rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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.

my maternal grandmother was racist as hell, and homophobic, and yet loved both culture club and the thompson twins. it's a wacky world.

I can pretty much guarantee my grandmother has no idea who culture club and the thompson twins are

it was definitely weird that she knew who they were, yes

I do not understand the function of the blackface jury in this video

I'm reading the "I Want My MTV" book based on recommendations in the Rock Oral History Books thread. Came across this passage which made me look it up on YouTube:

JULIEN TEMPLE: The popularity and hypocrisy of blackface had always fasci-
nated me. During the early '60s, British TV programmers would air minstrel
shows as primetime family entertainment while professing to be winning the
battle against racism. "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" was about being gay
and being victimized for your sexuality, which George was kind of emblematic
of. It seemed appropriate to me that in the video he would be judged by jurors in
blackfice, to send up bigotry and point out the hypocrisy of the many gay judges
and politicians in the UK who'd enacted anti-gay legislation.

(Also, the ImageToText app is awesome.)

wouldn't it actually be more effective/sensible to have a jury full of stereotypically gay people judging him, rather than being racist for abstract philosophy points?

there's a reasonable answer for all of this: cocaine.

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2012/12/meteorologist-fired-for-responding-to-racist-facebook-post/

fucking a

Wow. Impressed by her response to that FB post.

sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen

no shit that's a lawsuit waiting to happen

completely impressed by the same individual's response to her response, which completely misses the point

This lady is fucking awesome, too:

http://www.youtube.com/user/heyweatherlady?feature=watch

that is terrible. xposts

lol @ kebab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pm7FsHt-4g

RHONDA PLZ COME TO PHILLY

The we-announced-the-policy-in-that-meeting-you-didn't-attend-and-forgot-to-write-it-down defense has got to be worth at least a couple extra zeros at the end of that settlement check.

She's so cute with her fruit kebab! And that is a FRESH blue pant-suit and I'm stealing that scarf fold.

“weather is white boy business.”

making me LOL

"you're gonna need a fruit kebab... TRUST."