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Nick Koan 2007-08-28 08:50 AM

That's Racist
 
So, this German MP3 player manufacturer makes this line of slim MP3 players called the i.Beat. And then they come out with a shiny black version, and call it the i.Beat Blaxx.

Oops.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/oops/trek...ion-293667.php

Looks like they are changing the name :lol:

Quote:

Dear Gizmodo, TrekStor is shocked by the way our new MP3 player's name "TrekStor i.Beat blaxx" is perceived. Of course the word "Beat" is not meant as a verb, but refers to the beats of the music you are listening to. More than 4 years ago, TrekStor introduced the i.Beat MP3 player series that today consists of more than 25 different players - all named individually. "blaxx" was chosen, because the player is designed with an elegant black piano finish. As a reaction to the bad connotation of the name, TrekStor decided to rename the product "TrekStor blaxx" - effective immediately. We sincerely apologize to everybody whom we offended by the initial name of this product and want to emphasize that TrekStor condemns violence and any form of racism.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Best regards,

Gil Szmigiel
Vice President / CTO

JonnydaJibba 2007-08-28 08:56 AM

:lol:

Kevin M 2007-08-28 09:05 AM

Is it too late for us to pitch in and get one for Cory, so he can load it with death metal? :lol:

MPREZIV 2007-08-28 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BAN SUVS (Post 104687)
Is it too late for us to pitch in and get one for Cory, so he can load it with death metal? :lol:

It's funny, cause I was thinking that would be funny as hell for me to have, what with my musical tastes :D

Bob Danger 2007-08-28 10:28 PM

Dammit where's Libila when you need him!

Tim buy one meow!!!!!!!!

ScottyS 2007-08-30 12:21 AM

<insert> laugh track </insert>

Nick Koan 2008-01-10 05:04 PM

That's Racist
 
http://www.rgj.com/blogs/mostlydogs/...-racially.html

Quote:

The Nevada Humane Society is doing a promotion surrounding the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday called "Black Is Beautiful" where black dogs and cats are offered for adoption at a reduced rate.

It seems racially insensitive and not very respectful of King's memory. Of course, I'm not black so it's not really my call. Anybody out there have any thoughts?

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tysonK 2008-01-10 05:10 PM

They will probably have mood music in the kennel also.


http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?...1:jzfrxqy5ld0e

Nick Koan 2008-01-10 05:18 PM

Maybe I'm just being racially insensitive, but I find the whole thing absolutely hilarious.

The article is also full of great gems.

Quote:

She said they set up the promotion, then realized it was over the King holiday and were indeed concerned that some might be offended by it. So, she said, they ran it by their three black staff members and all said they were fine with it.
"Oh, its cool. My black friend said its okay"

MPREZIV 2008-01-10 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick Koan (Post 112602)

"Oh, its cool. My black friend said its okay"

DooD! You totally need to use this one! I'll vouche for you! :lol:

ScottyS 2008-01-10 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MPREZIV (Post 112603)
DooD! You totally need to use this one! I'll vouche for you! :lol:


I've got that one locked and loaded, don't worry. :lol::lol::lol:

Nick Koan 2008-01-10 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MPREZIV (Post 112603)
DooD! You totally need to use this one! I'll vouche for you! :lol:

Oh I've been waiting to use that one in a conversation for like 4 years now. And when it comes, it'll be a doozy.

Dean 2008-01-10 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tysonK (Post 112601)
They will probably have mood music in the kennel also.


http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?...1:jzfrxqy5ld0e

I was thinking Black Sabbath, 3 Dog Night and Cat Stevens, but I'm old...

Kevin M 2008-01-10 06:10 PM

I'm going to go adopt a white dog and accuse the shelter of oppressing him.

Dean 2008-01-10 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BAN SUVS (Post 112610)
I'm going to go adopt a white dog and accuse the shelter of oppressing him.

You should bring Johnnie Cochran's ghost with you to lawyer them up.

P.S. What color are black people's ghosts, or are all ghosts white? If so, somebody should be suing the afterlife for discrimination.

kidatari 2008-01-10 07:24 PM

From the RJG comments:

Quote:

Originally Posted by JWH Said...
Will the black dogs yelp "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" after they walk out of the door?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anonymous said...
Will the black dogs come back for free dog food, free classes in obedience school, and free vet checkups ?

