rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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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

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, January 13, 2012 1:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

I thought the point of Always Sunny is that the characters are so bad at relating to other humans in general that getting "how to not be racist" wrong is the least of their worries. The joke always seems not to be that they're racist, but that they have some idea of how they're supposed to act and it's so wrongheaded or misinterpreted.

I can't think of any Archer moments about race off the top of my head, but Family Guy always annoys me any time they try to talk about anything serious whatsoever

family guy is too obv going for "omg lol i can't believe they said that!" reactions from t*mblr wh*tes, cf elizabeth smart.

haha the elizabeth smart joke i mean, though she may have a tumblr

the Dumbo crows joke was probably the best race joke Family Guy ever did

I just watched an episode of the doco series on those guys who do the terrible viral YouTube local ads - "Commercial Kings" - and it was one I havent seen online, a salon aimed at black customers where the owner was trying to do a pitch to "non black ladies" and I was squirming with discomfort all the way thru at how they were handling the jokes... I dunno if I was being oversensitive?

Like, thew 2 twats who make these ads are so hipster it would make Whiney's eyeballs bleed, maybe that doesnt help matters.

the Dumbo crows joke was probably the best race joke Family Guy ever did

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i havent seen it but was it stolen from paul mooney?

this is the difference between Family Guy and South Park for me, SP has a lot of gay-bashing, racial humor, anti-Semitism, etc. etc., but they always manage to paint it through the eyes of some pretty deplorable characters, whereas Family Guy will just straight up do a cutaway where an Asian person is in a car and "LOL THEY CAN'T DRIVE!"

The LOL Muslims/ 'any Middle Eastern people, but obviously not Israelis, y' know Arabs and Muslims and dudes who wear turbans' in Family Guy is pretty repulsive (to this UK viewer at least)

Besides Cleveland, was there ever a non-white character on the show where they didn't immediately call attention to the character's race?

http://www.thesharkguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ollie.jpg

you mean Ollie Williams of the Blaccu-Weather Forecast

whiney I think you've got a lotta good points here but the "make black people act wacky" thing above, that whole agency-denying aspect of white people like you & me describing the motivations of nonwhite ppl - that is a bad look imo

p. sure that in family guy the deplorable character through whose eyes we are seeing lol stereotypes is an implied omnipresent narrator or w/e ie no they don't have a character buffer btwn the viewer and the depiction but i'd disagree that it's somehow a flat, literal and unironic statement of belief for all that

lol i've never heard them say "Blaccu-Weather"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7UBlZcZSE0

ie no they don't have a character buffer btwn the viewer and the depiction but i'd disagree that it's somehow a flat, literal and unironic statement of belief for all that

I have no problem believing that as far as the misogyny goes.

p. sure that in family guy the deplorable character through whose eyes we are seeing lol stereotypes is an implied omnipresent narrator or w/e ie no they don't have a character buffer btwn the viewer and the depiction but i'd disagree that it's somehow a flat, literal and unironic statement of belief for all that

I remember some interviewer that was grilling Seth on this and he just kept saying "well, Peter is supposed to be an idiot, so everything he says is wrong", which is fine, but that ignores that there is a ton of racism in the show outside of "the dumb shit that Peter says", something that even "edgier" shows like South Park doesn't have

that's not really true, there is plenty of racism in all of these shows to fill everyone's daily allotment

there's always been a distinction for me, not just with Family Guy but also shows like Mind of Mencia and 2 Broke Girls. I don't remember where I read this but basically the saying goes "the funnier you are, the more offensive you can be" which IMO is pretty OTM, shows like Chappelle's are pretty clever which makes you feel like the writers are going for laughs on another dimension than just "stereotypes lol"

like I don't have a problem with racist humor, but if it's not funny (or doesn't try to be) then what are you left with?