rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Christ, how did I forget about Loco Toledo?

this shit is old, but there's so much of it and it's just showing off the worst in everyone: http://hungergamestweets.tumblr.com/

never read the books but it seems like it's at least ambiguous if not pretty clear that the characters are black. and if they weren't? people still shouldn't complain, seeing as whitewashing happens fifty times more often.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0c6shyQZu1rqcceqo1_400.png
(talking about lenny kravitz)

this was covered upthread:

thought the revive was going to be about this

http://www.racialicious.com/2011/11/15/yes-there-are-black-people-in-your-hunger-games-the-strange-case-of-rue-cinna/

― am0n, Friday, November 18, 2011 12:05 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow I hate ppl

― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, November 18, 2011 12:31 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(just saying wht everyone is thinking)

― ice cr?m, Friday, November 18, 2011 12:57 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i thought it'd be about terry/suarez/blatter

― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, November 18, 2011 12:58 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the reaction to the lenny kravitz casting makes me hate people, but the reaction to the rue casting is mindboggling. she's very clearly black in the book.

― horseshoe, Friday, November 18, 2011 12:59 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― am0n, Friday, November 18, 2011 1:00 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Ew,"

― am0n, Friday, November 18, 2011 1:00 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does hollywood actress or not?!!!!!!

― ice cr?m, Friday, November 18, 2011 1:00 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

?!... ?!!!!!!

― am0n, Friday, November 18, 2011 1:02 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just saying wht everyone is thinking?!?!?!?!!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

― ice cr?m, Friday, November 18, 2011 1:04 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dying at the number of people who have no clue who lenny kravitz is either, definitely this is young adult fiction

― max, Friday, November 18, 2011 1:04 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"white, sweet and loving as a man"

― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, November 18, 2011 1:07 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait lenny kravitz is black

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, November 18, 2011 1:08 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"this guy is not cute at all!" o_O

― horseshoe, Friday, November 18, 2011 1:08 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what is hunger games is it like twilight

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, November 18, 2011 1:09 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not thinking lenny kravitz is attractive is like the #1 sign that u are hella racist

― max, Friday, November 18, 2011 1:09 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry that's kind of unreadable. there were hilarious/depressing images of tweets about the casting that am0n had posted that are missing there.

the rue character is black in the book, the cinna character is not recognizably raced, but if people are going to complain about a black actor being cast as cinna they should probably not misidentify lenny kravitz as a rapper. also they should stop sucking.

kids these days are bombarded with negative media depictions of rappers like this:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/images/izod-center-lil-wayne-live2.jpg

I can understand them calling Lenny Kravitz a rapper how would they know the difference, we need to educate ;_;

#DEWEEZY

oh hey that's likely not made the rounds yet but mountain dew and lil wayne are teaming up on an ad campaign pimping the awesome #DEWEEZY hastag and i'm serious and it's not racist but maybe we could pretend it was?
i sometimes wish someone would tell lil wayne that he's won already and it's time to start over

http://www.laowaicomics.com/10.html

i like to learn about cultural differences so i find it too bad that this comic is so clumsy and douchey. for most of the pages i would have been tempted to call it divisive instead of racist but then there is shit like the " member of lao tourist industry".
http://www.laowaicomics.com/07.html
nobody dropped the "r" word on the reddit thread so far
http://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/qjoru/this_is_it_my_very_own_webcomic_about_life_in/
a couple of guys said they felt uncomfortable... discus?

racist and also horrible drawing

lol oh no doubt the quality of the drawing+presentation is bad, would not click again except to mine for more "is this racist" thread material.

seems p racist to me!

merging our 'is this racist' and 'hey look at this shitty webcomic' threads would be a sad endless downward spiral tho i think

worst thing about those comics is that they're so criminally unfunny

You guys would have such fun on the batshit rightwing cartoons thread

i'm cutting down on my US political news in general, i think on the long run it will get beneficial for my health. i have enough on my plate already with harper and charest, quebecor, desmarais &cie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocentrism

my miniature dachshund barks like a madman at any dog he sees. once he gets face-to-face with another dog he warms up to them after a minute or two of acting like a tough guy.

when he sees other dachshunds, he doesn't bark at all. in fact, he acts like he's known the other dachshunds forever, even if they just met.

IS MY DOG RACIST?

is your dog exerting power/influence over these other dogs?

maybe he misrecognizes himself as a giant quadropedal caterpillar rather than a dog

are his wife and some of his best friends shar peis?

has he ever tried to hump a shiba inu? and totally not in a fetishy way?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/disgrasian/racist-halloween-costumes_b_330853.html

^^ racist halloween costumes for dogs

sorry if reposted elsewhere

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wocG2evroyQ/SuCp98Y1hdI/AAAAAAAAKF8/Gp26-XmSnL4/s1600-h/futurememories_2073_276562741%29.jpg

pup shalom wiener dog!

^ so cute!

<3 "Big Daddy Pimp Dog"

Pup Shalom Dog Costume!

that comic would be more interesting if he would not just show from a distance chinese ppl acting differently than westerners but make an effort to explain their point of view; if he doesn't know then he would have to stick his neck out and talk to them i guess.

Have we done this?

http://colorlines.com/archival_images/mcd-stop-frisk-form.jpg

I would like to think that I don't understand that form but I am fearing that I do

Yes aaaand yes (it is a hoax though)

well, more than a hoax; it's a satirical protest of NYPD's racial profiling

in context, I don't think this is racist

Well yeah! This just seemed like a good thread to stick it on

Off-topic but it's kind of eerie how Milo Bloom's hair has become the default "cool guy's haircut" you see in London for the past, oh, year and a half. It's like the barbers studied the strips.

But sort of back on topic, one of my colleagues (who is black) told me last week that her son's school requires him to keep his hair at least two inches long???!!! Like, there's a school rule about it. And of course her son HATES this with a burning white-hot hate because hair that long is..... not exactly in among the London yoot

So, er, multiple "default cool guy" styles I guess

omg, is that an anti-skinhead rule?

lololololololololol

oof, googling '365black' gets you to some ugly places quick.

ha I googled "mcdonald's frisk form" to be safe

business insider writes it up:

erry Malloy, the author of the "Three Strikes, You're In!" press release, told Business Insider that the parody initiative was launched to draw attention to the Stop-and-Frisk program and the innocent people that it targets. According to him, the parody turns the Stop-and-Frisk program "into a game with a delightful prize."

http://www.businessinsider.com/365black-mcdonalds-nypd-frisking-3-strikes-youre-in-2012-3

the website itself has gone cryptic

http://www.threestrikesyourein.org/

yeah apparently white nationalist bloggers like mcdonald's' marketing to the black community even less than black people on the internet do, funny how that works

Hahaha Dan that did not occur to me but it very well could be! DELICIOUS, THE IRONING IS

ironically racist school codes apparently turn me into Yoda

id guess its a prep school pleb-phobe thing?

or can state schools make inane rules too idk

He doesn't go to prep school, so it's not that

no irish, no faux-hawks, no dogs

if yr childs hair is less than 2" long then it means u are currently glassing a suspected nonce in an estate pub

racist against nonces

camel jockeys on your shorts - is it racist?

every time this thread pops up, i think "yes"