rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

"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

that lin photo is pretty racist

yeah the photo itself is racist but the text implies that he wouldn't be capable of it if it weren't for his secret math skills

instead of, being good at basketball

like that's not even 'racist in a complimentary way'

Peace sign / headdress mash-up?

^^^ it's really interesting iconography to me, I think it's asserting connections between the desire for peace (presumably shared by many who might run across the image) and the need for some sort of restorative justice for native Americans

I mean, last week I got asked if I was doing calculus when I was four years old. ¯\(°_0)/¯

yeah the photo itself is racist but the text implies that he wouldn't be capable of it if it weren't for his secret math skills

Ah right, didn't spot that right away

plus also native americans are notorious jokers in photos and patches xxxxpost

Racist in a complimentary way

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:20 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahaha did you know all Jews are shrewd businessmen? It's true!

If you see a meme or whatever out there of Jeremy Lin playing upon his Asian heritage, it's probably a little racisty.

Just tell me please that I'm not going to be opening this thread for the next two months and seeing fortune cookie math chopstick wong chong dong jpgs posted over and over again with "Eh? EH?" captioned underneath.

it's racist to not want to focus on lin racism

now I want to read "lin" as "iln," like it's an anagram of an ILX board

Just tell me please that I'm not going to be opening this thread for the next two months and seeing fortune cookie math chopstick wong chong dong jpgs posted over and over again with "Eh? EH?" captioned underneath.

I would love to be able to tell you that but trends seem to point towards exactly that happening.

this is becoming a fetishist thread

welcome to ilx

now I want to read "lin" as "iln," like it's an anagram of an ILX board

I Love N...

Was this some sort of Whiney experiment to see if ILX could go from a Kings of Leon video to the Moore's Ford Bridge in fewer than 5000 posts?

this is becoming a fetishist thread

― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 8:03 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

racisty, imo

it doesn't take advanced math skills to beat jack black to the hoop tbh

Just tell me please that I'm not going to be opening this thread for the next two months and seeing fortune cookie math chopstick wong chong dong jpgs posted over and over again with "Eh? EH?" captioned underneath.

― pplains, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:55 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

well, as opposed to everything else that is racist but doesn't deal with asians and asian americans?

or jeremy lin

I'm just saying I'm seeing a lot of subject matter here where there shouldn't be any question whether it's racist or not.

This thread is becoming some sort of Rorschach test, where an analyst is turning over placards, asking us what we see, but instead of inkblots, they are crazy racist images over and over again.

there have been several "put that in a 'this is actually racist' thread" posts but lol like anyone is going to do that

hey so, update on @ghettohikes: fake

shocking, i know

Well I think this thread has pretty much evolved from "is this racist?" to "holy shit, look at this racist thing".

(djp otm)

also lol that evolution kind of happened in the first 50-100 posts

there have been several "put that in a 'this is actually racist' thread" posts but lol like anyone is going to do that

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 9:23 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah, i said that a ways back, but wasn't really serious. was mostly a way to add emphasis, e.g., "holy shit, that's racist!"

I hear you all, but fwiw:

encyclopedia of racist products

I guess a photoshopped image isn't really a product. Just throwing it out there.

rolling "Is This Racist?" / "Is That A Trick Question?" thread

That's kind of aside from my point though, which is that everyone just sees this thread bobbing around on SNA and posts to it without thinking about it.

that's true - do people still bitch in the MIA thread?

anyway: this is p racist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1D_9XTaS4o

still lol @ i.Beat Blaxx

what the fuck WNYW

I'd like to think the producer is saying in that anchor's ear SHUTTHEFUCKUP, SHUTTHEFUCKUP, SHUTTHEFUCKUP.

New York is suddenly making Houston look really progressive.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B9teMyceN84/TtmT-AFnUoI/AAAAAAAABTo/Z9kyLqmmIug/s400/Yao-Ming+smile.jpg

they left it so you can color it yellow

the Jeremy Lin phenomenon is pulling a lot of band-aids off of festering wounds that I think most of the US has been pretending have been non-existent since the 80s