pryde.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
I guess you didn't go to school with asian kids of average intelligence
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
i'm sorry, i dont know what gets into me sometimes― the late great, Monday, January 14, 2013 5:29 PM (41 minutes ago)
― the late great, Monday, January 14, 2013 5:29 PM (41 minutes ago)
i'm not saying its a bad look, just asking if you're aware that yellowman is a black person with albinism?
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
I assumed that, but do you know for sure?
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a moron, it's ~the~ yellowman. going home now.
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
i am yellowman aware, yes
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
the majority of my tutoring students are asian and they seem convinced as a group that its going to hurt their chances of getting into good schools despite their diverse range of experiences
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
they feel as if they are competing against each other, something i certainly never felt wrt other middle middle eastern students
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
that is a nasty feeling that i don't think maps on to the standard angry white people narrative about experiencing affirmative action
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
maybe there wasn't a critical mass of middle eastern students!
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
― the late great, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:06 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well it's statistically true
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
is it racist that I will pretty much only play pool for money against Asian people
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, probably
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
you've gotten really good at this thread xp
― Mordy, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Don't worry, frogs, this exact question will now be examined over the next 215 posts, names will be names, fingers will be pointed, and there will be lots of FPing.
― NINO CARTER, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
named
more like a half-dozen rad pictures of frogs
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2713/4472019014_953fdd6c38_z.jpg
beat all you assholes to it
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
ribbit.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://img0037.popscreencdn.com/132500103_-frog-behind-the-eight-ball-pool-rubber-stamp-arts-.jpg
― Influential Acid Jazz Pioneer (crüt), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krkcs6UPNq1qze1jro1_500.jpg
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://i1.cpcache.com/product/340712344/otc_billiards_frog_wall_calendar.jpg
― Influential Acid Jazz Pioneer (crüt), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.vnaff.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Davidwong+frog.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/oxTF8.jpg
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/286/901/4ce.jpg
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
Called USPS today to inquire on why we haven't been receiving mail. Had friends and family tell me they mailed packages etc... The woman on the phone asked for my name and I said," Teresita", and she said,"You don't sound like a Teresita." I said um, that's racist. Then she said ,"No it is not because I am Hispanic and I am just making a generalization." I just said,"Why?" She said,"You sound Anglo, I sound Anglo too."
Thought that was interesting. I just wanted an answer about my mail, took almost all day to go down the rabbit hole of USPS menus and numbers...
― *tera, Saturday, 19 January 2013 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
USPS is turning into a black hole. I guess we should be happy most of the mail is still coming out on the other side of the wormhole.
― for the relief of unbearable space hugs (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
it takes a certain personality to work at a post office
― mh, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
The post office in the UK has a reputation for being a prime organising / recruiting ground for the far right. I've never been entirely sure why.
― Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
btw I made a new thread rolling 2013 thread on race and racism
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
nice, but still annoying that i have to C+P your name every time now, 乒乓
― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
haha why?
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
dude you are killing it with these essays:
I’m not with that. Not at all. I said a while back that one of the biggest parts of being black in America is being constantly reminded that you are black. That’s a clear example. Black is different, black is weird, black must be pointed out when you see it, especially when it contrasts with normal. I mean, white. It makes you feel like you don’t belong every minute of every day, like you’re an intruder in the only home you’ve ever known.
― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed, I think I just read three of them after that first link.
― mh, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
damn it, DJP, we're on the other thread now, stop luring me back
haha I didn't even notice, oops
― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
Removing the Bookmark from this Thread.
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpxF_ThMzRY
― how's life, Thursday, 24 January 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
what, against white people?
― pplains, Thursday, 24 January 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
I was trying to indicate that Nhex needs a chinese typewriter.
― how's life, Thursday, 24 January 2013 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'm guessing by the classroom full of maps you're an elementary school teacher...which, frankly, makes this video completely awesome. Now do the Roger Rabbit!!
I'm going to start demanding performances from youtube contributors. I love it. "Now make your cat fall off a table! I'll check back in next week."
― for the relief of unbearable space hugs (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 24 January 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://youtu.be/gl2AO-7Vlzk
I don't feel good about this video. At the very least it's insensitive/exoticizing?
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
oof, yeah, that's a little off.
― :C (crüt), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
i don't see it
― Mordy, Friday, 1 February 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
It's at least partly because all the really "bad" things are happening to non-white women. Which u could argue there are reasons for (more stable/less corrupt societies, more prosperous countries, greater social equality) but those reasons themselves are based in racism/colonialism so that's not neutral ground.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
I am conflicted about that video
I agree that terrible things are happening to women out there and that something should be done to stop it
It is a little off-putting for all of the terrible things happening to women to be broken up so neatly into different ethnic groups, and particularly off-putting for the white woman's sexual harassment to be in the form of a dude touching her hair but the black women were either getting full-on raped or having their clitori removed by other black women
I didn't get the dancing at all, or perhaps more accurately I think I got the dancing but the execution was blindingly facile and poorly integrated with the intentionally provocative and upsetting portion of the film; I got more of a sense of triumph and overcoming adversity when the women cast off the victimhood imposed upon them by the scenarios than I did from the celebratory dancing, which honestly came across like a bunch of ppl having a party going "yahoo! we made it and are awesome; pull yourself up by your bootstraps out of your terrible situation and we will acknowledge you as awesome too", or to put it another way the dancing-as-celebrating-the-power-of-women metaphor would have worked much better if more effort had been made to connect the dancing women to the terrible scenarios, showing them helping the victimized women and inviting them into their circle
Actually, and this may just be me, that lack of direct connection between the happy powerful dancing sisterhood and the isolated women changing their situations single-handedly struck me as so lacking in basic empathy that it made me angry
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
yeah what immediately jumped out at me was that it was posited as west v. nonwest
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 February 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
But then again why isn't the white woman getting almost-raped in an alley and some non-white woman working in a professional office job getting harassed by a colleague? Uh, women have office jobs in Asia and Africa too. It has a kind of gross "savages" subtext.
xxp Oh thank you it's not just me.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link