rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

that thread idea is soooo gay

The troubling thing for me about how the ghettohikes is less how it's presented than how it will probably be taken by a lot of its audience. Yes, the name is kind of offputting, and yes, the transcriptions are kinda blackface or something, but most of what the kids say is very funny, and I think the whole thing would be kind of innocuous if it wasn't for the fact that there was a whole built in audience of people who are reading this as "LOL BLACKS R DUM"

http://twitter.com/#!/GhettoBusDriver

now find one more and write a gawker article about it

http://twitter.com/#!/GhettoSommelier

I'm 28. I have a full time job bringing urban students new computers.

oh lol its a real twitter

now find one more and write a gawker article about it

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:46 PM

^ nick denton

The troubling thing for me about how the ghettohikes is less how it's presented than how it will probably be taken by a lot of its audience. Yes, the name is kind of offputting, and yes, the transcriptions are kinda blackface or something, but most of what the kids say is very funny, and I think the whole thing would be kind of innocuous if it wasn't for the fact that there was a whole built in audience of people who are reading this as "LOL BLACKS R DUM"

― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah but i mean...kids saying funny or odd things is one of the most renewable resources on earth, if a particular batch gets 'tainted' i don't think it's some tragic waste of lols to not look at that one stupid twitter or write the whole thing off as unsavory

i mean sure if you wanted to create a filter that allowed you to read it as "kidhikes" and found-and-replaced every "dis" or "dat" as "this" or "that" sure you'd have some decent guilt-free entertainment but is it really worth it?

http://twitter.com/#!/TweetsLMAO/status/157549013317586944

the ghettobusdriver one is obviously fake. the wildlife trip one, idk for sure, but it has the ring of truth.

"I drive a bus of troubled urban children (of all races) to school every day. I write the best stuff down and post it here."

maybe too pedantic but doesn't 'of all races' defy the proper definition of 'ghetto'? ok well fair enough, you're not a racist bus driver and most likely not a bus driver at all, just some guy with a funny twitter account who likes laughing at america's underclasses, good job

maybe too pedantic but doesn't 'of all races' defy the proper definition of 'ghetto'?

yes, actually they should be jewish

holy shit, the youtube wine reviews posted on ghettosommeleir's blogspot (titled 'hood wine')

xpost yeah but I mean tbh what's funny about it does have something to do with it being kids from the ghetto who have very little experience with wilderness, and my point isn't really that it should be scrubbed of any racial identifiers and made into generic "lol kids" so much as the fact that it sucks that a lot of people won't just read something like that with affection and appreciation as opposed to, well, racism.

@GhettoHikes seems a more plausible scenario than texts from Bennett but if they're based on real things the kids say they have to have been paraphrased into abstraction - it reads to me like a total BBC3 comedy scriptwriter's idea of what 'street yoof' say

like I didn't find texts from Bennett that funny (altho when someone - forks? - said something about it reading like a ventriloquist/dummy act it became instantly more endearing to read for me) but you at least got the impression that Mac Lethal actually took time to think about the character and get into the part y'know

it reads to me like a total BBC3 comedy scriptwriter's idea of what 'street yoof' say

IDK, it reads pretty real to me, whereas the bus one comes off totally canned

yeah ghetto hikes seems pretty plausible imo

although i bet the guy hears/types "dat" even when they say "that" sometimes, like that one young jeezy review on pitchfork

the reason it sounds real is because the kids actually say sharp, witty, irreverent things and not just dumb patsy lines

haha ok I didn't even look at the bus one until now

if anything that just seems like someone writing jokes on his own (eg the "start her car" one) then throwing them up on twitter

as the number of racist quotable twitters increases, the chance of a racially sensitive one appearing approaches 1

well 'not being racist' isn't really a thing you can (or should have to) applaud people for doing, not-racism is everywhere if you think about it

@shitmycatsays

I really wanted GhettoSommelier to be a parody

"I work as a sommelier in a michelin starred restaurant. I write down the best things customers (of all races) say

Ayo Mister, dis merlot STANK! Get it the fuck outta mah face, and bring me a 40 of dat '78 cab"

xp to some dude: http://gawker.com/5874912

although i bet the guy hears/types "dat" even when they say "that" sometimes, like that one young jeezy review on pitchfork

― lame adele rey (some dude), Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:09 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

iirc in the pitchfork review, he just said "i got snow, man" and the "dat" was just added out of thin air

oh right, i forgot how the line went. also i looked it up and it was a pitchfork guy in the voice :(

there is no way that @ghettohikes is real

Tardblog is way old, I'm sure I read it back when I was in Uni which was nearly 10 years ago. IIRC some of the stories were kind of cute if you take them out of the horrible context. I vaguely remember it had links to Tucker Max at the time although I didn't know what that was.

Oh yeah it even says '(c) Tucker Max' at the bottom, of some posts, ha

there is no way that @ghettohikes is real

― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:45 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why not? seems a lot more real than texts from bennett imo

there is no way that @ghettohikes is real

i was going to post this but feared a "posts very much in character" c&p

I'm guessing ghettohikes is "real."

Check out the Reddit conversation on this. Commenters are throwing out the racism card like it’s going outta style. “Urban” is “urban”………relax. It’s an entertaining read and an expected Reddit time waster.

“Urban” is “urban”………relax.

full title of the Das Racist album

"Mr. Cody, lemme borrow them monoculars, I think I see a pack of bald eagles."

*dies laughing*

yeah it's not that funny, which is part of why i think it's probably real

oh hey awesome not only is ghettohike on twitter but there is a tumblr

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lximlxAEjv1r9jpslo1_500.jpg

he must be really embarrassed that he typed "the cookouts" instead of "da cookouts" in that one

it's written exactly how a white dude would think black kids would talk.

there's no fucking way 12 year olds are cracking Jumanji jokes.

no one says 'where the cookouts and shit' either. speaking w/ a dialect doesnt mean that your sentences are missing words

I hear people say "where the ____" without a verb all the time.

"You fuckin' crazy Ervin, it'd be hard as fuck to pogo stick out here."

guilty lol.

I hear people say "where the ____" without a verb all the time.

― nah (crüt), Friday, January 13, 2012 3:01 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I've heard ppl say "where there are" and maybe slurring together 'there'&'are' like "there'r" but i dont think i've ever heard someone say "where the cookouts ...." and then just trail off. unless they had, like, a brain slip or were just generally dumb? idk i cant think of a time ive ever heard someone just drop off the verb entirely? it reads more like a baby's understanding of conveying ideas to me.

although i guess trying to find the logic in a racist's attempt to transcribe 'how black people talk' is the real problem

i've heard people say 'where the keys?' or i've said that, sure, but that's a different sentence than 'isn't this the park where the cookouts?' ... where the cookouts what? whereas in the first its implied that you're dropping "[where] are [the keys] located?"

idk it just reads like either a mistranscription or a made-up transcription the way it is imo

could be terrible punctuation. "Ain't this a park? Where the cookouts and shit?"

nb still horrible

i remember many years ago reading an essay about the transcription of working class voices in Charles Dickens and Robert Tressell that examined similar issues of a "neutral" representation that codes as mockery on the page. i'm guessing mr ghettohikes hasn't put any thought into this...for some reason

and this is the board where "where the tittays at" was a long-running joke