rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

just drop some regular rice on the floor

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i loled

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―  (gr8080), Friday, September 2, 2011 12:52 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://jezebel.com/5843637/college-republicans-express-white-mens-oppression-through-bake-sale

I mean, to try that in this day and age, you really have to hand it to them

if they were really accurate they would charge asians $2.50

def A for effort there

i mean you'd have to imagine that the college republicans at berkley have really had to hone their trolling skills

I'm just imagining david spade in PCU

isnt this something that college republicans do every year?

hopefully I wld like some cheap cupcakes

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001779438_bakesale31m.html

Are those prices based on some "data" email forwards or something, or are they a just a reflection of the hierarchy of races in the mind of the college republican?

isnt this something that college republicans do every year?

yeah I dunno why this particular attempt is getting press, think it's just cause it got the right web press

er press press press

i mean you'd have to imagine that the college republicans at berkley have really had to hone their trolling skills

being a republican in berkeley already makes you a troll, you don't really have to do anything

the UCLA chick who made that video about asians in the library needs to step her game up

I kind of wonder to what degree these people understand their own opinions. It sound like a terrible thing to say, but they never seem to understand the consequences etc. of such a view.

Interesting comments on the Melb Age article on this event.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-students-spark-race-row-with-bake-sale-20110926-1ks2f.html

Normally, you see Aussies defending crappy racist "jokes" and whatever esp in newspaper comments, but curiously in this one most people are angry about it, and one lone voice of (embarrasingly nasty) dissent is a white woman claiming to be from NYC.

No wonder the United States has lost it's hegemony in advanced education. They've been dumbing down the Universities and school system for the best part of 50 years now - as we have in Australia. The whole system has been devalued with this political correctness idea that no-one should get an "F" and thus we have the situation where 16 year-old are learning the maths I'd mastered in 3rd Grade.

I should have made it clearer there are one or two aus dickheads on there too (lol "Reg")

No wonder the United States has lost it's hegemony in advanced education. They've been dumbing down the Universities and school system for the best part of 50 years now - as we have in Australia. The whole system has been devalued with this political correctness idea that no-one should get an "F" and thus we have the situation where 16 year-old are learning the maths I'd mastered in 3rd Grade.

What does this have to do with racism?

Haha oh right it's a comment from the article, I thought it looked weird

you have lost you'r hegemony in comprehension

it is worth noting that the UC system does have not (de jure) affirmative action (there is a little bit of de facto.) so this is an affirmative action protest at a school where most of the black people are there out of sportsffirmative action - pretty sure most of the BCR are fine with the football team.

yeah not really sure what they're protesting tbh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_209_(1996)

The bake sale, run by the Berkeley College Republicans, was created in reaction to SB 185, a bill currently being considered by Gov. Jerry Brown, which would authorize California public universities to consider race, gender, ethnicity, and national/geographic origin in the admissions process.

no, they do it regularly

http://clutterinclarityout.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/jerry-brown.jpg

should consider eyebrow magnificence in the electoral process

hmmmm, this is a toughie

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/associated-press-transcription-obama-cbc-speech-racist-173438340.html

Via the AP version:

"Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do."

Hunter called the AP's version "inherently racist," sparring with New Republic contributing editor and noted linguistics expert John McWhorter, who argued the g-less version "is actually the correct one," noting that the president's victory in the 2008 election was due, in part, to how effortlessly "he can switch into that (black) dialect."

Whatever the reason, Hunter found it offensive. "I teach a journalism class, and I tell my students to fix people's grammar, because you don't want them to sound ignorant," she said. "For them to do that, it's code, and I don't like it."

It's worth noting that the same sorts of arguments arose during George W. Bush's presidency, with the White House cleaning up the president's speeches to make him sound smarter, and news outlets sometimes not doing so.

According to Mark Smith, the AP reporter who filed the story, Obama was making a point by dropping his g's, making the transcription a no-brainer.

I don't think it's that tough. Whatever McWhorter's politics (he's a slightly left-leaning centrist who voted for Obama, who unfortunately also sometimes plays a right wing hack on tv), I think he's a fair-minded, middle-of-the-road linguist.

I don't think that dialect is necessarily black and I'm kind of wondering if that was the real context McWhorter's quote was in!

yeah that's why I posted it here. personally I don't think this is anything but most of the posters on this board are a little more sensitive than I am on those issues

But yeah, it is not anything. More of a journalistic accuracy in quoting debate than anything.

Despite the outcry, organizers said the sale would go forward unless they were threatened with physical violence. Mr. Lewis said Republican groups from nearby colleges — including the University of California, Davis; California State University, Sacramento; and Saint Mary’s College of California — had called to say they were sending carloads of supporters to the bake sale.

oh my god...they're multiplying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5peC9wFu64w

http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/joelherrick/obama%20fried%20chicken.jpg

I would guess there's a 1% chance your average chinese person knows about the stereotype

I would guess there's a 1% chance your average chinese person knows about the stereotype

Is this racist?

yep

isn't China the place where they made & sold Darkie Toothpaste until about a decade ago?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ebKDFxiia8/TPfyKmogVdI/AAAAAAAAIn4/UQnLLwPdwHU/s1600/darlie.jpg

actually, it was Taiwan.

same difference

WTF why is Barack Obama making Asian stereotype face? I mean with the squinty eyes and mongoloid expression.

Also that changed toothpaste is still offensive to me, it reminds me of when white people could barely deal with Lena Horne.

Was watching this great video of Quincy and Herbie fooling around with a Fairlight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6QsusDS_8A

But then was o_O at the question at 5:20. Is this racist?

Actually, it's 5:05 or so. Don't skip ahead! Great video!

That was an awesome video.

The question itself could have been phrased better, especially since it almost sounded like a contrast was being made between "sophisticated" and "African". It certainly doesn't seem like that was the intent and Herbie gave a great response to it nonetheless.