rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Sweden = Saab Aerospace = fighter jet exports

bizarre thread where i inevitably find contenderizer's stances weasel-y & defensive

it may be that we're just not all that well suited to one another

http://sarahburningham.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Heartbreak_Cookie.jpg

http://www.hayibo.com/africans-shocked-by-uncivilized-antics-of-european-savages/

is that like a European version of the Onion or something?

It has a separate category (alongside Arts & Entertainment / Sport / Politics) for Julius Malema - I'm guessing not.

Oh ok I did not pay attention too much to any of the details

/the only thing causes me to defer are my attitudes towards the responsibilities that attend power imbalances./

erg, subject verb. make that: "the only thing that causes me to defer is my personal conception of the ethical responsibilities that attend power imbalances"
--yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer)

This is a pretty impressive way of saying "I tend to respect the experience of the offended party."

i knew i must have meant something

haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOI2GGY1SeE

Sort of feel bad for this guy

I would love to believe that this was just a case of neighbors being suspicious of people in an empty house, but I know it wasn't.

The Newton County Sheriff’s Office is investigating why a couple was confronted at gunpoint by neighbors and then arrested and forced to spend the night in jail when they tried to move into the home they had just purchased, Channel 2 Action News reported.

The Kalonji family had just closed on a foreclosed home and were told by their real estate agent they should go over to the house and change the locks.

But when Jean Kalonji and his wife, Angelica, started working at the home, an armed man and another person who appeared to be the man’s son allegedly confronted them.

“He say to put the hands up and get out from the house, otherwise he would shoot us,” the husband told Channel 2.

The neighbors didn’t believe the couple when they told them they had bought the home and called the Newton County Sheriff’s Office. The Kalonjis didn’t have the closing papers with them, so deputies arrested them, charged them with loitering and prowling and took them to jail.

Yvette Harris, the couple’s real estate agent, said they never should have been arrested.

“They rightfully own this house,” Harris said.

Kalonji, who grew up in the Congo, said the experience brought back painful memories.

“There, they put me down with the gun to my head, and come here, the same,” he said.

Mark Mitchell, spokesman for the Newton Sheriff’s Office, said authorities are “looking into it, exactly what occurred, why it occurred.”

A person at the neighbors’ house said no one wanted to talk to Channel 2 about the incident.

in before 50 commenters explaining that the Kalonjis shouldn't have been acting suspicious

You know, all these gun-happy freedom nuts could pick on some actual bad guys from time to time, instead of poor minorities just trying to get through life. Why don't we ever hear about this happening to some asshole CEO?

i think there's a chappelle show sketch about that

It's crazy how gun usage tends to slide from protection of self to protection of property to protection of property that you don't even have a personal interest in. Hey, someone is doing something mildly suspicious to a FORECLOSED FUCKING HOUSE. Should I call the police? No, I'll just go over there and force them to the ground with my gun.

You know we're LIVING in a SOCIETY!

and the reaction to slow police? "I could call the police but they'll be gone by the time the police get there! I need a gun!"

instead of

"I could call the police but they'll be gone by the time the police get there. Why do we not fund the police properly or have them concentrating on the correct priorities?!?"

xp to that english teacher vid: good lord wtf, that goes from sad to awkward offensive comedy sketch v quickly. he honestly says that he uses the word so he'll feel "more comfortable" with his black students. how do people get to that point in their lives/careers without even the slightest idea of what reclamation is?

as a sidenote, i really hate how in stories like these, there's always a rush to make sure that everyone watching it knows that the black child is an honor roll student, a football player, junior ROTC, boy scout, etc. i'm never sure how much of that narration is happening simply to describe the kid and his hobbies -- it usually comes off sounding like "he's on the good ones" and implying that it wouldn't be a story worth caring about if he came off as a "thug" to white people. can't help paying more attention to it after trayvon.

it's sad that kids have complete idiots for teachers

but really fucking common

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62QSiduReWo

i knew instantly, something was about to go terribly wrong...

"i'm the n[BEEP], AAAAAAAAHHHH!"

the irony of this attack?

if you've ever seen a live TV newscaster in action you'll know that it is very hard to resist fucking with them, they are such horrible douchebags

I've mentioned that my sister-in-law is a live TV newscaster, right

somehow I have little difficulty believing that you are the bigger douchebag here

Did you guys watch the whole thing?

I didn't know that, actually. was not meant as a personal insult.
xp

Dude should have been arrested for disturbing the peace and being an ass, but AFTER REPORTING ON VICTIMS ALL THESE YEARS, SHE NOW KNOWS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A VICTIM HERSELF?

It's like saying AFTER REPORTING ON RACISM ALL THESE YEARS, NOW I KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE THE N-WORD SCREAMED AT ME WHILE MINDING MY BUSINESS ON THE STREET.

I mean, she's not exactly Lara Logan here.

outside of that, a reporter reporting on the news that happened in her report made my mind collapse. it's all gone now.

yeah, that it ends up being about victim's advocates, cuz the reporter is so worried that the guy is gonna "attack" her again once he gets out of jail (for "attacking" her in the first place)

tbh I stopped watching as soon as it devolved into a clip of watching a clip of someone reporting on what happened to them in a previous clip

I love that she requested to know when he was out on bond.

Like she needed to prepare herself if he shows up while she's shopping at Costco and grabs the zucchini right from her hand and go "I'm that n*****, aaaaaaaaah"

This incident was classified as an "assault"?

What the fuck would you classify it as? Horseplay?

Second degree shenanigans

What the fuck would you classify it as? Horseplay?

yes

Like she needed to prepare herself if he shows up while she's shopping at Costco and grabs the zucchini right from her hand and go "I'm that n*****, aaaaaaaaah"

We looked the other way when Kanye West assaulted Taylor Swift. Here we are, America. Here we are.

attempted japes

aggravated tomfoolery

tbh I was too busy laughing at this being reported as SRS NEWS to get to the end of that clip, so learning that she's now terrified of this dude is kind of extra hilarious to me

I mean, obv this would end up being classified as "assault" because what else could you legally call it, but acting like this is on par with getting punched/kicked/beaten/attacked is seriously dumb and minimizes the seriousness of the actual violent crime the original report was about

I wanna hear how this reporter went all Jennifer Jason Leigh-shooting-Greg Allman after all this went down.

I can't imagine being so uptight about your shitty local news show that you would press charges against this dude

oh I totally can, I just can't imagine trying to cast that as "zomg terrible violent crime I've been violated"

Having your shit fucked with is no fun, particularly when it's in front of a large audience*, and if it includes force then yeah, that's assault. It's not grevious assault or aggravated assault, but it's the kind of thing that people can get fucked up by, and 'lol walk it off' is kind of an insufficient response.

Tho obviously yeah enormous eye-rolling at the Wire season 5ishness of "Something happened to me - pulitzer here I come!" and "Now that I am a victim I can pay attention to this support network that I would've happily ignored for the rest of my days otherwise". It does strike me that it's probably more opportunism than "And _that's_ why you should be afraid of black men! *headtilt*" but I may well be being too generous.

* really have no idea how large the audience on this was.

forgot to put "trigger warning" on this for Farrell I guess

You're a trigger warning.

you know what would have been perfect, is if in the followup report dude had burst back in, snatched the mic and shouted "I'M STILL THAT N_____, AAAAAAAAAAAH"

hahahahahaha

loooooool

Am I the only person who thought of SNL's "Buckwheat has been shot" when they did the slow motion replay?

I am also dying at "I knew instantly that something was about to go TERRIBLY WRONG..."

also lol at the unearned back-patting over the "good police work" that managed to secure a picture of the person who jumped in front of a running video camera