rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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.

in fairness, in MN Gwen Stefani would be considered Japanese

the vapors predicted it

Assume it means Akon & Gwen Stefani (ie Gwen Stefani ft Akon).

i had an IRL "Is This Racist?" moment yesterday:

was getting lunch, talking to the asian guy working behind the counter. another customer, a black woman, points to a row of different types of a fruit-flavored beverage, says she'll have "any flavor." he picks up the watermelon-strawberry flavor, says "how about this one?" she says sure, transaction completed, me being the only person present who silently raised an eyebrow at any of this.

reminds me of a 'this is racist' moment i had last summer. i was buying water ice at a local Rita's (this is an east coast thing fyi), and i asked the [white] guy manning the counter for a recommendation. he shrugged and i asked him what seemed to be popular. he said, "well, you know in this neighborhood you can't really trust the taste." i couldn't believe that meant what i thought it meant so i naively (trolly?) asked, "what do you mean?" and he said, paraphrasing, "black people have bad taste in food." i was o_O.

shipley's post is the spirit of the thread, Mordy is just saying a racist thing that happened.

xp: holy shit

no justice no peace fuck the thread police

i'm trying to come up with a 'the food was kind of blah' joke but i don't have the energy

lol goole

reminds me of a 'this is racist' moment i had last summer. i was buying water ice at a local Rita's (this is an east coast thing fyi), and i asked the [white] guy manning the counter for a recommendation. he shrugged and i asked him what seemed to be popular. he said, "black, white, purple, green, whatever."

shipley's post is the spirit of the thread, Mordy is just saying a racist thing that happened.

thank you http://gallery.mtbr.com/data/mtbr/500/thumbs/thread_police_badge.jpg

the same company that is selling those camel shorts is selling these hoodies

http://www.porhomme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/supreme-arabic-hoodie-pullover-spring-summer-2012-ny-1.jpg

now is it racist?

no?

would it be racist if you wore the hoodie with the shorts?

what is that arabic word?

no, but you would look like a female college sophomore

(is that sexist?)

is that arabic word "subhan" meaning "glory"?

i believe it is

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Yr5bXac23Ko/S1mH-u7aIXI/AAAAAAAAByA/jEM8qQBNOvM/s400/Subhan+Allah.jpg

yeah it is (subhan is on the bottom)

i don't speak arabic, i speak farsi, but from what i know about words from the quran it's probably not exactly the same as our "glory"

in farsi subhaneh means "breakfast"

it'd be funny if there was a big hole in the front

hahahahahahahaha

the little arabic i can read is from religious instruction when i was a kid. that phrase was translated as "glory to god" ime.

right, i just mean that it has the "glorious sunrise" connotation rather than the "glory of battle" connotation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI

is this racist?

can we get a "cool stuff about arabic that I know" thread from the people who know stuff about arabic because that is really interesting and cool to me

xp: I admit there is dubiousness in there but there is also a lot of awesome and self-deprecation

my final verdict is "I hope not, because I love it"

wait you mean the video?

yes (it's currently posted on my Facebook wall)

shipley's post is the spirit of the thread, Mordy is just saying a racist thing that happened.

― wham city bitch, wham wham city bitch (some dude) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

looking forward to when whiney starts the 'this is racist' thread

particularly if he starts it with the display name "wham city bitch, wham wham city bitch (some dude) (Whiney G. Weingarten)"

I don't normally say this, but I don't get what might be racist about he Dollar Shave ad? (maybe i'm distracted by the hot pants tho)

the factory worker

it's the whole "I'm a job creator to a person of vague ethnicity" section

which tbh is delivered so ridiculously that I can't take it seriously (which I understand has little to no bearing on whether it comes across as racist to other ppl)

xps I don't either and DJP otm! I love it! I was just curious if people would get really aggro about, like, the idea of a hispanic person not having a job or having a shitty job or something.

idk it's a little douchey but i think it's ok

i kind of hope she's really an employee of the firm tho