rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

He's a stud and Alejandra is adorable. If there is legitimate reason to be concerned about racism, I'm blinded to it by the cuteness of it all.

yeah, that's pretty awesome. And the dude also wrote it and is the actual head of the company.

yeah i am unable to make a determination because handsome

I want to give Alejandra ten thousand jobs hugs

I found the "what were you doing a month ago?"/"not working"/"what are you doing now?"/"working" really funny b/c Alejandra looks like she's about to laugh. And they're riding around in a wheelbarrow (iirc).

she would probably get really tired if she had to work ten thousand jobs

a wagon! + the machete with the tape!

i'm going to stop after this post, sorry!

xp what are you implying, asshole?

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

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:04 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cosign

ex gf was learning Arabic and it was really interesting to hear about; languages in general are fascinating to me, esp since I failed so hard to achieve my dream of being bilingual by the time I graduated college

now I just have a bi roommate

yes to this!

I like the "I'm good at tennis *whiff*" part

I am guessing she actually works there because she does not seem like someone who was cast for some role, she seems like someone who was told 5 minutes before it was happening that she was gonna be on camera

also she is on the verge of cracking up throughout the entire thing

We need to stop the presses on the all-time comedy poll and add this video.

outside of everything else, it's kinda a cool business idea?

The first time I saw the "not working"/"working" scene I thought Alejandra was providing a rickshaw ride, which was odd.

i would wear a hoodie that said "Breakfast" in arabic, farsi, or any language

food shirts

but is a food shirt? i should probably scroll up and find out what the camel thing was about.

i would wear a hoodie that said "Breakfast" in arabic, farsi, or any language

― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:50 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES

i was just riffing on this:

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"

― the late great, Thursday, March 8, 2012 7:55 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but v4hid's post made me wonder if it was supposed to be a breakfast shirt! is farsi script identical to arabic script or just similar?

I think it's like Chinese characters in that it's...both of those

$$ shave club = so effing cute, so funny, my dating woes are over! Now who is that guy again?

urdu script is recognizably related to arabic script but also recognizably not identical. the internet is telling me there is more than one form for farsi script? but at least one of those looks identical to arabic script to me. so the meaning of the word on the hoodie could be breakfast?

Wd wear

but v4hid identifed it as an arabic word and he reads farsi, so maybe it's def not farsi.

i don't think the shirt is racist but i am confused. does the company market shirts in the west?

what happened, etc.