rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

PLESIDENTIAL ERECTION 2K8

http://www.ilooklikebarackobama.com/

http://www.ilooklikebarackobama.com/images/facegraph.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM&feature=related

i don't know what to do with this

file it w/your latepass?

sick burn, dude

Quick, shallow take on that vid (w/ lots of room for error):

Budding british drama student. Immature. Working class. Most of what he's saying is based in how he talks on the phone with his buddies (hence the frequent profanity), but it's all mashed up with bad tv drama and crappy stereotypes.

idk how much of that is extemporized but assuming most of it is semirehearsed spiel based on knowledge of bad films its p impressive, scottish one is probably the worst

thank you, cozen

I really like his regular accent. It reminds me of how Robert Smith talks.

best part of that "about us" text is this admission nonchalantly slipped into the middle of it: "Nowadays, Abercrombie and Fitch piracy in China has spread to unimaginable proportions."

― 1staethyr, Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

this headline is o_O

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/22/opinion/granderson-florida-shootings/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Doesn't display properly. But the CNN header is "Opinion: Black People Distrust Police"

honestly that is one of LZ Granderson's more lucid pieces

header when i load it is "Why black people don't trust the police"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danziger_Bridge_shootings

mentioned in that piece

this fucking country

yeah that situation was fucking enraging

wow. i'm gonna assume that was covered in Treme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIvSeIdxX8s

There was a Frontline story on Danzinger
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/law-disorder/case-six-danziger-bridge/

http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunger-games-fans-dont-care-how-much-money-the-movie-made

kind of lol but mostly sad

not even really lol

kind of sad but mostly infuriating

not even a shred of lol tbh

xposts DJP otm

"LOL, all these kids are growing up to be racist monsters"

both times collins describes rue physically, she says the same thing -- brown skin, resembles prim in size and demeanor. same words both time. bad writing, but it's explicit and she makes sure to point out that she ONLY resembles prim in size and demeanor.

cinna's only described by his clothes and makeup, so these people are literally getting mad that the film didn't reach inside their head and extract the assumption they made about his skin color. the ridiculous thing is that lenny kravitz was probably the best casting decision they made. i've never said this about him, but he was perfect. he totally embodies the tranquility and sincerity of the character. people suck.

revoke their entertainment privileges imo

Rue and Thresh's skin is described not even simply as "brown", but "dark brown." And Cinna is described as brown, too, IIRC.

I'm just imagining the children of the corn fantasy world which these readers must be imagining when they read the books, also giving the gasface towards the people who are saying the movie should have "stuck to the book"

xp I don't think his skin is described -- only that he has green eyes, brown hair, and gold eyeliner.

p sure 90% of the readers just imagined tim gunn

Or that Tom guy from Queer Eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjPao2yjRk4

^^ vid not racist

God fucking dammit that hunger games thing is so depressing to me

you guys, that has been going on for months since the casting was first announced

can't speak for anybody else but I'm p. sure I've never clicked through to any article whose title was any variant of "______ cast to play role of ________" - like, even if I give a shit, all my questions will have been answered by the time I'm done reading the article's title

but yeah in any case this is fucking depressing stuff

you guys, that has been going on for months since the casting was first announced

yes, but its kind of infuriating that jezebel and other places are stirring the shit up AGAIN. like, it was maybe noteworthy the first time, but STOP giving voice to these morons.

eh, I sort of get that, but in the wake of the Treyvon Martin shooting I don't think it's actually a bad idea to point out exactly how baseline racist US society is

fair point, i suppose

I agree, in theory, but i'm not sure how well posting the tweets of thirteen-year-old morons does that. Millions of people will have read the books or seen the film, some of them are going to be racist jackasses. It's difficult to ascertain how large a percentage they form.

how are jezebel and other places the ones stirring up shit, rather than the people actually saying the shit

"let's just ignore it and it'll go away" has proven to be a p ineffective strategy

Why do you have to keep telling me that people think racist things? If we just talked less about it, it'd go away!

most fucked up part are the ppl who think that Rue not being white ruins the idea of the character, aka a shy, quiet, innocent naif type. bc what? black ppl can't be those things?????

yeah I agree w/ DJP and zachlyon - "it's 2012 and racism is fixed!" is a p common argument that needs to be shot down

american teens betrayed, deceived, tricked into caring about fictional black people

I blame liberal hollyweird

lenny kravitz is in this fucking thing? lol.
it is weird that anyone would care what color the characters would be in a fiction adaptation in any case. like, what's the goddamn point? they don't match the images in your head?
book is sitting by my bed, it is pretty dire 20 pages in.

I am perfectly happy with Lenny Kravitz being in movies and not inflicting his music on us anymore.