rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

I'm excited about this tumblr:

http://racistpoliticalads.tumblr.com/

or maybe a DJP/rest of the world thing, I dunno

hey no-one ever tell Dan backstage to "break a leg" ok?

http://gawker.com/5874912/

LOL @ Gawker's first "Is this thing that doesnt exist yet hypothetically racist?" post. Congrats, team.

― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:15 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

shit hypothetical white girls in blackface say to the internet

it's a US/UK thing I think

I think there is something to this... an act which would be racist/offensive in some contexts is not so in other where the same cultural resonances do not apply.

I'm kind of surprised by this*, as I've only heard it used to mean "to colour one's face", rather than, for example, the "adopt a comedy walk" end of the spectrum.

I can't think of an occasion (like, a potential real-life occurance) in which colring one's face to appear as of a different race wouldn't inately be "adopting a comedy walk" to some extent.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpp0akRxzm1qfumd9o1_400.gif

^ was always surprised they got away with this tbh

Is that Vic and Bob?

Also, am I the only one that keeps reading it as Eshitaki?

Vic and Bob as Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, "Just sittin' on the dock of the beaaayyyyyyy"

Man I'm not really questioning the racism of this, but its been bugging me so much. We've got this middle-aged white guy here at work that starts talking in, I don't know, some bastardized version of ebonics whenever he talks to one of our black coworkers. I kind of thought I was imagining it or mishearing him or something at first, but now that someone else pointed it out I can't stop noticing it. For example he'll say, "you be survivin', huh?" or "I can dig that miss thing" to our HR head, but he never says any of those things to white coworkers. Its maddening now that I had it pointed out to me.

Silly old fool

this may be a subconscious reaction in some people

I have a very good friend who subconsciously parrots back accents to people; this can get very embarrassing for him very quickly but it is almost always hilarious

this may be a subconscious reaction in some people

― frogbs, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:36 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i hear that, ribbit ribbit

Vic and Bob as Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, "Just sittin' on the dock of the beaaayyyyyyy"

― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:29 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, that's what I thought it was. I was wondering if they'd done other similar stuff I hadn't seen.

This is definitely not a case of parroting accents though, particularly the word choices he uses.

Ugh I HATE that. Especially when the speaker normally talks completely not that way at all. My ex-bf sort of picked up a "jive" accent in social settings around black people, esp women, and it was kind of annoying but he was younger and he regularly used slang and generally talked "younger". That guy sounds like a dorky dad trying to fit in.

I did that yesterday while talking to a white guy I work with who has a heavy, heavy southern accent. A couple of things i said came out really southern. It can happen subconciously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jvcMEG6kg

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/columnists/2010/4/16/1271445525521/FC-Twente-manager-Steve-M-001.jpg

^^ Accschent adopting raschist

I've been known to slip into a Southern tinged accent if I'm down in Texas long enough, but I'm really hyper aware of it and also its not racist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnd7NovxFsg

i saw this old SNL skit about Roots where US Senator Al Franken was wearing darkening makeup to play a slave O_O

<3 u whiney never change

The episode of Sarah Silverman's show where she did blackface was one of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen

racist

the only time I do this is when I'm talking with people from the U.P., having lived in Wisconsin nearly all my life I have this kind of "latent" accent somewhere that only comes out when everyone around me is speaking with it, it's totally involuntary

I have no choice but to alter my accent else (some of) these fuckers here in London won't understand me

i've had about four different accents growing up and can lapse into any of them very easily if speaking to someone from any of those areas

I could see where you could lapse into different modes of speech with different ppl, tho, that's not hard to do?

yeah i'm a terrible accent parrot, sure i've told the story about my embarrassing pronunciation of "five pounds?" at the Giant's Causeway carpark

feev pinds?

s?

sounded like Martin McGuinness getting a bit bolshy, everybody else in the car fell about laughing. totally unconscious i swear.

Both my parents will develop strong West Indian accents when they're around people from the Caribbean. As my mother's a middle-class white lady in her sixties from Chingford, it can be a little incongruous.

tingford

I once saw a brief sketch on some UK TV programme in which two blacked up minstrels were listening to the radio, on which some rightwing politician was saying that minstrels had no place in Britain and that they should all be deported to Minstrel-land or wherever they came from. This made the minstrels sad, so they changed to another station on which Al Jolson or some such was singing "Mammy" or some such, which cheered them up.

Was this racist?

tom cruise's irish accent is racist imo

L. Ron O'Hubbard told him to do it

I once saw a brief sketch on some UK TV programme in which two blacked up minstrels were listening to the radio, on which some rightwing politician was saying that minstrels had no place in Britain and that they should all be deported to Minstrel-land or wherever they came from. This made the minstrels sad, so they changed to another station on which Al Jolson or some such was singing "Mammy" or some such, which cheered them up.

Was this racist?

― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:20 (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Little Britain IIRC, so maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-zVlB4mvA

http://www.thesuperficial.com/halle-berry-my-baby-is-black-black-as-night-02-2011

if there's one person who I would expect to be totally tone-deaf to the phrase "black up", it's Butterfly

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:22 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

? i havent listened to the record that thoroughly but i thought this was an intentional statement abt performing 'roles' for an audience

I honestly don't think I could have been any more sarcastic in that post

you'll never know until you try

oh. idk what happened

lol went to bump the 'Texts From Bennett' thread RIP sandbox

anyway we've not done this yet have we? http://twitter.com/#!/GhettoHikes

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urban kids

if thats real its about a thousand times more depressing then the us soldiers pissing on the taliban guy video