encyclopedia of racist products

http://www.dqmia.com/Moolatte-Caramel.jpg

OMG I WANT THIS AMAZING RONALDINHO BOTTLE OPENER

hahaha, ILX's finest hour, that one ;_;

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9049/fatboysvb4.gif

when that fire gets stoked, flame-outs occur

-- deej, Friday, March 23, 2007 11:02 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

quoting lj

when that fire gets stoked for the madness

Remember when Ray Charles did that ad for Arby's "Horsey Sauce"? A sad moment.

http://www.edisupport.masterfoodsusa.com/images/UncleBens.jpg

not as good as Boyz II Men doing the ad for Hardee's biscuits

The main Pixar guy, I can't remember his name...Lasseter?...said when he got an Oscar for Toy Story he spraypainted an Aunt Jemima syrup bottle gold & kept it next to the Oscar to keep it company.

They don't make syrup bottles shaped like her anymore, do they?

Kris Kross doing the ad for Sprite was something...something.

Yo Kris!
What's up Kross?
What's that in your hand?
It's an S, it's a P-R-I-T-E can.

http://www.geocities.com/~gipsytoo/gollyerasers.jpg

Sprite ad was not racist, they just had a dumb rap (shokah). I found itttt on the online...got some of the lyrics wrong but it's been 14 years.

Holy shit, Golden Shred?

Racism is the real fun eraser.

the other day I picked up a copy of this edition (10pence in a local charity shop, old woman behind counter didn't say a word) and was amazed to find it was copyrighted 1978

http://www.ask.hl.no/privsalg/ten-lithe-nighers.JPG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aVG2Pzf2to

rip ronaldinho bottle opener... top 10 all time

holy shit @ christie book

i love that the total disconnect becomes clear within the first 3 posts. xpost

it's "Ten little Indians" now

what ilx2 needed was a britisher vs american race debate that also involves soccer

-- ghost rider, Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:59 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

^^^so otm it makes nabisco a pale shadow

i would just like to point out that i have been otm in this thread

in this rough ol' thread

I can't believe that Agatha Christie book. wow.

The oft discussed Australian inclusion..
http://glenyalla.typepad.com/once_upon_a_blog/images/100_2038.jpg

let us never revive the bottle opener thread

CENSORSHIP

ill revive whatever the fuck i want

ILX

let us never revive the bottle opener thread

That will mean 200 new answers on it by the time i get up in the morning

ah, the tragic Moolatte

http://www.racewire.org/archives/bad%20couch.JPG

Not a product, but a place:

http://www.theage.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1050777302366_2003/04/23/24n_stand,0.jpg

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/23/1050777305889.html

ah, the tragic Moolatte

Roffle.

http://magazinusa.com/images2/originale/cracker_jack.jpg

http://www.top-quark.com/blosxom/images/122605_gookie.jpg

http://www.learningtogive.org/support/AuctionImages/BeanersCoffeeCertificateCropped.gif

Haha, Taco Time's bean-stirring machine is called "the beaner."

nobody has ever used beaner (or considered it offensive) except for that fucktard mencia

I'm such a dope, I was like "Who is 'beaner' a slur against, people who live in BOSTON? OH WAIT" Hi, Rems.

oh come on. cracker jack? may as well put up a picture of cracker barrell cheese, or cracker barrell the restaurant, or a saltine or whatever.

nobody has ever used beaner (or considered it offensive) except for that fucktard mencia

It's even immortalized in culturally uplifting Chicanosong

http://thefuntimesguide.com/images/blogs/cheese_nips.gif

er,
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/31V6WENYYAL._AA160_.jpg

http://bp2.blogger.com/_DGNAK5k0hNw/RfcrEg23vmI/AAAAAAAAAA4/AqOkJ3uPJpU/s1600-h/WHATNOTTo+wear+in+emergency+room.jpg

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x245/chromski/WHATNOTTowearinemergencyroom.jpg

nobody has ever used beaner (or considered it offensive) except for that fucktard mencia

you're kidding, right?

http://www.permachink.com/

Ok geez o man: having grown up in southern Colorado, I can assure you times a MILLION that "beaner" gets used plenty.

Also: ^^^so otm it makes nabisco a pale shadow ==> why you gotta bring my RACE into it

may as well put up a picture of cracker barrell cheese, or cracker barrell the restaurant

"In the early 2000s and again in 2006, Cracker Barrel has faced accusations including a pattern of racial discrimination [1] in its treatment of customers. After national press attention to these accusations, the company announced explicit policies intended to address the charges, and the most prominent critics have not repeated their criticisms, but still they did end up paying $2 million for race and sexual harassment at three Illinois restaurants [2]. Stores now display a sign in their front foyer clarifying this policy, as has become the policy after a similar incident involving Denny's restaurants. In March 2006, Cracker Barrel agreed to pay $2 million to settle class allegations of sexual and racial discrimination brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.). In October of 2006, Rose Rock, the mother of popular comedian Chris Rock, threatened legal action after she claimed that she and her daughter were discriminated against at the company's Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, restaurant [3] due to not being served for over an hour. She said when she asked the manager about the delay, the manager did not try to find the cause of the delay, but told Rock that they could have a free meal, which she refused.[4]"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD8KPj-cNA4
great song

http://www.hamiltonnj.com/business/business_photos/images/CrackerBarrel.jpg

JUST ANOTHER GOLF TEE STABBED THRU THE WOODEN TRIANGULAR HEART OF AMERICA.

HEY YOU ON THE FAR LEFT. KUDOS ON GETTING YOUR FUCKING ARM INTO THE PICTURE.

http://www.spacetimefabric.com/image/jpg/1169878774102hm8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/breniecia/Lilblackbaby.jpg

ok "Flavors of Negros" has to be a shop

it's filipino food, no?

I really highly doubt that Filipinos eat black people.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/d/dd/Ph_locator_negros_occidental_sagay.png

http://praveenrajan.com/blog/uploaded_images/DarkieToothpaste-718827.jpg

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~schacht/rhe309k/pemmican.jpg

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2204/630984600f221b9c4d7qm8.jpg

http://www.thelooniverse.com/strips/kuifje/afrika01n.jpg

it's "Ten little Indians" now

-- Heave Ho, Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:52 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

Or And Then There Were None.

NOT a racist product obviously...
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimthing/nigger.jpg

http://www.pganuszko.freeuk.com/dissertation/kampf.jpg

Dick Gregory is teh awesome btw

Yeah, it's a great book, but I still felt kind of weird going to the counter with it in very, very quiet second bookshop.

secondhand bookshop

How many copies do you need to own?

Air Native, three times wider for Native American feet. Targeted towards Native Americans because of predispositions towards "diabetes" and "obesity"... first Nike targeted towards a racial demographic... racist!

http://ap.google.com/media/ALeqM5gsq-1egPuW5qX0TVRBaENfZS9ZEA?size=m

Yeah, it's a great book, but I still felt kind of weird going to the counter with it in very, very quiet second bookshop.

-- Ned Trifle II, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

lol i thought you meant mein kampf

Ha, no! I did have a copy of that once though. Pimlico bought it out over here and I was tempted by the cover. I am so shallow. Anyway when I moved and had to whittle down the collection a bit it got sent to Oxfam. I don't know what they did with it.

Talking about badly written rants against minorities...

