Rolling Race 2021

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

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

my Canadian ignorance again reveals itself

it IS a little off we all get lumped together that broadly, but ya know, America

On some level, I have to admire the brazen chutzpah of this explanation: https://apple.news/AlC9Qs0cgRZGTI3w6W7suMQ

tired: "I was caught up in the heat of the moment and used words I regret"
wired: "My Type 1 diabetes made me say racist things"

"you can't punish me, this is a side-effect of my pre-existing medical condition" is absolutely swinging for the fences and it's making me laugh a lot harder than it should

lol, amazing. Is this the reason he's no longer a youth pastor or…?

On a tangential note, do Apple News links work on non-Apple operating systems?

yeah, it redirected me to NBC News on my Windows machine

(I didn't realize I was posting an Apple News link when I was on my phone)

"I'm not racist, I'm hangry"

I am reading his statement and crying with laughter

During this time I was with a colleague and friend Scott Sapulpa. Scott Sapulpa was not the one who made these comments, it was me and me alone. It is not my desire to shirk my responsibility in this matter and I certainly do not want Scott Sapulpa to share in the blame of this most unfortunate incident.

"To be 100% clear, Scott Sapulpa had nothing to do with this. My coworker Scott Sapulpa did not make these comments, I did. No one should associate Scott Sapulpa, that S-A-P-U-L-P-A, 'Sapulpa', with these racist comments."

While the comments I made would certainly seem to indicate that I am racist,

Yes, they certainly do-

I am not, I have never considered myself to be racist,

Oh! Well that's sorted, QED

and in short cannot explain why I made these comments.

It's such a conundrum! He has never considered himself to be a racist and yet he made these terribly racist comments. HOW CAN THIS BE? itisamystery.jpg

My diabetes has been racism-ing, not me

It's like a William Burroughs parody: "The Man Who Taught His Pancreas To Talk (And Discovered It Was Horribly Racist)"

I went down a rabbit hole with this and found this horrifying thing: https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/24/8/1498.1

Whoa, that is terrible.

Kara Walker comes to mind
Also the twinkle defense

https://www.ethicaleditor.com/entertainment/twinkle-khanna-comes-out-in-defense-of-people-who-publicize-charitable-acts-on-social-media/

what is going on at the end of that page

Aiui that's not what the Twinkie defense was? It was "This person is mentally unwell and the evidence is that his personal habits have deteriorated to the point of eating an extremely unhealthy diet among other indicators," not, "His blood sugar made him do it."

Just to be clear that person was mentally fine and was in fact a racist and homophobe and probably a terrorist depending on your working definition, ijs.

Yeah my referent was that both defendants were full of sugary shit

AIUI? IJS?

As I Understand It
I'm Just Saying

my kara walker point, in case i was being too subtle:
https://creativetime.org/projects/karawalker/curatorial-statement/

Sorry,forks! I'm not familiar with Kara Walker.

no worries! walker's work is hit or miss for me on computer screens and print but it's generally impressive as all hell to see in person. I regret missing "A Subtlety" as all the video and conversations people had with me about it made it sound monolithic and intense

I've only seen her silhouette work in person, but yeah it was striking and formidable

This article about people who take on racial identities not their own is pretty fascinating, and also baffling. I mean, my maternal grandfather was Mexican — my mom's last name is Guevara — but I would never call myself Latin, especially not in some kind of "I deserve tenure/a book deal for my pain" kind of way. These people have zero connection to the cultures and ethnicities they're claiming, and then they (frequently) have the stones to accuse other people of being inauthentic.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/atlanta-area-shootings-03-17-21/index.html

This shit is going to keep happening for a while

i am so sad about this. reminds me of Charleston, reminds me of how often racist violence is directed at women, worried about my Asian American students who feel like their peers don't think racism against Asian Americans is "a thing," so despairing about guns in this country that mean no one is safe, worried already about fucked up responses to these killings because of the dehumanization of Asian women, particularly sex work-adjacent Asian women, just overwhelmed and don't know what to do with myself.

also i wish my twitter feed weren't full of the killer's fucking face.

it's very concerning. part of me still (optimistically) wants to believe that maybe some of these anti-Asian hate crimes are being mislabeled or coincidental, like freak attacks by mentally ill homeless persons, but this one is impossible to ignore.

I've been hearing statistics of anti Asian violence over the last week on several podcasts sounds like it is a rising number.
Doesn't help that to certain people they 'all look alike' and the last President was trying to fob off the virus as being Chinese and he had been doing a lot of counterintelligent shenanigans aimed at the Chinese since he was elected.

i think it is hard to generalize about the attacks that have popped up in the news lately--there are a lot of things happening at the same time, and it's hard to identify what the connections are. there's growing anti-Asian resentment of the "these people are taking our jobs" variety (i remember shortly after Trump was elected a white cabbie telling me all about the Asians taking over, and he didn't seem to consider me Asian, maybe because he was thinking about east Asians, though I doubt his thinking was very clear), the anti-Asian sentiment rooted in anger about coronavirus and Trumpian "Chinese virus" comments, a much older dehumanization of working class Asian women rooted in American wars in Korea and Vietnam and sex work, and then the older intra-American forms of anti-Asian sentiment about exploitation of Chinese labor beginning in the late 19th century. complicating everything is that some of the incidents getting a lot of publicity pre- the Atlanta shootings were incidents where Black Americans were attacking Asian Americans, and i agree Nhex, that some of those attacks may not have been racist in motivation, but there is a history of fraught relations between the two groups based on complicated neighborhood relationships, obvs. i do think the post-coronavirus wave of hostility is real and has a complicated relationship with previous history.

xp

It's good that Biden explicitly condemned racism against Asian-Americans in last week's speech.

I just listened to a podcast on sex work fro the Red Nation podcast this morning, talking about how a lot of native women were forced into sex work wherever countries were colonised..
Comes from like 3 weeks ago so doesn't mention current events
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0YsoRuEpT5m9gsJrQmWMtP?si=2Ixb9QLHRy6If5C-aPSQ_g

will be available on other platforms if spotify doesn't float your boat.

It's good that Biden explicitly condemned racism against Asian-Americans in last week's speech.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, March 17, 2021 10:04 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it is good, and i am glad he did it, but he also said it was un-American, which is lol