rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Klickstein: "Haha, and you wanna know what other kind of 'backs don't work?" *bucket falls, passerby ignore man drowning in green slime*

^^^ I'll take "Posts you had second thoughts about and decided not to post" for $400

No, it's ok. I made it sound like it came from someone else.

not sure i get the tupac shirt being racist, more kinda corny, but w/e

Flagged for failing to pluralize 'passersby'

Think goole was bringing us back to the original intent of this thread

I'd say not racist but does play into some tropes?

xxp "super kitschy" to be precise

idg how that's any different from any of the 100s of Tupac shirts I see a day

are you the mayor of tupacville?

Ha! Now when I'm on facebook I see the girl in the Tupac shirt on the sidebar.

im not sure its racist but it does seem like a really dumb idea

i think i'm mostly offended by them describing it as "super kitschy"

for some reason that feels a bit off in ways pertaining to this thread, idk

i don't know if it's racist but i'd say there's a difference between the million tupac RIP tribute shirts and a shirt that turns his face into wallpaper

i feel a bit off looking at it but i cant really put my finger on whats fucked up about it

xp the disembodied head aspect definitely comes into play!!

i think it's maybe just the reductive bubble head thing, like lowering a fairly tragic figure like tupac to the level of a fictional joke character like george costanza or something.

the model isn't helping that feeling

do you think there would ever be a "kitschy" disembodied kurt cobain head wallpaper shirt?

tupac crop top -> biggie crown top -> rugrats crop top

hmmmmmm

i could see a disembodied dave grohl head wallpaper shirt but that's because he's juuuust a bit bacony.

but even that, probably not. that would be on etsy, not sold through a huge retail store.

tbf, disembodied kurt cobain head evokes a very different image

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P5aavwpJ1Cg/TlInp4IJ_pI/AAAAAAAAAVM/bhyWZIX-eis/s1600/reception-miky-t-shirt-10109719_576284_1000.jpg

http://tshirtmafia.co.uk/164-215-large/kurt-cobain-forover-27-t-shirt.jpg

lol wow

jesus the entitled #gamergate fuckwads in the flavorwire comments bitching because they won't get to watch kiddie's tv at the convention so fuck you pc social warriors breitbart bleepbloop

#ressentiment

https://twitter.com/_RebirthOfSlick/status/519847201011683328

omg

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=539562929478172&id=273380906096377

The posting in FB about the event being cancelled and ensuing comment amusement.

Also, they've already found another venue and this event is back on, apparently.

I can't see the pic on that tweet and it's driving me nuts! can you explain what happened?

Good prank, tho.

I can't see the pic on that tweet and it's driving me nuts! can you explain what happened?

This:

http://i.imgur.com/NAhi8Ka.png

After this: http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/10/black-teenager-pepper-sprayed-home-burglar%20

Omfg

The Nickelodeon thing means there's an open lane to write a proper book

white female friend changes facebook cover photo to

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10177454_10205001526063038_225353347860812822_n.jpg

try again

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10177454_10205001526063038_225353347860812822_n.jpg?oh=62e39b721d30f3ac343839df162bf33a&oe=54B15C47&__gda__=1421903856_0dc096a028d3b9c931daf0996c54062b

question is not "is this racist" but what is best way to tell friend this is uncool

re: the pepper spray incedent from up thread, see 7:45 in the following

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFHpvPwq2i8

and to think 15 years ago this idea was thought so absurd as to be used as satire. dave was always two steps ahead of things

I dunno man, I don't think that's quite true - this shit had always been going on, it's just that social media now makes it much easier to get the word out

TLG - maybe she just really likes Oprah?

maybe

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/michael-essien-forced-respond-internet-4428143

i'm thinking yes

question is not "is this racist" but what is best way to tell friend this is uncool

yr gonna have to explain this one to me

pvmic

re: the tupac shirt, at A3C this weekend I stood behind someone wearing this jersey (except black instead of red):

http://picture-cdn.wheretoget.it/gzk9ip-l-610x610-t-shirt-biggie-smalls-shirt-biggie-smalls-jersey-dope-illest-hip-hop-biggie-smalls.jpg

ok so oprah heads all good i guess

what exactly is the racist part of that

oprah heads sound suspect to me idk

was bojack horseman racist

tbrr i don't think i would actually call that person out on the oprah thing, it just made me go hm

bojack horseman just kinda sucked, maybe it got racist after the first episode, no one will ever know