rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Are we starting the asians-are-smart-deal-with-it thread yet?

pryde.

I guess you didn't go to school with asian kids of average intelligence

i'm sorry, i dont know what gets into me sometimes

― the late great, Monday, January 14, 2013 5:29 PM (41 minutes ago)

i'm not saying its a bad look, just asking if you're aware that yellowman is a black person with albinism?

I assumed that, but do you know for sure?

I'm a moron, it's ~the~ yellowman. going home now.

i am yellowman aware, yes

the majority of my tutoring students are asian and they seem convinced as a group that its going to hurt their chances of getting into good schools despite their diverse range of experiences

they feel as if they are competing against each other, something i certainly never felt wrt other middle middle eastern students

that is a nasty feeling that i don't think maps on to the standard angry white people narrative about experiencing affirmative action

maybe there wasn't a critical mass of middle eastern students!

the majority of my tutoring students are asian and they seem convinced as a group that its going to hurt their chances of getting into good schools despite their diverse range of experiences

― the late great, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:06 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well it's statistically true

is it racist that I will pretty much only play pool for money against Asian people

yeah, probably

lol

you've gotten really good at this thread xp

Don't worry, frogs, this exact question will now be examined over the next 215 posts, names will be names, fingers will be pointed, and there will be lots of FPing.

named

more like a half-dozen rad pictures of frogs

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beat all you assholes to it

ribbit.

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Called USPS today to inquire on why we haven't been receiving mail. Had friends and family tell me they mailed packages etc... The woman on the phone asked for my name and I said," Teresita", and she said,"You don't sound like a Teresita." I said um, that's racist. Then she said ,"No it is not because I am Hispanic and I am just making a generalization." I just said,"Why?" She said,"You sound Anglo, I sound Anglo too."

Thought that was interesting. I just wanted an answer about my mail, took almost all day to go down the rabbit hole of USPS menus and numbers...

USPS is turning into a black hole. I guess we should be happy most of the mail is still coming out on the other side of the wormhole.

it takes a certain personality to work at a post office

The post office in the UK has a reputation for being a prime organising / recruiting ground for the far right. I've never been entirely sure why.

btw I made a new thread rolling 2013 thread on race and racism

nice, but still annoying that i have to C+P your name every time now, 乒乓

haha why?

dude you are killing it with these essays:

I’m not with that. Not at all. I said a while back that one of the biggest parts of being black in America is being constantly reminded that you are black. That’s a clear example. Black is different, black is weird, black must be pointed out when you see it, especially when it contrasts with normal. I mean, white. It makes you feel like you don’t belong every minute of every day, like you’re an intruder in the only home you’ve ever known.

Agreed, I think I just read three of them after that first link.

damn it, DJP, we're on the other thread now, stop luring me back

haha I didn't even notice, oops

Removing the Bookmark from this Thread.

haha why?

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

what, against white people?

I was trying to indicate that Nhex needs a chinese typewriter.

I'm guessing by the classroom full of maps you're an elementary school teacher...which, frankly, makes this video completely awesome. Now do the Roger Rabbit!!

I'm going to start demanding performances from youtube contributors. I love it. "Now make your cat fall off a table! I'll check back in next week."

http://youtu.be/gl2AO-7Vlzk

I don't feel good about this video. At the very least it's insensitive/exoticizing?

oof, yeah, that's a little off.

i don't see it

It's at least partly because all the really "bad" things are happening to non-white women. Which u could argue there are reasons for (more stable/less corrupt societies, more prosperous countries, greater social equality) but those reasons themselves are based in racism/colonialism so that's not neutral ground.

I am conflicted about that video

I agree that terrible things are happening to women out there and that something should be done to stop it

It is a little off-putting for all of the terrible things happening to women to be broken up so neatly into different ethnic groups, and particularly off-putting for the white woman's sexual harassment to be in the form of a dude touching her hair but the black women were either getting full-on raped or having their clitori removed by other black women

I didn't get the dancing at all, or perhaps more accurately I think I got the dancing but the execution was blindingly facile and poorly integrated with the intentionally provocative and upsetting portion of the film; I got more of a sense of triumph and overcoming adversity when the women cast off the victimhood imposed upon them by the scenarios than I did from the celebratory dancing, which honestly came across like a bunch of ppl having a party going "yahoo! we made it and are awesome; pull yourself up by your bootstraps out of your terrible situation and we will acknowledge you as awesome too", or to put it another way the dancing-as-celebrating-the-power-of-women metaphor would have worked much better if more effort had been made to connect the dancing women to the terrible scenarios, showing them helping the victimized women and inviting them into their circle

Actually, and this may just be me, that lack of direct connection between the happy powerful dancing sisterhood and the isolated women changing their situations single-handedly struck me as so lacking in basic empathy that it made me angry

yeah what immediately jumped out at me was that it was posited as west v. nonwest