rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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.

"oh, what racist thing happened today? *opens thread*"

I rank them:

Boondocks
Futurama
Venture Bros
Metalocalypse
Children's Hospital
NTSF:SD::SUV:::
OG Space Ghost/Brak Show/Sealab/Frisky Dingo/Harvey Birdman
ATHF/Squidbillies
Family Guy/American Dad
all those random 15 minute shows that aren't around anymore
Tim and Eric Stupid Show Fuck Off

"*closes thread* fucking ILE..."

Boondocks -- comic strip and tv show -- was brilliant. I think I slightly preferred the comic, partly because I have a soft spot for newspaper comics, and partly because when you read it you knew this was the best thing since Calvin & Hobbes.

I did have an actual 'is it racist' question, about this brand of shirts a lot of my students wear that looks like all those stupid MMA brand shirts. The shirts say WHITEBOY on them in big letters. They get them at this store in the mall that sells a bunch of MMA brands that my friend says is run by the KKK (I don't even know how you confirm whether the KKK is running a store). Anyway, I kind of want to know and I kind of don't, because I don't want to see these kids and think 'ugh white supremacists.'

Anyway these shirts give me the creeps whether or not they are actually being sold by the KKK.

contenderizer, keep digging

― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:17 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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I had trouble reading boondocks because every once in a while, he would do a really obvious straight Bloom County or Calvin & Hobbes rip and I internalized those comics when they were fresh. Yeah, I know they were doing the same thing to Pogo and Krazy Kat and whatever, but it was an irksome experience for me.

I think if the shirts say WHITEBOY on them, you have as much as you need to know right there. Still, what's the store? I bet ilx could do a little digging.

It is a store called Hardc0r3 101 in the p4rk Pl4ce M4ll.

maybe someone licensed some ultra-rare Jewel material

http://www.rockcityrec.com/cwc/Images/CWC_Main.png

the "I'm not a racist but" clothing company
I'm not even sure why I had to ask, sorry everyone.

Boondocks the comic strip eventually became just Huey sitting impassively in front of a television that said things for four panels in pretty much every strip, as far as I can recall from my newspaper-comic-reading days. Which were a while ago now.

Abb, did you happen to hear about Floyd Mayweather?

http://www.sportaphile.com/2009/07/21/floyd-mayweather-mma-is-for-white-boys-who-couldnt-cut-it-in-boxing/

haha I feel like Floyd could support his own "why did he say that" thread

i always sort of liked or maybe wanted to like boondocks, both as a strip and a cartoon, but never quite managed to close the gap and actually enjoy it. macgruder's sense of humor just never really clicked with me.

ikwym i don't really like rap music dunno why

I didin't even know what mma was until I looked it up and Mayweather was the first result.

If the KKK is behind Mixed Martial Arts, than I just don't know what to think.

It would make sense but not really.

the KKK are against martial arts-mixing iirc

fun fact boondocks started out in my campus newspaper and macgruder is probably in our top 3 coolest alumni. and i just learned that liberty meadows started there too! that was my favorite comic as a kid.

"Now just hold on, Jeb! You can't start with a wushu stance and move to a tae-kwon-do form in the same round together. Use yer goddam head, boy!"

I give MacGruder bonus points because he's one of like 5 famous people from my hometown.

It's not even MMA, it's these stupid second-tier brands sold alongside Affliction & Tapout shirts. Is someone who wears a Metal Mulisha shirt a secret white supremacist, or do I just assume anyone who supports even a fake fashion [sic] 'mulisha' is a secret white supremacist because of my associations w/the word "militia" from growing up in Idaho in the '80s and '90s?

ikwym i don't really like rap music dunno why

― Nicholas Pokémon (silby)

???

beachville do we have the same hometown and what HS did you go to

Hammond High '96.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqWxGMqI_SE&feature=player_embedded

o hey i graduated hammond ten years later

I think I beat your school's quiz bowl team a few times in HS.

not surprising!

Huh. so are you from King's Contrivance?

yes, and we eat there every mother's day.

Yeah, my folks still live out there. I take my family to visit them once a month or so.

aw, that's so racist

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...

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

asian americans have said, loudly and unambiguously, that it was a racist remark. I don't understand where there's room for your interpretation or why you keep on pressing the point?

super late to this but 'what about his eyes": Greg Kelly's employment is almost entirely based on him regularly saying the most wtf/facepalm things...he's clip regular on The Soup, fwiw

def racist

File under "yes, this is really fucking racist and sexist":

Dave Mustaine to African women: "Put a plug in it."

am i too late to get in on the southern maryland talk w/ zach and beachville?

if we limit discussion to american history x we can cover both racism and edward norton

asian americans have said, loudly and unambiguously, that it was a racist remark. I don't understand where there's room for your interpretation or why you keep on pressing the point?

― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:15 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

people have a right to take offense at whatever they want, and in this case they have every reason to do so. i don't dispute that. all i've been talking about is intent. i don't see any clear evidence of racist intent on the guy's part (as opposed to taco mayor, who clearly intended the slur). that doesn't necessarily excuse the news dork or deny anybody the right to consider his remark racist regardless of intent.

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so everybody's required to be a mindreader now? or people have to hold up giant signs that say "I AM INTENDING TO BE RACIST?" what is this magical 'intent test' that must be satisfied? why the fuck am I even arguing with you on this absurd point?

also weird when you're like ISN'T IT MORE RACIST TO THINK THAT THIS RACIST THING IS RACIST

well tbf it's equally as racist, just reversed

racist manslaughter vs racist homicide