rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

ILX, where eventually every thread turns into a thread about eating out in NYC...

um

clearly all restaurants everywhere are actually in N?YC.

Especially bad midwestern ones.

the entire midwestern restaurant-industrial complex is just a wing on the third floor of Guy's American Kitchen & Bar.

regionalist

applebees "oriental" chicken salad begs to differ

From Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/12/06/stupid-sorority-insults-mexica.html

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/NewImage29.png

go Penn State!

maybe if this keeps happening we'll finally make fake moustaches illegal

wau

A: yes

yeah another one for the "this is racist" thread

Look forward to our US friends reaching the same state of post-racial utopia as our own students have apparently achieved.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jackrivlin/100193225/tribal-theme-for-exeters-safer-sex-ball-is-racist-scream-right-on-killjoys-but-racism-awareness-has-run-out-of-steam-at-universities/

Ugh, fuck off Torygraph.

to paraphrase Nigel Tufnel "what's wrong with being racy?"

note pervy picture of posh totty.

oh my god

sensible, well-reasoned argument:

"They have nothing in common with monkey chanters at football matches, and it's cheap of the sensitivity posse to make them feel guilty for being white and middle-class."

Depressingly, it's written by an actual student journalist from a multi-university website, not just one of the Telegraph's own aging trolls.

we can't be racist, we're young, middle class and white!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2012/12/headshot.png

If this guy is at university it must only be as some kind of Doogie Howser deal, right?

When people get mad at me for being an asshole, I'm just going to tell them to stop being so pc

do i even want to know what "monkey chanters" are?

somewhere along the line these jerks forgot that "politically correct" is a nonsense phrase created by conservative voices to belittle those who campaigned for social justice or against discrimination and it's not some checkbox.

then again, maybe they do remember and they're using it the same old way

http://newsone.com/2017946/natchez-mall-racist-sign/

do i even want to know what "monkey chanters" are?

― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, December 7, 2012 5:23 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

People shouting "monkey" or hurling bananas at black football (soccer) players. It happens quite frequently. But of course the students aren't like that, because they're middle-class.

It happens quite frequently

what the fucking fuck

lol emily i know what football means here

as usual though every other aspect of u.k. culture is confusing and repellant to me

It is relatively rare in the UK now.

what a horribly formed "columnist"

That's just my latent racism against Americans coming out, there. Poor slow Americans.

It happens quite frequently

what the fucking fuck

― mh, Friday, December 7, 2012 5:35 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I know. I loathe football, but I have the feeling it's even worse in mainland Europe than it is here. I may be wrong, though.

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In fact, such is the mirth prompted by the Safer Sex Ball’s critics that there have been four layers of counter-protest on Facebook, leaving us with the deliciously meta “Campaign against the campaign against the campaign against the campaign against the Safer Sex Ball theme”.

Deliciously meta. ugh.

i am trying to imagine this happening at american football games and all i can see are a bunch of dead white people

It is an instant lifetime ban at most clubs, iirc. Clubs have been fairly successful at clamping down on it.

Anti-semitism is arguably a bigger issue.

i lived in a Chi Omega house for three weeks while I was between apartments once.

Not at Penn State though.

also mandatory privilege-awareness training sounds like a p good idea

I've been to plenty of football matches in England, and I've never seen any racism. I'm sure it does go on, and may be worse at some clubs than others, but the vast majority of fans would have a problem with it if it happened.

It was a big problem in the 80s though.

yeah gone from the UK by and large now, thankfully.

i like how that article mocks the idea of "awareness training" and then goes on to explain how wonderful it is that the new post-racial generation ("It would simply not occur to them that their antics had any political significance at all") is unaware of things

"it would simply not occur to them that antics had any political significance at all" should have been in that pfm oral history of interpol

if we're not aware things could be viewed as horrible by old people, then we will just do things in the future, when all those old people are dead, and all the racism of it means nothing now, so it's ok.

In a post-racial society, middle class whites will finally be able to make fun of Mexicans with impunity. Sadly, as this incident demonstrates, we are not yet achieved this.

somewhere along the line these jerks forgot that "politically correct" is a nonsense phrase created by conservative voices to belittle those who campaigned for social justice or against discrimination and it's not some checkbox.

this isn't quite true -- "politically correct" was created by leftists as a joke, then seized upon by conservatives as ammunition

that's what I get for thinking conservatives could come up with anything

Yes this is racist, but it goes along with how videos from 25-30 years ago wouldn't play today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nXGPZaTKik

How did I forget this beginning of the video?

yikes. ah well, at least the magical negroes helped him dance out of jail.

Yes this is racist, but it goes along with how videos from 25-30 years ago wouldn't play today.

iirc, it didn't play then, either. MTV wouldn't show this version.

Granted, in those days they also wouldn't show any videos by black artists...

Listen, that one guy from the Thompson Twins was on there at least 3 or 4 times a week.