rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

the jenny hyun stuff belongs is a "holy shit, people will actually publically admit to being this damn racist?" thread

Huh

http://jennyhyun.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/apology-to-all/

Jenny Hyun has been admitted to a hospital today. She is a paranoid schizophrenic and has been battling mental illness, a debilitating disease for many years.
Friends and family of Jenny want to extend their sincere apology for any harmful statements made verbally or via the web that Jenny has made while she was in the height of a psyshosis episode. We appreciate your understanding during this difficult time for her.

"psyshosis episode"

love the fact that her racism makes a billion internet assholes feel perfectly okay abt unloading grotesquely misogynist bullshit

smdh @ humanity

otm

(Legitimate question from an ignorant person): Does schizophrenia work like that?

in my experience bipolar disorder is the one where in a manic episode people will say all kinds of really offensive shit that they don't mean. but the "schizophrenia" update looks to me like the person herself trying to come up with an out & landing on an untested one, or an extreme iteration of "he was depressed." paranoid schizophrenia involves delusions of grandeur/persecution & firm, fixed ideation, not quick backpedaling

nah dude, it totally makes you write in the third person, and not know how spelling or commas work

it's possible that en route to the hospital, she gave the password for her blog to her family so they could write a post clearing her name

and also perhaps that was one diagnosis she got at one time that her family latched on to (or can remember).

"I Am The Resurrection And The Life. No Man Comes To the Father Except By Me. Why Isn't There A White History Month? Mom, update my blog, tell them I'm sick"

hahahahahaha

clearly an invention, everyone knows there's no questions allowed in catholic ritual

lol at aero

So: There's a thing called Google Takeout, which is an initiative to increase your ability to get your data out of Google, if you want to. And it's run by an internal Google team who have called themselves the Data Liberation Front, more than a little tongue in cheek. And this is their logo:

http://www.dataliberation.org/_/rsrc/1251320114685/config/app/images/customBackground/dl-bg.png

I genuinely don't know whether this is offensive, or stupid, or whether I'm just being over sensitive. But it does remind me of the article about Rand Paul and the TSA from the GOP thread.

The logo shows bits breaking free of shackles. I am not really seeing where the racism would come into play...?

Maybe it's that the fist has a lot of connotations to black power (obviously it's used in other contexts) and using to symbolize the ability to download your contacts from Google+ kinda trivializes that?

I was under the impression that that particular fist was actually a universal symbol whose associations reach well beyond the black power movement.

lol:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/LibrariansAgainstDRM.svg

A big red fist = black power?

xxp: I'm trying to get at the heart of why Andrew thought it racist.

Yeah, racist is not I suppose exactly where I was going, though I did initially connect it with the Black Power movement (I think this is bizarrely just because... there's an arm?). I lolled at the Librarians as well, but at least they are (to varying levels of ridiculousness across their membership) struggling under some sort of oppression, where, as beachville says, reusing the iconongraphy for contacts download seems kind of O_o.

This led me here:

http://www.aics.org/images/aimaim.gif

I don't think I had every looked in detail to the AIM's logo before, but god forgive me the peace sign just says "bunny ears" to me.

I may have just leapt back from the monitor, having spotted the face that they are being the bunny ears to.

I think the fingers are feathers, not a peace sign.

http://yourlifemoments.ca/images/moments/2010/7/EDMInterBroElectric%20LOGO.jpg

The 1's and 0's in the fingers are a clever touch

IBEW logo is one of my favorite logo designs evar

I'll go out on a limb and say that this article, published earlier this week in the online magazine Alternative Right run by the ex-editor of Taki's Mag and The American Conservative, and associate of Steve Sailer, John Derbyshire, Pat Buchanan, et. al. (group photo:
http://www.hlmenckenclub.org/Home.html ), is possibly racist..

http://www.alternativeright.com/main/the-magazine/is-black-genocide-right/

Mine too, shakey!!

I saw large sticker version plastered on one of those temporary doors they put up when subway stations are half-closed for construction, took a picture of it, used it for phone background for a long time.

This was after the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and the most famous raised-fist black power salute of all time, but when I was in high school in 1970 my older sister, who was in college, gave me a t-shirt with a blood-red fist stenciled on it with the words "On Strike! Shut it down!". This was in the weeks just after the Cambodian invasion, the Kent State and Jackson State killings, when college campuses all over were shut down in war protest. I wore it often enough it wore out.

I tried to use GIS to find a similar image, but couldn't. It was not considered in any way racist at the time, but a universal symbol of resistance and solidarity.

lol not really the shakiest of limbs there, Campari

I don't actually have to ask, p. sure this is racist.

http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/internet-memes-he-doesnt-even-really-need-the-calculator.jpg

ehh, idk?

that's pretty mild as far as borderline racsity jokes involving jeremy lin

"internet-memes-he-doesnt-even-really-need-the-calculator.jpg"

Racist in a complimentary way

he got into harvard because he was good at basketball and not cause he was good at math

But all Asian people are good at math, that's the racist bit?

"Math", listen to me

"Asian", listen to me again

yeah

He got into Harvard because he was good at both. (He studied econ.)

yeah but he had a 3.1 gpa, that's like the lowest gpa in harvard history

haha oh no it isn't

man I wanna get that AIM patch & sew it to my jacket but I get Is This Racist? racial angst about it

I don't understand that patch, why is the Native American's head made out of a hand?

Peace sign / headdress mash-up?

'73 after all

it's a much-needed call for oppressed peoples to grow prehensile head-fingers to aid them in their struggle