rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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"

haha

those shorts aren't racist - they're excellent!

^ advertising slogan?

i don't think they're racist per se but maybe, uh, orientalist? is orientalism a type of racism?

those aren't 'jockey shorts' tho, are they? is it some kind of visual pun

(fyi i just googled jockey and apparently tim tebow is their spokesobject heh)

is orientalism a type of racism?

edward said certainly thought so

bam

Those boxer shorts just have a bunch of old clip art of camels, from the nineteenth century, judging from the style, and the great majority of the camels are riderless, although I did see one camel that had a rider in a burnoose, which seems more of an accidental artifact of the clip art source than the main point of the design. The artist who designed them probably had nothing more in mind than 'camels look cool' and 'this clip art is free' and 'maybe people will buy these'.

yeah, i don't really get what is even orientalism about these shorts unless you believe ppl riding camels on shorts are always an example of orientalism? i get that maybe part of their appeal rests of the exoticism of, say, camels over horses. tho there are plenty of shorts with horses on them.

there are also ~pyramids~ and ~the sphinx~

egypt, man.

http://images.travelpod.com/users/elizabetharps/1.1267376424.walk-like-an-egyptian.jpg

They do the sand dance don't you know

is orientalism a type of racism?

edward said certainly thought so

― face depalma (stevie), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:06 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i believe he even said so.

right said ed

http://yoisthisracist.com/

been around for a while, dude's already got a writing gig at grantland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E2B_yI8jrI

€50 says that's a German ad agency.

What the fuck was that??

"I am gonna SUBJUGATE. BILL."

Let's look and see how a news article on how listening to white people music makes you racist negates itself in just three paragraphs!

A new study undertaken by the University of Minnesota has suggested that listening to mainstream rock music can make people 'racist'.

Researchers played a host of different music genres to 138 students for seven minutes. The students were then told they were part of a study to work out how funds should be distributed within their college. Then they were offered a range of different ethnic groups to divide the money between, reports the Daily Mail.

Apparently, after listening to mainstream rock music like Bruce Springsteen, the white students favoured other white students in regards to sharing college funds, over black and Latino students. Meanwhile, the white students who had listened to more ethnically diverse pop, including Akon and Gwen Stefani, were fairer towards other ethnic groups.