More blithe racism

[ZEZOZE]

i was getting my news on saturday night live and seth meyers was saying that burger king pulled a commercial because it starred mary j blige singing about chicken and it was racist stereotyping.

was that the joke part?

[seebs]

Originally Posted by wildernesse

It's not just about jokes, though. I've responded to email forwards or whatever the equivalent is on fb that aren't meant to be funny, and been met with the same thing: oh, I'm not talking about THAT, whether it be race or birtherism or any other thing that supposedly delegitimizes Obama or liberals at large. The only problem is that the message doesn't make sense with the offensive thing removed. It's not a message at all, except when illustrated by the offensive thing.

Ah-hah!

There are two kinds of humor; things which are funny because of a context switch or something similar, and things which are funny because they make some target look bad.

The former can be funny even when they rely on stereotypes, because the humor is actually humor. The latter are only funny if you buy into the stereotype or whatever, because they are about making some target look bad. If you don't find it inherently amusing to see that target made to look bad, it won't be funny.

And the thing is, the former category can survive without any implication that you have an opinion on the topic, but the latter can't.

[Clutch Munny]

It is funny because the squirrel gets dead!

[Crumb]

Originally Posted by ITSOZAZ

i was getting my news on saturday night live and seth meyers was saying that burger king pulled a commercial because it starred mary j blige singing about chicken and it was racist stereotyping.

This is an example of Blige racism. This thread is about blithe racism. Please stay on topic.

[seebs]

Originally Posted by Clutch Munny

It is funny because the squirrel gets dead!

Exactly.

When I was a small child, I was apparently gleefully describing a cartoon in which a cat and a mouse interact, and the cat is repeatedly killed, and my mom asked if it didn't bother me, and I said "but it's not about the cat". Pretty sure this is an example of this. (At that age, and even quite a bit later, I did not have the internal model that cats experienced happiness or sadness; I would be randomly mean or nice to them mostly based on whether I thought a given action made them behave interestingly. Empathy: Not my strong point.)

[maddog]

Originally Posted by Angakuk

I love preacher jokes.

Lawyer jokes, too.

#2849

[Angakuk]

Lawyers are jokes.

[ceptimus]

Two preachers walk into a church; one of them is carrying a chainsaw. A tiger follows them in. The preacher with the chainsaw looks at the tiger and says,

[Angakuk]

Originally Posted by ceptimus

Two preachers walk into a church; one of them is carrying a chainsaw. A tiger follows them in. The preacher with the chainsaw looks at the tiger and says,

Your order will be up in just a second.

[Janet]

In Utah they have a unique definition of "women of color".

[erimir]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but yeah, what the fuck is this thing?



Black people with money... something must be wrong!

Racist Businessweek cover: Bloomberg Businessweek misfires badly.

[LadyShea]

I don't understand what the intent of that illustration even was.

[livius drusus]

Minorities caused the housing bubble collapse by getting credit they couldn't afford and spending like the out-of-control stereotypes they are.

[LadyShea]

I thought it was discussing a new thing not the original bubble.

According to this, the story isn't even about minorities really. And that picture is really bad...how did nobody go "Uh, WTF" when it was presented?

a Peruvian illustrator who, in a missive that Businessweek shared with me, explains "I simply drew the family like that because those are the kind of families I know. I am Latino and grew up around plenty of mixed families."

[Janet]

Paula Deen is racist and can't quite figure out why there's anything wrong with that.

[ImGod]

Holy deep fat fried chicken served on a slab of butter.

Originally Posted by Paula Deen miss KKK 1967

“Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties. You know, in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around. Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that,” the lawsuit quotes Deen as allegedly saying, rightly predicting that the media might somehow put some of its typical “spin” on this.

Best article comment

Caption: "Type II Diabetes: God's way of saying you're an asshole."

[Stephen Maturin]

Other things Deen would say are remarks that could be construed as racist jokes, though Deen said they are more accurately described as “just jokes”: “It’s just what they are—they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks… I can’t determine what offends another person,” Deen is quoted as saying, demonstrating a rare misstep for Paula Deen’s otherwise-refined sense of taste.

Moar like "I can't be fucked to waste time determining what offends another person" amirite! Also, lol "otherwise-refined sense of taste" and how the antebellum South was just so purdy cuz of the way colored boys enslaved working in restaurants dressed.

[ImGod]

Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

Moar like "I can't be fucked to waste time determining what offends another person" amirite! Also, lol "otherwise-refined sense of taste" and how the antebellum South was just so purdy cuz of the way colored boys enslaved working in restaurants dressed.

I think this says it all about her.

Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that

Damn PC crowd. You can't celebrate a good southern wedding with dressed up tap dancing n****r slaves anymore without the media blowing it all out of proportion.

The media?

Hell, I think that might have even made a guy like Strom Thurman pucker up a little.

Not even a half ass political "sorry you were offended", but instead, "Sorry you're too stupid to get the joke and are all offended because the media told you to be."

[Ari]

The Buzzfeed link with the actual lawsuit was interesting, it totally sounds like something out of Kitchen Nightmares, with the staff actually on edge waiting for Bubba's daily violent tantrum in between viewings of porn on the kitchen computers.

While stick a butter Pauly is also an angry racist, the more damning bits come right after that when you discover Bubba, I almost got a slave wedding, Deen requires his black employees to enter through the back only, use the back non-customer restroom, and tries to keep the black help in the back especially after one black hostess didn't steal a white patrons purse (but was accused of it.)

[Janet]

It's already a meme.

[Ensign Steve]

"Otherwise refined sense of taste" = eight pounds of butter and sugar in everything?

[SR71]

What's this wafting from the GOP big tent of love?

Former Miss America Called 'Street Walker' by Local GOP Leader | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo!

"The little queen touts her abstinence, and she won the crown because she got bullied in school - boohoo, kids are cruel, life sucks and you move on," Allen wrote. "Now, Miss Queen is being used like a street walker, and her pimps are the DEMOCRAT PARTY and RINO REPUBLICANS."
He went on to call her "the love child of the DNC."

[ChristinaM]

I wouldn't call this blithe and I almost put it in the science forum to see how viable it is.

Klansman and accomplice charged for building radiation gun

Two men, one of them a member of the Ku Klux Klan, were arraigned today in Albany, N.Y., on federal charges of plotting to build a mobile radiation gun intended to kill Muslims – or “medical waste,” as the plotters called their intended targets.
<snip>
The case has been under investigation by a Joint Terrorism Task Force since at least April 2012, when Crawford allegedly reached out to Jewish organizations, asking if Israel would be interested in such a weapon to kill its enemies.

[Watser?]

And then there is this: Pork-laced Bullets Designed To Send Muslims Straight ‘To Hell'

[SR71]

Do not care if it's inappropriate. The phrase makes me lol.