rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/03/17/exclusive-seller-of-controversial-anti-obama-sticker-says-its-not-racist/

Ms. Smith insisted that the bumper sticker is not racist. I asked her about the “N” word, for which “nig” is the shortened version. “According to the dictionary [the N word] does not mean black. It means a low down, lazy, sorry, low down person. That’s what the N word means.”

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FOR FUCK'S SAKE

I hope that person dies

oh ffs

lol I mean, I know that person will die eventually, I mean right now in a super painful drawn-out manner

Ms. Smith said she is not racist, she just wants Obama out of office. She tells me she doesn’t have a preferred replacement candidate. “And besides Obama is not even black. He’s got a mixture of race. It’s his choice of what his nationality is. I’m a mixed breed. I call myself a Heinz 57,” she says, referring to an ancestry that’s part of French, Scottish, and German.

"I’m a mixed breed. I call myself a Heinz 57,” she says, referring to an ancestry that’s part of white, white, and white.

It’s his choice of what his nationality is.

?????

how did this woman manage to figure out how to turn on a computer

I think she is pointing out that in a post-racial world, Mr Obama is free to identify as any aspect of his heritage that he chooses. Because she is an idiot.

Is Heinz's 57th flavour all of the others mixed together? Because that is the only way that statement would make any sense.

i think of this a lot in terms of the "epistemic closure" argument from the past few years, santorum's bizarro theorizing, etc: we're in some kind of deep post-atwater universe where there are just a lot of people who are native believers of the paper-thin excuse-making bullshit pushed out by their political forbears

*looks for Heinz 57 on Census Form.*

*Takes a bite out of ribs*

"Oh, good. There it is."

i do appreciate that Roger Friedman, Forbes Contributor went to some different dictionaries to vet that partic statement tho

i still dont understand how "idiot does racist thing" is national news

the gun store in my home town used to sell "running n***** targets" where's that dude's 15 minutes of Facebook fame?

she's just using every single racist defense every other white person uses after they use the word. fills out the bingo card real good.

oh except this

“I do find it amazing and entertaining that one of our stickers has become a racist thing,” Ms. Smith told me. I asked her if she thought the “N” Word was a bad word? “No,” she said, ” because I don’t use it. I have kids here around me that are black kids. I call them my own kids. I’ve helped black families…to guide them in the right direction. Paintball is one of these things. We like to laugh and have a good time. That’s our way of life.”

this whole paragraph is just surreal

Paintball is one of these things. We like to laugh and have a good time.

i don't care if i shoot you with white paint, black paint, purple paint...

"look when i use the word 'kike' i just mean someone who is untrustworthy and greedy. sure it ONCE meant a jewish person but that's not what it means to me"

Paintball is one of these things. We like to laugh and have a good time. That’s our way of life. There are seats for those who are waiting.

"Heinz 57" is a colloquialism people use to refer to dogs that are no particular breed. I've heard it applied to people, but really, in the US for most people who are white you're generally considered a weirdo if you start picking apart your ancestry in serious conversation.

That is, outside of St. Patrick's Day, when that 1/16th Irish bit of you is incredibly important

I'm a big mixture of races. I'm white, off-white, eggshell, light beige...

I've got some cream inside of me.

gross

andrew farrell OTM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/19/fabrice-muamba-twitter-troll-prison

Racist troll plays not-racist bingo.

The court heard Stacey tried to claim his account had been hacked. He also tried to delete his page.

"I don't know why I posted it. I'm not racist and some of my friends are from different cultural backgrounds."

man this whole thing is tragic but now I'm hungry for Heinz 57, does anybody know if that shit has anchovy paste or something, thinking about picking up a bottle just to move this whole racial dialogue forward

no anchovies in heinz ketchup afaik

somehow, jail time strikes me as an absurdly excessive punishment for not-specifically-threatening racism on twitter, but i'm from the 18th century, so what do i know?

i don't expect most to agree with me but i support treating verbal abuse and physical abuse similarly under the law.

can ILX have a new "Suggest Jail" option plz

xp also that article only posted one of the things he said

Jones said other Twitter users criticised Stacey, prompting him to post a series of other offensive and racist comments.

i imagine everything else he said was less tame

no anchovies in heinz ketchup afaik

This is the sauce referred to, I believe:

http://www.netfoodie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/heinz57recipe.jpg

I don't know why I posted it. I'm not racist-"

I'mma stop you right there

i have heard other white ppl say they are 'heinz 57' to mean lots of different kinds of europeans in their ancestry

hope they give this fucker the death penalty!

"I'm not a racist. I acknowledge that black people exist and that I've had occasion to share the same general geographical space with them. So...case closed, I guess."

i don't really care about flagging your posts, frogbs, so i'll just remind you that you're tiresome instead.

what's the twitter for the guy who got arrested?

curious what sort of racist tweeting can get you arrested in the uk

I'm not racist. I have French, German, Scottish friends...

i don't care if you're white, white, white, or purple

i don't really care about flagging your posts, frogbs, so i'll just remind you that you're tiresome instead

imo this kind of posting is much worse than just hitting flag post

subtle try, freud

Like my mom always said, if you can't say something nice about a person... click on the Flag Post link.

frog post