rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

he's always been kinda rambly!

I call him Ramblin' Spike Lee

40 acres and some blues

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.

― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:16 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ important post

but we can always plays "white people tell others when its ok to be offended" some more

What did Spike say upthread? I couldn't pay attention through all the sports.

shortly after :22 in the video, Spike says "I like Dick" (re: someone on the Knicks) and the announcer calmly says "Pause" while Lee is still talking

i have never heard "pause" in lieu of "no homo"; this is common parlez?

yes

Ok, so it wasn't Spike but the announcer. I get it now.

forks it hasn't been THAT long since you listened to any new rap has it?

anyway, homophobia transcends race so that offensive clip is not racist

still classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8BMA6r3_xI

"Pause"

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.

― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:16 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ important post

...but we can always plays "white people tell others when its ok to be offended" some more

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:36 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jeez, not sure it's necessary to personalize this in such aggressive terms (said to both of you). wasn't trying to say that no one has a right to be offended, just that i don't perceive clear evidence of racist intent on the reporter's part. maybe, maybe not, and i'm inclined to presume innocence in such cases. that's just me, though. i fully expect others to read things differently...

dude: uh, i listen to new rap pretty much daily
i just never hear anybody say this in regular speech and i must filter it out or something... post a song that does this?

and fuck boondocks really

?

lol Boondocks 4eva <3

As a white dude, I would never feel comfortable saying that "99% of white people believe x", but hey.

nothing against you crut; i just can't stand that cartoon. or mcgruder, really. i respect that guy as much as i do jim davis or scott adams.

contenderizer, keep digging

i respect that guy as much as i do jim davis or scott adams.

:O

Is it because he wrote Red Tails?

boondocks is great wtf

xp oh did he? ha, no but that's funny.
he's just not a good cartoonist or comic strip writer. he's a good businessman. you ever read his comics journal interview?

fwiw I think Boondocks works a LOT better as a show than a comic strip, but still, wtf

i like that i'm discussing my distaste for aaron mcgruder in the "is this racist" thread. lost before i started.

I don't understand how anyone could find the R.Kelly episode unfunny

i'm not a connoisseur of the show; i've watched maybe three episodes here or there and i find the outsourced animation very bleh and the stories hamhanded on a par with family guy
not my thing

Boondocks was the best written and best animated show on Adult Swim (damn w/faint praise).

forks

family guy

why

Also you realize Beetle Bailey is the only good modern comic strip anyway

"modern"

I'm not gonna argue "best animated" but yeah, I definitely think it's on a level above every other piece of programming they've ever had aside from Futurama

see, i'd argue venture brothers and mutts but what do i know

i think we're all forgetting a superior piece of animated entertainment called 'american dad'

Venture Bros looks like a Flash animation (esp first season)

no doubt, first season was weak but the building blocks were there. looks great now!
but i also have always hated futurama's lack of body. different strokes, folks.

If you watched more eps of Boondocks you would probably not regret it.

venture bros i think WAS flash animation in its pilot but the visuals improved from there pretty quickly

Also you realize Beetle Bailey is the only good modern comic strip anyway

― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"modern"

― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha

I haven't read a new Beetle Bailey strip in probably like 10 years but I imagine they're still making jokes about high-ranking US military official Gen. Halftrack trying to comprehend "e-mail" while leering at women dressed like 1966

OK, 1) American Dad is actually really, really funny, head and shoulders above the other MacFarlane joints, and 2) ATHF had some of the funniest writing although obvs the animation was for shit.

Halftrack is all about these very deep alcohol/marriage problems now, I love it.

This will keep you up to speed on 21st century Beetle Bailey: http://joshreads.com/?cat=26

i have given so many friends and family members the coldest, most dead-eyed stare i can muster when they tell me that American Dad is great

tbh, the only comic strips i regularly read (outside of comics curmudgeon's filter) these days are by old dead guys
josh is a real neat guy btw, i did a web based show with him at one point

Boondocks (cartoon) had very good character development. The one where Uncle Ruckus met his family was astonishing.