rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

some person who thought it would be funny I don't remember, all the details are on the downtown Brooklyn thread iirc

...blah blah selling Henessey/etc to basketball fans after a Nets game.

^ kind of gives the game away

haha is that still going around

“go-to spot for farm-to-table food, super steaks, fresh fish, venison, bison burgers, etc.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703300904576178812393548284.html

At a recent meeting, most locals who turned out in force to air gripes about the establishment—tentatively called Prime 6 and set to open in May—didn't know a Ms. McMillen. Efforts by The Wall Street Journal to find a person with that name in New York City were unsuccessful.

Huge 30 Rock x-post, but I'm pretty sure the...

re: first episode, playing in traffic in your underwear screaming 'i am a jedi' speaks more to tracy morgan's experience

...was a reference to Martin Lawrence ('On May 7, 1996, comedian Martin Lawrence suffered a nervous breakdown. Lawrence was picked up by police for standing in the middle of a busy, mid-day Los Angeles intersection and screaming at cars. Although he said it was due to exhaustion and dehydration, his behavior was symptomatic of a mental breakdown...' / from http://www.blackhealthzone.com).

is www.blackhealthzone.com racist?

Because it's all about the health problems mainly faced by people of African descent? I wouldn't think so.

yeah why would it be racist?

Health is an issue where you can't be color-blind. Are you a black male? Guess what, you're more likely to die of a heart attack than a white male of the same age. There's a score of other health-related problems that affect blacks more.

Now why isn't there a whitehealthzone.com? I dunno, maybe because all it would be about is how to survive zipline accidents and Mountain Dew poisoning.

khaki burns

yeah why would it be racist?
― dayo

Are you trying to start an argument, Mr. Forks?

not at all, falling back now

ha yeah people really jumped on you about that, i thought what you were doing was pretty obvious

from now on, i will look at any inquiry from forks twice to spot ulterior motives before continuing to answer his question in a respectable fashion.

oh will you?

no I won't, falling back now

is this wiki page racist? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American

trying to imagine a black guy on a zipline or wearing khakis or eating sandwiches even LOL

Ha, and I just realized that you were just taking blackhealthzone.com from the comment made about 30 Rock.

I don't watch 30 Rock, so I haven't been paying close attention to this thread lately.

pplains, it's all love

er, xpost

pplainslovezone.com

don't click on that at work

pplains got chastized for clicking on pplainslovezone.com at work. repeatedly.

http://rareseeds.com/ching-chang-bok-choy.html

last nights 30 rock episode was pretty great in terms of the stuff we were talking abt itt

i mean in terms of "being smart and challenging about race"

that being said margaret cho's kim jong il is..... something

http://rareseeds.com/ching-chang-bok-choy.html

― mh, Thursday, May 17, 2012 4:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is probably just a romanization of 清江白菜 using a wade-giles type system

xp that something is straight up horrible. i mean, at least they got an Asian to play it (i still remember Amy Poehler), but ugh, still

thx dayo!

trying to imagine a black guy on a zipline or wearing khakis or eating sandwiches even LOL

why are you laughing at me, I thought we were friends

*sob*

*sobs*

*ziplines away across Cambridge*

Little known fact, DJP ziplines to work every day.

goddamnit, xp

haha

Pictured: Boston, MA [citation needed]

http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2010/6/23/45%20Zipline%20Into%20Guerilla%20Country!.jpg

Those don't look like khakis.

But his pockets are full of sandwiches.

i agree that sho's accent is iffy but isn't it basically the same accent cho uses in her stand-up to imitate her parents? i don't think that excuses the 30 rock bits but it's not like she's in yellowface. but it's not as for her characterization of kim jong il, it's at least focused on a specific person, not a race in general, and it's mostly about his ridiculous megalomania instead of a parade of general asian stereotypes?

garbled that. but it's not

yeah

xp i don't disagree with your facts, but i'm still going with my gut here

counting down to korean blackface youtubes….

specific character parodies can become metonymic of a larger group pretty easily tho. wouldn't be surprised if most people remember just haha funny accent. nb haven't seen any of the pop American culture parodies of Kim Jong but uh have encountered them second hand after team America

I know the impersonation from MADTV and Team America.

It must be hard though to impersonate someone whose voice was almost-never heard, but it can go too far.

Dayo, have you seen the semi-regular opening skit on SNL where Bill Hader plays the Chinese premier appearing side-by-side with Obama and talks about the U.S. not paying their debt?

no but sounds great

It was Forte and Hader. They don't stretch their eyes out or anything, but it's still odd to see four white comedians play Asian and African-American figures.

i had reservations about cho's kji last week, but decided not to air them during the earlier part of the discussion. the fact that it's a fairly accurate parody of a specific, horrible and rather bizarre person does help justify the approach. i'm with nhex, however, in that something about it still doesn't sit quite right.

Margaret Cho is one of the worst comedians