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EGPKC36HL._AA240_.jpg

COORS LIGHT

http://www.theage.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1050777302366_2003/04/23/24n_stand,0.jpg

'Offensive' stand name to stay

wtf Australia

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/746/picture1lo0.png

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/4905/picture3pg3.png

This one could launch 1000 ILX posts:

http://blacklegacyimages.com/db2/00197/blacklegacyimages.com/_uimages/niggarepairkit.jpg

http://www.tritonlabs.com/Adam/whiteman.jpg

omg
http://blacklegacyimages.com/db2/00197/blacklegacyimages.com/_uimages/niggerboysgameshootinggame.jpg

One of them is eating watermelon just to really, you know, ram the point home...

http://watch.windsofchange.net/pics/2006/Product_361_PrSpare2_s.jpg
(That’s Muhammad, as depicted in one of the infamous “Muhammad cartoons.”)

http://www.rightwingnews.com/graphics/dopeonarope.jpg

husseinist

WTF, why do midgets need repair?!

I think I've told this story here before but when I was in the aiport in Kuala Lumpur with a couple of hours to kill, I went to the bookstore, and there prominently displayed was a copy of Henry Ford's "The International Jew" in a recently-printed Malaysian edition

punch line, also true: it was right next to a copy of "the protocols of the elders of zion"

http://www.nextechnews.com/content/binary/sony-racism.jpg

licorice nom nom:
http://users.utu.fi/mialain/homepage/images/laku.jpg

wtf Australia

sheet music i bought at the thrift store:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2221/1527983550_18a7820b69_b.jpg

That midget repair kit is ASTOUNDING!

it has everything

http://www.rugbyrelics.com/images/Books/biogs/Tommy%20David.jpg

As it is Rugby World Cup time this is in the window of the bookshop below my work

Spike Milligan RIP

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/1752/cid8010fcfce2f54fec9a82so1.jpg

That awful new twinings advert (in which Stephen Fry expresses disdain after the older white women tell him that the young black waiter has been 'filling us in'): tasteless and unfunny, or tasteless, unfunny, and racist?

Another cherished moment from childhood:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41205000/jpg/_41205544_kiaora.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41205000/jpg/_41205544_kiaora.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln8

http://www.barryreigate.com

http://www.barryreigate.com/images/fiddler.gif

http://www.barryreigate.com/s/collection.jpg

He's all kinds of interesting for sure...
http://www.barryreigate.com/e/06/c1.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/mmorein/racemelon.jpg

keep 'em separately in the fridge!

http://www.toyzine.com/auctions/Inman-2005-03pst/MarxSpicandSpanwithBox.jpg

"The Hams What Am"

???

http://www.otrcat.com/z/jemima1.jpg

http://bfcgroup.com/helluvatough/billydeesign.jpg

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i51/clyzza/52273.jpghttp://www.beercankorner.com/graphics/fouro406.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~ggghostie/PageMill_Images/soulgrabber.jpg

http://www.blacknews.com/images/blackbabies.gif

^^^t-shirt

http://aycu37.webshots.com/image/49956/2005648947305506289_rs.jpg

Hahahahaha, you sure have made a darned fool of them lib'ruls with that t-shirt now haven't ya? (xp)

http://brotherpeacemaker.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/nigger.jpg

^^^^ Saw that at a flea market 15 years ago for $10.

http://lethal.fabrika.lv/stuff/Nigger%20Make-up.jpg

THAT DRAWING

(whoa cool xp)

http://peet.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/nigger_lover.jpg

Anyone know anything about this? ^^

http://www.overtimecomedy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/kramer.jpg

http://www.uki.net/images/shoppingdb/bullseyepagesukinet96-p-l.gif

Classic Twister: Fun for Everyone (Except Your Black Friend Who Has to Sit in Back Operating the Spinner Because We Don't Want to Show Him Actually Touching and Crawling Around on the Little White Girls)

http://www.99centplusonline.com/School/24%20Crayola%20Crayons.jpg

1962

Partly in response to the civil rights movement, Crayola decides to change the name of the “flesh” crayon to “peach.” Renaming this crayon was a way of recognizing that skin comes in a variety of shades.

http://www.elsevier.nl/artimg/a20061233196764.jpg

http://www.kennislink.nl/upload/174991_962_1184683840801-negerzoen-758171.jpg

The Dutch word 'Negerzoen' translates to the English word 'Niggerkiss'.

xpost - Anyone know anything about this? ^^

Apparently it's a poster for the film "The Bad Bunch." The title was changed because no theaters would book the film with its original title.

From IMDB: "A white veteran goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his black Army buddy who died in Vietnam. He encounters hostility and trouble from all sides."

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p15/cunningrabbit/coon_sweet_potatoes_00.jpg

i passed a sign by a gravel road today that said "COON HUNT --->"

From the Lethal Weapon 2 department . . .

http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/i/b/Kaffir-Lime.jpg

http://www.mechanicalbanks.org/images/mb/uncle_remus.gif

http://imagesource.art.com/images/-/Uncle-Remus-Syrup-Tin-Sign-C11755941.jpeg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512PFgvkFHL._SL500_AA280_PIbundle-12,TopRight,0,0_AA280_SH20_.jpg

Shouldn't that be in the encyclopedia of sexy products?

http://www.lacoctelera.com/myfiles/yaestaellistoquetodolosabe/conguitos-1.jpeg

How about some delicious Mohr im Hemd..

Probably about the third most popular dessert in Austria (after Sachertorte and Applestrudel) Mohr im Hemd translates to "Negro in a Shirt"

Some more adventurous restaurants serve this with vanilla ice cream and call it "Negro in the Antarctic"

http://lh5.ggpht.com/enar.skog/Ry9ud4fS9YI/AAAAAAAAAUY/Z5wft9ud4NE/DSC02994.JPG?imgmax=512

PS. It does actually taste really good!

If you can't make it out in the picture, it is chocolate sponge cake with chocolate sauce and cream!

man I try so hard to be good but every once in a while I read "negro in the Antarctic" and lose my shit

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6485/chocoyp9.jpg

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/4985/imageuploadimagehs8.gif

http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/15/obama-waffles-creator-works-for-fox/

^^^ real product btw

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=151986789&albumID=2147126&imageID=25186680

a cover band that plays sometimes at my aunt's bar in southern illinois, The KoonSkyners

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8540/obamabucksgd0.jpg

Fedele told The Times:

"If I was racist, I would have looked at it through racist eyes," she said. "I am not racist, which is why it probably didn't register."

Club member Kristina Sandoval agreed.

"None of us are racists," she said.

The use of watermelon, ribs and fried chicken was innocent, she said.

"Everyone eats those foods, it's not a racial thing."

"Everyone eats those foods, it's not a racial thing."

"Everyone eats those foods, it's not a racial thing."

"Everyone eats those foods, it's not a racial thing."

"Everyone eats those foods, it's not a racial thing."

Holy. Shit.

But what is the significance of the Kool-Aid Man?

Prob some kind of "drink the kool-aid" thing.

no, kool-aid is used as stereotypical "black" drink sometimes. i had a roommate once whose boyfriend claimed to be really good at making kool-aid because he learned from a black person. he was terrible.

yikes. how was the kool-aid though?

no better than the kool-aid i learned to make by reading the instructions

It's not so much the imagery that I find shocking, but the fact that a goddamned GOP group put it out and then the woman responsible put on her po-face to claim that she had no IDEA it was racist. Ladies and gentlemen, THAT is the definition of gall.

cf. Dave Chappelle's bit about the black kid in the Sunny Delight commercial who gets really excited when someone mentions "purple stuff."

http://www.obamabucks.net/

Sorry, "Chaffey Community Republican Women", not GOP.

OHHH YEAH

Unfuckingbelievable

holy shit

Combined with the price for that thing, what better way to show you're stupid?

