rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

here's a good article about "ethnic type" (as in fonts), including chop suey/"chinesey" fonts: http://www.printmag.com/Article/Stereo_Types

Awesome!

This week I went to a Chinese-themed bar with all Asian-ethnic employees, full of signs with that Chinesey font but with words in pinyin! So stuff like "NI HAO" and "XIE XIE", but written in chop suey. Clear did my head in.

id say the black keys thing is suspect since youre looking at a white band that plays to largely white audiences using a black man to sell their product to white people on his public dancing of which their is a long tradition of that sort of thing. the weird racial issue abt it feels obvious

i agree w/ crut about 'boy' likely not hitting them, but it does feel like his race is tied up in the 'interesting'-ness of the video i guess you could say

oh, Katie....

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2011/11/dont-worry-katie.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roiphe/2011/11/the_99_percent_takes_over_brooklyn.html

(tho not racism-related, I really like Glenn Kenny's concluding story about Carly Simon's sister)

http://gawker.com/5856541/texas-legislator-tells-insurance-companies-to-stop-jewing-his-constituents

yes, yes it is

I am totally reporting that guy to the Elders of Zion. He'll be out of a job within the week.

Man he's gonna feel so gypped.

The "gypped" thing... I have no idea how it got introduced to American slang, but it's unfortunate. I don't think I've ever encountered more than three or four people who knew its source.

Now, the dude I went to college with who was kind of a shlubby middle-american type who said something about how "he jewed me out of five dollars," on the other hand, kind of got knee-jerk punched by me. It was some sort of automatic reaction I didn't even know I had. And you know what? He had NEVER REALIZED THE CONNECTION. Like he had no idea it was racist.

I think Texas dude is probably utterly clueless but he should fucking know better. Since he's in an elected position.

http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=5711841&ct=7167457

xp: I know I was saying gypped from elementary school until I reached college and made a friend of Romani ancestry who told me about it. He was pretty forgiving about it, but I did stop using it.

man I never made the gypped/gypsy connection till now. whoops.

yeah i always thought of it as 'jipped' even if i'd only really heard it spoken and not read or wrote it out

I think the majority of people in the US really have absolutely no idea, what with it being more of a notional idea. I had to correct a friend who was leading kind of a wandering lifestyle as she said something about 'being somewhat of a gypsy." I think I volunteered "nomad."

is it me or do Asian epithets seem to go by more and more these days without reprisal? just seems how a lot of people in this area have deemed it acceptable territory........

a lot of the asian-american kids I know make asian jokes to the point where I get uncomfortable

wayneandwax wayne marshall
did one of my students really write "black face menstrual shows"? #yikes #hopethatwasautocorrect
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I think more Americans probably connect "gypsy" with the notion of Stevie Nicks than they would with any ethnic group.

As in the common colloquial phrase, "I really feel Stevie Nicksed on that deal"

I think more Americans probably connect "gypsy" with the notion of Stevie Nicks than they would with any ethnic group.

signs you're spending too much time on ilx

No but really, I bet there's a bunch of people think that "gypsy" is a lifestyle choice or something.

im a gypsy rasta, dont h8

Anti-Roma hatred, even among 'enlightened leftists' in Britain, is the last acceptable bigotry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkC9cK8Hz0

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can't wait for the english version to come out!

lulienlaluna 1 day ago 42

Idk just listened to that for the first time, more than half of the lyrics pass me by, I can't hear what he's saying. I know nothing about his "flow" or image, if he's difficult to understand more often that youtube comment seems like an innocent pun to me?

It's the edited version so 30% of the words are missing, rendering it unintelligible. Not sure that was what the commenter was getting at though. Maybe they mean a version where the main basketball metaphor is replaced by one from netball or field hockey.

u need to lulienlaluna if they are a racist

in america there's this idea that anything that isn't proper white person english isn't english

u need to ask them if they are american too

i would guess they were from the land of big bottom birds judged by that comment btw

the english versioun

http://shop.lululemon.com/products/clothes-accessories/men-tops/Pacific-Run-Long-Sleeve-28632?cc=9547&skuId=3431023&catId=men-tops

Check out the different colour options for this shirt...

Yeah, kinda racist that they use a black guy to model a black shirt when they don't use a plum heathered dark slate wee stripe guy to model a plum heathered dark slate wee stripe shirt

"once our internal temperature heats up"

^ take it to the grammar thread

I'm not sure if it's racist, I just thought it was an odd choice to have the same white model for the other three colours, but when you click "black" you get a black model.

It's ill advised I think

What's weird is that the "black" shirt worn by the black man isn't actually black! It's more grey isn't it?

it's lighter than the other grey shirt!

Yeah, it's weird the other two grey shirts are called "dark slate heathered dark slate classic stripe" and "black herringbone", but that one is just "black" (instead of "black TV static" or whatever would be appropriate). That's why it feels like some ill-thought joke.

Anti-Roma hatred, even among 'enlightened leftists' in Britain, is the last acceptable bigotry.

surprisingly and worryingly true in Ireland as well. When EU enlargement happened in 2002 or whenever, news people considered it perfectly reasonable to ask ministers whether this would mean that Ireland would be flooded by Roma.

More recently a prominent commentator and moron in one of our more reprehensible newspapers has been ranting about how his area of Dublin has been taken over by Roma beggars. Apparently there were no beggars in Ireland before Roma immigration.

come come there's lots of acceptable bigotries in ireland!

thought the revive was going to be about this

http://www.racialicious.com/2011/11/15/yes-there-are-black-people-in-your-hunger-games-the-strange-case-of-rue-cinna/

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6031/6345630935_451525e36c.jpg

wow I hate ppl

(just saying wht everyone is thinking)

i thought it'd be about terry/suarez/blatter

the reaction to the lenny kravitz casting makes me hate people, but the reaction to the rue casting is mindboggling. she's very clearly black in the book.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6054/6345681315_f615461e93.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6345681325_e35948c511.jpg

"Ew,"

does hollywood actress or not?!!!!!!

?!... ?!!!!!!

just saying wht everyone is thinking?!?!?!?!!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

dying at the number of people who have no clue who lenny kravitz is either, definitely this is young adult fiction