Rolling Race 2021

that 2016 CNN article is quoted in the 2018 CNN article I posted

lol I guess CNN was like "nailed it the first time"

you can track this in India too

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/world/asia/india-hitler-childrens-book.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8660064.stm

That's not Hitler on the cover of the book, it looks like a waxwork... of Bruno Ganz.

color me unsurprised: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/entertainment/morgan-wallen-record-sales/index.html

I keep hearing that this is getting worse.

https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-us-is-seeing-a-massive-spike-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes.html?fbclid=IwAR0pvq2ZLSpxoX0iSQ3p1HBPJPOkyNJNSocsyH0-gmFcXvAz4fEF16F4M2M

smith college again:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/smith-college-race.html

https://www.espn.com/soccer/ac-milan/story/4324640/zlatan-ibrahimovic-to-lebron-james-do-what-youre-good-at,-stay-out-of-politics

I don't follow soccer but I've seen this guy's name before. If anyone needs to shut the fuck up, it's him.

In a February 2011 interview, Ibrahimović stated that the boxer Muhammad Ali is one of his role models, going on to say: "One of my idols in sport and outside the sport also..he believed in his (principles) and he never gave (them) up."

good thing Muhammad Ali never did any politics

You can tell Ibrahimović follows his own advice. He proudly doesn't use his brain for anything outside of playing his position.

I’m sure Zlatan is 100% cool with this totally apolitical incident:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11863/12227404/zlatan-ibrahimovic-uefa-opens-investigation-after-ac-milan-striker-racially-abused-at-red-star-belgrade

ibrahimovic is an obnoxious idiot

Ibrahimovic is a mouthy fuckhole

he was in MLS last year, lots of fans grew to hate him statewide

😕

I love Black history.
But the 1619 Yoga Project is a little too much for me. pic.twitter.com/V1TffnyCTl

— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) February 27, 2021

oh no

it's hardly the most upsetting element of the video, but that CADENCE

Uhh...

the cheerful warmth of the tone and cadence makes it sound that getting on boats to become slaves was a nice thing for black people to do .... yeah, ughhhhhh

Meanwhile, over at Oberlin:

https://www.facebook.com/1569723009914148/posts/2922254581327644/?d=n

that is terrible but it is also...hilarious.

did no one, when putting together that banner think..."oops. maybe we don't show their photographs?"

and this is Oberlin? ... damn.

A friend sent this to me last night— (I minored in music comp at said institution). Seems like an obvious case of someone shitting the bed on design for a flier, the response to criticism being atrocious, and the whole thing spiraling into an awful controversy because of a hit parade of mistakes on the Con's end of things.

Another friend posted on the original (now removed) IG post— "Well there is a little bit of the color black in each photo, maybe it's a conceptual piece?"

lol ... your friend is great.

(You'd probably get along with him, sarahell, he started West Nile, the east coast version of East Nile. One of the Shinkoyo boys.

ohhhhhhh nice!!!

that is terrible but it is also...hilarious.

a million times OTM

A little bit white really.
Very condescending sounding tone to the yoga teacher's voice. Is that intentional cos she's got kids in her audience.
& is the idea thought through properly should this be the 2 elements you want to combine.
Couldn't you reenact the voyage of Abu Bakari from 200 years earlier if you wanted to be positive. Or pretend you were wearing leg chains in an oh so tasteful way if you didn't.

I would say “don’t pretend you’re wearing leg chains”

Just thunk it about matched the taste level.
& it might just possibly wake whoever was writing that routine up.
Like wondered if there was a point too far for tehm

xp, a good rule of thumb in general

I am literally begging you to move the Netflix logo on this image https://t.co/nIriKbf7XB

— David Thomas Moore (@dtmooreeditor) March 2, 2021

why did I look at this while my work meeting camera is on

xp I was being intentionally tasteless if that wasn't clear.
Wasd that like a pseudo woke yoga meeting , have met supposedly liberal theatre makers who seem to be about as tactful as that appeared.
So yeah thought I'd take the p. Only saw a bit of that so they didn't actually move further in taht direction did they.
What's the next stage in that sequence after pretending to be boats ?

