rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

irl lol

That really came from the MSG Network!

http://p.twimg.com/Al62eDPCQAEBwJF.jpg

whoa

guessing someone just got fired and ESPN mobile is going to rethink their 3am headline editing shift

These are absolutely astonishing. You get a lot of the same things when US news / culture outlets are dealing with Indian / Pakistani Americans. The advances made by black and latino groups in not being openly demeaned by people who would want to be viewed as not racist should have been a rising tide that lifted all boats - i can't fathom how anyone can think that stuff like this is remotely acceptable.

Wow that is appalling.

Trying to think of a non-racist reason to choose that particular expression and I cannot.

(In this context I mean.)

see he used that word himself so it's ok, right? (wrong)

That is fucking insane.

yeah, can't believe that ran on ESPN

http://i.imgur.com/9YBWh.jpg

Nice to see these adverts being targeted.

How much of the supposed deference in the cultures of East Asia stems from their traditions of authoritarian rule and how much is the result of colonialism?

I'd say Confucianism is a huge part of the milleniums-long feedback loop that helped to establish this tradition.

Confucius (more properly Kung-Fu-Tse, iirc) started with a deep reverence for social order and developed a whole philosophy based on paternalism and mutual obligation. It's really not much different from the theory behind feudalism and most autocratic government, when you look at just the broad strokes, but Confucianism was adopted by The State very early on and got kneaded into the basic substance of Chinese society at the foundation level and in all the details of daily life. For example, a son who fell short of the complete obedience owed to his father could be criminally prosecuted for filial impiety and thrown in prison.

You don't throw off something this deep in a culture very quickly, although it is probably less strongly rooted than the caste system in India.

"chink in the armor" is a popular phrase in sports journalism but yeah not really the best choice here

to put it mildly

yeah i seriously WTFd at that

fucking goddamn, jenny hyun is a songwriter for SNSD and Girls Generation and Chocolat and just ugh wtf:

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlir9sS4B1qeyiqp.jpg
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlirtS9Es1qeyiqp.jpg

and ten days earlier she writes:

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlitwDiBh1qeyiqp.jpg

she uh

sort of yielded the high ground

to say the least

like what the FUCK

the thing that you should notice is the part where she says she doesn't hate black people even though she just CALLED FOR THEIR GENOCIDE AND SAID THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER WITHOUT THEM

living in a racist world means that being called a racist is considered more hurtful than actually being racist. EVERY TIME someone goes on a stormfront-esque no-doubt-about-it 100% racist rant, they always end up saying "no, i don't hate blacks, i'm not racist" at some point. every time. everything is more fucked up than it ever was and human beings are confounding.

she said ERADICATION OF ONE TOXIC FAMILY

HOW DO PEOPLE GET TO THIS POINT IN THEIR LIVES AND NOT REALIZE THAT TALKING LIKE HITLER DID IS RACIST

you're already saying all this shit! look at your words! at least own up to it, you don't have anything else to lose at that point!

i hate everything

i think what they think is that "hate" is an irrational emotion succumbed to by the thoughtless and uneducated whereas they themselves think intensely about this subject all the time so they're coming from a place of expertise you understand

if only everyone could just step back and look at things rationally

but no they insist on indulging their knee-jerk PC objections to genocide

She's a nobody. I'm not even sure she's listed in the credits for the one song she's meant to have co-written for SNSD. I can't imagine she'll get much work in the future.

xpost she could write a rationally-argued book about it, call it "my hassle" or something like that idk

think she crossed the is this racist question hurdle by quite a bit

Wow she's still going too. Something about jews and zionists in there. Is she mental?

yeah, better grist for "this is racist" thread

some discussion of this on the ILM k-pop thread, though no more than was said here

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/jennyhyun1.png

^ from yesterday

the one about jews is a little more upbeat:

"What a beautiful and inspirational history they have. Jews will always have a huge place in my heart. We are a family."

i'm glad she's willing to include me in her loving family

lol @ "my hassle"

who is she? besides a hateful racist on the interwebs?

she's jeremy lin iirc

apparently she grew up in virginia and lives in NYC. i know she's a nobody and didn't have a career in the first place, and i know that even frogbs in his prime wouldn't argue about it being racist (MAYBE). i'm just more interested in figuring out the brains of people who do these things and then insist they aren't racist.

if u want to read other racist things on the internet, 8t07mf70nt is full of it

does that say pitchfork

ayo!

can't say i really understand the mentality of seeking out racists

i find that there's plenty of racist things already without getting into legit WNs. as long as they occupy their little paranoid corners they typically don't even bother anyone. of course a lot of them also claim to not be racist or hateful.

i used to be fascinated by stormfront bc i was sheltered and thought that was where all the racism in the world hid

oh shit u actually said their name + have now summoned the beast

i find that there's plenty of racist things already without getting into legit WNs.

Would... Nuke?

white nationalists (st*rmfr*nt people call themselves WNs a lot)

more terrifying than "white supremacists", imo, at least in implication

jenny hyun twitter updates:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/jennyhyun2.png

I love KFC. #YaHeard

that "Official Apology to Black Community":

Okay guys, listen up!

You are threatening me with the fact that you know my address. You guys have also started to roar your engines every so often outside of my home. I get it. This is my official apology to the black community.

I do not regret what I said, however, I now understand that there are some lines one cannot cross.

Please take this apology and do what you will with it, but hopefully, everyone will remember to stay calm, cool and collected and remember that violence is not the answer.

what a piece of shit