rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

god, I feel so stupid for even needing to spell it out.

that should be "nice build" not "nice arms," btw.

hey dayo--what if youre the real racist?

long arms like a simian amirite

*looks in the mirror, realizes uncomfortable truth*

i'm sick of how political correctness is ruining this country!!!~!!

is it cracked cuz if so sorry but u are linsane

can't even talk about a guy's simian forelimbs no more

chris paul is 6, steve nash 6-1, rubio 6-4, rondo is 6-1, so lin is about on the high average for point

steve nash is 6'3 btw

so short!

id guess the chance that a nba player listed at 6' is actually 6' =

was spud webb actually 5'7" y/n

soi disant 5'11.5 point guards wd make terrible used car dealers

well known in philly that allen iverson lied about his height

pretty much everyone does. dwight howard is 6'9"

oops got nash wrong but either way lin's height is p much normalish for his position

i haven't even seen him play cuz the stupids at FSN didn't broadcast the wolves/knicks game but someone on espn was saying he was more of a combo 1/2 guard than a pure point but i don't know if that's true, he seems to be getting good assist numbers

how tall is kemba

i haven't even seen him play cuz the stupids at FSN didn't broadcast the wolves/knicks game but someone on espn was saying he was more of a combo 1/2 guard than a pure point but i don't know if that's true, he seems to be getting good assist numbers

― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:42 PM (54 seconds ago)

we had a big debate on the NBA thread about this actually

i've seen kemba in person many times, he's probably 5'11" or 6'

so either the news clip is "haha what about his slanty eyes" or "haha stupid woman can't talk about sports like a man" pick yr poison

to take it back a few posts i think the ghetto hikes thing is vv interesting b/c those dudes are internet businessmen hiding behind innocuousness, "lol yeah this is just a tumblr of some stuff i overhear." kind of the face of (the often-strawmanned) notion of noxious white privilege. and of course the one dude is actually a teacher, if i read the article right, and i wonder where this shit comes from. fake? real but framed as "lolling at the others who are different from what i perceive to be the norm?"

u may be reading more about ghetto hikes soon

max, u do god's work

take a ghetto hike

i wonder where this shit comes from. fake? real but framed as "lolling at the others who are different from what i perceive to be the norm?"

― omar little, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 4:45 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's just racist

http://www.hulu.com/watch/10356/saturday-night-live-white-like-me

http://b.vimeocdn.com/ps/283/768/2837685_300.jpg

*takes Jeremy Lin on nature hike*

hiking the Appalachian Trail iykwim

ok i know it's kind of a dead season for sports, but the fact that boxer floyd mayweather and ufc prez dana white get espn headlines for *commenting* on an nba player is . . . something

also lol that lin > carmelo

so either the news clip is "haha what about his slanty eyes" or "haha stupid woman can't talk about sports like a man" pick yr poison

well, there's also the "haha, lols w my coworker" possibility, but that doesn't play into any enticing rage narratives, i guess

u may be reading more about ghetto hikes soon

i'm not sure why u write abt the internet, max. i mean, the internet's just words to begin with...

contenderizer, while i think it's kinda creepy admirable that you've decided to fill frogbs' shoes while he's been gone, maybe you don't need to go to bat to explain away every racist comment?

harrumph i say. one /= every, deej. i read this as "news dullard fumbles dumb joek abt his co-anchor crushing on lin." sure, it came out fucking weird, but not shock horror racism, imo. of course, that's just my interpretation. i may well be wrong, but it's hardly in yr taco mayor leagues no matter what you make of it.

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countdown to matt p screeching in to call me a nazi or some shit...

deej?

jokes, bruv

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".

― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:45 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:50 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, if you want to consider 'disadvantaged' and 'black' synonyms, you're ... on the right thread at least?

ENDLESS mexican menial "jokes" on family guy

I've said it before, from a UK perspective, the anti-Muslim/Arab jokes on Family Guy are really jaw dropping

xp Oh come on, that's low. contenderizer obviously means that the people who make racist jokes about Mexicans equate "black" and "disadvantaged", and therefore apply different rules, not that he does.

harrumph i say. one /= every, deej. i read this as "news dullard fumbles dumb joek abt his co-anchor crushing on lin." sure, it came out fucking weird, but not shock horror racism, imo. of course, that's just my interpretation. i may well be wrong, but it's hardly in yr taco mayor leagues no matter what you make of it.

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― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:02 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

I read it as being racist against asians, 99% of asian americans would read it as being racist against asians, and I wish you would stop telling me otherwise.

jokes, bruv

lol good try

dayo is racist against Asians

That savage

wait, just so I get this clear, dayo, do you think his joke was:

A. What do you think about his [dreamy] eyes? [<--Potential for double meaning makes it offensive]
B. What about his [narrow compared to us white ppl] eyes? [<--Horrifying explicit racism makes it offensive]

http://www.doletown.com/simpsons/wiggum/ralphface.gif

"Oh boy, news! That's where I'm a racist!"

how are things going, dave cool? pretty cool?

I see why contenderizer is making this argument; the female anchor immediately jumps in with muttered "THEY'RE DREAMY!" comments while the sportscaster is laughing. The problem with that argument is that they are coming from the same person who starts the clip by asserting that a dude who is of average height for an NBA player in his position in short, which JUST SO HAPPENS to be another "thing" people talk about re: Asian men.

Really, all that clip needs is for someone to ask, "Do you think he gets... intimidated, when he looks around the showers?" and for the sports reporter to say, "Oh no, the entire team is proud of his success and has his back 100%?" to fully transform this into the type of joke being called out upthread as a racist Family Guy bit.

for furthur context: is the video going around because ppl are actually legit offended or it is mostly a "haha accidental racism" viral video like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQ4nRbtbTM

this is way more offensive to me tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxN1zkQgKKA