I...have to admit, the thing is hideous but it wouldn't have occurred to me that it was racist. Maybe too many bible stories about burning bushes and pillars of fire?

Suggested Donation: $81.85

Laurel, it's a burning cross for your lawn. That it's not actually on fire isn't really distance enough from, you know, crosses being burnt on black people's lawns to warn them that they're going to be killed if they don't leave town.

"like a prayer" vid to thread?

i don't think today's racists would be practical enough to even know how to assemble and light a burning cross. this is just the product for them.

Uh yeah I get that. But only because ILX pointed it out; I would not bet money on my having thought that otherwise. Or at least not right away.

hah I knew a kid in high school whose parents made one of these, only it was red lights and it was on their tv antenna. He came out to them the year after telling us about it.

Well, ILX/I got it from Professor Ann Bartow, who probably heard it from elsewhere - I mean, it took me a second, after which second I was like "are you guys serious? a burning cross on a lawn? for Christmas? you're joking, right?"

Let Your “Light” Shine For Christ This Christmas Season!

inappropriate roffles

LOL

what part of this is "burning"?

the AFA online store has been much blogged about in the last week and a half
the video they sell about the gays coming to your town to take it over was a popular topic as well

that site is hilarious

(fwiw I think this falls much more easily into the "tacky" bucket than the "racist" one)
(also everyone should be psyched when the gays take over, that's when your property values go up)

guys look at these racist frenchmen omg:
http://i33.tinypic.com/ajoz83.jpg

they don't seem to understand the concept of suggested donations

so sick of fucking justice

well stop fucking them, then

ps thanks to that site, today I have learned that women's gym Curves is run by scary God-bothers with horrible taste in music:

https://store.afa.net/pc-53-6-curves-freedom-fitness-cd-united-we-stand.aspx

Oh, I already knew that! It's one of the reasons I didn't renew my Curves membership when it lapsed. Although the music at our gym was better.

https://store.afa.net/pc-54-6-curves-freedom-fitness-cd-vol-2.aspx

Is the world ready for a handbag house version of "You Lift Me Up"?

https://store.afa.net/p-42-its-not-gay-dvd.aspx

waht

Falling into the tacky bucket:

http://kidshow.dcmemories.com/BozoWinner_230.jpg

Dan, you have a stronger stomach than I, to be browsing through that site. Make Laurel angry.

The one about the gays taking over Arkansas looks pretty fucking funny!

https://store.afa.net/pc-33-4-i-surrender-all-rebuilding-a-marriage-broken-by-pornography.aspx

hahahahaahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhahahahahaha

https://store.afa.net/pc-10000134-2-i-was-wrong-dvd.aspx

oyce Zounis' choice of abortion, not once but seven times, nearly cost her life.

I think that maybe abortion isn't the problem here.

FREE SHIPPING!!!!

i'm with Laurel on this one. site is making me feel ill.

what part of this is "burning"?

gosh you're right gabs, a lit cross on a lawn in no way recalls crosses burning on lawns, it's just a bottle opener after all

srsly would consider plunking down $82 for a 5.5 ft light-up combination cross/bottle opener

It'd be perfect for opening this:

http://www.wotif.com/webdata/image/promotion/big_bottle.jpg

John, I really do not disagree w you that this product should never have reached the market, but I think you're VASTLY overestimating the mental complexity of both the creators and their market. Even when it's punitive, racist, and evil, this religious belief/lifestyle set is IMMENSELY earnest. And not very sophisticated, nuanced, etc.

it's not just that it's a "light-up cross", the construction of it (ie lumpy lights) WOULD and DOES resemble fire. it's not purposeful but that doesn't stop it from being retarded and anyone who is saying otherwise is a disingenuous spoiled white brat OR a secret british. DEAL

xpost more directed at gabbneb and kerm than you, laurel, but i think it's pretty lame to pretend everyone purchasing this product is some kind of forrest gump.

I think it's pretty accurate to pretend everyone purchasing this product is some kind of Forrest Gump!

"Life is like a box of racist products."

Ned for win

I have no idea who's purchasing the thing, I don't know who's purchasing those propaganda videos either but they make my skin crawl. The cross strikes me as being as tacky as light-up Baby Jesuses for your lawn at Christmas, but if not for ILX I would have passed right over it! Maybe I'm just being naive/sheltered?

lolz Ned zing

I just have this strong feeling that the light-up cross is going to be hung from the pinnacle of garages as the "nativity star" in neon creche scenes for the holidays. I wouldn't put ANYTHING past those people.

I'm just trying to imagine the mindset of someone who sees a 5+ft light-up cross and thinks "IT'S PERFECT" but I am probably discounting the part where the person is earnestly browsing this site intending to make a purchase.

they're taking it back.

For instance: I'm kind of shocked there isn't one in this photo:

http://studio1seven.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MWC/_DSC5234.JPG

the cross came later.

Then there's the institutional level example -- this is about five blocks away from me (sorry about the small photo size):

http://www.markdroberts.com/images/TBN-Xmas-lights-5.jpg

http://doesthisblogmakemybuttlookbig.com/wp-content/uploads/7_flogging.jpg

xxp Yeah, I mean, who the hell would crucify a newborn?

https://store.afa.net/pc-29-4-god-cannot-be-trusted-and-five-other-lies-of-satan.aspx

lol poor cover design
also, the prize should include a new car

J0hn, are you aware that
a) in America, there are vast numbers of people who like to put large collections of small lights with a Christmas holiday theme all over their lawns and houses
and
b) in the contemporary United States, there are vast numbers of people who have very little knowledge of history, and that the knowledge of religious fundamentalists in the interior West about the pre-civil rights era South might be more diminished than most?

what are these people saying - i'm going to burn my own house down? these might be dumb questions, but they're no dumber than the notion that a cross wrapped in holiday lights rather than with the lights fused to the cross is a vague, subtextual, public advertisement of the owner's enjoyment in appropriating racist symbols. or are you suggesting that someone would buy this for intimidation purposes. what are the mixed-race neighborhoods you imagine being the target market here?

Gabbneb, the idea of you schooling J0hn on these points is the best laugh I've had all day.

that's kind of the point here, Ned

sorry I'm not an itinerant OC/midwestern/Southerner, it's such a personal failing

Now I am SUPER doubting my take on this, because gabbneb is making sense to me. I wish it were coming from someone else, I really do, but...stopped clocks, once, etc.

fyi i'm a south carolinian born n raised who went to school with the kids of grand dragons and when i saw this i didnt think kkk

gabbneb is still a dick tho

what are the mixed-race neighborhoods you imagine being the target market here?

waht

oh nvr mind, I get it, at first it parsed like "mulattos be buyin' racist crosses!"

I gotta agree with ethan here that KKK was not the first thing that sprang to mind when I saw this.

