rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

http://i.imgur.com/JYVEu.gif

http://savethefrogs.com/art/2009/images/Frog-with-Flag-Michael-John-Kongo.jpg

"LOL, Fuck Muamba. He's dead." wasn't the tweet that got the authorities' attention, right? I should certainly hope not. Anyway, what were the tweets that got the cops after him?

yeah, they don't say what the actual offending tweets were. probably for the best that they're not reprinted.

"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."

what dictionary is this???

hasn't Elvis Costello argued the same thing? ("Oliver's Army" uses the word but really isn't about black people)

otm

don't trust elvis costello's cred on this issue

no elvis costello is well-known to be a really sensitive, intelligent interrogator of race

Woman Is The Low Down, Lazy, Sorry, Low Down Person Of The World

hey, has there been discussion on the death o trayvon martin anywhere else on this board?

Bicentennial Low Down, Lazy, Sorry, Low Down Person Of The World

hasn't Elvis Costello argued the same thing? ("Oliver's Army" uses the word but really isn't about black people)

It isn't? Really?

thought it was about kids in Ireland? what's your interpretation?

re: Trayvon Martin, Florida's "stand your ground" law is incredibly fucked up

i've been wondering why trayvon hasn't gotten much talk except for i think a link upthread. doesn't really belong in the "is this racist" thread but i'm sure certain members can come up with a defense of zimmerman.

re: Trayvon Martin, Florida's "stand your ground" law is incredibly fucked up

the fact that costello specifies "one less white n****r" makes me think... maybe that is not such a racially neutral term?

then again, i'm no elvis costello

I'm sorry, I was trying to play faux-naif there.

Is there anyone who thought "Oliver's Army" was about black people?

Karaoke and the "n word"

i started a trayvon thread like 20 minutes ago

http://www.theroot.com/buzz/teacher-student-read-poem-blacker

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

it's probably not worth pondering too hard, but i often wonder what distinction people who say this are trying to draw.

Elvis Costello putting the word "white" in front of the n-word kind of makes its racial connotations inarguable

the trayvon story is incredibly fucked up

what dictionary is this???

Webster's New Racist Dictionary, 15th ed.

the grape soda bit in that story sort of pushes it into chappelle's show territory.

Anyway, what were the tweets that got the cops after him?

those tweets, definitely racist

http://youtu.be/nA5v2eZ5ZZE

welp