rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

we had reagan and white flight

Last Saturday: http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-first-weekend-in-america-with-no-saturday-m-1642441646

The one broadcast holdout all this time? CW.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1458788!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/nick22f-4-web.jpg

xp tbf, there's an entire 24 hour NETWORK for saturday morning cartoons in Boomerang

on cable tv

yeah i don't really get people freaking out about the lack of saturday morning cartoons. it's stopping because they're more accessible than ever elsewhere. it's like freaking out about there not being a Sunday Matinee on Fox or something.

Plus, she was a girl, and many of the people who are writing these blogs and editing these pieces are women — which is fine, it’s just the way that it is, and a lot of the publishing world is women...

You might not like this or care, but it’s very hard to be a man in the publishing world. No one talks about that. My agent: woman. My editor: woman. My publicist: woman. The most successful genre is young adult novels — 85% of which are written by women. That discussion doesn’t really come up when it’s the other way around. It is 2014 now. It’s not 1995. Political correctness needs to change.

There are worlds where white guys get shit, too. I’m starting to do stand-up comedy now and it’s hard to go up there and talk about how hard it is to be a guy. People don’t wanna hear it! A girl can go up there and talk all she wants about how hard it is to be a girl, and she gets applauded. These are obviously some of my own personal views and aren’t as important, but I’m bringing up this stuff because it’s all very malleable, it’s very flexible.

there's no context where this would be excusable, but i have a hard time imagining it being spoken in any other context than a crowded bar at night

My agent: woman. My editor: woman. My publicist: woman

This reminds me of some recent Doug Ford quote where he said he wasn't antisemitic because his doctor, dentist, and lawyer are all jews

it's just so "guy at a party you wish you hadn't started a conversation with"

this guy really does sound like a future failed standup comedian, just based on his topics of choice.

"My agent: dropping me today. My editor: dropping me today. My publicist: dropping me today."

yeah i don't really get people freaking out about the lack of saturday morning cartoons. it's stopping because they're more accessible than ever elsewhere. it's like freaking out about there not being a Sunday Matinee on Fox or something.

Oh, neither of my kids watch anything "live" - much less anything on a broadcast network. The news above to me was just something akin to finding out that there wasn't any broadcast network news at 5:30 anymore.

Bet that stand-up act is hilarious. Just let me know when he gets to The Comedy Store.

this was amazing to read, like this guy gets a book published and has a chance to talk about it and it was like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yizpWta-5Uw

Oh, neither of my kids watch anything "live" - much less anything on a broadcast network.

^^^

I don't know anything about this Clarissa show, but I don't understand why the lead had to be a girl. Couldn't it have been written by men and star a boy? Seems kind of contrived.

Clarissa Mansplains It All

kudos

this guy really does not get the reasoning behind giving interviews when you have a new thing out you want people to maybe have a look at

maybe he just really misunderstands his target audience and thinks that it's all white people who don't understand why these minorities keep appearing on their tv screens

we had illegal cable

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Tuesday, October 7, 2014 12:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Lol this reminds me of the time the cable guy came over to fix something

Thinking that this was the time to be slick I convinced my dad to give him $10 hoping that he would 'get the hint' and hook us up

My dad (who doesn't speak English) gave him the $10 and didn't say anything and the cable guy was like "uh, thanks" and it was awkward for like 5 minutes

Didn't get the free cable : \

Do cable guys still do the weird hookup thing anymore? My wife is always the one who's home when they install it and all I know is we sure as hell don't have HBO.

they control what channels you get at their main control center, now, so you're kind of screwed. back in the day, they'd put a filter on the line to block out the premium channels. if you lived in an apartment building (or *cough* college dorms) it was possible that they didn't secure the utility room and you could just go remove the filter

my parents live too far out in the woods for us to get cable ;_;

Never had cable. My mom woulf have gotten cable the day she bought me Jordan's, lol.
At friend's houses I never really "got" Pete n pete. But I also didn't really get into alt rock or flannel. I thought Clarissa was dope, though

never even heard of pete 'n' pete before this /morbs

me neither.

never had cable. really only wanted it so I could see Yo! MTV Raps, which I would have to go over to friends' houses to watch

I watched rap videos after adjusting rabbit ears to tune in The Box

i started getting cable in 1990 i believe, we also stole it. for years and years and years!

