rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

gah. there is a mural near my neighborhood that i feel rageful about but i mean...at least ours isn't that? oofffffff

a mural of RBG i mean

I keep going back to it and saying "who is the audience for this" and thinking the answer is "white liberals in my hometown"

Glad I live in an area where one of the largest and most beautiful murals is of gay communist opera singer Paul Robeson.

has the muralist had to apologize yet because i am already guessing what the apology reads like in my head

Paul Robeson was gay?

I don't know if he was bi, but he married a woman and had some p scandalous affairs with other women

Jfc that was an autocorrect. He was not. In fact, he was quite the opposite lol

i was gonna say that scandalous affairs with women are not exactly a sign of homosexuality if you're a man but it is possible i am underinformed

it is a sign of homosexuality when your phone autocorrects things to "gay" ;)

Was the autocorrected word "a"?

the algorithms know everything these days

I think what table meant was that the phone autocorrected "gay communist opera singer Paul Robeson" from "Gaz Coombes"

I'm trying to imagine living near a giant Gaz Coombes mural and for some reason the picture in my mind has the terrible face tattoos from the RBG mural I linked

it was probably "ag," tbf— I sometimes type so fast on my phone that I'll swipe a letter trying to get to another, in this case the "c" in communist.

i am, it turns out, very gay.

xpost DJP lol

Muralist left out the crying Santorum kids

At least it's her with a GF tattoo and not the other way around.

oh god

Ruth bader have my money

table's autocorrect changes "the" to "gay" which is why his real username is "gay table is gay table"

I'm also just going to come out and say that as a white gay dude, I always thought that PG was precious and for the sort of white gay dudes who think they're "alternative" but are actually very middle-class and boring men who like buttsex

― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Wednesday, March 3, 2021 10:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I was going to say "he's one of those dudes on Facebook with 850 shirtless white twinks and one Black woman he met at work in his friend list"

― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, March 3, 2021 10:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

otm. i mean i'm somewhat middle class and boring, and love buttsex, but god i can't stand this guy's voice lol.

I'm also just going to come out and say that as a white gay dude, I always thought that PG was precious and for the sort of white gay dudes who think they're "alternative" but are actually very middle-class and boring men who like buttsex

A gay communist opera singers?

Let’s move away from literally shitting in someone’s face to metaphorical shitting in someone’s face:

🐦[DC got a new mural and I.......... pic.twitter.com/rfatnAeMfX🕸
— Tiffany Flowers (@MsFlowersTweets) March 3, 2021🕸]🐦

Here's a Medium article about that mural

https://medium.com/free-thinkr/rbg-goes-to-anacostia-e9ca99b1a164

I cant find a photo of it, but via the IndyStar

Rabble owner Josie Hunckler said she learned Thursday evening of a 2018 mural by Muck that depicts a chimpanzee sporting a gold tooth and a thought bubble filled by a marijuana leaf. Muck painted the chimpanzee near New Orleans' Lincoln Beach — a waterfront amusement park designated as an African American gathering place during the segregated 1950s.

...

"I admit ignorance, inability to see the big picture, inability to see other people’s viewpoints on it," she said. "I didn’t see. I missed it. I apologize profusely."

Someone painted over the New Orleans mural before Muck returned to do the task, she said. Although a photo of Muck with the chimpanzee mural no longer resides on her Instagram profile, a screencap exists.

"Yes, I painted a monkey," she said. "I had no association of that monkey with any race. I’ve never thought that way. I grew up in New York and Europe, and it just didn’t enter my mind."

Muck said ethnicity didn't factor in her choices of the gold tooth and marijuana leaf.

“I was putting gold teeth on everything at that time," she said. "That was my shtick.”

Regarding the marijuana: "I was trying to help a newly sober person. He was having a hard time with his friend smoking weed. I said, ‘They look like monkeys, they’re being stupid. Why would you want to do that?’ And we painted the painting."

A dear friend wrote this piece about being Black in the non-profit industrial complex. Pretty damning stuff.

https://tastefulrude.com/how-to-break-up-with-the-non-profit-pyramid-scheme-for-now/

Muck seems like a fun person to completely ignore at a party

I grew up in New York and Europe

Ah yes, the places where there isn't any racism

What is 'Europe'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

I'm trying to imagine living near a giant Gaz Coombes mural and for some reason the picture in my mind has the terrible face tattoos from the RBG mural I linked

I mean, the resemblance is uncanny
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvkFl0RWQAEmB12?format=jpg&name=mediumhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/I_Should_Coco.jpg

zoom in on the even worse ruth bader 6ix9ine avatar of the screenshotted tweet

the what now pic.twitter.com/xDTkFeLpMW

— ALAB Series (@ALABSeries) March 2, 2021

well, tbh i can't say this is worse than the george floyd. no point in comparing.

I... what

what is wrong with these people

https://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/39028/wandering-dago-food-truck-we-were-booted-from-track-for-name/

Had to google that slur. I've never seen/heard anyone use it in Canada, including by idiotic teenagers who had no qualms about using, uh, synonyms.

I'd day it's pretty antiquated at this point. But have you never seen Fawlty Towers? That's my clearest memory of hearing it

Do the Right Thing is the place I know it best from.

Dago, wop, guinea, garlic-breath, pizza-slingin', spaghetti-bendin', Vic Damone, Perry Como, Luciano Pavarotti, Sole Mio, nonsingin' motherfucker.

Fawlty Towers is another thing I had to google a while back. Then again, my knowledge of TV culture is subpar.

Also, I should really wait for the coffee to kick in before posting. Language exceeds my grasp right now.

Wow that's a weird situation where it's tone-deaf at the very least but...they people who chose the name are from the affected group? Who imo? can't really be said to still experience significant marginalization from that identity? It's not my identity so I leave that question open.

Affected people have the right to reclaim language obv. This does seem like more of a hand-wave to how Italians aren't really at risk for discrimination anymore though. I'm curious now about who the "unnamed state official" was.

Do the Right Thing is the place I know it best from.

I had no idea it was used at all outside the UK.

Apparently it's American though.

oh yeah i wasn't posing "is it racist" about the dago thing, if she wants to call herself a dago i don't care. i was just struck by the horrible RBG avatar.

there's a couple places here that have dago in the name but they specifically sell dago sandwiches

I'd never heard of that before (I've only been to St Paul once). This article is p interesting: https://thetakeout.com/st-paul-s-hot-dago-sandwich-offers-no-apologies-few-1825333299

I mean, okay sure maybe can appropriate slurs against them but how many incorporated businesses out there in English-speaking countries use the word "nigga"

I need to find the photos I took at Cholo Tacos...in Helsinki, Finland.

I started googling and found this https://www.cholos.mx/