rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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.

no one is richer, more famous, or more talented than me frog b, I don't know what world you live in

dock ellis is totally more talented than you aero, sorry

I pitch no-hitters on acid all day it's just nobody reports it

i see we have a nice shitstorm brewing and i'll let you get on with it, but with the case of 'pepper lebeija' twit handle i guess for me it comes down to reducing trans people of color to objects of amusement? or more generally how paris is burning is largely seen as little more than a fun quotable 'gay' movie, rather than an enthographic documentary of an extremely marginal community?

so if my avatar is Kobe Bryant, does that say to you, "people like Kobe are just objects of amusement"?

yours personally? yes

I'm not removing my Eddie Hazel avatars for anyone.

hope you don't have a problem with my new DN

it's kinda blah

That goat looks sort of happy so I object to any use of it as an avatar.

I'm not removing my Eddie Hazel avatars for anyone.

― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, January 6, 2012 10:23 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lool

yo, what are the implications of having a varg vikernes avatar? that's cool rite?

ok obv nobody else is gonna say it

no

no, that's not cool mordy

i'm sorry

lol missed you frogg

also it's not clear to me you tried at all to understand the specificity of elmo's observation; it's not really transportable to kobe bryant.

'well all black ppl are p much the same, right?'

not ALL white ppl are privileged and not ALL black ppl are underprivileged, guys

so if my avatar is Kobe Bryant, does that say to you, "people like Kobe are just objects of amusement"?

― frogbs, Friday, January 6, 2012 1:18 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

god this isn't that hard, there is a (usually p obvious) difference between liking/appreciating/being a fan of someone and using their image for ironic lols in a way that is racialized or playing off stereotypes

gr8: i don't really know what you're about but i'll assume you're not joking. there are all sorts of types of privilege -- all people who pass for white have white privilege over those who don't. this doesn't mean they have every privilege.

just lol'd so hard darr

hard lol'ing. it hurts.

help.

then i'm going to assume i had a wrong read on gr8 and wrongfully responded to a comment made by a million people every day

i'm very sorry mordy

u aren't darr! continue to fight the good fight

oh lol didn't see that

god this isn't that hard, there is a (usually p obvious) difference between liking/appreciating/being a fan of someone and using their image for ironic lols in a way that is racialized or playing off stereotypes

i don't see an image there, the guy's name is just "Pepper LaBeija". not sure where the ironic lols are coming from. it is because he is not, in fact, Pepper LaBeija?

Because the name implies it's a black man who dresses as a woman and it's actually a white man who dresses as a man?

I mean, unless you're using some new definition, that is textbook irony

well, my twitter handle implies that I'm an owl (actually, I'm human)

IMO people who name themselves after a celebrity don't really imply anything but them being a fan of that celebrity

also it's not clear to me you tried at all to understand the specificity of elmo's observation; it's not really transportable to kobe bryant.

is there any way I can explain this that won't have people jumping down my throat?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/08/28/frog1.jpg

xpost: no, but please keep trying :-)

think there's a frog in yr throat

I see a CRUCIFIED FROG and I'm like "why a cup? why an egg?"

yo, what are the implications of having a varg vikernes avatar? that's cool rite?

― Mordy, Friday, January 6, 2012 10:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok obv nobody else is gonna say it

no

no, that's not cool mordy

i'm sorry

― carpy deems (darraghmac), Saturday, January 7, 2012 1:57 AM (14 hours ago)

not even the shopped pic of varg with the cat?

ironic fetishization of an unrepentant racist is one of hipsterdom and ILX's lowest moments

^^^^^^^^

and liverpool's

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/054/743/2987957120110724-22047-8avbwa.jpg

ironic fetishization of an unrepentant racist is one of hipsterdom and ILX's lowest moments

― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, January 7, 2012 4:20 PM (2 hours ago)

How do you know the cat is racist?

the fact that ilx'ers keep getting trolled by varg references blows my mind

sandy varginas

Taken last week in a seaside town in England:

http://i41.tinypic.com/2q2k5qa.jpg

'LOVELY GOLLIES'