THe only Nick shows I remember people talking about were like, Doug, and that one where the girl can turn into water

Still weirds me out when I go to other cities and see that CBS/ABC/NBC etc. are all on different channel numbers

That's fucked up man

i have any number of local celebrity newscaster anecdotes that are now sadly moot
"but you don't understand, HE WAS WEARING A SNOWBIRD T-SHIRT AT THE MALL!"

had a weird thing as a tween where i hated kids shows with people in them. only really liked cartoons. i just found kid actors and sets of homes and schools really fucked up and condescending, idk.

now i'm kind of animation-averse. but i guess my attitude toward that kind of show is the same, now that i think of it.

We didn't even get UHF as far out in the woods we were. One kid in junior high had the big satellite dish taking up his entire front yard and would come in talking about the cartoon with the spikey-haired boy that the Little Rock Fox affiliate played on Ch. 38.

Only Nickelodeon programming I ever watched was Pinwheel at my grandmother's house in Memphis. (She'd tune it over to that so I would calm down after discovering that there was a Channel 5, what the hell is a Channel 5?)

Channel 2 was PBS.
Channel 3 was for the Atari or VCR.

Any other way and you lived in Soviet Russia, for all I knew.

i have fond memories of watching nickelodeon (a lot) as a kid but i suspect most of that nostalgia would be ruined by actually rewatching most of those shows, except some of the animated stuff.

Did we ever figure out if Nickelodeon is racist?

yeah, this thread took a weird turn

i just found kid actors and sets of homes and schools really fucked up and condescending, idk.

yes, i hated that shit. same goes for disney channel shit that i sometimes saw at friends houses. just seemed so distant from what i experienced as a kid that i had a hard time understanding why kids liked those shows

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-You-afraid-of-the-dark.jpg

Did we ever figure out if Nickelodeon is racist?

Well, the Canadians really did never tip.

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/TDqPowg3xZo/hqdefault.jpg

was supposed to be an image from my fave nick show are you afraid of the dark xp ^^

that one where the girl can turn into water

Alex (Alec?) Mack? Or something....

nick for me was double dare, ren and stimpy, YCDToTV and i barely remember anything else
it's always surprising to me what a cultural impact the programming i skipped had on people.

One kid in junior high had the big satellite dish taking up his entire front yard and would come in talking about the cartoon with the spikey-haired boy that the Little Rock Fox affiliate played on Ch. 38.

my parents wouldn't let me watch the Simpsons either

oh man I forgot about All That. That show ruled. loved watching it.

"All That" can't be racist they had Nas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEi8JGpvzLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93sxInETZKo

^ francophobic

it's incredible how this guy wrote a fucking book about the history of nickelodeon and from the start 100% of everything he says is wrong. all of it. millions of age 25-35s who had cable grew up on nickelodeon, and this guy, who considers himself some sort of expert, knows less than everyone else. these shows were all popular! 4 seasons for a kids show is huge! dan schneider, literally the biggest behind-the-camera figure in nick's history, makes sure his shows (with some exceptions) don't exceed 60-65 episodes. and the nostalgia thing lol. me and my brother and sister and everyone i went to school with were waxing nostalgic about it as soon as we were old enough to be too old for it. we'd have the same exact conversations over and over again.

dude is literally just a pete and pete/ren and stimpy megafan who decided to write a book about it

also he's racist

i obv didn't realize it at the time but the recurring orange soda gag on kenan & kel is pretty o_O

i can't believe i'm saying this but zachlyon otm

don't worry buddy "israel is genocidal -- zachlyon" now u can rest easy

i am amazed by this dude's responses in that interview