rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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.

can't wait to read the frogbs defense

he's r/ting some white people too. maybe you think he's racist against whites too.

I have white friends

whites, italians, latins, afro-americans, it's all the same to me.

Italians aren't white?

http://raidreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/dennis-hopper.jpg

Do people* still say afro-american?

*other than frogbs

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2009/10/24/129009015073555710.jpg

racist against white people

never change frogbs, never change

reverse frogsbsism

Racist against himself

So, someone says some pretty dumb-ass things. Guess what? We all have and, tbh, I feel like FBS's posting has improved at least a tiny bit since he first showed up. I feel like this has turned into one of those situations where people are jumping down the dude's throat no matter what he says. SB me for "defending" him if you want, but imho some people's reactions to his posts as of late are just as embarrassing, if not more so, as the posts they're intending to address.

not gonna sb u e but if someone watches that video and think its the journalist who has the problem then they can go get fucked tbh

Also, fwiw, that mayor is obviously an idiot but I also thought the reporter was being pretty dickish. I'm not, mind you, saying that he didn't have the right to be dick given the situation.

yah fbs is a pin cushion for lazy/entrylev zings atm

I think his posting has changed for the better but I also think promoting some level of self-consciousness about what he's saying would be good.

"baby psychology"

x-post - I thought they both came off badly.

I don't think calling a guy out for being racist is particularly dickish. He was clearly angered by what the mayor said and I think was fairly restrained while making his point and even giving the dumb shit a chance to retract or rephrase what he said.

sorry for use of "dumb" there

if I was the reporter I would have let him keep talking, the mayor is very willing to hoist himself on his own petard, without much prompting.

Anyone who defends frogbs within minutes of him bringing up "racist against whites" is on some next level trolling, imho.

Journalists should let MORE people ramble on and hang themselves, tbh. Covering up the interviewee's real thoughts and/or softening them to make him more palatable probably contributes to people not realizing how HORRIBLE their leaders are.

x-post - Yeah, because I'm a notorious troll.

Laruel otm.

I wasn't serious, just seems really weird timing to start defending him!

walk it back

its not that fbs doesnt post terrible crap, just theres a lot of bad faith from ppl who appresh having such an easy outlet for cheap scorn

"appresh"

That's probably some amount of true, but he could stop being that outlet anytime.

appreesh is the correct spelling

and disappoint a lot of ppl xp

x-post - That's pretty much exactly what was bugging me.

I picked a really bad time to post this btw because I have 2 grant deadlines today but I just want to stress that I'm not disagreeing with the fact that FBS posts a lot of very questionable shit at all. It's just sort of weird how people seem to be going after every single thing he says lately. Not even talking about this thread specifically - just in general.

Then again I don't read every single post the guy makes so i might be wrong. It's just the impression that I've gotten over the past couple weeks.

That reporter did not come off badly in the slightest. If anything, I give him credit for not punching the mayor in the face on camera.

There is probably an argument about the reporter attempting to browbeat the mayor into his own point of view that could be made, but if the mayor had even an ounce of brains he could have said one of a bazillion things to defuse/de-escalate the situation, from saying "that was worded poorly" to "that joke didn't work" to not saying it in the first place.

An interesting info nugget that I didn't know:

Pedro Gutierrez, the owner of the Guti'z bakery, said the comment showed the mayor is out of touch because many Latinos in East Haven are from Ecuador, where tacos are not a part of cuisine, as they are in Mexico. But he said it also shows disrespect for all Hispanics.

So, not only was the comment flip and dismissive of a serious question, it also showed that the mayor doesn't know the demographics of his own city.

I am not inclined to give this fucker any ounce of leeway; the reporter could have shot him in the face on-camera and I would still side with the reporter.

FYI I kind of think anyone taking frog's "racist against whites" as a face-value earnest position needs to check themselves.

Uh, have you read his posts?

Don't be an ass.

Racist against asses.

I'm not trying to be an ass! There have been enough indications in his posts that he might actually think racism against whites is a real thing. At the very least he has a fundamental misunderstanding of racism and how it works.

I mean, right here ON THIS THREAD I am calling out actual questionable stuff he's written; the "racist against whites" post follows a pretty well-established pattern by now where people will pre-emptively accuse him of something so he wades in with both feet in what reads to me as a very unambiguous "whatever, you don't know me" attitude.

frogbs is definitely not worth arguing with a poster I like over

ha agreed!

Many xps to someone: Italians didn't used to be white, at least not I the sense of being unmarked in US society. Neither the Irish and Jews, notably. Cf. "no Irish need apply" etc. All these groups eventually became unmarked/"white" as post-immigration generations assimilated, spoke English, etc etc, because you know they had white skin. There's a book I haven't read called "How Jews Became White Folks" that is about this.

I just refer to myself as Non-Hispanic these days.