rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

the spirit of this thread HAS been corrupted but i do think it's better to have a clearinghouse for all things that people want to go "hey, this is really racist!" about instead of having separate threads

should i start sharing racist jokes then? you all can confirm for me that they're racist.

xp probably true. but i definitely agree with the sentiment that people should stop posting obviously racist stuff. i probably said this like 100 posts ago and forgot about it.

you all

have we figured out racism yet

Sure! It's just this simple:

http://fusionanomaly.net/mcescherdayandnight.jpg

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

http://theinsanityreport.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/sisko-facepalm.jpg

Black Studies, Part 2: A Response to Critics http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/black-studies-part-2-a-response-to-critics/46401
stopped reading after "I was never a big fan of the feminist mantra that the “personal is political.”"

http://theinsanityreport.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/obamafacepalm.jpg

superpussy, the Chronicle of Higher Ed stuff was brought up in this thread two days ago.

I encourage you to read the last 36 hours or so of this thread starting here - rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

whoops, sorry.

what pplains is trying to say is that we'll take the soup.

have we figured out racism yet

not if my posting today is any indication

Inspired by traditional Indian madras, our designers recast this classic pattern in summer-worthy hues so it's brighter—and better—than ever

read this as "our designers are racist", spending too much time on ilx

the spirit of this thread HAS been corrupted but i do think it's better to have a clearinghouse for all things that people want to go "hey, this is really racist!" about instead of having separate threads

― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Friday, May 4, 2012 5:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah but i think we are or should be taking a good hard look at the impulse to post "hey, this is really racist!" things all the time even if it was on an 'appropriate' thread. like sure, when someone really famous says something really hateful, there's gonna be an ilx thread about it, obviously. but after a while the mountain of minutiae kind of becomes "hey another guy on the internet said the n-word, check this out guys" and i think DJP has a good point about why that's a pretty terrible habit to form.

DJP has such a booming post that i'm getting aftershocks

so my roommate moved in w/ a copy of "just busted news" that he picked up in tennessee

https://www.facebook.com/JustBusted

let me know if anyone wants photos

feel like its an example of being racist against the human race

We've got The Slammer, a dollar newspaper that's published weekly and sold at the finest gas stations across metropolitan Little Rock. An acquaintance of mine runs a tattoo parlor and offers a $50 coupon for anyone who's featured in that week's issue.

so much wsos in these newsweeklies

There's an 800-page thread on another messageboard I frequent consisting of mugshots taken from the local county jail. Definitely a casual indictment of the human race, from drunk frat boys to drunk sorority girls (who aren't aware of Facebook privacy settings) to dudes who lift TVs who happen to be black to parole violators who happen to have swastikas tattooed in their ears.

Makes me slightly queasy, but I have to say it makes me laugh a lot more. Bet you all didn't know I was frogbs in real life.

An acquaintance of mine runs a tattoo parlor and offers a $50 coupon for anyone who's featured in that week's issue.

lol that guy rules

dudes who lift TVs who happen to be black

your tv is a who?

DJP's "I read that modifier intentionally wrong" punchlines aren't for everyone

TVs aren't who.

tv never her

"Is This Racist?" Chronicle of Higher Ed blog bullshit update!

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/a-note-to-readers/46608

hack overboard!

http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnhlexperts/ArrchVZCIAIJOjX.jpg

Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna vs. The Black Guy vs. The Yellow Kid

tv never her
--l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

Ty

Also whiney otm re djp

"Is This Racist?" Chronicle of Higher Ed blog bullshit update!

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/a-note-to-readers/46608

hack overboard!

― goole, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 12:50 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kind of vindicates whoever said (iatee?) that posting this stuff can help serve as a suggest-ban engine.

national review and nypost are all crying martyr as we speak

of course they are. nypost especially are the ultimate troll.

http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Troll-Hunter-feature-massive-trolls-in-Norway.jpeg

^^^nypost

is that from trollhunter?

oh man that just made me think about abiyoyo, which I haven't thought about since approx 4th grade

totally troll hunter

The headline for the nypost is an attempt at being more inflamatory than whatsherface's blog entry on brainstorm.com.whatever. But that's the whole idea. They're like a two-year-old banging pots together.

So I have actually been meaning to ask this on ILX for a while, and I think it makes a genuinely good discussion topic, not just "ew look at these racists" -- Is 30 Rock racist? Has their been discussion of this in 30 Rock threads?

idk. Donald Glover called Tina Fey "the most not-racist person ever" on WTF.

Liz Lemon as a character is pretty racist, yes

30 Rock has probably amassed the smartest collection of racial humor in the past 10 years besides like The Chappelle's Show, they've pretty much zinged everyone including themselves/their network already on any angle you could come at them with

A few things that spring to mind:

1) Running jokes about Twofer's Harvard ed and implied AA (both, iirc, in Harvard acceptance AND his job. "It's a joke" seems to mask the fact that the implication is, in fact, that there would be no black writers on the staff but for AA (although I guess you could argue that this is a critique of the system and not of black people?). It's not as though he's presented as less intelligent than the rest of the staff, but I also get a faint whiff of "uppity" in his characterization maybe?

2) Tracy Morgan -- I mean there's just a pretty fine line to walk with a character like this and I think maybe it crosses into minstrelsy sometimes, especially in the context of no other black performers on TGS

3) Dotcom -- I'm on the fence about this. The show definitely plays the "turns out to be smart" for humor, but the humor may stem from him being the big tough entourage bouncer type who turns out to be articulate and sensitive moreso than just his being black I guess?

I also feel like I catch other somewhat racially off jokes on the show a lot but nothing springs to mind atm.

i dunno where to even begin with that kind of selective memory and spectacular point-missing and humorlessness

i believe Hurting is sincere but honestly questioning if 30 Rock is racist is kinda quintessentially what is fucked up about ilx in 2012

i think twofer is based on an actual white guy writer.

mordy otm

Hurting 2 otm. Tho yeah you could say Tracy is a meta example of the role of black comedians in modern American media.