This led me here:
http://www.aics.org/images/aimaim.gif
I don't think I had every looked in detail to the AIM's logo before, but god forgive me the peace sign just says "bunny ears" to me.
― beachville, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
I may have just leapt back from the monitor, having spotted the face that they are being the bunny ears to.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
I think the fingers are feathers, not a peace sign.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://yourlifemoments.ca/images/moments/2010/7/EDMInterBroElectric%20LOGO.jpg
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
The 1's and 0's in the fingers are a clever touch
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
IBEW logo is one of my favorite logo designs evar
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
I'll go out on a limb and say that this article, published earlier this week in the online magazine Alternative Right run by the ex-editor of Taki's Mag and The American Conservative, and associate of Steve Sailer, John Derbyshire, Pat Buchanan, et. al. (group photo:http://www.hlmenckenclub.org/Home.html ), is possibly racist..
http://www.alternativeright.com/main/the-magazine/is-black-genocide-right/
― Campari G&T, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
Mine too, shakey!!
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
I saw large sticker version plastered on one of those temporary doors they put up when subway stations are half-closed for construction, took a picture of it, used it for phone background for a long time.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
This was after the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and the most famous raised-fist black power salute of all time, but when I was in high school in 1970 my older sister, who was in college, gave me a t-shirt with a blood-red fist stenciled on it with the words "On Strike! Shut it down!". This was in the weeks just after the Cambodian invasion, the Kent State and Jackson State killings, when college campuses all over were shut down in war protest. I wore it often enough it wore out.
I tried to use GIS to find a similar image, but couldn't. It was not considered in any way racist at the time, but a universal symbol of resistance and solidarity.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
lol not really the shakiest of limbs there, Campari
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
I don't actually have to ask, p. sure this is racist.
http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/internet-memes-he-doesnt-even-really-need-the-calculator.jpg
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
ehh, idk?
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
that's pretty mild as far as borderline racsity jokes involving jeremy lin
― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
"internet-memes-he-doesnt-even-really-need-the-calculator.jpg"
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Racist in a complimentary way
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
he got into harvard because he was good at basketball and not cause he was good at math
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
But all Asian people are good at math, that's the racist bit?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
"Math", listen to me
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
"Asian", listen to me again
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
yeah
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
He got into Harvard because he was good at both. (He studied econ.)
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but he had a 3.1 gpa, that's like the lowest gpa in harvard history
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
haha oh no it isn't
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
man I wanna get that AIM patch & sew it to my jacket but I get Is This Racist? racial angst about it
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
I don't understand that patch, why is the Native American's head made out of a hand?
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
Peace sign / headdress mash-up?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
'73 after all
it's a much-needed call for oppressed peoples to grow prehensile head-fingers to aid them in their struggle
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
that lin photo is pretty racist
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the photo itself is racist but the text implies that he wouldn't be capable of it if it weren't for his secret math skills
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
instead of, being good at basketball
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
like that's not even 'racist in a complimentary way'
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ it's really interesting iconography to me, I think it's asserting connections between the desire for peace (presumably shared by many who might run across the image) and the need for some sort of restorative justice for native Americans
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, last week I got asked if I was doing calculus when I was four years old. ¯\(°_0)/¯
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
Ah right, didn't spot that right away
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
plus also native americans are notorious jokers in photos and patches xxxxpost
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:20 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hahaha did you know all Jews are shrewd businessmen? It's true!
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
If you see a meme or whatever out there of Jeremy Lin playing upon his Asian heritage, it's probably a little racisty.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
Just tell me please that I'm not going to be opening this thread for the next two months and seeing fortune cookie math chopstick wong chong dong jpgs posted over and over again with "Eh? EH?" captioned underneath.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
it's racist to not want to focus on lin racism
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
now I want to read "lin" as "iln," like it's an anagram of an ILX board
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
I would love to be able to tell you that but trends seem to point towards exactly that happening.
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
this is becoming a fetishist thread
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
welcome to ilx
― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
I Love N...
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Was this some sort of Whiney experiment to see if ILX could go from a Kings of Leon video to the Moore's Ford Bridge in fewer than 5000 posts?
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 8:03 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark
racisty, imo
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
it doesn't take advanced math skills to beat jack black to the hoop tbh
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
― pplains, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:55 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
well, as opposed to everything else that is racist but doesn't deal with asians and asian americans?
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link