Comedy gold.

Nick Koan 2008-01-10 09:13 PM

I like the part where I got it on the main page on fark, and it turned into a discussion on how many people Al Sharpton may or may not have killed.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comm...IDLink=3320176

MPREZIV 2008-01-10 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dean (Post 112613)

P.S. What color are black people's ghosts, or are all ghosts white? If so, somebody should be suing the afterlife for discrimination.

They're black. You just can't see them. 'Cause they're black.

Kevin M 2008-01-10 09:42 PM

Cory, you should go in there and ask for a white pussy. :lol:

Kevin M 2008-01-10 09:43 PM

Bump.

MPREZIV 2008-01-10 09:46 PM

I was waiting for you to do that Kev.

MPREZIV 2008-01-10 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BAN SUVS (Post 112627)
Cory, you should go in there and ask for a white pussy. :lol:

I get plenty of those, thank you... :cool:

Nick Koan 2008-01-10 09:51 PM

Hmmm, I guess we really need a "That's Racist" perpetual thread. :lol:

Nick Koan 2008-01-10 09:54 PM

Ah, there we go. Merged!

ShawnS 2008-01-11 05:02 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...hatsRacist.gif

Nick Koan 2010-01-26 10:30 AM

All-American Basketball league announced

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...llwhite_a.html

Quote:

"Only players that are natural-born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league"
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"There’s nothing hatred about what we’re doing," he told the Augusta Chronicle. "I don’t hate anyone of color. But people of white American-born citizens [sic] are in the minority now. Here’s a league for white players to play fundamental basketball, which they like."

Lewis told the paper he defines "fundamental basketball" as different from the "street-ball" played by "people of color," and claimed recent scandals in professional basketball -- such as the gun charges dogging the Wizards' Gilbert Arenas -- have made the creation of all-white teams a necessity.

"Would you want to go to the game and worry about a player flipping you off or attacking you in the stands or grabbing their crotch?" he told the paper. "That’s the culture today, and in a free country we should have the right to move ourselves in a better direction."
No dunking, but good fundamentals.

sperry 2010-01-26 10:32 AM

I'd rather watch the lesbians of the WNBA.

Dean 2010-01-26 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sperry (Post 144395)
I'd rather watch the lesbians of the WNBA.

They prefer to be called Dykes, thank you very much. :)

ScottyS 2010-01-26 11:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dean (Post 144397)
They prefer to be called Dykes, thank you very much. :)

You are......uhhhh.......welcome?

knucklesplitter 2010-01-26 11:49 AM

Quote:

"Would you want to go to the game and worry about a player flipping you off or attacking you in the stands or grabbing their crotch?" he told the paper. "That’s the culture today, and in a free country we should have the right to move ourselves in a better direction."
Yeah, white people *never* flip me off, nor grab their crotch. Nooo, never.

Come to think of it, of all the times I've been flipped off in my life I can't remember a non-Caucasian person doing it.

Now technically natural-born US citizens of Mexican descent are Caucasians. I wonder if this league would be okay with a bunch of them signing up.

BTW, I'm a person of color. Kinda tanish pink, but it's a color.

sperry 2010-01-26 11:55 AM

I can't wait to find out the team names...


Well Bob, tonight's match-up of the Tulsa Honkeys and Atlanta Klansmen is sure to be a real nail biter! The Honkey's lead the league in outside shooting, while the Klansmen have been known to set their opponents on fire. Literally.

MPREZIV 2010-01-26 12:18 PM

:lol: I just read over this whole thread again, and there's some pure brilliance on the first page as well... good times!

"Tulsa Honkeys" is F*ing KILLING me!

Dean 2010-01-26 12:44 PM

Don't forget the Utah "Family Men", they pack the stands every ladies night...

sperry 2010-01-26 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dean (Post 144403)
Don't forget the Utah "Family Men", they pack the stands every ladies night...

I don't get it.

Dean 2010-01-26 01:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sperry (Post 144406)
I don't get it.