I dunno what the people who buy them will be thinking, but the first thing that struck me was the KKK angle, and I was pretty gobsmacked.

whether or not it is burning cross like enough is debatable... I don't give a shit what the intent behind it was

"pre-Civil Rights era South." Like nobody burns crosses for racial intimidation any more.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11072008/news/regionalnews/o_cross_burning_137570.htm

whether or not it is burning cross like enough is debatable... I don't give a shit what the intent behind it was

― bnw, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:16 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ this, yes, exactly.

yeah guys lets have the bottle opener argument again

fwiw I agree as well, which is why my comments have been less "how could you find this racist?" and more "I didn't find it racist, now let's laugh at the rest of the stupid shit on this site"

I think that lit lawn cross is along the same lines of accidental racism as "i.Beat Blaxx"

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/210259_3.jpg

gabbneb to anybody who finds lit crosses on lawns a little wtf after a minute's reflection: "it's cool, they didn't mean anything by it"

that lady's fake eyebrows always distract me from the racism

gosh you're right gabs, a lit cross on a lawn in no way recalls crosses burning on lawns, it's just a bottle opener after all

― J0hn D., Friday, November 21, 2008 1:35 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah guys lets have the bottle opener argument again

― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, November 21, 2008 2:19 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I may have to send that porn addiction dvd to some married friends just to mess with them ^^

someone go find the horseshoe crazy pills post, thats the applicable one here

http://www.eatliver.com/img/2007/2535.jpg
i hope we can all agree on this

sorry ethan but i don't like liver very much

wait

i definitely agree that i have to go to eatliver.com to see that image

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e38/MrKitties/1177044610004.jpg

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

it's just a desk for a kid and it happens to be black i don't see how anyone could possibly be weirded out by that name gosh seriously

oh wait, AFA is Tupelo, not Colorado Springs, isn't it? in that case, I take it all back, this is KKK '08.

but not without this retake:

"Without this cool wax platter Tallahassee I picked up for 8 dollars American at a beat basement goes by the name of 'The Cake Shop,' I never would have seen so deep into the dark, deranged heart of proletarian America."

-- Ben, 35th Floor, New York, NY

stfu

oh so if they were in colorado it'd be ok? classist.

in this day and age i cant believe cleaning products are still segregated
http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/spugbrap_8525_v3_730-800.jpg

gabb you are killing me today, lolololololol

I love these nimrods who when they get their asses beat on a thread hafta raise my day job every time, fuckin spineless wonders

cloroxxpost

i remember that joke on that fox show about the interracial couple with the racist grandma, whatever the fuck it was called

more like COLOREDO amiwite

http://www.desertspring.org/images/methodist.gif

This seems like the right time to bring up the United Methodist Church?

http://www.desertspring.org/images/methodist.gif

J0hn, don't get mad about that, join me in laughing at someone who would actually use the sentence "Without this cool wax platter [insert record here] I picked up for 8 dollars American at a beat basement goes by the name of '[insert record store here],' I never would have seen so deep into the dark, deranged heart of proletarian America."

i.beat blaxx is still kraken me up

also i have been looking for an excuse to post this for a while, so here it is:

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7515/kkkferriswheelly2.jpg

Oh man, I have a perfect example, as I have occasionally found awkward/hilarious when people ask me what I do: I make books for L1tt1e Br0wn Chi1drens.

ok wtf that ferris wheel photo immediately made me think "brett favre is having fun" what is wrong with me

this thread dedicated to pear's soap, the OG of racist products
http://www.understandingslavery.com/scaled/792c6b70.jpeg
http://www.decodog.com/inven/ba/ba29662.jpg
http://www.fiu.edu/~lichtens/images/pears_soap.jpg

oh so if they were in colorado it'd be ok? classist.

regionalist, morelike

I love these nimrods who when they get their asses beat on a thread hafta raise my day job every time, fuckin spineless wonders

that was Ned, btw

?!?

hahaha waht

gabbneb you need a job i think

gabbneb, as owner and creator of the encyclopedia of racist products i reserve the right to refuse posting to anyone. ned raggett, myself, and the rest of ilx will not tolerate these posts on our thread.

GIS 'racists having fun'

http://bp1.blogger.com/_jTQNmLGBIFU/RzE_8TbdcRI/AAAAAAAABa4/pb2KVYrBrlI/s400/kkk.gif
http://www.newscloud.com/image_files/story_32300.jpg
http://theblacksentinel.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/racists.jpg

http://www.andypryke.com/twiki/pub/Andypublic/BlogApril2005/tory_u_racists.jpg

also, j0hn, you can't run away from what you do and where anymore than i can. only one of us has chosen to be a public figure tho.

lol this is killin me

http://www.delta4.icom43.net/images/fullsize/spot_the_racist.jpg

u think u know??? U HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!!!

only one of you has chosen to be a douchebag that nobody likes

O_o

xpost or is it who even knows anymoer

that guy looks like a cross between jimmy fallon and new jersey

gabbneb you need a job i think

but i'm having so much fun

lol wtf is that ad from

you can run but you can't hide from the gabb train, j0hn

whos the racist, gabbneb or john

think you know the answer?

http://www.delta4.icom43.net/images/fullsize/spot_the_racist.jpg
somebody photoshop gabb's head into this

http://www.andypryke.com/twiki/pub/Andypublic/BlogApril2005/tory_u_racists.jpg

this is killing me

we need a caption contest for the ferris wheel one like "and it was then, with most their members stuck in the air, the group realized the town's only handyman was black."

are you thinking that we're stinking?

ARE YOU THINKING THAT WE'RE STINKING?

are you thinking that we're stinking?

― omar little, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:55 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ARE YOU THINKING THAT WE'RE STINKING?

― dat dude delmar (and what), Friday, November 21, 2008 2:55 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also, j0hn, you can't run away from what you do and where anymore than i can. only one of us has chosen to be a public figure tho.

― gabbneb, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

What band are you in, Gabbneb?

i was just going to google 'delighted racists' but after typing the d and the e 'dead niggers' appeared in the pulldown menu of my search bar

¯\(°_o)/¯

Jurassic 5, Whiney

we need a caption contest for the ferris wheel one like "and it was then, with most their members stuck in the air, the group realized the town's only handyman was black."

― bnw, Friday, November 21, 2008 2:54 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"brett favre is having fun"

xpost wtf

this thread is a traet

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3154/3048831450_5448169a0e_o.gif

looool

why did hitler hate the jews so much

i mean a little would be one thing, but this is ridiculous!

Ask.com

was Hitler Jewish?

http://beefeater.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/68/68962cc1bdd459b753689f100124bcbb8bf57eb4.gif

now that's a question to pose ask.com if i've ever heard one

http://www.ask.com/web?q=why+is+the+schef+so+racist&search=search&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir

Did you mean: why is the sched so racist

the week 13 nfl sched is the most racist thing i've ever seen in my life

this srsly feels like 2003

http://img.tripatlas.com:8080/media/images/Ask_Jeeves.png

I think what this thread really needs is a children's slide that looks like a giant cock. To wit:

incorrect

unless you're saying its a racist product because black guys have giant cocks, in which case kudos

Any black guy with a cock that looks like that should get to a doctor immediately.

Funny we don't have a thread already for things we think are racist that probably aren't racist.

Like when they sent the black girl to go sleep in the 50's room on "Big Brother".

theres a mural on mcdonalds here in atlanta with all these sock-hop types enjoying a 50s mcdonalds drive-in restaurant but theres like mixed race couples and a black girl with an asian dude all eating at the same place and it kinda pisses me off that kids today are gonna see that and think shit was all cool back in the 50s

What band are you in, Gabbneb?

Black Oak Arkansas IIRC

I thought Gabbneb was in Phish

lol where's that mcd's AW? i've never seen that shit

man, that was a big ol' bottle of beer, wasn't it!

lol where's that mcd's AW? i've never seen that shit

― ¯\(°_o)/¯ (cankles), Friday, November 21, 2008 3:33 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

howell mill road

Also, all the amphibians in Wonder Pets have minstrel voices. Tuck the Turtle has been known to bust out a Oh Mammy "You know dats right!" kind of line in the middle of a song. And you should've heard the Louisiana Bullfrog who was too fat to get down to the swamp to visit his grand-tadpoles.

guys, even I know the running gabbneb joke is k.d. lang -- tighten up your game here

Is this something I would have to see gabnebb's posts to know about?

aw laura, look how much run the other kids are having

good job getting her name right chief. not that she'll ever see it.

