rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

or Um Bongo?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=wYj5o4kQsXs

where is gygax I

I'm in the Congo now and this is bull***t. doesn't exist.

mrbushpilot 6 months ago 24

http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/06/opinion-why-focus-on-gabby-douglas-hair/?hpt=hp_c2

Not talking about the editorial here but rather its subject, which honestly is reason #1 why I limit my exposure to social media.

after training in the humidity of central iowa for so long, I'm amazed she was able to contain her hair at all

my friend told me that at least twice this summer her hair has been touched, without her permission, in public

I blame Tosh.0

otm.0

This is me when it comes to discussion about black women and their hair.

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/no-words-homer-into-brush.gif

And more because I'm not a woman than because I'm not black.

I watched Gabby get interviewed last night. Her hair looked fine to me, though I wasn't paying attention to it really.

I was more in shock that this young women was born after the Oklahoma City bombing and then the joints in my knees started to hurt.

Well that's the stupid thing; people were criticizing how her hair looked on the podium after she'd spent the evening competing in the all-around. The only way her hair was going to look immaculate after all of that is if it had been tightly braided.

But, more to the point, SHE JUST WON THE ALL-AROUND MEDAL, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE TUT-TUTTING OVER HER HAIR

Has anyone mentioned the monkey ad that ran after Bob Costa's little soliloquy on race?

That… could have been thought out a bit more.

In the middle of a discussion abt Epcot's World Showcase and it's reductiveness and how it is obv problematic in many ways but is it totally 100% awful or is there some redeeming quality in attempting to expose youngsters to the world outside of America?

I am a white Irish man living in England and own a rubber duck dressed as a hasidic jew but I bought it at the holocaust memorial in berlin. Well?

I mean yes, when you take cultures and reduce them to a theme park attraction it is like the very definition of cultural tourism/fetishization, and in a way it's saying "We don't want the real modern/current/authentic France or Japan or China or Mexico, we want this really romantic and idealized version that is prob stuck in the past" but idk in my experience visiting it seemed to scratch a bit deeper than the surface and isn't as caricaturey as one might imagine, and the idea of "Hey kids, other cultures/things exist too!" seems less than totally insidious to me.

But it does seem like a not completely inauthentic representation of the histories of cultures (in lieu of what is current and modern)

I got this phat-ass sombrero at the Mexico pavillion

I am a white Irish man living in England and own a rubber duck dressed as a hasidic jew but I bought it at the holocaust memorial in berlin. Well?

I am a white Irish man living in England and own a rubber duck dressed as a hasidic jew but my girlfriend bought it at the holocaust memorial in berlin, so really I have no public comment on this.

Does the duck swim in a quackvah?

wheres the thread to post things that are obviously racist?

http://i45.tinypic.com/10dy0pd.jpg

xp to djp

Because why not: Roger Fidelity's own election day thread, one to the public

That Jewish duck is awesome.

Posts that effortlessly etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCN6dyjAvEc

britishist maybe

yeah maybe
WHAT IS HE SAYING LOLOLOLOLOL
um, it's pretty clear what he's saying?

i've seen american tv shows do that for british white ppl too tho

that is totally Britishist

also I cop to watching TMZ but really I just want to punch everyone on that show in the privates

the kids are on youtube, they're downloading all the music

what the fuck doesn't TMZ understand? Plus, I think the "????"s are there to trick you into not hearing the actual normal-assed English words that are coming out of this guys mouth.

normal-arsed iirc

sounds pretty clear to me, but i am british?

all of those white dudes are douches though, that's pretty obvious.

don't forget the black dude with dreads

i'll never forget how funny it was the first time i saw a liam gallagher tv interview w/ subtitles

Sunny got on to me for watching The Young Ones with subtitles. Like I'm supposed to know what the hell a bilo is.

shit i'd actually looked away from the vid by that poin.t "its the same language we speak... its the same language." yes, and that's why the dude was entirely intelligible.

Gallagher brother interviews should just be dubbed over with tracks of cats fighting and car crashes and the sounds of bones breaking.

pplains, that reminds me of the difference I found in the 80's between European countries that watched American shows dubbed and those that watched them subtitled. The subtitlers all spoke far better English than the dubbers.

That makes so much sense. Subtitles allow you to get both languages at once and after awhile, it has to meld.

I definitely now know what a bilo is.

i don't know what a bilo is...

anti-apartheid activist?

close, but not quite

it's a pen?

only if you're starring in an old Charlie Chan movie.

you meant biro surely pp. (p)rick say "in biro!" on that show iirc. nfi what bilo is aside from an aus supermarket chain.

Maybe. You'll have to forgive me, British is like a second language.