rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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l-r: ilx, wgw

http://www.nickmom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/kid-with-bread-running-from-birds.jpg

just give us the bread

people need to leaven their expectation imo

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa192/commentcastle/glitters/christian/images/give-us-this-day-our-daily-bread.gif

There's a four-letter word to describe this crusty bread.

Puri

http://www.reformation.org/en-benedict-adores-host.jpg

woah the vatican weighed in on the corn vs. flour tortilla debate

this is an ancient XP already, but when I first saw that rapper baby thing on Snuffbox I was like "wtf this seems awfully dodgy!" but I think my reaction was just due to American/British cultural differences in that RAP and HIP-HOP carry signifiers here that they probably don't as much in the UK... I dunno, that show is fucking hilarious though.

the discussion of naan in the racism thread is making it really difficult for me to resist adopting an offensive trick daddy-inspired display name

^ "I'M THAT NIGGA, NAAAAAAAAN!" ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRc4ac2iHFw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-2U2v2CsAM

The Kutcher advert has been pulled, thankfully.

yeah that was really wtf

the india layover bit in MI4 was also p uncomfortable

"There is a perception that I always like a big team. I can remember talking to [former football manager] Alec Stock when I was at Bournemouth. He used to say when his teams walked out he liked to see men, not boys.

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"Our game has developed. No one talks about Lee Hendrie being at the club, that big, black, 6ft 6in player beating everybody up [Hendrie, a slight, white, passing midfielder, was on a lengthy loan at Stoke].

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/tony-pulis-the-man-who-moulded-the-potters-892758.html

idgi

hes trying to show that he has skilful players at his team rather than just the supposed 'big, black, 6ft 6in player beating everybody up'

sentence looks like he called Hendrie black. Do "footie" people talk weird or something

that is him trying to be funny

the only issue is whether is he is merely alluding to an idea current among football coaches that black players are thuggish goons and white players are clever & skilful

except that the example he gives only compounds those prejudices, and it isn't introduced in order to criticize them but merely to defend the reputation of his own team (who are mostly thugs, and mostly white)

He does mention Salif Diao and Ricardo Fuller as examples of Stoke's skillful side later in that paragraph. Doesn't really mitigate the problem, though.

Is he really wondering why nobody talks about a player they borrowed for half a season five years ago?

im sports tuomas

there isn't really much reference made to race by english football ppl, even when there is a periodic scandal with some fan or player racially abusing another, the football hierachy/commentariat are pretty much a single voice saying yeah well it's an isolated example, this country is vibrant and multicultural not like russia or spain etc etc

and even though there have been large numbers of black players for two decades, there are hardly any black managers, the executive/managerial culture is largely hidden from view but it's clearly full of insidious racial biases

They seem to keep mind of it when it's high-profile enough - there's talk now I understand as to whether the new manager can keep John Terry and Rio Ferdinand in the same team after Terry yelled racist abuse at Ferdinand's younger brother last year.

yeah well his trial will bring out the usual platitudes, but even if he is convicted the discourse will be about one remedial bawheid who will then get to have racist appended to his list of character defects

that is more or less how ~race~ discourse exists in england, racism is the preserve of racists, that is to say those who are or might be convicted of racially aggravated offences, rather than say the employers whose hiring decisions contribute to the ~50% unemployment rate among young black men

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-most-persuasive-case-for-eliminating-black-studies-just-read-the-dissertations/46346

fuck, who is this person?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/author/nriley

I am picking on people because they are black (and I am a racist).
I am picking on people even though I don’t have a Ph.D.
I am picking on people who are too young and inexperienced to defend themselves.
I am picking on people even though I haven’t read their entire dissertations.

Let me take the first two criticisms first. My qualifications to post on this blog consist of the fact that I have been a journalist writing about higher education…

Would have been funny if the post ended on the ellipsis.

This seems a relic of first term Bush for sure.

srsly *what* is this person?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/black-studies-part-2-a-response-to-critics/46401

aaron bady comments on this one

her defence notes that there aren't enough hours in the day to read the things she is demeaning and dismissing

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-end-of-black-caddies-and-the-medias-racial-headcounting/45326

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/priorities-at-the-naacp/38010

She actually had the nerve to write this:

"Before the NAACP leadership gets on its high horse about this, maybe they should go ask a mother trying to raise kids in an inner-city neighborhood how she feels about this, whether she minds if the guy trying to sell drugs to her 12-year-old is put away for a long time."

!!!

"Hey, NAACP. Maybe you ought to talk to some real BLACK PEOPLE and see what THEY think."

fucking morons and their "brainstorms"

so does freddie de boer! its the grad students blogger all stars in those comments! xxxxp

Drug-legalization proponents across the political spectrum often claim that there would be less violence if drugs were not part of a black market. But I can’t help but wonder whether people inclined to try to make money on the black market wouldn’t simply turn to other kinds of merchandise. Gun-running seems profitable, for instance.

brainstorm!

if drugs were legalized, all drug dealers would turn into gun runners, and there would be a guy selling baggies of automatic weapons on the corner of every street

#raceideas

Oh god I just handed her a half-dozen page hits.

From the original Times article she is commenting on:

“A guy can make six figures a year on a decent bag now, but the players want to have family members, people that are close to them and who they can relate to on their bags,” said Carl Jackson, one of the few remaining black caddies who will work Augusta this week.

The black caddies who remain are on the Nationwide Tour, golf’s version of Class AAA, he added.

“Or they don’t get a job at all,” he said. “They’re a dying breed.”

Their demise can be traced to other things as well — the ubiquity of the motorized golf cart and the subsequent slashing of caddie training programs, as well as this: the job is not as attractive to blacks who have more career opportunities than previous generations. For the older black caddies, the situation is not without its bitter irony: when the prize money was modest, they were the standard; when the money became huge, they became disposable.

From her post:

In other words, discrimination is not at the root of every disparity. And the end of discrimination may even cause greater disparities.

brainstorm!

what the FUCK

her posts have in common a remarkable ability to synthesize information and then completely ignore it

omg why have you told me about this horrible person, ilx?