rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/06/27/196210549/MOSCATO

That's believable, especially if you listen to hip-hop. As long I can remember, some rapper has been name-dropping some type of alcohol in his or her song. For a while it was the champagne, Cristal. I distinctly remember the liquer, Hypnotiq, being big when I was in college. Ciroc vodka is trending a bit right now. But moscato has trumped them all.

dude has his finger on the pulse

https://twitter.com/DrLwyrIndnChf/status/350370398619181056

linking for the convo that tweet inspired, not the tweet itself. bc lol

imo, article is not racist. it is describing trends based on factual research.

perhaps replying with "the people of color that I talked to" was not the best way to phrase his response

nm I see that he himself is black.

without weighing in on racist/not racist, one thing we can be sure of is that it's a really really dumb fluff piece

idk about "racist" but its a good case study in how to frame a piece: "is moscato a gateway wine for poc?" raises way more "read this for racism" warning flags than "rappers boost a varietal"

"If we could build a time machine and go listen to a Drake song three, four years from now, I would be willing to bet you that he's long since moved on from moscato and he's singing to his girlfriend about Napa cabernet or burgundy or something like that."

lol @ this thought experiment

possibly worst use of a theoretical time machine ever

yes

At no point did they question whether thunderbird counts as a white wine and whether moscato is like an upscale thunderbird

This popped up my Twitter feed and I was instantly reminded of that "Kill Whitey" parties thread:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/1005721_203495573137435_2050069488_n.jpg

"Shacklewell Arms"

Oh dear.

Shacklewell's a part of Dalston. You should go to Bristol, home of Whiteladies' Road and Blackboy Hill.

somehow that comes off a lot less bad to me than the "kill whitey" parties. I guess the fried chicken part is a little iffy, but otherwise nothing about that seems more cartoonish than "party hip-hop" itself

Suzy, we have a Black Boy Lane in Tottenham.

I photographed a sign somewhere I think in Virginia or West Virginia for a geographic feature of some kind known as "Blacks Run"

http://yeoldeblackboy.weebly.com/

good pub tbf

http://www.gadling.com/2009/01/26/chinks-peak-in-idaho-gets-a-name-change-in-time-for-chinese-new-y/

More Americans View Blacks As Racist Than Whites, Hispanics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clvOl_Kz5xg

http://www.angryasianman.com/images/angry/fright214.jpg

oh ffs

guilty lol

Racism unintended, says editor-in-chief, but it's hard to believe no one caught it. It occurred to me almost immediately after passing the newspaper box on the way to the gym last night.

ok I'll admit that went over my head. I had to read the article to see what everyone else was seeing.

although I def thought that was an embarrassing pun

OOOOOOOOoooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh

I thought this was posted more about 2 deaths in San Francisco taking precedence over just another Chicagoan shot dead.

I thought that it was playing off that stereotype of airplanes being shot up on the west side.

Has anyone ever before used the Fright/Flight pun to describe a plane crash though? I mean, all plane crashes could be characterized as scary.

it beats me of course, but if I really wanted to speculate about why "fright" could have been applied in an innocent manner in this case, I would guess it's because most people survived? I guess you wouldn't say that a flight that crashed in the ocean with no survivors was quite a fright.
or is that poor reasoning? I don't know really.

let's change "innocent" to "naive," because, honestly, that's a stupid headline anyway

Oh, I totally missed that

seems like half the job of headline writers for tabloids is coming up with eye-catching puns. coming up with a fresh line is probably a feather in one's cap, even if it's borderline incoherent.

I can def see how the headline writer's attention could have been fixed on the rhyming play on words to the exclusion of seeing the racist connection between changing "flight" to "fright" and the fact it was a Korean airliner. That's where it comes in handy to have a lot of eyes engaged before a paper goes to print.

well it's at least a little more innocuous than "chink in the armor"

that's true but.. still not good

Fright of the Careener

I thought this was posted more about 2 deaths in San Francisco taking precedence over just another Chicagoan shot dead.

Me too, especially since I had just read a tweet to the same effect.

oh man

xp yeah, that's what i was thinking!

well thinking it through, using 'fright' to describe an incident where two people died and the roof of the airplane was tore off and it literally cartwheeled on the tarmac is a little underselling the story

It was, however, an Asian flight!

Ugh: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/us/paula-deens-soul-sister-portrays-an-unequal-bond.html

Suzy, we have a Black Boy Lane in Tottenham.

With the Black Boy pub on it (if it's till there)

That was pretty cool of Paula Deen to create a retirement plan for $10/hr employees. Bet they had lots of money to contribute to it.

She also helped fix the floor of her trailer.

I'm visiting my rural, red rednecky hometown and heard a station promo thing on one of the classic rock stations that said "four out of five rappers agrees that our music is better than theirs" with a long Flavor Flav "yeaaaahhhhh boy" sample at the end, instantly thought about this thread.