LOL

look how much run

I obtain much hard run

Good luck usa!

i still wouldn't trade gabbneb for u, brah.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3154/3048831450_5448169a0e_o.gif

So easy to tell when Ethan is drunk.

lol im gettin there

looool

I can't believe jagoff RNC dude who got caught putting that on his year end mix CD is trying to pass it off as "satire aimed at the LA Times"... Because to get that point across you DEFINITELY have to do Al Sharpton's voice like he's doing "Camptown Races" in 1860

Our ceramic statues are 10 inches tall with a fine gloss glaze. The blood drop logo is applied after the glazing process. The blood drop signifies our blood heritage and the sacrificial blood of Christ that redeemed us from our sins. These are hand poured one at a time and then kiln dried and glazed twice over a 32 hour period and are of excellent quality.

The statue comes with or without lighted eyes and makes a nice display item and is also great as a gift or collectors item. The Lighted Statues come with on/off switch and light bulb.

hxxp://www.ozarkcraft.net/statue.htm if you dare.

eeeeeeek

The confederate flag is "heritage not hate" oh here's our Klan statues too.

http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/210x600/orko-25505.jpg

For when you want it to be Halloween all year long!

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=9191

Pistons Rained Jizz on 3's

18 Pieces of Nutty Obama Merchandise

what, no obama bottle opener?

The soap is close enough.

I don't know if I'm lolling hardest at Barack Obacca or "Tacos."

Obama Dildo belongs on Dan Lacey thread.

All this time I had thought that the point of "soap-on-a-rope" was just to keep you from dropping the bar.

'Drunken Negro Face' cookies
http://media.myfoxny.com/images/shameracistcookie.jpg

is there a news story to go with that or just a link to shameracistcookie.jpg

botched the link there
http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=8297992&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

not a product, but questionable notwithstanding:

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2009/02/flier.jpg

o_O

sorry dont want to be the clueless white guy here but... i dont get it

black people eat greens like this.

It's not just the greens, though! There's also:

chicken
ham hocks
peanut butter
catfish

The Hawaiian Punch cake threw me for a grape Kool-Aid kind of loop there.

good intentions :(

ya. i almost want to argue this one but i dont think its worth the effort and im not sure how i feel about it.

go for it, it'd be fun to watch at the very least

Sock it to Me cake ??

i just think in the grand taxonomy of racial weirdness this aligns a lot more closely to, say, 'insensitivity' than straight-out racism--i imagine that for chinese new year theyd have the same kind of ad with, like, dumplings; or for italy day theyd do it with pasta--which strikes me as this kind of misguided "look at the culinary cultural heritage of group XXX" (esp. considering the context w/ all the facts about things black dudes have contributed to the grocery industry and the generally very positive light w/ which the ad treats black history month) and not so much "lol its negro history month lets put fried chicken on the menu"--i mean its collard greens and pork hocks, which arent exactly watermelons and grape soda, you know?

eh fried chicken is sort of o_O--lot more baggage attached to that stereotype in America than with pasta + Italians or dumplings + Chinese people.

and there's no encyclopedia of racially insensitive products thread

haha yeah, thats the #1 reason why im not interested in particular in throwing my weight behind these guys

xp

You know, couldn't they have put a jar of some good peanut butter next to GWC's face, like JIF?

guys don't forget to watch Eisbaer's video

it is impt

Is there anything more I can take away from watching it besides what I see in the preview screen cap?

certainly more than some boring-ass racist discounts

ok crut1s otm

holee shit

got as far as "yes, Jesus loves me"

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK

YEEEEAH

go further, lj, it's bananas

Excuse me i am v offended by the portrayal of white people as cuntry hicks in bad denim. Also their singing style is highly influenced by ragtime & blues which as every fool knows is black music anyway.

Oh wait here comes Jose. This is a delicious smörgåsbord of terrible ideas.

Sorry, did I spoil the surprise?

Obv the white version should be played in totally straight time on a harpsichord and danced as a pavanne.

i guess that i am good for something round here?!?

the inside of the small american indian puppet's mouth looks like a cartoon steak for some reason.

Why do the black kids look like cyanotic, ashen corpses?

and have cheaper eyes than the other puppets?!?

"EY man, did JEEsus forget about us?"
"¡No way Jose – olé!"

omg almost had a seizure at the end

Jesus DID kind of forget about Jose, who was not assigned a color that Jesus loves.

at first I thought the black kids were vampires but then the porn music kicked in

what porn have you been watching that is soundtracked by the Jackson 5

um

It's called "80s porn"

also, "70s porn"

wah pedals are aural signifiers for BJs and stuff

all this music kinda kicks ass i must say

actually, the weirdest thing about the white kids segment is how it kicks in with the first few bars of "la marseillaise" -- given the whites-are-hicks theme for that segment, when did that song become a shit-kicker signifier?!?

sounds like super furry animals

is this racist?

"i.Beat Blaxx" still cracks me up

Re the grocery store's salute to Black History Month, our high-school cafeteria used to serve sweet potatoes, fried chicken, greens, etc. for a couple of days during February, which a few of my friends and I were always o_O about but no one else seemed to bat an eye at. As Max suggested, I think it was more insensitive than anything else: white school administrators honestly trying to do something nice for the 25% of the student body that was African American.

Our kid's daycare gives us a photocopied calendar each month, and January featured this caricature of Martin Luther King that looked like he had just dropped something very heavy on his foot.

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/285/temporarytattoos.jpg

wat

good luck uk

i'd pay $$$ for any britishes to take a picture of themself rocking that tat while opening an ironic 40oz with ronaldinho

I like how that buff dude on the package is rocking a temporary unicorn tattoo.

KKK guy's all "Again with the nail through the gecko?"

Yeah I'm o_0 at the KKK whatthefuckery, but then you have the nail through the gecko which is obv not racist but just WAAHT is going on there.

ages 5 & up

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

what the fuck!

Goddamn that is a random group of stickers. The crazy bird at the bottom looks like an Aztec thing. You don't have the Klan in the UK do you?

i was struggling with ideas for my birthday presents at the end of the month, i can so ask for this.
i can see it now, out on the town pulling ladies, getting respect and compliments on my new tattoos.

You don't have the Klan in the UK do you?

Only in provincial Scottish backwaters
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v70/kill_your_idle/kkk_airdrie.jpg

I misread that as something pertaining to Furry Racist Airdales. I thought that band was from Wales.

why is everyone assuming that's a UK thing, i dont see any extraneous U's in the writing

ye raciouste tattooes

The one pound price sticker? The fact that all britishes are racist?

oh lol i didnt see the sticker

i am glad that these tattoos are Saft & Non-Toxic

omg elmo's display name quotes one of my favourite songs

It's a reach, but maybe the hooded character is one of those Spanish cofradia guys?

http://www.trucospc.info/public/santa/Cofradia%20en%20la%20Semana%20Santa.JPG

kids love cofradia tattoos

lol

lj is your favorite song an old meineke muffler commercial?

ah, ok, it must quote the advert as well (namely Foetus - Kreibabe)

Looks like this may have originated in the good ole US of A after all, albeit 6 years ago:

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/2267912/detail.html

It certainly looks like the same tattoo.

Actually Turkey rather than the US.

lol I only now noticed the cracked out expression on the dog tattoo

http://webtoid.com/daily/images/43.jpg

omg

!

Could have shopped that better in my sleep.

