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.
xxxpost
― emil.y, Friday, 7 December 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― the so-called socialista (dowd), Friday, 7 December 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
i am trying to imagine this happening at american football games and all i can see are a bunch of dead white people
― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 7 December 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 7 December 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
i lived in a Chi Omega house for three weeks while I was between apartments once.
Not at Penn State though.
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 7 December 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
also mandatory privilege-awareness training sounds like a p good idea
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 7 December 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― AlanSmithee, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah gone from the UK by and large now, thankfully.
― Neil S, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
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
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
"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
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― mh, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 7 December 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
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
― crüt, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
that's what I get for thinking conservatives could come up with anything
― mh, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― pplains, Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
yikes. ah well, at least the magical negroes helped him dance out of jail.
― Nhex, Monday, 10 December 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 December 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
Listen, that one guy from the Thompson Twins was on there at least 3 or 4 times a week.
― pplains, Monday, 10 December 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
my maternal grandmother was racist as hell, and homophobic, and yet loved both culture club and the thompson twins. it's a wacky world.
― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 10 December 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
I can pretty much guarantee my grandmother has no idea who culture club and the thompson twins are
― she was giving it to two friends ...Aaay! (crüt), Monday, 10 December 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
it was definitely weird that she knew who they were, yes
― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 10 December 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
I do not understand the function of the blackface jury in this video
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Monday, 10 December 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
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 minstrelshows as primetime family entertainment while professing to be winning thebattle against racism. "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" was about being gayand being victimized for your sexuality, which George was kind of emblematicof. It seemed appropriate to me that in the video he would be judged by jurors inblackfice, to send up bigotry and point out the hypocrisy of the many gay judgesand politicians in the UK who'd enacted anti-gay legislation.
― pplains, Monday, 10 December 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
(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?
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Monday, 10 December 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
there's a reasonable answer for all of this: cocaine.
― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 10 December 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2012/12/meteorologist-fired-for-responding-to-racist-facebook-post/
― before and after broscience (goole), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
fucking a
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
Wow. Impressed by her response to that FB post.
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
no shit that's a lawsuit waiting to happen
― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
completely impressed by the same individual's response to her response, which completely misses the point
― mh, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
This lady is fucking awesome, too:
http://www.youtube.com/user/heyweatherlady?feature=watch
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
that is terrible. xposts
― she was giving it to two friends ...Aaay! (crüt), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ kebab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pm7FsHt-4g
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
She's so cute with her fruit kebab! And that is a FRESH blue pant-suit and I'm stealing that scarf fold.
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
“weather is white boy business.”
― the late great, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
making me LOL
"you're gonna need a fruit kebab... TRUST."
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah she should sue the pants off that station. From some of the comments on the article it looks like KTBS seems to 'mysteriously lose' a good number of it's female news presenters. I'd say this incident is racist, and kind of bizarre, but that station also appears to be pretty sexist.
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
xp wait does she say that?
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
she absolutely does and it's even better than you can imagine
― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
^-^
― Nhex, Thursday, 13 December 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
wow, i love her. hero. handy w a fruit kebab, too. *swoons*
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 December 2012 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
that station is a dickhole tho
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 December 2012 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously. How can not one individual in that station's management team question actually using that logic.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 December 2012 04:26 (eleven years ago) link
Guh. So what, specifically, was this alleged policy?
Love her and her fruit kebab. Kebab'em a new one, Rhonda.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 13 December 2012 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
OH MY GOD @ "You're gonna need a fruit kebab. Trust."
this lady is my new favorite.
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 13 December 2012 06:54 (eleven years ago) link