rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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.

our classic rock station plays these horrible racist promos that are like "would you rather listen to... THIS?" *plays clip of Inner Circle "Bad Boys"* "...or THIS?" *plays clip of Steve Miller Band* "We thought so too!"

What a weird choice -- I don't think I'd even bat an eye if a classic rock station played "bad boys"

Trying to think of any radio format that would play "Bad Boys" as part of a regular non-ironic rotation.

haha otm, "Bad Boys" could easily be a Steve Miller song

and yes they actually used Inner Circle as an example. occasionally they'll use an actual modern radio rap track but for the most part it's just "Who Let The Dogs Out?" type shit. it is ALWAYS music by black artists, though.

Occurred to me the other day what an odd ironic signifier "Electric Avenue" has become, given it's about the Brixton riots.

The other day at the playground this kind of weird, chubby burnout-looking dad was at the playground with his toddler daughter and her friend, and he was singing with them while he pushed them in the stroller, and one of the songs they did was Fly Like an Eagle. It was pretty cuet.

yeah, these belong in the "yup definitely racist" ongoing thread

It is weird that I've heard classic rock stations play the same promos against country music, but they always use some generic, exaggerated twangy song about a dead dog - not any real artists, not even someone like Ray Stevens. And yet I've also heard these rap and "pop" ads with actual [black] artists used too.

Though now that I've given it a second's more of thought, perhaps that's a good thing that classic rock stations aren't creating their own rap parodies for these breaks.

"would you rather listen to... THIS?" *plays clip of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On"*...or THIS?" *plays clip of Steve Miller Band* "We thought so too!"

what if you like everything but country and rap?

Don't you mean "country and (c)rap?"

ironically those classic rock stations are probably owned by the same conglomerates that own the hip-hop stations

waht if u only like country and rap

come live in atlanta

Wonder what artist/song combo I would use if had to make a race-baiting 'we all hate rrrrraaap, right?' trailer.

Would you rather listen to this: *plays clip of "Fack"* or THIS: *plays clip of "Cult of Personality"*
We thought so, too!

tbf one of the promos did feature Jimi Hendrix for the classic rock clip

Schoolboy error, bet that intern was moved on quick.

C'mon, Hendrix is the offical "proves we're not racist" artist for classic rock stations.

See also: Beastie Boys on alt-rock stations.

Eric Burdon & War

Stevie Ray Vaughn's cover of "Superstitious"

Dobie Gray - see, now there's a black artist we play.