rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

^^^ IRL LOL

in all fairness that reporter was being a total dick

No, he gave the mayor a chance to apologize or otherwise weasel out of his racist comment. Instead, the mayor doubled-down on his batshittery.

If more reporters were total dicks like that, a lot of politicians wouldn't get away with nearly as much of their bullshit.

I mean, there was a non-offensive way to make the (still stupid) point I think he was reaching for: "I believe in repairing relations by supporting businesses, so I encourage all residents of East Have to go out and patronize Latino-owned businesses. I myself plan to visit a Latino-owned restaurant for dinner this evening; we are a strong, diverse community that can come together and support each other." Instead, he went with "well, I may have tacos for dinner tonight" and, when called on it, didn't say "hmm, maybe that was a poor choice of words, but what I mean is blah blah blah". He said, "well I'm Italian, and some people think that's an ethnicity, now go ahead and twist my words"

wait, you mean he wasn't just making a joke?

Did you watch the video before deciding to play cap'n-save-a-racist?

Yeah, it looked to me like he was trying to make a joke, which backfired in his face, and then he tried to make it look as though it was a serious response through some grand display of twisted logic. Did you think he was being serious?

whiney is banned and ^^this shitbird is still here

ilxpriorities

this really is lost on you, huh

no man, i really agree with everything the mayor said. tacos, spaghetti, or whatever Chinese people eat - we all need to support our particular communities through actions we may or may not choose to take

pls guide me great sage from the somethingawful / twoplustwo forums

wait wtf whiney is re-banned? how the hell'd that happen

I hit the road for a week and hell breaks loose

he got banned but its cool http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

what did whiney do now?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=74956

idgi

this thread has 2500 msgs I'm not loading the whole thing

in all fairness that reporter was being a total dick

― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 14:22 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

frogbs! this is like you considering the onion paterno article 'tasteless': you get to be a dick, & the seemingly dickishness 'insistence' of your behaviour excuses itself, if it's for the right reasons. i get that he was not behaving in a regular way, or was being awkward; he wasn't obeying a compliant, polite social norm that one would obey if the guy wasn't spitting bullshit, and that 'dickishness' was appropriate.

that's also called, being a reporter. it's his job.

yes, & dan otm. it's sorta like that recent times article thing, should we just print bullshit

I don't disagree with any of that. Different thread but the tastelessness of the Onion article was WHY I liked it. We're kind of talking about different issues here and IMO it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not (apparently, it was? idgi)

i feel like the longer you watch it & get acquainted with how ridiculous the guy is, the less inclined you should be to believe it was an honest, well-intentioned mistake. it's like being like "so what, the guy said blleeuurrgh" & then reading up on everything else about rick santorum for context.

Can we go back to how wholly inappropriate it is to make a joke about 10% of your constituency being pissed with you after four of your police officers were handed a federal indictment alleging racial profiling and harassment against them? It "being a joke" almost makes it worse; he's not taking the situation seriously enough to respond seriously, and furthermore his unserious response makes the people with the grievance the butt of the joke rather than himself and the police force.

it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not (apparently, it was? idgi)

Yes, we know.

maybe unfair bc idk if he is otherwise terrible on the same topics, but he was fumbling for some easy liberal-media-bias outs while trying to recover
xp + yes

We're kind of talking about different issues here and IMO it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not (apparently, it was? idgi)

what dan said. of course it was a joke. it was a nasty, mocking, racist joke that trivializes the serious accusations of racism made against his police department. the fact that dude was joking hardly excuses his behavior.

it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not

actually this really doesn't matter at all imho

IMO it all hinges on whether or not his initial response was meant as serious or not

wtf no. whether it was a joke or not doesn't change the fact that he was basically saying idgaf about this issue

i'm not trying to excuse it!! to those saying "yes, we know" or "of course it was a joke", did you read the responses below mine?

actually this really doesn't matter at all imho

yes it does, that's what makes the video funny

think you guys are seriously trying to attribute shit to me that i'm not even saying, c'mon

http://images.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/37/543/000/0375430008.jpg

you should probably stop trying to explain why things are funny to you, fwiw

what makes the video funny is the weird tone-deaf double-down on the stupid position, mixed in with "oh I bet you'll twist my words to make me look bad"/"no, I think I'll just go with what you said" and the "some people think I have an ethnicity"/"I may go have tacos with the Italians" wtf statements

the intent as shown in the video is reprehensible and not at all funny, but fortunately dude is such an incompetent that you can quickly get past that and just laugh at his dumb ass

to those saying "yes, we know" or "of course it was a joke", did you read the responses below mine?

what difference does that make? you're the only one here trying to defend this "funny" racist asshole.

the only funny thing funny about the video is the sick comedy of idiotic human shittiness on public display.

So many Sylvan Reading books and not one has a frog on the cover :(

jesus, i'm not trying to defend the guy, take your pitchforks elsewhere people

go ahead and twist my words

in all fairness that reporter was being a total dick

― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Thursday, 26 January 2012 14:22 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you are seriously the worst poster on ilx, and that's saying something

i'd make fun of this guy but jesus christ he reminds me of myself and i'm kind of uncomfortable with this

See, I thought this was a sign that you'd had a breakthrough and were up to some serious thinkin, but it's not looking like the frog can change his spots.

http://ladygalore.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/thinking-frog.jpg

See, I thought this was a sign that you'd had a breakthrough and were up to some serious thinkin, but it's not looking like the frog can change his spots.

because I called out the reporter? you guys make some weird ass assumptions

Oh, it was that comment coupled w/ the display name frogs you are the dumbest asshole , which I found self-deprecatingly humorous.

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B/c I thought you identified some of your own questionable traits.

i've definitely made some bad jokes that i had to try to explain myself out of and wound up making myself look like an idiot. also I enjoy tacos. i might eat one right now...

is this racist?
https://twitter.com/retwarted

1000timesyes

like 75% of these he just did a google search for "n*gga" or "fart" and then retweeted all the ones that weren't in standard english, to showcase them as "retarted"

can't wait to read the frogbs defense

the frogbs defense
by John Grisham

1000timesyes

I always read that as 1000timeseyes.