rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

both of you otm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwEi5Dpq6zs

Should note this is part of a full show dealing with bigotry, which I haven't seen, and ymmv with the 'jokes'/character on display here but it makes a similar point to some of the above discussion, might be worth a watch.

One time I accidentally did a very racist stand-up comedy karaoke bit.

I was at karaoke w/ pretty much the whole ChiLX crew (La Lechera, Jenny, Jeff, jaymc, Eazy, et al.). I don't sing at karaoke, but I saw that they had a bunch of stand up comedy tracks and I selected "Celebrity Humor."

When my turn came I was confused b/c the jokes were about race. I was confused and also horrified because it never occurred to me that I could stop what was happening and I couldn't believe that I "had to" do this bit.

Most of the jokes were relatively mild - e.g., the Irish sure have a lot of kids, Italians sure are Catholic - but some were worse (Chinese couple's misunderstanding re "69" being a sex act/General Tso's Chicken).

I interrupted myself a couple times to say "Holy shit! This is terrible!" and finally when it was almost over, it dawned on me that the show didn't have to go on. I think I announced the mix-up and tried to erase my performance with babbling.

Then I went back to the bar and chugged a bottle of beer, which turned out to not to be the one I had been drinking, but one the stranger standing next to me had set down for a second.

The karaoke operator apologized like crazy and bought me a drink. He said he didn't even know that he had any joke tracks, which is plausible since they were a small section and not something anyone would choose on purpose - stuff like mother-in-law jokes, sports jokes, and "Jewish humor".

most non-racists sing songs at karaoke

"Deutschland Uber Alles" wasn't on the list, Je55e? :)

really want to try racist comedy karaoke

saw richard herring's hitler mustache show live a few years back and trust me, its not racist and he's not racist.

How on earth... WHY on earth, does standup comedy karaoke exist? like... do you mime it? Read from a cuecard? It sounds nuts.

guessing you guys don't share in the hypstr luv for Don Rickles

Those comedy tracks were in the dusty chest in the attic of the karaoke menu. They were on pages tucked into the pocket of the binder. It was like they were an ancient trap set by Nathan Bedford Forrest's ghost, meant to touch off the great race war.

http://i.imgur.com/8MwrB.jpg

whoa

just two white guys starting a hip new noodle bar

http://roundeyenoodle.com/

Roundeye Noodle is a hip noodle spot run by two guys from the suburbs.
The menu will feature inventive spins on classic noodle dishes like pho, ramen
and soba, enhanced by local ingredients.

"guys from the suburbs"

I bet these guys have referred to black people as "urban" before

"guys from the urbs"

I'm now imagining myself opening up a restaurant called Darkie's Scandinavian Cuisine

reminds me of the second worst burrito i have ever had, served at a place called "three gringos cantina."

the worst burrito i ever had was in iceland, for the record.

hákarl burrito?

I'm now imagining myself opening up a restaurant called Darkie's Scandinavian Cuisine

― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Wednesday, February 29, 2012 7:58 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well there's probably plenty of latin scandinavian quisine around here if you get me

saw richard herring's hitler mustache show live a few years back and trust me, its not racist and he's not racist.

Yeah, I know, I posted it because it was making comments about all non-whites being the same kinda similar to some of yesterday's posts. Wouldn't mind seeing the whole show, is it worth getting the dvd?

Seigwailo Noodle would have been marginally more clever

It's good at what it does - it's a show about (amongst other things) racism, by a white guy in a toothbrush moustache, to an audience he is addressing as all-white. If you liked that, this is good at that. The joke in the clip is probably the best thing in it - but then I love the joke in the clip a lot (but haven't ever told it to anyone).

circling closer to what i mean, i feel like anti-black racist ideology necessitated the birth of "whiteness" in america.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is a really great book called

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31fK7QAqgbL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

which is a v illuminating read on this idea

*clicks repeatedly*

is this racist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwxRF9J4eow

judging by the last 10 seconds, pedophilia is also present...

less racist and more wtf stupid, tbh.

it's obviously just a white guy in a wig

This ad says to me: "Ha ha! Not only are we pig-ignorant of history, but we are positive you're just as pig-ignorant as we are. So how about we make shit up. We're betting you don't care and we sure as fuck don't."

The ad says to me "The emperor of the Mongol empire apparently looked like Michael Keaton and had bad taste in interior decorating".

Also that food looks p gross.

I was fascinated b Mongolian BBQ when I was younger, eventually came to realize that it is pretty much just a disappointment cooked in lots of oil.

One of those things where the concept is better than the reality, like going to Fogo de Chao or something.

i'm going to open a restaurant called Mussolini's

tonight's special: headkick

there needs to be a moratorium on the comedy asian gong

new issue of the Phillipines version of FHM

http://files.dailycontributor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/bella_padilla_racist_fhm_philippines_cover_march_2012.jpg

lord

hah I didn't even notice the comedy gong

yikes @ fhm phillipines

Is that racist?

Oops, sorry I didn't notice the women standing behind her I must have been distracted LOL

"stepping out of the shadows" jesus

Yup, that's racist

tonight's special: headkick

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, March 1, 2012 5:22 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3 <3 <3 4ever

These guys just literally cannot help themselves. I'm beginning to believe there's a racism gene that cannot be resisted. Note all the standard signifiers: I'm not a racist, I apologize if anyone was offended, this wasn't meant to be public, etc., etc. Extra lols, however, for the judge's deer-in-headlights head shot, which appears to be what he uses professionally.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-montana-judge-admits-sending-racist-email-about-obama-20120229,0,2617317.story

Montana’s chief federal judge Wednesday admitted forwarding an email to friends about President Obama that appears to equate African Americans with dogs and raises questions about the president’s mixed racial ancestry.

“Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine,” Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull wrote before forwarding the email, a copy of which was obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

The email was sent from the judge’s court email account and immediately ignited a firestorm in Montana, where there were calls on social media sites for his resignation.

. . . Cebull, who has been Montana’s chief federal judge in Billings since 2008, was appointed to the bench by former President George W. Bush and took his seat in 2001. He is a graduate of the University of Montana School of Law and a former tribal court judge.

The Great Falls Tribune, which initially obtained the email and interviewed Cebull about it, said the judge conceded the content was racist but insisted he had forwarded it to six “old buddies” and acquaintances because he doesn’t like Obama. He said he doesn’t consider himself a racist.

“It was not intended by me in any way to become public,” Cebull told the Tribune. “I apologize to anybody who is offended by it, and I can obviously understand why people would be offended.”

In the email, a boy asks his mother why he is black and she is white. “His mother replied, 'Don’t even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you’re lucky you don’t bark!' "

“The only reason I can explain to you is I am not a fan of our president, but this goes beyond not being a fan,” Cebull told the Tribune. “I didn’t send it as a racist, although that’s what it is. I sent it out because it’s anti-Obama.”

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2012-02/68481739.jpg

Cebull said he was “surprised” it had been passed along with his name attached to it, the newspaper said.

If we could have avis here, that picture would be mine.