rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

I will co-sign that 100%

idk, i guess privileged cis white gay dudes laying claim to a trans PoC culture as 'their own' is kinda bothersome to me?

i blame madonna.

besides just saying "it's a little curious" why don't you just point out what you think these people are trying to say? like almost all this is is either "I like this guy" or "I think this picture is cool". do you really have to point out "there's a 1% chance this is actually racist, so I'm going to call this out?"

i can't read seth abromavitch's name w/o hearing it in the voice of bobby moynihan saying "gary abromowitz"

'laying claim' or 'i like this'?

oh shit i asked what frogbs asked

don't tell me that you understand/'til you suggest ban

idk, i guess privileged cis white gay dudes laying claim to a trans PoC culture as 'their own' is kinda bothersome to me?

dunno why its necessary to point out all the time "White guys are priviledged! Black guys are not!" but IMO this really seems like looking way too deep into something that is not that significant in the first place. do people really pick their twitter avatar because they want to say "This is me, this is my culture, this is how I grew up, and this is the level of priveledge I have"?

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"

― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, January 6, 2012 12:29 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

well, what's the difference between "I like rap music" and "I like 70s basketball style"

some people think that people in the 70's looked "funny"

^

dunno why its necessary to point out all the time "White guys are priviledged! Black guys are not!"

I know that you don't know why, and won't know why, but it is necessary to point this out all the time. It will no longer be necessary when white ppl don't have all the privilege. You're welcome.

http://cdn.mumbrella.com.au/2010/01/Trading-Post-teaser-232x350.jpg

I know that you don't know why, and won't know why

probably should have just stopped there before you said something stupid

xp omg haha

iconic

Will I offend anyone using that picture as my twitter avatar?

full confession: I briefly had Dock Ellis's baseball card as a myspace band avatar for awhile way back when

well that certainly is a frog of priviledge

damn, almost had whiney calling out half the goon crew as being racist

it is necessary to point this out all the time. It will no longer be necessary when white ppl don't have all the privilege. You're welcome.

we're talking about twitter avatars (of people who are richer, more famous, and more talented than us). kinda strikes me as the kind of thing that ONLY white people would have a problem with.