rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

anybody remember this fiasco?

Officers Ticket Drivers for Non-English Speaking

when I worked in a restaurant, racism was tossed around casually by everyone, including managers. which was interesting cuz the staff itself was pretty multicultural.

working in restaurants is a great place to meet lowlifes and degenerates iirc

worst 5 years of my life

Directing, most likely.

last thing he was rumored to be involved with was the Joe Esterhaz-penned movie about Judah and the Maccabees. I bet that goes over real well.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/parents-outraged-after-homework-assignment-refers-/nGHHr/

Yeah, restaurants are awful for casual racism. Have we talked about "Canadians" itt yet?

xp: that's not racist, just stupid/lazy

I had a third grade teacher that instead of giving us those canned scenarios for math problems, had us write our own. it was hell of a lot more fun working on problems with scenarios like

50 Santa Clauses traveled down the chimney one night
25 got burnt in the fire
How many Santas are left?

0, because there's no such thing as Santa Clause

Nice page code at the end of that URL there.

oh damn lol

DreamWorks gives Michael Richards voiceover work in things like Bee Movie & his asking price as a speaker is still 100k. "Speaking engagements" by dudes who've been as famous as him go on way under the radar afaik & nobody every hears anything about it & they net ridiculous money. Once you hurdle to "actually famous" you have to be an idiot to go broke, your agent will find you enough work to keep you rich.

is that in reference to Gibson

cuz if so I mean yeah dude is never going to be poor. but he is also never going to be a major force in Hollywood again

I guess he might become poor if he rapes or murders somebody and goes to jail

Michael Richards hasn't worked regularly as an actor since Seinfeld went off the air, regardless of outburst

I suck at math but if he invested like a couple million from the last season in a safe interest-bearing account doesn't that kinda keep the cash flowing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yizpWta-5Uw

the contention wasn't about anyone going broke, it was about ppl getting work after their embarrassing racist outbursts; at any rate Richards unambiguously apologized multiple times after that incident and it had about zero impact on people's hiring decisions re: him (ie, he is still getting hired by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and... no one else)

yeah i think w/r/t richards it's all-too-easy to suggest it destroyed his career when really, his ashen-faced appearances on tv in the weeks following his outburst were his biggest non-seinfeld roles ever.

i think aero's saying that they should have .... taken all of his money??

I guess he might become poor if he rapes or murders somebody and goes to jail

Yes because Roman Polanski is certainly being ignored these days.

apples and oranges there

I know, I know. Just sayin' that a couple of you guys are acting like its 100% inconceivable that Hollywood would ever even acknowledge Gibson again.

Polanski kept making good movies, though.

...and a lot of hilariously bad or ridiculous ones

brb gotta go find a copy of The Ninth Gate

Gibson's pissed off too many people. Foster tried to help him out and failed. at this point, the only other big name probably willing to lend their credibility to a Gibson project is maybe Robert Downey Jr.

xp

I think he's ruined because the industry of Hollywood has an image and a social narrative that it hews to really closely, and there's no room in that narrative for the redemptive third act of an artless/talentless, white, male, hetero, racist, wifebeating drunk - reformed or otherwise. "Industry Warmly Accepts a Reformed Gibson" is not a headline any Hollywood player wants to write.

all things considered, Polanski had several cards in his favor that Gibson does not

well liked by his peers, sympathy over the Tate murder, his amazing run of canonical films in the 70s, the ambiguity of the charges/public calls for forgiveness by the victim etc

Okay Shakey, the Polanski call out was just a tossed off comment. I do understand why his case is hugely different.

I don't really want to argue about this anymore becaue I too hope
Gibson is never heard from again, but I fear thats wishful thinking.

I think he's ruined because the industry of Hollywood has an image and a social narrative that it hews to really closely, and there's no room in that narrative for the redemptive third act of an artless/talentless, white, male, hetero, racist, wifebeating drunk - reformed or otherwise. "Industry Warmly Accepts a Reformed Gibson" is not a headline any Hollywood player wants to write.

― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 January 2012 22:57 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

idk wasn't there press of his kinda modest rehabilitation, w r downey jr & some pals at some award ceremony. if the guy was likely to make another zillion dollar faith movie or something i'm sure people would be all over him. i feel like there's a weird thing where he can now exist just with the by-now-familiar tag of 'asshole' attached to him, it prob makes it easier for him to occasionally be caught being an asshole w/o too much fallout

he had been existing comfortably with that tag since at least the Lethal Weapon movies, I don't see why he needed to escalate

lol

the Beaver was his gambit for serious redemption, and if it had done well/been good H'wood probably would've welcomed him back a bit - but that didn't happen

for what it's worth, I was surprised he sawed off his forearm for his role in the Beaver. how's he going to beat his wife now?

Important detail in the racist receipt story: “Some of the tweets I’ve gotten back are, ‘Why are you going to Papa John’s when you live in New York City?’” she said.

― the Smurf who'll snatch your money (Je55e), Monday, January 9, 2012 11:17 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'll admit that this was first thought too, I mean I know they have those dipping sauces and all but still

xp got me stumped

You gotta hand it to him for trying, I guess.

the Beaver was his gambit for serious redemption, and if it had done well/been good H'wood probably would've welcomed him back a bit - but that didn't happen

yeah so hilariously the thing that is keeping mg from redemption is the quality of his movies, the quality of movies that star mel gibson

Mel Gibson was in some very good movies!

I mean, I know he was in even more terrible ones, but still.

"some" is being overly generous, I'll give you "one"

i know its not a movie hes in but apocalypto is the fn best

omg I was just looking up his filmography and Mad Max 4 is coming out this year??????

(ya Apocalypto is fucking incredible, that movie should not work nearly that well)

isn't he making a movie abt the maccabees now, id watch the racism out of that

Apocalypto is unwatchable nonsense y'all are high as fuck

also that one thats all slowmo shots of jesus getting stomped, i havent seen it but its a p out there concept

u might dig that one shakey

"unwatchable nonsense" is best reserved for movies like Red Riding Hood, which I texted through this weekend

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