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?
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
i don't expect most to agree with me but i support treating verbal abuse and physical abuse similarly under the law.
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
can ILX have a new "Suggest Jail" option plz
― Lester the Unlikely (crüt), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
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
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Aimless, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know why I posted it. I'm not racist-"
I'mma stop you right there
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
i have heard other white ppl say they are 'heinz 57' to mean lots of different kinds of europeans in their ancestry
― goole, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
hope they give this fucker the death penalty!
― frogbs, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
"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."
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really care about flagging your posts, frogbs, so i'll just remind you that you're tiresome instead.
― horseshoe, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
what's the twitter for the guy who got arrested?
― the late great, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
curious what sort of racist tweeting can get you arrested in the uk
I'm not racist. I have French, German, Scottish friends...
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
i don't care if you're white, white, white, or purple
― Mordy, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
subtle try, freud
― less of the same (darraghmac), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Like my mom always said, if you can't say something nice about a person... click on the Flag Post link.
― Aimless, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
frog post
― pplains, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JYVEu.gif
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://savethefrogs.com/art/2009/images/Frog-with-Flag-Michael-John-Kongo.jpg
― frogbs, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
"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?
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, they don't say what the actual offending tweets were. probably for the best that they're not reprinted.
― Lester the Unlikely (crüt), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
"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???
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
hasn't Elvis Costello argued the same thing? ("Oliver's Army" uses the word but really isn't about black people)
― frogbs, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― max, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
don't trust elvis costello's cred on this issue
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
no elvis costello is well-known to be a really sensitive, intelligent interrogator of race
― max, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Woman Is The Low Down, Lazy, Sorry, Low Down Person Of The World
― Lester the Unlikely (crüt), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
hey, has there been discussion on the death o trayvon martin anywhere else on this board?
― dayo, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
Bicentennial Low Down, Lazy, Sorry, Low Down Person Of The World
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
It isn't? Really?
― butvi wouls (Phil D.), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
thought it was about kids in Ireland? what's your interpretation?
― frogbs, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
re: Trayvon Martin, Florida's "stand your ground" law is incredibly fucked up
― Lester the Unlikely (crüt), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
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 think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sorry, I was trying to play faux-naif there.
Is there anyone who thought "Oliver's Army" was about black people?
― butvi wouls (Phil D.), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
Karaoke and the "n word"
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
i started a trayvon thread like 20 minutes ago
― max, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/teacher-student-read-poem-blacker
― the late great, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
"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.
― ryan, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
Elvis Costello putting the word "white" in front of the n-word kind of makes its racial connotations inarguable
― some dude, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
the trayvon story is incredibly fucked up
― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 March 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Webster's New Racist Dictionary, 15th ed.
― carl agatha, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
the grape soda bit in that story sort of pushes it into chappelle's show territory.
― s.clover, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
Anyway, what were the tweets that got the cops after him?
those tweets, definitely racist
http://youtu.be/nA5v2eZ5ZZE
― A BIG JOE JORDAN TYPE OF POSTER (onimo), Monday, 19 March 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
welp
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Monday, 19 March 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
ah, so that's who Dom was retweeting.
― pplains, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
I've posted a couple of Trayvon Martin bits on FB, but I guess I didn't realize it hadn't been discussed here before. Hugely tragic, and it's going to be rage-making if Zimmerman gets off without even being charged with anything.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 19 March 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
a friend of mine has done the copy for some of the news reports. it's fucking sickening.
when the law was passed a few years ago, most citizens were like "oh, here we go"...and here is the legacy of said law.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link