It's a shop, not a 'shop:

http://www.therealtaiwan.com/nigger-king/724

http://www.therealtaiwan.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/nigger-king.jpg

cf. nigger black couch. Those crazy yellow slant-eyes.

owned

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2514/imageuploadimagey.jpg

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/45/l_989f1d7957abce0d657157b60fae36d9.jpg

WTF? I guess Fat Joe established that it's OK for Puerto Ricans to say it, but at least spell it with an "a" at the end!

http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/obamafingers.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/Didyouthinkthisthroughmattel.jpg

http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/DarkieToothpaste_new.jpg

http://www.chiaobama.com/

http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/Minstrels_Large_Bag_225g.jpg

fucking hell what a self-righteous thread

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9049/fatboysvb4.gif

"Minstrels"?? Whoa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs5TSpW_Iho

From Cake Wrecks:

[img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wGr8njEWjtI/SUamwiqWaZI/AAAAAAAABT8/Wj8x2g2EFwI/s400/cycle+cheese+-+link.jpg/[img]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wGr8njEWjtI/SUamwiqWaZI/AAAAAAAABT8/Wj8x2g2EFwI/s400/cycle+cheese+-+link.jpg

:(

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3419/3703224174_8d8dce03b8.jpg?v=0

http://www.ghettobaskets.com

In these dark and dreary times these baskets provide hope for a brighter future.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NWgKLHOZqdQ/R9RPcPqvacI/AAAAAAAAAo0/5bbtUWnwraY/s1600/4.jpg

Pic doesn't work.

Works for me. It's not very exciting.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NWgKLHOZqdQ/R9RPcPqvacI/AAAAAAAAAo0/5bbtUWnwraY/s1600/4.jpg
Just surprised that every racist product hasn't been covered by this thread.

Holy shit, I don't know if Ghetto Baskets is trying to downplay the severe racism by getting white ppl to pose on the site, or the person that made it just doesn't know any black ppl. The guy and girl on the page look like williamsboard/bco posters that someone dressed up in sweatshirts. The girl on the "products" page still has a suicide girl haircut.

“We delivered our new Ghettobasket to a

high-end accounting firm today

mean to bold that

Hot Sauce
Pregnancy Test
Grape Drink
Batteries
Beef Jerky
Potted Meat
Pork Rinds
Noodles in a Cup
After Shave
Plastic Commemorative Plate
Religious Candle
Porcelain Figurine
Kung-Fu DVD
Cassette or VHS Tape
Doo Rag
Vapor Rub
Energy Drank
Soap
Outdated Calendar

fuck these people imo

(altho I kind of want the hot sauce and the grape drink)

this is essentially hate speech

yeah

btw awesome screenname

there's a thread for that :)

what's up, gangstas? i use soap.

and batteries

http://www.snopes.com/racial/graphics/cuddle.gif

http://gawker.com/5364440/iphone-gets-first-racially-offensive-app

Surprised this hasn't yet popped up - one of Australia's most popular cheeses, unsurprisingly the subject of some controversy:

http://www.globalpackagegallery.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4965&g2_serialNumber=2

Uhhhhh, no Robertson's Jam yet? Don't know where to start ...

http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/2901519132_ea874572ab_m.jpg

http://www.cg-mania.ru/files/users/01-1910-golden-shred-golliwog.jpg

was any depiction of a common kids teddy/toy racist at the time, though? i mean, obviously if there were minstrels/golliwogs depicted in an ad campaign in the late 90's (wtf Lyon's Tea) then yeah, but how old are those pics?

I believe Robertson's dropped the golly in 2001

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/14/french-vogue-blacking-up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUsTeUOeneA

Cats & Dogs 2 trailer, wait for the pigeon

don't really see how that's racist

tbh

u pretty sensitive whiney

i think katt williams voiced the pigeon?

Yeah, sounds like him. Silly voice /= racism.

And yeah, it is Katt Williams def.

Yeah dude, not feeling it.

Sorry Wieney.

sorry whiney : (

I think the casting choice of making the token "sassy black dude" character out of the pesky, dirty, unwanted, germ-carrying ratbird in a movie about cuddly-wuddly hero pets, yes is a little racist.

but if y'all are ok with it, i'll fandango my tickets for Cats & Dogs 2 now.

Yeah, sounds like him. Silly voice /= racism.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, December 21, 2009 6:28 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/7148/232980-jar_jar_binks_large.jpeg

yeah, it's less about the voice and more about why can't the black dude be a dog or a cat or an animal that people to cuddle, and not some puke-eating street pest that everyone hates

i mean, i know it's not Song Of The South or whatever, but there's no thread called "encyclopedia of institutionally racist products"

i see only institutional cuteness

pigeons are urban.

whiney I think you're bringing some personal issues about pigeons to the table here

I mean dogs lick their assholes, pigeons don't afaik

advantage: pigeons

pigeon btw

shocked this thread wasnt bumped for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM

Not feeling it on the pigeon front. His voice wasn't too wacky & didn't seem to be imitating any type in particular. Nor can I say I am familiar with any associations of pigeons and any particular race (unless you count "Palomar" in Los Bros Hernandez comics, which is near as big a stretch as the one being presented here). I would, however, like to point out that like Emperor penguins and flamingos, pigeons give 'milk' to their young.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/95108900_e5fabdfa96.jpg

There's nothing racist about speaking pidgin.

^not that the actual character is speaking pidgin, although surely different species would need to rely on some kind pidgin to communicate. Purring is not barking after all.

yeah, it's less about the voice and more about why can't the black dude be a dog or a cat or an animal that people to cuddle, and not some puke-eating street pest that everyone hates

i mean, i know it's not Song Of The South or whatever, but there's no thread called "encyclopedia of institutionally racist products"

― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, December 21, 2009 6:25 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That, plus the voice is right in line with the old trope of the ignorant, pandering Negro.

This thread is causing my AV software to flip out, warning me that it is blocking IP address 90.156.153.34.

Malware Bytes does not care for racist pigeon characters.

I am so not watching this when it comes out to determine if the pigeon is really a racist character or just a regular lactating freak of the bird world.

I really like pigeons.

O_O @ the HP face-recog snafu

wkiw desi and wendy

lol at that HP face tracking

tbf I don't think that HP face tracking thing is intentional

wkiw desi and wendy

― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:50 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think whiney is part of the cats & dogs 2 promotional street team and has just tricked us into getting hyped for this movie

Let everybody in the world know this movie exists and think it sucks is a better condition than having a few people think the movie’s great before it comes out - James Cameron Whiney G. Weingarten

The HP fuck up does beg the question: does Hp have no one of dark complexion working anywhere in the R&D, testing, and marketing process? I mean, you'd think this would have been discovered at some point. I wonder if the thing needs to be "calibrated" or something.

HP calibration settings: "normal", "black"

psyched for cats & dogs 2

What the fuck is wrong with you, Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FftZt-Dw_hQ

Harry Connick Jr. to thread

Hey if there was an Aussie offering me fried chicken I'd let him off.

That is just... I mean... Wow

"too easy"

conjudalad (22 minutes ago) 0 Reply
Get over yourself Americans. You are commenting on an ad you know NOTHING about. The world does not revolve around you and your dumb stereotypes. Get the chip of your ignorant shoulders

KingMacintosh (1 hour ago) 0 Reply
If anyone one, especially blacks think this is racist, crawl back in that shell you came out of, this is not a bit racist whatsoever...

tramtrackharry (1 hour ago) +2 Reply
it's not an american ad; it is in australia and they're at a cricket match. the black people are west indian. u dont understand the ad thats all.

i'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but, and i understand cricket, i have no idea what the joke the ad is trying to make.

