rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

"this so-called piece of rare metal from the betelgeusean system ended up being from pluto."

making a killing stripping down the remnants of the death star

- "So you went back in time to save Lincoln from being shot?"
- "No, but I did do a really shitty job painting his barn."

Time travel + Gypsies = Tim Powers' awesome Anubis Gates.

Also I like how we've established that there's no gypsies/travellers/roma on this thread, so it's a-ok for racist jokes about them.

hmm i think imagining, as ilx is wont to do, what themes might run through a traveller-themed space movie doesn;t quite qualify, but i dunno

like i'm EVER going to catch up with the 238974394723947829342 posts since my monkey-ignorance post ~8 hours ago but

1. djp otm re learning that a word has racist connotations then never ever using it ever again
2. had no idea whatsoever about the 'uppity' thing until this morning (thanks urbandictionary)
3. ilx needs a racist word cataloguing thread for those of us who might say 'butter dish' without knowing what it means

xp i suppose we could ask the 'Is This Racist' thread, tbf

oh god i just looked up 'butter dish'

holy shit just GIS'd 'butter dish' these eyes these eyes doc they've seen too much

I'm glad you two feel like you can joke about this.

http://images.gama-go.com/product/lifestyle/buddha-butter-dish-4.jpg

guys i don't see anything particularly...oh fuck

that's not racist look how happy he is!

i have a bunch of smiley Buddha's in the house :(

none of them are butter dishes tho, but one is a money box

fap at NV's house, i'll just hang back and rest my legs while you guys get the tour from him.

hmm i think imagining, as ilx is wont to do, what themes might run through a traveller-themed space movie doesn;t quite qualify, but i dunno

― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:57 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3f/Pluto_Nash.jpg/220px-Pluto_Nash.jpg

omar i think he's got about 60p in him, sorry

lol @ underlined "man"

damn

loses points for not spelling it 'da man' tho

he da maaaan on da moooon

Face book status update just now from girl I used to work with:

Lol my daughter comes home from school just now and says "was good lil niggie"
Had to laugh! Lmbo.

Girl is P Rican and her daughter is a quarter black. Girl is in preschool.

Discuss.

no chance

that is a massive can of worms

each worm holding its own smaller can of worms

russian cans of worms

LMQBAO.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l97zsvX6rf1qcqorzo1_500.jpg

I know. I read it and was like uhhhhh. 15 ppl like it BTW.

I assume many, if not all, of them are Puerto Rican and/or black

Prob. Only actual comment so far was "smh she's too much!".

I don't think I ever put this in this thread but I once asked two guys (one Dominican one Puerto Rican why it was ok for them and their friends to call each other (and p much everyone else too) "my n****". They said it was because they weren't racist, it just meant the same thing as dawg, and because it was spelled "nikka". They focused on the spelling thing a lot tbh. I had never even heard that before!

there's an ever-ongoing debate about that, was a big deal when fat joe used it

i had a friend who claimed it was weird that q-tip said "john holmes, the x-rated nigga" in a beastie boys song, like it was some kind of lyrical grenade the b boys were a little too proximate to.

yeah there's a whole book to be written about non-white and non-black (young) people adopting all kinds of coded-black language and style, generally through the lens of hiphop, but man i have never seen anyone write about it (to my knowledge) except for creepo racists complaining about it

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figured everyone was freaking out about this one:

http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/images/7K/Butter-Dishes-Anthropologie-Maiden-0510-de.jpg

This thread reminds me of a v v v uncomfortable dinner my wife and I had with a couple that was buying one of my father in law's paintings. It was pretty clear early on that they were ultra right wingers and no one we would ever associate with willingly, but it got 1000000x worse when the guy made a comment that ended with "yeah, that's what we call 'em here, 'reggins', so they don't catch on". As I nearly bit through my tongue my wife was squeezing my arm so hard under the table that she drew blood.

Ha that same Agatha Christie book that had the n-bomb also had a lady with a 'gypsy look about her' or some such. Feel like it was some extremely misguided early United Colours of Benetton attempt.

when the guy made a comment that ended with "yeah, that's what we call 'em here, 'reggins', so they don't catch on"

People who are similar in e.g. skin colour to you and therefore assume that you are exactly as bigoted as them are the worst people in the world imo. In previous work engagements I've been present while horrifyingly racist, sexist and anti-gay comments have been made by people who have assumed that everyone in the conversation is just like them. In every case I've kept my mouth shut but went permanently cold on the people concerned.

Also because of this thread I've had that crap Fleetwood Mac song in my head all morning so thanks.

Holy shit jon

Please tell me you called them rekcarcs

I wish I would have thought of that at the time, I was just trying to stifle my anger and desire to just get up and leave. But seeing as how my father-in-law's only income is through the paintings he sells, I stuck with it for him.

oh my god, according to google 'reggin' is a thing

In every case I've kept my mouth shut but went permanently cold on the people concerned.

This part is what I've been working on lately, the not keeping my mouth shut part. Not blaming you for doing so, mind, I used to do the same but I've decided I'd rather risk pissing someone off than to say nothing. A friend who teaches diversity training has been helping me with examples of how to address this head-on when it comes up. Its difficult, but I like to hope I can at least leave such situations not feeling like shit.

In every case I've kept my mouth shut but went permanently cold on the people concerned.

http://thebestpictureproject.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/gentlemansagreement1.jpg

I used to do the same but I've decided I'd rather risk pissing someone off than to say nothing.

I admire your forthrightness. The only reason I stay quiet is that usually I require them to do what I tell them to do. The only real satisfaction I get is by never recommending them for any other work ever, and actively recommending against them wherever possible.

'er indoors is ultra-long-term friends with someone who married a hideous old (straight white) bastard who routinely expects everyone in the room to just go along with his myriad expressions of horrific prejudice. Obviously I have to keep the peace because of the friendship thing, but I have managed to completely avoid that old shit for several years now and plan to continue doing so until he dies.

No, I get it, there are some situations where you just can't stand up to them, for whatever reason. I just wanted to learn all I can to be well armed when I can actually try to confront them.

Definitely. Sometimes I very nicely respond with FACTS, a tactic which has the nice double-effect of proving them wrong and shutting them the hell up.

e.g. Chinese people DO NOT jam coins in their ears

"reggins":

...I just suspect that deep down (or maybe not that deep) the cumulative white viewpoint is that they're more different from their white neighbors than black people are from other black people. Purely supposition.

― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:18 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Partly based on my kind of recent realization that people mean black when they say "urban", for instance.

― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:19 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

urban = saggin

― noticing the cloud come (contenderizer), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:20 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

am i supposed to read that backwards

― and what, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:21 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OMG

― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:22 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

How did you even NOTICE that? Or is this something else I've missed?

― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:22 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

andwhat:

fuck no! i realized after i posted, and was gutted. but no takebacks on ilx...

― noticing the cloud come (contenderizer), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:23 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

jesus

― noticing the cloud come (contenderizer), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:24 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

bahahahaha

― goole, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:24 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

contendo u should google 'reggins' once.

those racists, so clever.

― goole, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:25 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i am happy to have been totally clueless WR2 reggins

― noticing the cloud come (contenderizer), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:28 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm now reading (like literally have open in another tab) that there are Irish Traveller communities in the States - who knew?!

We get quite a few as customers in the spring and summer.