rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

teenagers all talk like 70s stoners imo

color means nothing to me xp

buddhism has def not abandoned the swastika

On what grounds are people taking offence?

When you see the pious, reverential way that Bachmann et al treat the 'founding fathers', largely as a way to 'prove' the providential nature of this republic, you'll understand that anything less than wholehaearted hagiographic treatment of the revoltionary period and its actors is 'hating America' regardless of the fact that the American Revolution was a disaster for Blacks and Indians and it certainly doesn't help that Jefferson's hugest blunder in the Declaration of Independence was accusing the Crown of:

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

But, nonetheless, God was guiding our deist forefather (who, incidentally defaced the New Testament).

@chrisrockEli Whitney invented the cotton gin so we didn’t need your lazy asses anymore.Still don’t.

what

I kind of respect Buddhists for not replacing the swastika. It's a calm way of saying that Hitler doesn't get to win.

@chrisrockEli Whitney invented the cotton gin so we didn’t need your lazy asses anymore.

Obv someone who dozed through his HS history class. If anything, the cotton gin made slavery more lucrative.

you dipshits have a whole month!

Are we sure some of those aren't just straight-up, adolescent wind-up trolling?

are we sure we need to repost these here?

I kind of respect Buddhists for not replacing the swastika. It's a calm way of saying that Hitler doesn't get to win.

― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, July 6, 2012 3:47 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hindus too

hitler, nazis, etc just didnt have as big an impact in asia and arent nearly the cultural touchstone they are in the west is a big part of it imho - but also ya these symbols arent something its considered that you just go changing all willy nilly

I can't quite bring myself to admire the Swastika Laundry of Ballsbridge, Dublin for not abandoning the name /logo until the 1980s though.

http://i.imgur.com/3AiyP.jpg

yeah I don't really want to read these (xposts)

can we just terminate every multicellular life form and start anew?

are we sure we need to repost these here?

Not at all, but I genuinely get confused sometimes when I read stupid shit on the net and wonder and it is the thread...

ShariVari is that at all related to a certain nat'l loathing for the British?

omg @ Swastika Laundry, how entirely unfortunate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_Laundry

xxp I don't think so. They were founded in 1912 and apparently just didn't feel the need to change it.

thank you based laundry

or, well, on second thought, no thanks

"Mom, I got a job!"
"That's great, honey! Where?"
"Swastika Laundry!"
"... o rly"

chris rock tweet is a+

Swastika Laundry of Ballsbridge, Dublin

this is really a joyce injoke or a morrissey b-side or something right

SSteam Kleaning for all your delicate whites

"Mom, I got a job!"
"That's great, honey! Where?"
"Swastika Laundry!"
"... o rly"
"U MAD?"

to get real about the chris rock tweet; i believe celebrating july 4 was considered a lynch-worthy social offense for southern black people until shockingly recently -- it was explicitly a white-person's freedom holiday

(but i'd need to comb through my ta-nehisi coates rss feed to verify this, lol)

I keep reading Swastika Laundry to the tune of Waterloo Sunset.

the tweet is so simple and beautiful because it's so by-the-numbers Chris Rock but every response says much more about the responder than him

I wash my whites at Swastika Laundry but they won't let me wash a colored load :(

I foolishly tried to confirm the Independence Day lynching practice and now I just hate white people

is that racist?

the tweet is so simple and beautiful because it's so by-the-numbers Chris Rock but every response says much more about the responder than him

― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, July 6, 2012 4:10 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its really not simple or beautiful, note the unnecessary exposition in the middle necessitating the middling punchline at the end - not his best work imho!!

how quickly will I get punched if next year I wish everyone I meet "Happy Cracker Day!"

In 1939, the laundry changed its name to "The Swastika Laundry (1912)"[3] to make clear the distinction between its use of the name and the symbol and the recent adoption of the symbol by the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in Germany.

?????

happy white pople day is clearer imho, like id prob just be thinking abt snack crackers trying to figure out wtf you were talking abt

xp: basically, they added the founding year to make it clear that they were around for 20+ years before the Nazis and had nothing to do with them

I'll be honest about July 4th. For many years I have given more thought to the fall of Vicksburg and Lee's retreat than the DOI.

oh I see I just glossed right over the (1912) part xp

happy white ilxors day, lag∞n

I foolishly tried to confirm the Independence Day lynching practice and now I just hate white people

Yeah, I looked it up and apparently all year was lynching day.

I wash my whites at Swastika Laundry but they won't let me wash a colored load :(

This reminds me of being asked on the street outside the laundromat if I washed my whites with my colors.

happy white ilxors day, lag∞n

― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, July 6, 2012 4:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg is that today! *launches fireworks*

my post was longer but I trimmed it according to your guidelines

darn white of you

here's the coates post i was remembering -- he doesn't give many details

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/patriotism/252062/

here's the book he's talking about

http://www.randomhouse.com/book/91623/the-persistence-of-the-color-line-by-randall-kennedy

ha, my wife tried to hook RK up with a friend-of-a-friend who is 21 years younger than him; shockingly she didn't go for it

You'll still find swastikas in Asia

several religious groups straight up replaced the swastika with different symbols iirc (which makes it extremely annoying when dumb teenagers get it tattooed on themselves bc OPEN YOUR MIND MAN IT HAS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT MEANING MAN)

― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Friday, July 6, 2012 3:42 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's key to note that most of the buddhist swastikas go the other direction

this is sort of like an asian red cross

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Swastika_Society

ooh TNC, points off for "less" instead of "lest"

thus ends the content-free contributions of DJP

in this day and age, the swastika laundry co. would have sued the arses off the nazis for copyright infringement and hitler would have been all damn son and probably would have had to adopt a little picture of a penguin or something instead

then Munsingwear would have had a go

(yes I know the timeline is off)

Btw, I'm still chuckling about goole's Morrissey b-side comment upthread