I'll leave it to others to comment on this, but it seemed worth a mention

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-on-lovecraft-country-extras-claim-her-skin-was-darkened-this-should-not-have-happened

hoo boy

Papa John’s ex-CEO says he’s been working for the last 20 months “to get rid of this N-word in my vocabulary” (h/t @mount_bees) pic.twitter.com/8heITnJJxA

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 8, 2021

guys he's really TRYING

I love the idea of this dude literally spending 20 months with a diction coach trying to get the n-word out of his vocabulary and failing

20 months???

now that i think about it there aren't any pizza toppings that start with the letter "n"

(i am aware that someone british is typing one right now)

Nutella and new potatoes

there it is

Nduja

"know what else you can put on a pizza, is n-"
"PAPA JOHN, NO"

meanwhile, Armie Hammer is all 'hey I heard you got a pizza for me'

https://www.thedailybeast.com/teen-vogue-staff-rail-against-new-editor-in-chiefs-past-tweets-mocking-asians

1. maybe I'm square but AFAICR this is my first time seeing the acronym "AAPI" (asian american and pacific islanders)
2. I know we've done "how did neither you nor your new employers vet your social media presence before taking this major media job?" before, but this is one of the more dunderheaded ones considering, well, it's Teen Vogue! hyper-wokeness is their entire brand at this point!

AAPI's been used on govt forms since at least the '90s, probably further back

weird coincidence that this woman was dating the Biden staffer who just got let go because some reporter harassed him about their relationship

that said, we've all spoken dumb shit when we were 19 years old, and McCammond did apologize at least

cool

Entire bookstore sections' worth of romance and crime novels written by and for poor Black people.

wrt crime novels there's a history of these authors dying poor and getting screwed by their white-owned publishers as well

also correct me if i'm wrong but black crime fiction, afaik, only truly shaped pop culture as we know it through its repeated reference in rap music (which, black music is deliberately excluded from this essay for probably obvious reasons)

Thought this might be interesting but gave up on it after a while cos I just found it annoying

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‘More than one way to burn a book’: literary censorship in the 21st century

Online Drop-In Event: Monday 26th July 7-8.30pm (BST)

Speakers: Lionel Shriver and Tomiwa Owolade

Host: Inaya Folarin Iman

News this month that a school in Edinburgh is to cease teaching Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, on the grounds of its ‘white saviour narrative’, should make us ask, was Ray Bradbury right when he said, five decades ago, that “there is more than one way to burn a book, and the world is full of people running about with lit matches”?

While we may have moved on from the prudish attitudes towards sexuality and profanity which saw works like Lady Chatterley's Lover banned, it is worth pondering whether the old matches have been fully extinguished. Perhaps more overt, state censorship carried out by authoritarian regimes, such as Turkey, Hungary and Thailand, blinds us to the subtler ways in which censoriousness operates in publishing in the Anglosphere. This can manifest itself through accusations of cultural appropriation and stereotyping in the creation of characters on the page, or demands for ‘cancellation’ due to personal misdemeanours in the author’s own life.

We are delighted to be joined by two eminent speakers, the novelist and columnist Lionel Shriver and the writer and critic Tomiwa Owolade, to explore the differing threats from de jure, or legally imposed, censorship, and de facto censorship, perpetrated by individuals and private companies. We will consider whether our current cultural clashes shackle or stimulate the literary imagination and ask, is one person’s ‘censorship’ another person’s ‘sensitivity’?

Lionel Shriver: A prolific journalist with a fortnightly column in The Spectator, Lionel Shriver has written widely for the New York Times, the Guardian, the London Times, Prospect, the Financial Times, Harper’s Magazine, and many other publications. She has published the bestselling works of fiction The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047, Big Brother, So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the Orange-Prize winner We Need to Talk About Kevin (a 2011 feature film starring Tilda Swinton). Her most recent novel is Should We Stay or Should We Go (2021). Her work has been translated into over 30 languages.

Tomiwa Owolade: Tomiwa is a writer and critic who lives in London. His work has appeared in the Times, Spectator, Evening Standard, Unherd, Quillette and Literary Review, among other publications. He holds degrees in English Literature from Queen Mary, University of London and University College London, and has written extensively on books, politics and racial identity.

