rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Rolling Stones "Harlem Shuffle"

bill clinton on arsenio

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/102806/country-or-rap.gif

no frisson left here for liking big & rich: this is ilx country

Playing the Blues Brothers "Soul Man" instead of Sam & Dave is one of my greatest peeves! It's such an inferior version! And it's totally racist!

Haha, swear to god I used to backsell it as "And we started things off with The Blues Brothers and their inferior version of 'Soul Man". Coming up, Steve Miller, Heart and Billy Squier..."

http://i.imgur.com/mvoYVEOl.jpg

hoo boy. stylin' and profilin' indeed!

okay, that got a very guilty lol out of me. Poor Clyde.

oh shit

http://nextimpulsesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/racist.png

I get the feeling that if a white kid had told the interviewer his favorite band was One Direction, it wouldn't have been spelled like that.

But maybe the ESPN producer was old and tired, I don't know.

they should provide an infographic comparing japan and pennsylvania in different categories

Maybe it's a One Direction tribute band.

I may never recover from Wandai Wrection

better than Owned Erection i suppose

consult a doctor if it lasts longer than four hours

o lord

that was my forks-style joke I am glad you like it

I was o lording at the op but i liked yours as well

I saw the introductory bit on ESPN and it's surprising how many of them name Yu Darvish as their favorite player. Not a single mention of Ichiro. I tell ya, the kids these days.

Wandai Wrection

omg

When 1D first came together the Twitterati called them WAND ERECTION.

oh

my god

This is all sorts of fabulous.

dear rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

every time i have heard someone quote will smith's most memorable line in "independence day", 1. it has always been a white person and 2. they always say "welcome to earf." or "welcome to urf." or "welcome to erf." i've seen it stylized many different ways.

i watched "independence day" on the TBS a couple nights ago for probably the first time since it was in theaters, and, to my surprise, the line is not "welcome to earf" at all!

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

like that isn't even close. i just thought you should know.

there's a heavy exhalation after the t tbf

i think this is probably v common when -- i dunno, non-black people or just people who don't speak AAVE -- quote black ppl who speak AAVE. entirely standard pronunciations are transformed. it's like the old white man who seriously thinks young black men say "yo" multiple times every sentence, except it's really just young people rapping along with their favorite kanye song and making him sound less suburban

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0

to be fair, he does punch out an alien

had never heard of the mcgurk effect ty for that

http://www.thewhitefacelodge.com/

well I know what I'm putting on if I ever visit there

swim trunks?

and a cap!

http://oi43.tinypic.com/15me9ti.jpg

it doesn't help that it looks like she's laughing into a cellphone

and that it looks like a mashup of two stock photos

Is it racist that a white Pitchfork writer asks a black rapper "Chicken or shrimp?"

http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/9217-2-chainz/

iirc doesn't the cookbook included in the CD version have both recipes for chicken and shrimp?

real question is does it have recipes for BEEF

i think it's mostly chicken and shrimp and veggies

I think one has a sausage though

2 chainz has a cookbook now?

did u ghostwrite this whiney? u can tell us.

i have a serious "is this racist?" entry for discussion:

can we talk about the rick owens ss14 women's show?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOn6HLx0YHM

is this a demonstration of radically inclusive diversity, both in terms of race and body type? or is this an illustration of racist tropes about black aggression conceived as a type of shocking, antagonistic "anti-beauty"? can it be both these things? I've read versions of both takes in the past week. what's going on?

fwiw i support these models / dancers and think they are amazing, i am not criticizing their participation one bit, but i am extremely skeptical of owens' motivations in using them

anyway

I can't watch the whole thing due to Youtube being a dick right now, but the little bit I did see basically makes it seem like the type of context juxtaposition Tyra wishes she could do on ANTM but can't because the women she casts aren't capable of that type of show.

I think Rick Owens is one of the 'good guys' and I totally LOLed at the one white dancer as comment on who usually walks in Paris Fashion Week...

...HOWEVER, there was a lot of self-congratulation in the reactions of white, skinny fashion people following the show which made black colleagues of mine do a little sickie to themselves, especially if the people banging on about how amazing this was were not exactly known for creating opportunities for people of colour at work. They're annoyed by any example of Fashion Shows How Much It Cares, whether it's representation or pretending to give a shit about poor people, because in the context of the industry today, black people are used in the show/editorial context to make powerful white people feel better about themselves. Two of my colleagues are amongst the most eminent black people in the fashion industry (one's a fashion director, the other is a beauty director) and the former feels he still has to spell out to brands he works with and publishers how much people of colour spend on fashion, and how much the marketplace needs to reflect that. There was also a debate on a stylist friend's Facebook page where a black blogger linked to by her was castigated by an angry fashion gay for being 'Midwestern' because the blogger noticed the power dynamic Elmo mentioned, so we all piled on him because his go-to was basically 'what does this bitch even know about fashion?' About half the comments (from a diversity of people) said it was a great way to zhuzh up an otherwise mediocre collection, not Owens' best.

I love Rick Owens, but his shows haven't been the most diverse. He's not exactly JPG when it comes to his casting.

Your comment reminded me of PPQ doing that show with all black models that one season (which got them a lot of attention) & immediately reverting to the usual 95% white casting the very next season.