rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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haha i am shaking my fist irl

thanking u

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?

yes, you are right

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

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??

http://www.observer.com/2012/01/gawker-blogger-fired-racial-slur-01052011/

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

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".

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.

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

that is one statement I am happy to be wrong about

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.

the fact that he had to say "dis" instead of "this" to make the hacky acronym joke work makes it even more offensive

whiney, what do you think of all the "shit ______ people say" youtubes that are popular now

feel like you would like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylPUzxpIBe0

whiney, what do you think of all the "shit ______ people say" youtubes that are popular now

― 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.

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

except for me, im really smart about race

i have tons of bleaugh friends

but ur last name is 'racist' iirc. max racist.

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?

feeling like gawker editor daulerio's twitter handle is kinda uh questionable in itself, in racial terms

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.

xp @AJDaulerio? afaik that's been his handle for a while

wait, no, i'm responding to the twit conversation with 'pepper lebeija' linked in that article, that's not aj, my mistake

guess i much be an ignorant because i don't see what's racially insensitive about that

http://zionstrumpet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/frog_sofa.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/59973547/Kermit+The+Frog+Kermit.jpg

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, January 6, 2012 10:56 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark

I think this is true

like, is it questionable to name your twitter handle after someone who is not the same race as you?

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

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/41001097/Kermit+The+Frog+kermit.jpg

l-r: frogbs, ilx

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

what if it's a white straight dude calling himself Princess TamTam?

it's like "hey, you're not that guy!"

Kermit is a lot less confrontational than frogbs, also do not want to hear frogbs' version of the rainbow connection

"feeling like ILX poster frogbs handle is kinda uh questionable in itself, in ethologist terms" - a frog reading this thread

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

so you'd be more comfortable if they used Larry Bird or Dirk because they resemble them a little more?

luis suarez

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/angrycustomer.jpg

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?

what if it's a current black basketball player or rapper?

i dunno, i do think there is some level of contextual difference between "i like dj quik" and "check out the way this harlem globetrotter used to look"

dude, Meadowlark Lemon was THE SHIT

whiney is my t-pain teddy bear avatar racist

your t-pain teddy bear avatar is classic

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

I feel the same way but I can't decide whether I'm right on or whether the impulse that makes me feel weird about this is bullshit white liberal angst