rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

so glad my work blocks these things, saving me from my morbid curiosity

i student taught in a predominantly black and latino public school last year and some of the shit both student teachers and teacher teachers said there...so i shouldn't be surprised. i'm not really surprised, just depressed.

write down shit they said

:(

i mean it's not even like it's rocket science to do this kind of thing without being a total dick -- like when ENBB used to post about the kids she worked with it always came off very humane and affectionate

https://twitter.com/#!/search/%40GhettoHikes

heh i found out about @ghettohikes via @menshumor

menshumor not all the same thing as menschhumor it turns out

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

what a profoundly stupid thing to say

yeah, now that I look back at it, it really sounds like hyperbole

xpost yeah uh i mean, i'm pretty sure there are some ethical transgressions here as well? i mean, it's not exactly a HIPAA violation but as using the kids you're caretaking as an explicit source of haha racial comedy is super mega shitty

maz whats going on on that dom tweet, i dont wanna click it at work

We decided on the word "tard" mainly because it is not a word. We picked it for this reason, and thus we can assign our own meaning to the word "tard."

Whatever mental gymnastics make you sleep better at night I guess.

hoo boy call me dim but it never occurred to me there might be a @womenshumor too

it doesn't disappoint

holy shit @ the thing jon just quoted

the thing about that "tardblog" is there is literally not a person alive who works with the developmentally disabled who does not blow off steam about his/her clients/patients/residents from time to time. there is a correct place to do that: with your coworkers. there is an incorrect place to do that: in public. and there's a completely inappropriate to the point of "if you're my coworker and I catch you doing this, I will risk total estrangement from the entire staff just to get you fired & hopefully brought up on charges" place to do it: on the fucking internet.

malcolm's annoying chair made me lol, and the kid who liked to nap on the bathroom floor, then i felt bad for loling and stopped reading

yeah i mean everyone HAS to have a sense of humor about their job and the people they're surrounded by on a daily basis, regardless of who it is. it's all about context.

Why do you use the word "tard?" Isn't this a horrible thing to call them?
We decided on the word "tard" mainly because it is not a word. We picked it for this reason, and thus we can assign our own meaning to the word "tard."

aero 100% otm here

already posted that above am0n

ok this then

tard: n., A student in a class that is set aside for children with some sort of special need, e.g. metal retardation, autism, behavioral disorders, etc, generally referred to as Special Education classes.

If you think it is a derogatory word, then that is your problem, not ours, and reflects the biases and issues you bring to the table, not us.

Oh so its OUR fault then, glad they clarified.

We decided on the word "tard" mainly because it is not a word. We picked it for this reason, and thus we can assign our own meaning to the word "tard."

this is disgusting

everyone knows 'tard is hyphenated

i fucked that joke up

this is disgusting...

...everyone knows 'tard takes an apostrophe

ah yes, the "i'm rubber / you're glue" gambit, well played indeed

maz whats going on on that dom tweet, i dont wanna click it at work

― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:57 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

some seriously gross shit, dont bother

xxp: actually I think it was funnier the other way

"I put on the manual breaks"

*brings biases and issues to the table*

Also if those are made up names to protect identies, I'm gonna o_O at "Kunte" for awhile.

Aw, thanks Al. I miss those kids. One of them msg'd me on FB the other day, I need to write him back. You know, I could start a whole thread just based on their facebook posts because they're hysterical, heartbreaking and fascinating all at once but I could/would never actually do that. Not even on 77.

kind of reminds me of that old "Movie Comics" comic strip that constantly used the word "ghey" and defended it saying "it doesn't have a meaning! it's a made up word!" which is the only way to make it more offensive and less funny

here we go

y'know, that "Tard" blog wd be one level of disgusting, but the sanctimonious "don't call me out on my shit" in the FAQ and elsewhere actually ratchets it up 3 or 4 extra levels of fucking disgusting

otm

yeah it sounds like it was written by a publicist. are there really two people behind that blog?

hate to admit I chuckled at this:

We are assigning the word "tard" to all of them as a way of classifying all of them together. For instance, when Riti says something about "her tards," she is referring to everyone in her class.

urgh, that is like this younger woman who a friend has been hanging with who keeps saying things are "gay"

My first thought is: People still do that? I thought, even outside of believing it's offense and worth stopping, that it stopped being a thing people said because it was in the popular lexicon foreeeeeever. I guess she's originally from a small town?

Then he said that he had mentioned it to her, and he thinks she keeps doing it to "mess with him." I think I find that even more offensive?

I thought "tard blog" was a Tucker Max thing that supposedly was written by a nonexistent teacher friend of his? Not even going to click that link to see if it's a mirror of the same thing

For instance, when Riti says something about "her tards," she is referring to everyone in her class.

when "children" or "students" or "young people" just won't do

that blog's been around a long time iirc, or at least a blog with that title.

it's like they're reclaiming the word for ignorant shitfuckers or something

tard: n., A student in a class that is set aside for children with some sort of special need, e.g. metal retardation

very unique new definition of the meaningless word "tard"

"that's so ghetto" vs "that's so gay"

vs "that's so retarded"

vs "That's So Raven!"

Considering one of the posts on the first page talks about using an Apple IIe with the students, I'm guessing this may be pretty old.

At least with ghetto, there's at least an implication of it being lower class or cheap or ostentatious or something that lives up to one of a half dozen stereotypes

As opposed to "This restaurant closes at 10PM? That's so gay!"

Considering one of the posts on the first page talks about using an Apple IIe with the students, I'm guessing this may be pretty old.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:33 PM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha maybe they INVENTED 'tard' ::chinstroke::