giant clusterfuck
lol no you aren't
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
French and Italian people are white, traditionally
― Number None, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
"there are a billion people in your country, why are you mad that I called you 'slanty-eyes'"
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
Personally, I think it has something to do with the fact that I have never once seen an Asian person act in this way
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
how many asian people have you met tho
― iatee, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
True, but I've never seen a French person wear a stripy jumper, clutch a wicker basket full of baguettes etc xp
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
where I live there's a huge Hmong population and the only stereotype about them that really rang true is that they're all really, really good at pool
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
well obviously that's a racist thing
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
well I wouldn't laugh at this either but the image itself is kind of funny
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
aimless otm, re: stereotypical vs. racist
still, even stereotypes that don't rely on "genuinely negative imagery" can be effectively racist when they reflect an overall tendency to reduce perceived "others" to cartoonish types
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
the Chinese as a 'minority' in this day and age is condescending and absurd imo
omg lol
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
So, is this where I should mention the all white production of Hairspray being performed in the Dallas suburb of Plano, TX?
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
wait waht
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2012/01/at_plano_childrens_theatre_the.php
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
wtf
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Monday, 30 January 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link