rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

"white, sweet and loving as a man"

wait lenny kravitz is black

"this guy is not cute at all!" o_O

what is hunger games is it like twilight

not thinking lenny kravitz is attractive is like the #1 sign that u are hella racist

yeah the "sweet and loving" thing is insane, but that girl's words seem chosen at random.

Hunger Games is like Battle Royale

hunger games is a YA dystopian trilogy that is not entirely dissimilar to twilight

I haven't read it, but I was led to understand it was less pathetic and more bloodthirsty, like a toned down Battle Royale

Hunger Games is like Battle Royale

― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, November 18, 2011 1:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol i just read the hunger games wiki all why are there one million things w/this exact plot so dumb, but then i was like wait battle royale is the best movie

battle royale was only ok

tbf, Lenny Kravitz does have a nose.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Sulla_Glyptothek_Munich_309.jpg/393px-Sulla_Glyptothek_Munich_309.jpg

and pupils (though somewhat dilated.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoYzcbhE-w8

battle royale was only ok

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, November 18, 2011 1:15 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

pffft pffft post

I never saw the Battle Royale movie but the book was SUPER ENTHRALLING

I've been avoiding The Hunger Games because I wasn't sure I wanted to read Battle Royale Lite; having them linked more directly to Twilight is even more of a turn-off

the movie is great dan u should watch it!

I actually wanted to start a thread for a serious discussion about "movies that should've been video games" but then I realized that I don't really care about the thoughts people really have about either I just like interacting with them

i like the books, with some reservations. the way they're like twilight is the way a lot of ya books about a girl are like twilight: there's a love triangle. they're a lot better than twilight, like almost everything in the world.

TUOMAS OTM

very good find

I am a racist so if there are any other racists around we can just have the vid game/movie discussion in this thread and it'll be on topic

not thinking lenny kravitz is attractive is like the #1 sign that u are hella racist

― max, Friday, November 18, 2011 6:09 PM (17 minutes ago)

true true

max went gay just to prove hes not racist smh

'ringtone' is the preferred term

Lenny Kravitz apparently an apostate Jew, I think I am racist against him now

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.

OK, I didn't realize this, but I've only read the first one.

she's only in the first one! i guess people sort of skim YA sometimes. district 12 is evocative of Reconstruction-era south black sharecroppers. district 11 is reminiscent of Appalachian coal miners.

I never know when people are supposed to be black in books unless the book says "this character is black". "Dark skin" doesn't register for me as "this character is some sort of futuristic black person".

Haven't read hunger games

district 9 is an apartheid allegory

i do watch books like a hawk for race markers

lol shut up jho i am clearly invested in the hunger games for some reason

do you even realize what an amazing joke i made, do you?!!

I have never heard of Hunger Games.

But I'm still appalled that there are black characters.

gonna do a phd on this brb

recently saw a glenn ligon exhibition and holy shit the white people who were walking around and looking at the work and talking about all of it were just so fuckin racist, I mean museum chatter is prob some of my fav shit to overhear in the world but I was leaving rooms just to get away from people

why you gotta bring markers into this

so this isn't about romans.

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

Well, yes, here too. I meant acceptable amongst liberals/leftists who would oppose any other kind of prejudice. People here who would oppose any other kind of prejudice or racist language are more than happy to complain about 'gypos' or 'tinks' etc.

*masturbates furiously to pic of lenny kravitz, rids self of last vestiges of racism*

http://www.baltimoremd.com/images/anim/eyes.gif

I never saw the Battle Royale movie but the book was SUPER ENTHRALLING

the movie is pretty good, the book is better. I have no interest in Hunger Games, sounds like a stupid ripoff designed to appeal to um people other than me.

I was kinda shocked to see Battle Royale in a children's book store the other day. Like, really this is appropriate for 12 yo or whatever? (tbf it was on the same shelf as Tolkien/LOTR) I guess I read some gnarly shit when I was 12, I just remember this book being particularly brutal...

http://i.imgur.com/jWkZ0.jpg

Racism isn't even the biggest problem I have with that.

yah it begins sarcastically and then is plainly moralistic, that sort of stylistic miscegenation suggests the internet isn't even trying to raise its young content farmers

lol all the guys taking cell phone pix

maybe she has a hilarious tramp stamp

one guy has the im totally gonna put this on my tumblr look in his eyes

i got your dam district 9 joke, icey