If anyone one, especially blacks think this is racist,

seriously, assuming the ad is not saying the obvious thing that stands out to an american audience, wtf is it saying?

kfc (and fried chicken as a thing) probably arrived in australia in the 80s or 90s and i'd be staggered if even 5% of the population was vaguely aware of lol fried chicken racism. this is why i'd give the benefit of the doubt, assuming i could parse the rest of the advert, but i can't.

You could have inverted the black and white people and the core joke it was trying to go for would have been clearer (wiggle your way out of an uncomfortable situation by offering your enemies our food!). It's kind of massively unforgivably stupid that they didn't do this.

This is reminding me of another great KFC ad of old:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkxvxV-S4wM

(of course, Hammer did that one to himself)

unforgivably stupid is a bit harsh. the only way an australian would be aware of this is by reading ilx racism threads or watching ghostworld.

my guess is the guy is a fan of one team sitting alone in a crowd of opposing fans?

^^ yes

KFC is a global company based in the US; I'm sure someone in their organization is aware of both the Internet and how this commercial would play on an international level.

race and racism have global commonalities; if anything, US media dominance makes US race-relations MORE visible and valent on "local" racial issues.

i know australia is a magical island far away in the south seas but come on.

i guess the problem is if you want to make it at a cricket match, you've got to have fans of a different ethnicity, because teams are not so identified with particular colour shirts, etc. and that ends up being extremely crude and weird, whatever races you pick. obviously the bucket of fried chicken and the particular combination of races makes it very o_O for americans, but i really don't think they're referring to that stereotype. ignorance rather than malice, etc.

i think you're forgetting quite how backwards the people of australia are, dan.

In furthering non-racist Aussie-US product relations, I would like to alert everyone that many Target stores are selling Tim-Tams on clearance under the Peppridge Farms label:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3117/3188959774_bfe8ee8ee2.jpg

i'm no dom passantino, but i think i'm reasonably up on u.s. culture. i had no idea about the chicken thing until about 5 years ago, fwiw.

i think you can overestimate the extent to which u.s. culture has become dominant. and which bits of it have become dominant has little to with what is the most controversial or interesting in the u.s. -- just because something is genuinely shocking to you, it doesn't mean someone in australia is any more likely to be aware of it than, say, the king of queens.

they're delicious! bought some the other day at the dollar store.

no question someone at kfc hq should have caught this, btw, but whiney's initial post was "What the fuck is wrong with you, Australia", not "What the fuck is wrong with you, KFC"

i guess the problem is if you want to make it at a cricket match, you've got to have fans of a different ethnicity, because teams are not so identified with particular colour shirts, etc.

I dunno. I think if it would have been a crowd of people wearing green shirts, and one guy in a blue shirt (or whatever), the idea that he was in a crowd of people cheering for the other team probably would have been clear.

i only watched the commercial, no sound: i thought the plot was he's surrounded by rowdy non-white fans, he gives them fried chicken, and they calm down. is that not what happens?

Did I hear something about a racist product controversy that also involved cricket?! Well, hell-o!

Complicated by the fact that no one is doing anything that's ACTUALLY threateningly "rowdy" in the first part! I guess that would have been too unfriendly even for KFC/Australia. But the problem with that is that the only threatening thing about them ends up being their different race. Which is even worse.

I think that this is much less about chx wngs and more about the calm white person being distracted to annoyance by the black people and sibsequently being able to control them.

xxxxp, if you want to make it a localized ad in the southern hemisphere summer, which there are good reasons to do, it's going to be a cricket match. if the crowd are wearing team colours then it is going to look like someone who know's nothing about cricket made the advert. of course if the alternative is "be racist", you pick the slightly inauthentic costume design, but this assumes "this is racist" was something that occurred to them.

full disclosure: I know very little about cricket ;)

"for those times when you don't have tight pussy, loose shoes, or a warm place to shit, offer kfc. they love it!"

like everyone else has been saying the racial dynamics are weird even absent the fact that its fried chicken

but id expect nothing less from a paradise of tolerance and harmony like good ol AUS

This is actually pretty insensitive and bad, yeah. The issue is that he's clearly wearing an Australia shirt, and there is a big historical rivalry between the (almost entirely Afro-Caribbean) West Indies and the (almost entirely white) Australians, and to be sitting among fans of the opposition is inevitably going to lead to one being barracked, but it plays upon a pretty racially-defined stereotype, and plays upon it bluntly. If it wasn't fried chicken, this advert would be fine. But it is, so it isn't.

kkvg i don't think it's about that, i think it's an attempt to find camaraderie through the international language of stereotyping

Complicated by the fact that no one is doing anything that's ACTUALLY threateningly "rowdy" in the first part!

yeah, this is what i'm saying about not understanding the advert. i have no idea what is going on.

like everyone else has been saying the racial dynamics are weird even absent the fact that its fried chicken

― max, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 4:06 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes. I was typing a bunch of stuff, but that's basically it.

If it wasn't fried chicken, this advert would be fine.

not really buying this tbh!

If it wasn't fried chicken, this advert would be fine. But it is, so it isn't.

hahahahaha oh dear. ok, lj is here. i'll leave you in his capable hands.

You could film the ad easy by having different shirts, and when the isolated dude stands up to cheer the rest of the crowd goes silent and turns to stare menacingly. No need for the racial subtext and the joke would go over better if anything.

although i will say, the racial dynamics may look weird, but fans of opposing cricket teams are generally of a different race, but when they interact it's not necessarily about race. i'm not saying they're colour blind though. i think we can all agree that australia is a prettty racist country.

dude doesn't seem bothered by the fact that they're supporting another team but that they're dancing and having fun

West Indies fans are generally well-known for partying in the stands, having a ball, getting into the spirit. They're not being portrayed in a 'rowdy' or negative light; if anything's offensive about this portrayal it's a trivialisation of the WI fan as fun-loving plot device for chicken commercial. The threat isn't to the Aussie's health but his dignity. I *think* the Aussie is being portrayed initially as unable to get into the spirit because it's not in his genes to party like that. Hence, self-deprecation. But yeah, the rivalry is the key here, in the first part of the advert. The second part is the offensive bit.

I'm sure it was made to run during the series between the two Commonwealth sides but AAAARGH. Whatever the history of KFC in AUS, ad agencies are supposed to run due diligence on their campaigns if only so their company doesn't do the classic 'launch Chevy Nova in Mexico' move. This really should have come up in a meeting.

You could film the advert.about a different Australian sport where people wear team colors?

I think we can all agree that this ad is just racist enough to have a 500-post-long clusterfuck discussion about it

if anything's offensive about this portrayal it's a trivialisation of the WI fan as fun-loving plot device for chicken commercial

I hope you realize that this fragment, when diagrammed, isn't saying quite what I assume you meant.

xxpost

One day international shirts have colours, why not lone Aussie surrounded by Barmy Army or South African fans? The point is, as soon as you recognise that maybe this ad is "lol a bit dodgy" you ought to probably think how to reshoot it?

why not have the west indian surrounded by menacing aussie fans

The advert is especially made for the KFC Big Bash tournament, which is an Australian cricket competition that also involves quite a few West Indian players, because the West Indies aren't playing elsewhere at the moment. The West Indies recently toured in Australia. It's an advert for a situation.

