rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

i actually do feel bad for those kids but i don't think tht dude getting to coach next year is really gonna change much in that regard

i feel like everyone is relieved that we're back to somebody saying nigger and away from korean eye caricatures on a starbucks cup and chink in the armor.

eh i think its more that this one is almost like dude was reading directly from the script -- the on-the-nose-ness of it almost makes me think it was made up, except of course that its 100% believable

hmmm. is this like a magic eye thing? i've been looking at that starbuccks cup for a half hour. this might be a little too abstract for our 'is this racist?' thread. wait... CRF?? kerf? is that it?

then mordy asks if maybe he meant to say nigga because he identifies with............ blah blah blah

Lolwat

haha

he called her a nigger because he thinks she's dreamy, okay? OKAY?

*raises confederate flag*

“I don’t need this drama in my life. It’s going to affect me hugely, and my business,”

Oh you poor fucking racist.

Can I reserve a little secondary outrage over the fact that this dumbass doesn't know the difference between a noun and an adjective?

Kelly, who ran unsuccessfully in the 2008 Democratic primary for Cook County Recorder of Deeds, admits to posting the comment on his Facebook page.

“I made the comment,” he said. “I had a bunch of friends and cousins making comments about Whitney Houston. I’m sorry I did it. I deleted the post and then I went and apologized to [the mother] on Saturday. I apologized 100 times over. This lady is making a personal vendetta against me.”

from a version of the story that puts "racist" in quotes

that entire article is kind of ridic.

The mother of a former league player—who is black—copied the comment on to her own Facebook page as well as the Westside league's

“We’ve fought wars for the right of freedom of speech,” he continued.

Neither Hebel nor the other board members understand the mother’s intentions, which he called a “personal issue” between Kelly and the mother.

Can I reserve a little secondary outrage over the fact that this dumbass doesn't know the difference between a noun and an adjective?

― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Saturday, February 25, 2012 7:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I actually went back and counted the ---'s when I saw that.

gah why do people continue to think freedom of speech means the unalienable right to say whatever you want free of criticism and/or discipline.

"for some reason, this lady has a personal vendetta against me, I can't put my finger on what button I pushed by saying the word 'nigger'..."

At least I don't feel ignored anymore

also LOLing (in a "kind of lol but mostly sad" way) that he asserts that he apologized "over 100 times", but can't believe the mother is STILL ANGRY. Like he thinks the quantity of the "I'm sorry"s is more important to the, ehm, "quality" of the apology...aka not coming across as an even bigger dickhead as he tries to rationalize/apologize for his behavior.

http://s8.postimage.org/dpcnx7kn7/wtf_fbook.png

everyone otm

do you have webmail, c?

shit just got real

what did Matt post...nothing comes up on my browser above his name.

http://postimage.org/image/6m4shlf7l/

do you have webmail, c?

oh yea, forgot: donaldparsley at gmail dot com

jesus that just came up on facebook for me too pp

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57385762/crystal-criticized-for-blackface-at-oscars/

Crystal not criticized for doing 4 years of blackface at Saturday Night Live

Thought Crystal was the mononym of some pop si ger I wasn't acquainted with

Alluding to the controversy last fall when Eddie Murphy bowed out of Oscar hosting duties after the show's original producer Brett Ratner exited over his use of a gay slur, "max read" wrote: "lmao remember when you were all like "billy crystal is going to be so SAFE" and then he did BLACKFACE."

lmao

alleged

"max read"

maximum readability

Awwww

was just coming to c+p that

"When Octavia Spencer later won Best Supporting Actress for "The Help," comedian Paul Scheer tweeted that her win "shows just how far we've come since Billy Crystal performed in Blackface."

lollll

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-traffic-stops-0226-20120223,0,793365,full.story

color me surprised

Blacks and Hispanics fared especially poorly when stopped for equipment-related violations. Among nearly 4,000 stops related to the display or use of license plates, for example, 13 percent of white motorists left with a citation, compared with 27 percent of black drivers and 36 percent of Hispanics.

For more than 2,600 stops involving improper taillights, black motorists were twice as likely and Hispanics nearly four times as likely to be ticketed, compared to white drivers.

ffs I broke my one sacred rule of never looking at the comments
it's really a life-enriching formula, don't follow my bad example in breaking it

Top Commenter · Norwich Technical High School

i'm not sure comments sections serve any real purpose beyond making halfway decent people feel a little miserable about fellow humans.

"Sharia Law will make us all equal soon enough."

what is the deal with people complaining about "Sharia law" infiltrating the U.S. court system - does Sharia law ever come up in court aside from like divorce cases??

can't say i really understand the mentality of seeking out racists

― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Saturday, February 18, 2012 7:44 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

is this why you never talk to me on AIM

http://www.aics.org/images/aimaim.gif

I don't think I had every looked in detail to the AIM's logo before, but god forgive me the peace sign just says "bunny ears" to me.

― beachville, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 8:10 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

i was thinking air-quotes

still lol @ i.Beat Blaxx

― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:35 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

same

what is the deal with people complaining about "Sharia law" infiltrating the U.S. court system

― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:49 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah on the one hand i wonder this all the time. on the other hand i think it's standard oh-god-those-brown-people-breed-like-flies panic.

one thing thats sort of "comforting" about islamophobia/creeping sharia is that it seems to take on a pretty similar shape to anti-catholic/anti-immigrant crazes in the past. i mean its obv horrible but at least its sorta recognizable, and its past precedents point toward a decent future