rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

and the thing I find the most fascinating beyond that is how so many of these horrible stories are popping up around Asians, Hispanics and Muslims of a multitude of ethnicities, to the point where I weirdly feel like black people are starting to be ignored

I think thats kinda otm, but also just reminding everyone that too many people think racism is still okay if its against a group they (meaning the racists themselves) don't think of as "disadvantaged".

the "racist in a complimentary way" comment is also really important; i think a lot of people understand they'll get in trouble if they say something racist as part of a negative statement or insult but don't recognize it as racist when they phrase it as a positive statement. at least that's what seems to be popping up a lot with the lin stories.

I blame the racialists

yeah, j/v/c otm. imo, what this stuff (fucking ENDLESS mexican menial "jokes" on family guy and elsewhere, for ex) exposes is that lots of people think racist shit is okay as long as it doesn't have anything to do with black people.

Yeah, exactly.

I'm not a racist, some of my best friends aren't black.

hey so, update on @ghettohikes: fake

shocking, i know

― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:24 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what's worse: ghetto hikes being fake or ghetto hikes being real?

ghetto hikes

I'm 28. I have a full time job leading urban kids (of all races) on nature hikes. I simply write down shit they say.

lol @ new parenthetical on that piece of shit twiiter account

I...don't see anything racist in that local news Lin vid?

Are we talking about, "What about his eyes?" as a racial remark? I think that's just the main anchor razzing the sports lady for talking about his "great build." "What about his eyes? Dreamy, right?"

Am I missing something or is that how people are interpreting it?

Twitter response to @ghettohikes from a white girl:

Haley Stewart @HayStew

Stuck in traffic with mom and the sister. So I entertained them by reading about every @GhettoHikes tweet ever in my best ghetto voice.

Hmm.

it's already been covered how lamebook (also a good source for 'edgy humor' involving race) and ghetto hikes are run by the same dude, right? (well, ghetto hikes is at least registered to one of the dudes who runs lamebook.)

jonathan standefer:

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4065/4566773018_b62d4da5fc_z.jpg

a midget thomas haden church imo

http://madamethursday.tumblr.com/post/17730142487/so-last-night-i-got-about-fifteen-frantic-emails-from

xp Just sitting here with my water thinking about kittens and racism.

http://austinme2000.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/organic-cody-ground-on-royal-forests-direction-after-the-groups-name-switch/