rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

8 years ago is a longtime on the internet whieny

because no one was that emotionally invested in it then and people have a pop culture memory of less than eight years?

probably the people invested in it then and npr listeners aren't that overlapping, either

it's almost like hip-hop hasn't really been relevant in the larger culture for nearly a decade now

or that the means thru which ppl share stuff on the internet are different than they were eight years ago

I mean, Gawker existed in 2006, where was their reblog of this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/arts/music/17play.html

THIS WHOLE SYSTEM IS OUT OF ORDER

iirc they were busy posting updates of which celebrities people had seen on the streets of nyc that day

it's almost like that times article deals w/ the issue as an aside in a brief blurb while the npr thing uses it to demonstrate how if you scratch beneath the surface of even the most anodyne thing in america you will find virulent racism lurking in its history

where was whiney when spin magazine was posting aids denialist literature

c'mon man you can't tell me you didn't know about that

hey how come ppl are linking to that thing from 2006 when lil' mont used it in 1997. seems kinda suspect someone would link to the predominantly white ny times and ignore an icon most americans are aware of like lil' mont.

I should really remove my bookmark from this thread and yet

your time might be better spent sleeping

DJP, if you remove your bookmark from this thread, how are you going to know if something's racist or not?

Whiney on a "Why wasn't anybody calling for Donald Sterling's ouster 15 years ago?" tip

http://www.multivu.com/mnr/64790-post-foods-fruity-cocoa-pebbles-competition-wwe-john-cena-nba-kyrie-irving

"team fruity"

I have been cracking up at those ads since I first encountered them

huge fan of breakfast cereal endorsements from athletes (esp of kyrie irving's prominence so to speak) wherein they're wearing ultrageneric jerseys/hats/etc., takes me back to my youth.

http://keymancollectibles.com/baseballcards/images/1990po4.jpg

hahaha that card would be even better if it was like
NOLAN RYAN
dallas-based baseball squadron ballthrower

he looks like he's modeling for sears

omg I remember those cards!

http://www2.cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/files/2012/07/Pete-Rose-Gold-Star1.jpg

Haha these dont even have the mascot. Bet the pantone is only off a digit.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aZia0MTLSJw/UDxdtE8xS_I/AAAAAAAAKx4/A5zY1QVVSDk/s1600/2012+Panini+Triple+Play+Clayton+Kershaw+sticker.jpg

all-white hardcore band the big boys:
http://glorifytheturd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bigboysfront.jpg

Yeah, between them, The Black Athletes, and the Drunk Injuns, Skate Rock Vol. 1 doesn't look so innocent anymore.

That looks like something that was put out by Taang! Records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mh2RctlGxc

what does she say in that line about the bodegas and lips? i can't make it out exactly but i'd be surprised if it wasn't offensive

yuck

i hate everything about this song

Esso like debuted at no. 38 on Billboard. Which, I know it takes like very few copies to do, but that doesn't happen to, like, Thee Oh Sees or Grimes or w/e

Where are people even hearing this garbage?

idk, i'd imagine there's a big promotional push by some third party with major label affiliations but i don't know whom.

Stereogum premiered their video: 1 comment, 37 tweets

being in one of these bands doesn't seem like fun at all

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dh5lZmvXybg/Tc1uevkeFYI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Q7S7JNdFPP8/s640/Lawn+Jockey.gif

I see white lawn jockey ornaments and think, yeah, I guess it's an improvement over the black lawn jockey ornaments, but it still rubs me the wrong way. What's the idea or concept being conveyed? "Remember back in olden days when you'd have men in uniform stand around holding the horses? They were usually blacks forced into servitude, but here's an effigy offered in white."

Maybe I'm off. Maybe it goes back to Scottish times when white people held their horses. Maybe not though.

I think they mostly exist so that old white people can say "Remember when those things used to be black? Can't get away with that anymore ho ho"

I have an honest ITR: a friend of mine believes that any celebration involving the breaking of a piñata is inherently racist, unless it is a celebration entirely by and for Mexican people. This had never occurred to me before, but I'd be perfectly happy to accept that it is correct. Do you agree with my friend or not?

My huge almost-entirely-white extended family has included a piñata at our family reunion / Christmas celebration every year for decades in a manner that had previously seemed to me to be free of its historical cultural context (the piñata is not a traditional or stereotypical shape or color, there is no obvious element of "Mexican blackface" surrounding the breaking of it: no costumes, no broken spanish is spoken, etc).

What prompted this specifically was this event , which I'd thought it might be fun to go to, before my friend objected.

oh god i'm a racist aren't i

wikipedia lol suggests that the pinata has roots in chinese, european and mesoamerican tradition, & that the word itself is of italian origin. similar traditions exist all over the world. never heard anyone suggest that the pinata is the reserved and sacred cultural property of mexicans, but i suppose i wouldn't know.

Ha, no fucking way is this racist. If it is, I'll be sure to tell the Hispanic owner of the party store we get our annual birthday piñatas from, that sorry, his products are racist when purchased by people who look like my family.

there is plenty of racist bullshit that happens when white people throw cinco de mayo parties but a pinata used by white people is not inherently racist imo. if they wear sombreros and fake mustaches while swatting at the pinata, it's a different story though

thinking a pinata at a party is inherently racist is kind of getting us to a point where cultural exchange should be shut down entirely

is it racist if i drink tequila?

only if you do it at a Mexican restaurant

I bought some fireworks, is that racist?

fireworks originated in china, you asshole. unless you're chinese you better shelve those

brb building a pinata filled with fireworks.

we're going to hang it and hit it with lit torches, it will be epic.

please don't use the word "epic" unless you are Ancient Greek and blind