TBH if I didn't post about this it'd be wrong ;-)

What's it saying? I meant 'fans' obv

...and yeah, I'm saying they shouldn't have made the ad, because it plays on racial stereotypes.

vrem (9 minutes ago)
black people like fried chicken. its just what they eat.

hahaha max that was in an earlier iteration of my longer post upthread

xp: you aren't saying it's trivializing West Indian fans, you are saying it is trivializing their portrayal as plot devices for a chicken commercial

Barmy Army? : ) Who are they?

vrem (9 minutes ago)
black people like hen fap. its just what you need to have.

hahaha max that was in an earlier iteration of my longer post upthread

seems more true-to-life to me anyway in terms of australian race relations

let's not forget that fried chicken is delicious. even when kfc makes it. i mean fried chicken is just good.

sad but true

wait, that's not sad at all, in fact it's awesome

I wd never be a fried chicken denier, that is true.

I've eaten at.KFC lately and it was not good.

be funnier if the windians gave the aussie some fried chicken and he had a huge tearful crisis of identity right there in the stands

"i hate you fucking people but this is so crispy and delicious"

KFC chicken is fine imo but the fries here in the UK are a fucking abomination unto the Lord.

naggz (11 hours ago)

Can't believe these fucking retards. The ad isn't racist. Go cry over something more important. What the fuck is racism anyway. We're supposed to be all multi-cultural and shit, but yet everyone still hates gay people? I don't see much of a difference between the two problems. Both effect alot of the worlds population, black people can't help that they were born as their race. Gay people can't help that they were born gay and like the same sex. Gtfo.

oops Dan sorry! I did mean that it was trivialising the WI fans. Into being plot devices for a fried chicken commercial. It's not trivialising the device. It's making quite a thing of it, sadly.

not a KFC fan fwiw

xxxxxp are tim tams like penguins?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y-cxdruYQc&feature=related

O_O

I guess we should applaud the progress they've made in 18 years.

Used to drive down with best friend in coldest winter to get KFC mashed poato/gravy combo, then snarf it in the car before we got back home.

American KFC does not do French fries It is much better than UKFC.

The only thing I think I detest when this shit comes up is it resulting in people saying shit like "people forget how backwards Australians are", thank you very much guys, have a nice day.

I detest the racism as well.

The ad is dumb, many people here have no idea the "stigma" of fried chicken, they wont see the west indies as "african americans", the whole thing is stupid.

I have a racist South Korean KFC youtube, freshly delivered to my inbox by ILX user "?????????"

congratulations!

the internet is amazing

unforgivably stupid is a bit harsh. the only way an australian would be aware of this is by reading ilx racism threads or watching ghostworld.

― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:47 (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fyi there was a neighbours story arc about ghostworld!

Please describe!

"xxxxxp are tim tams like penguins?"

can you dip penguins in hot cocoa, use them as a straw, then pop them in your mouth and have them melt into fattening choco goo?
show me these penguins!

http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/neil_hamburger_01.jpg

"YOU fill our zoos with kangaroos, WE fill your summer breeze with the smell of KFC!"

hi just poppin in to this thread to say that i ate at a kfc in st. lucia three years ago, it was ok

Sky, Harold's... niece?... was a crazy goth that didn't care for trends etc. and it turned out to all be based on thora birch in ghost world. everyone found out, teased her for still following a trend and so she goes through an 'ally sheedy in breakfast club' moment and becomes everything she once dispised for no apparent reason.

amazing that popcorn chicken is still around since the days of hammer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw

australia is so racist it's kinda crazy

do ppl there really call aborigines "black fellas"?

I thought we had covered this on The Cape of Good Hope's Rolling 09/10 Cricket Season thread...

...anyway, this is a great opportunity for the oppressed white people of surbuban Australia to whinge about Americans and Political Correctness and whatever.

PS: I have eaten at KFC but I used to have a Sir Viv Richards "Master Blaster" cricket bat when playing schoolboy cricket.

australia isn't any more racist than any other western country ime. "blackfella" and "whitefella" are words used mostly by indingenous australians and aren't necessarily racist at all.

the classic 'launch Chevy Nova in Mexico' move.

This is an urban legend, btw.

do ppl there really call aborigines "black fellas"?

Erm. No. Koori people call *themselves* "blackfullas", its pidgin, at least do us the courtesy of understanding some of Australia's culture the way you expect us to of yours.

There are plenty of racist terms and racism against the indigenous in this country but blackfella ain't one of them, nor is it really even a "taken back" insult. Words like "boong" and "abo" on the other hand... sigh.

Sorry I didnt see sonderberg had already also pointed that out heh.

Well, they pulled the advertisement off and as predicted...

http://www.news.com.au/world/kfc-australia-pulls-racist-ad-after-us-anger/comments-e6frfkyi-1225816969895

ps: i am not asscoiated with these people

h4yd3n of melbourne Posted at 1:30 PM Today

Stand up for youself KFC. I'm never eating you agian untill you do.

fess up h-man

I'm currently boycotting them for taking the Tower Burger off the menu again, for what it's worth.

can't believe that proud aussie company KFC bowed to imperialist american pressure like this

katoomba fried chicken

Dave of Gold Coast Posted at 1:34 PM Today

Cool Can we now tell America to ban the movie White Chicks, or perhaps Tropic Thunder too... Oh no, wait... they make money for Hollywood... (I know KFC is American, but you get my point).

not sure i get his point tbh

Mystery solved:

Alex of The real world Posted at 3:10 PM Today

I hate Harry Connick Jr. He got all high and mighty because he realised his terrible music wouldn't sell but a few jabs at another country's culture might.

Erm. No. Koori people call *themselves* "blackfullas", its pidgin

Why can't the black dude be a dog or a cat or an animal that people to cuddle, and not some puke-eating street pest that everyone hates?

fess up h-man

lol i had a 'wicked wings snack pack' yesterday at lunch, i could never boycott the dirty bird ;__;

tbhaitch

I had a Zinger Burger combo the other day so chalk me up as a evil racist Australian.

i'm chalking you up as a man who got zinged by his own lunch.

zinger burgers more of a scooby snax for zingers i'd have thought

if this has already been posted, apologies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0NU9KULHO8

O_o_O

hmmm

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.

Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.

The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is "extremely hard" to do so, Penguin said.

The recipe was for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto.

"We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don't know," head of publishing Bob Sessions is quoted as saying by the Sydney newspaper.

Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book listed salt and freshly ground black pepper, but a misprint occurred on just one page.

"When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up, but proofreading a cook-book is an extremely difficult task. I find that quite forgivable," Mr Sessions said.

If anyone complains about the "silly mistake", they will be given the new version, Penguin said.

At least this mistake won't make people's crock pots explode.

I love that dude responded with "well, doing your job correctly is hard!"

Look I'm sorry your car exploded, but building gas tanks is complicated work!

http://www.peteykins.com/sparklepony/MeatGrinder.jpg

meh i've made weird typos like that before

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8627335.stm

ahem, ned

ha i like how their reaction was "who cares? it was a typo, jeez"

are the black people locally sourced?

I like how their reaction was "We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind" yet they don't understand why anyone would be offended. Isn't being "mortified" even more extreme of a reaction than being "offended"?

Yeah, but they're apparently only mortified that it became an issue. Not that it happened.

ah, a pasta holocaust

Cookbooks really ARE redonkulously hard to copy edit because of all the abbreviations and numbers, and the copy editor has no way of knowing which are right or wrong. (The mistake itt is an obvious one, but it's not surprising that something was overlooked.) Actually it's probably a success for a cookbook if they didn't make any mistakes that make the recipes turn out wrong (apart from the ridiculous) because that also makes the AUTHOR look bad (this way only the publisher does).

Shorter publishing seasons and a more market-driven book idea also make every project a rush, means there's less time for editing and proofing of all kinds. Pretty much sucks!

Do they publish cookbook errata?