Does "Utah Polygamists" make it easier? :)

Nick Koan 2010-01-26 01:03 PM

He's probably referring to the Mormon Hunks calendar

http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodb...ty_missionary/

Dean 2010-01-26 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick Koan (Post 144408)
He's probably referring to the Mormon Hunks calendar

http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodb...ty_missionary/

They sold over 100 copies to their wives alone.

sperry 2010-01-26 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dean (Post 144407)
Does "Utah Polygamists" make it easier? :)

You know that "ladies nights" are generally for single ladies, right?

Also... since when are mormons stereotyped as racists?

ScottyS 2010-01-26 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sperry (Post 144414)

Also... since when are mormons stereotyped as racists?

Just the white ones are, not the Asian Mormons.


Wait, what?

Dean 2010-01-26 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sperry (Post 144414)
You know that "ladies nights" are generally for single ladies, right?

Also... since when are mormons stereotyped as racists?

No, it just means they get in or drink for less is what I associate them with.

I wonder, does bat day attract more abusers of women and children?

And how many Ethnic Mormons do you know? Not that makes them racist. Perhaps their religion just doesn't appeal to ethnicities.

sperry 2010-01-26 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dean (Post 144418)
No, it just means they get in or drink for less is what I associate them with.

I wonder, does bat day attract more abusers of women and children?

And how many Ethnic Mormons do you know? Not that makes them racist. Perhaps their religion just doesn't appeal to ethnicities.

Yeah... drinks/cover is reduced for ladies... so there are ladies at the bar... so men will come to hit on them and buy drinks. A lot of good having a bunch of married ladies at your ladies night is... you end up discounting their costs and get no men to make up the difference.

And the ethnicity of mormons is unrelated to the religion. There are tons of "ethnic" mormons in places where there are tons of "ethnic" people. The religion doesn't actually advocate any particular race, there's just that nonsense about god punishing the native americans by tuning their skin dark, but that's just the old cult-based stuff... the mormons I've known either laugh that stuff off (along w/ the polygamy stuff) or only believe in it behind closed doors and don't admit to it. So, not to say that mormonism is any less or more wanky than other religions, it's for the most part pretty color blind.

Dean 2010-01-26 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sperry (Post 144419)
Yeah... drinks/cover is reduced for ladies... so there are ladies at the bar... so men will come to hit on them and buy drinks. A lot of good having a bunch of married ladies at your ladies night is... you end up discounting their costs and get no men to make up the difference.

Ladies nights are not just at bars and groups of women of all marital statuses go to ladies nights at bars and other places. They want cheap drinks/entry. I do not think they check you ring finger at the door/turnstile.

Anyway, guess you did not find my team name funny. Oh well.

knucklesplitter 2010-01-26 02:55 PM

How about the Washington http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Wizard, as opposed to that swarthy heathen team that goes by simply the "Wizards".
...
...
Oh, and fundamentalist (non-mainstream) mormons (and other fundie pseudo-christians too) think that "Negros" are descendents of Cain and black because they are cursed and other bullshit like that:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intel...le.jsp?sid=342

Of course they also think, "You can't go to heaven and be a god unless you have more than one wife."

Also the "mainstream" was slow to come around too:
http://www.realmormonhistory.com/god&skin.htm

Kevin M 2010-01-26 03:23 PM

You forgot the Holocaust denial.

100_Percent_Juice 2010-01-26 03:34 PM

I can't believe you guys are arguing about this during white history month.

Dean 2010-01-26 05:58 PM

Probably one of the best bits on the Jay Leno show have been the "Great Black moments in white history."

AtomicLabMonkey 2010-01-27 09:29 AM

The Jay Leno show is terrible.

sperry 2010-01-27 09:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey (Post 144458)
The Jay Leno show is terrible.

Must be where Dean lifts all his "jokes". :P

ScottyS 2010-01-27 10:33 AM

Oh man, I guess you better not quit your day job Dean, the audience is starting to catcall!





Actually, did anybody get a flash of Dean up on a stage with a shot glass telling jokes? Wearing a 1970's sport coat.

Kevin M 2010-01-27 12:52 PM

No. And don't ruin that for us. :p


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