rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Krsnas do a damn fine meal, I love going to their vegan cafes in Melb.

http://ablwedding.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mick-jagger1.jpg

Remember way up above in this thread when we were talking about 80s videos that in hindsight were pretty damn insensitive?

Well. I had no idea that all this time, I had been watching the "edited" version of this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY

See and the wierd thing to me is, as a kid in the 80s I would not have blinked an eye at seeing minstrels doing the "sooper dooper!" bit, I dont suspect. I mean they were still showing the B&W minstrel show on TV when I was a kid.

Is there anything Americans casually accept that Australians find incredibly offensive?

And I don't mean to imply that blackface isn't offensive to you, if it is. Just that you've got a culture where it's not so much a thing as it is here.

It's like how I'll come across a Confederate flag bumper sticker every once in awhile and think okay, this guy, whatever. But seeing something like that in Greenwich Village would shock the hell out of me.

I went back and watched the U.S. version to see how they took that crap out. It kinda creeps me out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmSqhi5l9_k

See those feet dancing? It's guys in blackface. See that oddly-inserted picture of Gary Cooper? Yeah, it's disguising some guys in blackface. It reminds me of those intense zooms in Fantasia that cover up some more minstrel activity. You'd never know if you didn't know...

Yeah it is something that interests me, because yr right, and I'm sure we must have some equivalents here, but shit, I'm racking my brains to think what, though. I know aboriginal people are offended by their dead being shown on TV/in photos, as its a huge cultural no no. Not that average joe whitebread would give a shit about that or know. Dunno if that counts really?

fitting, i guess, seeing as berlin's original lyrics were racist

The Aboriginal people... While I was down there years ago, an Aboriginal activist died. He was, from what I could gather, a national hero and had led the fight against Parliament and was on a first-name basis with some of the PMs, past and present.

But here's the thing, I can't tell you who this was because the big long obituary article I read about him never mentioned his name. The story itself included a drawn illustration of a man with his back to the viewer. As a pseudo-journalist, it baffled me.

Would that have been Eddie Mabo at a guess?

Very odd if they indeed didnt mention his name.

It would've been someone who died in 2004.

It reminded me of that movie they made about the life of Mohammed that never showed the prophet or mentioned his name.

It would've been someone who died in 2004.

this guy?

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

Taco is Dutch and his career was based in Germany, so yes the blackface is racist but no not quite in a way English speakers can easily articulate..

Seem to be an awful lot of comedy Mexicans in British TV ads these days

There's an exchange program between US and UK ad agencies: British come up with ideas featuring comedy Indians or Pakistanis which are unusable at home, they send them over to the US where that's cool. In exchange, Madison Avenue sends over its best comedy Mexican storyboards.

Globalising racism.

The Official Website of Duke Athletics

http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22438&SPID=1832&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205726470&DB_OEM_ID=4200

Oh lord

If you haven't seen the movie, I highly recommend watching it otaaayyy!

http://image.cdnllnwnl.xosnetwork.com/pics32/200/NB/NBELTDBFFSEJTNT.20120928184002.jpg

Buckwheat, ladies and gentlemen. And she's from near my hometown.

damn girls name is on the post an everything.

this guy?

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

That was likely him. The date is accurate.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/orgs/car/images/GDjerrk.gif

He was awesome in Boogie Nights.

I don't understand what's outrageous about the Duke thing other than that she's young and kind of dumb. Would I need to know something about...the Little Rascals? Or white girls dressing as black artists?

I was expecting blackface, tbh

are you two posting from australia too?

oh, they took the photo down!

ahhh, that explains it. whew!

the white girl up above was dressed as Buckwheat and her face was painted like a Spinal Tap album cover

all is as expected, continue on as normal

glad the photo was not replaced with a photo of the two coaches dressed as gangnam style

Oh! Haha okay. I am pretty tone deaf so I was like, jfc what am I being an idiot about now??

Here's the pic.

Not even a very convincing Buckwheat either.

Are those Deadspin comments or Yahoo! ones?

Al from Kid Kraddick radio show dressed in white face for halloween, did whites make a fuss about it? Hell no...

Just when you thought all the racist, lacrosse-playing shitheads at Duke had penises...

On second thought, after looking at pics of some of the WLAX team, that might still be true.

ha i think i'm more genuninely outraged that the little rascals they're imitating (the 'old school classic') is this shitty 90s reboot -

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ0NjUzMTcyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTY5MzEyMQ@@._V1._SY317_CR9,0,214,317_.jpg

My immediate first thought was "there are college students born in the 90s dressing up as the Little Rascals?"

and then I remembered that movie.

wait... a little rascals reboot?!?!

http://www.miltonsbaking.com/assets/Uploads/SQ-View-Larger-Image-web.jpg

?

yes

amazing how widespread that is, but then again washington redskins

yep

^^^

I never saw race in this but it made my gf feel a little uneasy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIInySnQe4I

hmm. a legitimate contender for this thread!

that is a legitimate contender for this thread

it's also hilarious

fuck

When I watched the first season of the Mighty Boosh, I remember feeling pretty uncomfortable watching this bit.

lol what the fuck is that

did anyone ever post the mississippi gary stuff from kith here? i'm too lazy/horrified to read the whole thread.