rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

it's possible for people to explore their feelings and their hardships without appropriating the politics of people who are killed for theirs.

not to mention the fact that otherkin werewolves claiming trans immunity as a 'metaphor' are just gonna make it harder for the transgender people to be taken seriously and i just wish i never had to write this sentence

should say the rights of transgender people to be taken seriously ^

what does 'claiming trans immunity' mean?

using the idealogical arguments/points of the transgender discussion the a defense of a non-transgender identity as though it's all the same

*as a

transethnic?

transabled?

demisexual?

what the fuck did people even do with themselves before the internet.

'bate

Go away. Batin'.

I can relate because I think I'm a dog with sunglasses

lol

exception that proves the rule there

yep that's my identity don't were it out!

^ kudos

***VAMPIRES***AND***WEREWOLFS***

I spent a large proportion of yesterday reading about the Final Fantasy 7 house thanks to the "soulbonding" wormhole you guys sent me on. Jesus bloody Christos.

5 minute summary???

Insane young couple claim they are multiply soul-bonded video game characters from FF7 (and a host of other fictional characters), invite other young people in the fandom to stay with them and convince them the whole thing is real, take their money, separate them from their friends, hit them a lot...

No idea how much of the story is true (it seems to be fairly immature people in their early 20s, so could be a lot of dramallama interpretations, for one thing), but it's a complete mindfuck.

too bad leon festinger isn't still around to write about FF7 house

started losing my own sanity after about a page of those stories

I very clearly remember her putting on a lab coat and calling various medical supply companies in the yellow pages trying to get medical syringes.

she put on a lab coat so that she could trick the ppl she was calling over the phone.

wonderful.

have no time to read, have no energy to resist

OMG I remember reading all that some years back! Jesus, it was frightening.

wtf

So does the US Census regard "wolf" as an ethnicity or a race?

Sounds non-Hispanic to me.

http://i46.tinypic.com/311uaeb.jpg

yup

dinnertimin' is my new favorite word

wow @ "there's no tipping"

Thanks, G! I've always read this thread as "Rolling This is Racist . . ." util now. Anyway, I can't believe this was a real thing. "Dinnertimin'" is pretty great though, it's true.

yeah, it's not racist if i start using "Dinnertimin" in my day-to-day life is it? Cos i might start doing that

Did Tony Gwynn write that copy?

awesome

here comes dinnertimin' simon

?

http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/06/katy_perry_says_she_wants_to_skin_japanese_people_and_wear_them_like_versace.html

Could imagine Tracy Jordan using that line.

I kind of feel like the whole patronising Orientalism thing is racist, but the clearly hyperbolic "I want to skin them and wear them" isn't. Unless it's playing to a stereotype I've never heard of?

the inside of japanese ppl's skin is stereotypically soft like cashmere

their skin is particularly buoyant so I can see why this would be troubling to whiney

HA

irl lol

I kind of feel like the whole patronising Orientalism thing is racist, but the clearly hyperbolic "I want to skin them and wear them" isn't. Unless it's playing to a stereotype I've never heard of?

― emil.y, Wednesday, June 27, 2012 5:58 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

flawless pale white skin?

wow @ "there's no tipping"

this is a very ilx response to this poster i think

btw if you watch the vid, it's not racist

I didn't watch the vid because the article contradicted itself in the space of like three sentences

Think she was talking about one partic person, it's just creepy and entertaining

^

she's just ripping off gwen stefani again, gwen already buffalo bill'd her harajuku girls

saddened that only on cynical ol' ILX would a poster aimed at black people that makes a virtue of "there's no tipping" be considered racist

cue Louis clip...

I am going to an "Indian themed" party hosted by Very Rich, landowner, boarding school people tonight. It is fancy dress. The possibilities are endless. This family once had dwarfs serving drinks. I am extremely worried.