99% of authors in the history of publishing have gotten screwed by their publishers and/or died poor.

also correct me if i'm wrong but black crime fiction, afaik, only truly shaped pop culture as we know it through its repeated reference in rap music (which, black music is deliberately excluded from this essay for probably obvious reasons)

Well, who the "we" in the phrase "pop culture as we know it" is, is kind of the whole fucking point (and exactly what this writer is getting wrong). This is about who's reading what, and why. No, EL Griffin's Hood Love and Loyalty is never gonna be nominated for a National Book Award, but it's not because the author didn't go to the right college.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41E7JjKKjAL.jpg

99% of authors in the history of publishing have gotten screwed by their publishers and/or died poor.

oh man, didn't realize publishing was operating at such a loss

Thought this might be interesting but gave up on it after a while cos I just found it annoying

Interesting as what? As an example of hideous anti-woke right wing garbage?

oh man, didn't realize publishing was operating at such a loss

One Stephen King pays for a thousand writers whose books sink to the bottom of the ocean unread. Wait till you find out how many actual copies you need to sell to have a New York Times bestseller. (Triple digits will do it.)

sometimes i feel like On Here i've read a completely different article or post. or i read too fast, but i thought he was acknowledging the existence of content produced by people from poor backgrounds and pointing out how they don't get boosted because they are presumed to be unpalatable to white people, regardless of how popular they actually are, and the big media companies can still say they are doing diversity without offending anyone important.

actually delete the first sentence, i shouldn't apologize for how i read it

off topic but

John Oliver has a net worth of 30 million dollars. He could heal many wounds just with his own wealth, yet he chooses not to. It’s almost like he’s full of shit. https://t.co/QiRbLZedST

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) July 26, 2021

this guy has truly figured it out

Charles Murray, everybody!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7QIxCNX0AQFpvV.png

excellent contributions itt keep it up

sometimes i feel like On Here i've read a completely different article or post. or i read too fast, but i thought he was acknowledging the existence of content produced by people from poor backgrounds and pointing out how they don't get boosted because they are presumed to be unpalatable to white people, regardless of how popular they actually are, and the big media companies can still say they are doing diversity without offending anyone important.

― criminally negligible (harbl), Monday, July 26, 2021 8:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

also, someone with basic reading comprehension skills would be able to tell that he is detailing his experience being the black-poorest with a double intent. yes it establishes his credentials, which is probably important considering the topic of the piece, but he also describes his experience in a way that strips it of the kind of romantic authenticity that others are capitalizing on. flattening that into the grotesquerie of "a Black JD Vance" is an impressive fart even for unperson.

i'm really curious / interested if any of the grant or application programs for minority creatives he describes will ever include a clearly defined "poor person" category.

anyway, by all means keep embedding charles murray tweets itt it is very interesting content

though what i would really be interested in is unperson telling us all why he hates poor people so much

unfortunately i was thinking about it some more while i was walking and the article would make no sense logically if the writer was unaware that there is content created by and for black people! like it kind of sounds like that's what he'd prefer to see more of.

anyway it's nice to see that expressed in the elite circle jerk culture ecosystem

ugh insert "poor" in that xpost

the article would make no sense logically if the writer was unaware that there is content created by and for (poor) black people! like it kind of sounds like that's what he'd prefer to see more of.

He came up with exactly one example — Moonlight, a movie with a budget of $1.5 million according to its director. If he really wanted to make the point that he wanted to see more content by poor Black creators, it would be a simple process of listing some books and saying "More like this, please." (Or allowing music to be part of the discussion.) But he's only concerned with what wins National Book Awards and what gets written up in the Atlantic.

The sentence "A decade of unprecedented interest in Black arts and letters has now passed—the greater portion of it bought with footage of people possessing Floyd’s particulars lying dead on the tar—and still you cannot walk into a bookstore to find a shelf named for Black authors raised in poverty." is absurd bullshit. First of all, the last time I went into a physical Barnes & Noble, there was no section for Black authors at all — their books were shelved alphabetically with everybody else's. But when there have been separate sections (and when I worked at Barnes & Noble 20+ years ago, there were), there's absolutely special consideration for "Black authors raised in poverty" — they call it "urban fiction," and it's books like the one I mentioned above, the kind of books this author has zero interest in promoting, by authors whose names he'll never bother to learn, because the readers of Current Affairs would never let such a thing stain their fingers, and he'd rather attack Colson Whitehead and Roxane Gay (whose name he misspells in the piece) for being rich. (I didn't know Gay came from money until reading this. It doesn't change my opinion of her work one way or the other. I used to know one of Whitehead's sisters, a little. She came to a reading I gave for my first book.)