rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

probably after that ohio zoo incident

jumanji still gets played on like abc family all the time, it's obviously not a lion king-level evergreen kids' movie but i think plenty of present day kids are familiar with it

who's the second ween jingle being racist towards? sounds like a vaguely north of england accent with some other stuff mixed in to me.

it's racist against cheese-loving mice

"You should bring girls out here to nature, Mr. Cody. Sing Kumbaya or some shit and just watch the pants drop."

insufficiently "ghetto"

what about the Seinfeld episode where Kramer meets the Japanese tourists and has them sleeping in his "chest of drawers"?

haha you just had to pick one of the seinfeld episodes that is more about unquestioningly reinforcing stereotypes rather than deconstructing them, didn't you dude

oh n/m haha i thought we were on the 'best sitcom episode ever' thread, me dumb

lolllllllllllllll

haha

I don't think the vernacular in question is technically "dialect" /pedant /possiblywrongpedant

http://i.imgur.com/aw23j.jpg

um

that probably belongs in the bizarre stock images thread
like, what kind of company could possibly want that?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/60-completely-unusable-stock-photos

that's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet

Oh shit, it is. Good call.

I knew that and still

he's black because he fell down the chimney (which is also how he got his afro)

http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2011/3/29/17/enhanced-buzz-14896-1301433687-7.jpg

I am just gonna link this without commentary (I know it's not applicable to the thread)

increase profits w/ pineapple man

xp ha you would think, right?

lol britain ca. 1995

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Lee_(footballer)

that stock photo article is one of the greatest things ever. the only one that made sense was the future lady injecting the corn

the old people w/ the rabbit might be my fav

omg that wikipedia article

I don't think the vernacular in question is technically "dialect" /pedant /possiblywrongpedant

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idk i'm not a linguist, so this was based on my passing attempt to understand how this stuff works from context, but how do you mean?

as usual ,white kids make acoustic cover of viral video...racist? you make the call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoo8K0C29ic

https://twitter.com/#!/search/ghettohikes%20racist

the original version is like my number one least favorite type of modern humor. Shit makes the Donald Glover tv show look like Curb Your Enthusiasm, real talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r_Ua8iOR0g8

not to beat this horse, but i think the original version of SHITHEAD is "post-modern youtube minstrel show" in the same way as Tim & Eric's endless daggering buddies and Black Keys' dancing "lonely boy" where its this super suspect "crew of white people* make black people act wacky, post it to CollegeHumor and white people will pass it around all day from the safety of their mac minis"

And like every time I bring this up, ppl are like "uh, ok whiney, maybe people just like funny videos/Y U SO SENSITIVE/lol white guilt," but its clearly this huge trend that keeps repeating itself over and over and over and gets no less http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspect5es.gif every time i see it

*one of the THANKSCOMPUTER dudes is nonwhite, but neither of them are black

tim & eric did the black keys video too, didn't they? or is that what you meant. anyway those fuckin guys.

dude, i have no idea if they directed it or no, but i wouldnt be shocked

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/182892_10150100836795737_363957590736_6837697_6307829_n.jpg

"Hey, OK, so your next line is. 'I'M SHITHEAD AND I CAN ONLY COUNT TO SIX. WHAT THE HECK COME AFTER SIX?" Got it?'"

don't think i have ever seen anyone using a mac mini

hmm nah apparently they didn't direct it, not sure where i got that from. those fuckin guys still stands, though, obv.

lol i have a mac mini

racism 2 of 10
funny 1 of 10 (bono made me smile)

tim and eric is funnier then that imo

mac mini definitely more offensive.

I think we can all agree that shithead is awful

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don't even want to know

yeah can we save this thread for things that would actually be mildly offensive

rolling "even frogbs knows this is racist" thread

http://louisvsrick.com/post/16010782829/episode-12-the-bad-cats

re: the bad cats

i was thinking long and hard about this post-Chappelle/Mencia "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE 'BLACK' DEBBIE"-style humor that's just everywhere right now. Like acknowledging racism exists equals a joke on shit like Archer and Family Guy and most of the internet. Like even in "I'm Shithead" there's this "AND IM DEFINITELY NOT ASIAN" throwaway line that really adds nothing but "hey, think about race, I know right?" 100 percent of the time it does more to re-enforce racial stereotypes than confront them in any way. Like it def seems like Wonder Shozen at least tried to put a political spin on it most of the time.

yeah this is why Curb Your Enthusiasm and It's Always Sunny etc. tend to be really wearying for me.

I mean, at least on Curb or South Park, there's a real Archie Bunker style attitude towards racism where it's like Frank or Cartman are obviously loathsome people who have bad opinions about race.

er, Sunny or South Park.

Curb I think tries to do Louis-style meditations on white guilt (ie, the ep about nodding at black ppl), but isn't as good with that stuff. I do think the black doctor on Curb who was incapable of doing his job after hearing the n-word was pretty misguided bit tho

Whiney's continued evolution into the new Morbius is getting closer every time he posts "the Donald Glover TV show".

yeah i mean those shows aren't totally wrongheaded about it or anything and HAVE done undeniably funny things in that vein, but it's enough of the core of their approach to comedy that i get tired of it quick (xpost)

i'd like whiney to update the rolling "Is Das Racist?" thread with his opinion of the new heems/childish gambino heatrock