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
― The Triumph of the Will High (nakhchivan), Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol all the guys taking cell phone pix
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
maybe she has a hilarious tramp stamp
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
one guy has the im totally gonna put this on my tumblr look in his eyes
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
i got your dam district 9 joke, icey
― horseshoe, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
~7 hours later~
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
haha i am shaking my fist irl
― horseshoe, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
thanking u
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
she's only in the first one!
Oh, duh. :)
i guess people sort of skim YA sometimes.
Possibly true.
district 12 is evocative of Reconstruction-era south black sharecroppers. district 11 is reminiscent of Appalachian coal miners.
I think you have these reversed?
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Saturday, 19 November 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
yes, you are right
― horseshoe, Saturday, 19 November 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
district 12 has enough references to the pale merchant families and the darker seam families for there to be a few theories about katniss's background/appearance. also, the lyrics to the hanging tree also seem to reference lynching: http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Songs#Lyrics_2
― gyac, Sunday, 20 November 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
This is like the opposite of when I read the first three HARRY POTTAR books and thought Hermione was black and was hella confused when I saw the movie poster. OR IS IT??
― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 November 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.observer.com/2012/01/gawker-blogger-fired-racial-slur-01052011/
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
Seems really odd to me that this happened at all considering like Gawker and TMZ are like dually responsible for the internet outrage culture of "Once potentially a racist, always a flaming contemptible racist." I figured dude should be like hyper aware of shit like this
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
I would not be at all surprised if the uproar was over making fun of Kanye's dead mother rather than any allusion to a racial slur, considering the linguistic limbo over the difference between "-a" and "-er".
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
the joke was really offensive and i do think calling a black person the n-word is a straight up fireable offense but i was more rankled by his no-stakes apology. "sorries all around!" is like an apology from that girl from ucla that made that video about asians in the library.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 6 January 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
also feel like writing a post on gawker about DONDA and not knowing that donda is the name of kanye's dead mom is a fireable offense in of itself.
it was totally about the n-word and not about kanye's mom
― we bought a zoo in a hopeless place (some dude), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
that is one statement I am happy to be wrong about
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
at first I didn't think it was that bad, then I thought if someone made that joke in front of me it would be pretty horrific.
― ain't nothing nice (bnw), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
the fact that he had to say "dis" instead of "this" to make the hacky acronym joke work makes it even more offensive
― we bought a zoo in a hopeless place (some dude), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
whiney, what do you think of all the "shit ______ people say" youtubes that are popular now
― dayo, Friday, 6 January 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
feel like you would like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylPUzxpIBe0
― dayo, Friday, 6 January 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
― dayo, Friday, January 6, 2012 10:24 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
The Stuff Girls Say with the dude in drag was pretty disgusting on some basic levels.
A lot of the "Stuff White Girls Say To Black Girls" seems more like "Stuff White Girls Say When Black Girls Aren't Around," which makes the whole YouTube sadder if it's accurate.
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
i think most black girls have had that stuff said to them by white girls in their lives. i think most black guys have had the gender equivalent stuff said to them by white guys in their lives. white americans are really stupid about race
― max, Friday, 6 January 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
except for me, im really smart about race
i have tons of bleaugh friends
but ur last name is 'racist' iirc. max racist.
― (๑•̀⌓•́๑) (am0n), Friday, 6 January 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
The Observer has just learned that Gawker blogger Seth Abramovitch was dismissed after a post that invoked a racial slur many considered to be in generally poor taste.
Gawker used to have such tasteful racial slurs, what happened?
― buzza, Friday, 6 January 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
feeling like gawker editor daulerio's twitter handle is kinda uh questionable in itself, in racial terms
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 6 January 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
but i was more rankled by his no-stakes apology. "sorries all around!" is like an apology from that girl from ucla that made that video about asians in the library.
"I'm sorry you were offended" apologies are the worst. I would rather have no apology at all than that because it is so insincere.
― Nicole, Friday, 6 January 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
xp @AJDaulerio? afaik that's been his handle for a while
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
wait, no, i'm responding to the twit conversation with 'pepper lebeija' linked in that article, that's not aj, my mistake
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 6 January 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
guess i much be an ignorant because i don't see what's racially insensitive about that
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://zionstrumpet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/frog_sofa.jpg
― (๑•̀⌓•́๑) (am0n), Friday, 6 January 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/59973547/Kermit+The+Frog+Kermit.jpg
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
― max, Friday, January 6, 2012 10:56 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark
I think this is true
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 6 January 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
like, is it questionable to name your twitter handle after someone who is not the same race as you?
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
eh, just a white gay dude using the name of a dead black vogue queen, for lols, is all. maybe not explicitly racist but still kinda dumb and gross imho xp
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 6 January 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/41001097/Kermit+The+Frog+kermit.jpg
l-r: frogbs, ilx
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
what if it's a white straight dude calling himself Princess TamTam?
― pplains, Friday, 6 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
it's like "hey, you're not that guy!"
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Kermit is a lot less confrontational than frogbs, also do not want to hear frogbs' version of the rainbow connection
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 6 January 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
"feeling like ILX poster frogbs handle is kinda uh questionable in itself, in ethologist terms" - a frog reading this thread
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
i cant pinpoint what exactly, but I do think there's something a little weird about my white friends who have like big afro'd black basketball players from the 70s as their twitter avatars or like https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1266476149/Picture_2.png
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
so you'd be more comfortable if they used Larry Bird or Dirk because they resemble them a little more?
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
luis suarez
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/angrycustomer.jpg
― the white plies (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, i'm not saying it makes me UNCOMFORTABLE, frogbullshit, but like elmo says, there is a little something curious about being privileged white male using a black person's picture to define your identity to the world?
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
what if it's a current black basketball player or rapper?
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link