Russian Students put on a Racist Bday laser show about Obama

[OutHouse]

so wrong. :thumbsdown:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mbassy-Moscow-American-leader-s-birthday.html

 

[nehalem256]

Maybe they were just comparing him to Bush?

 

[cubby1223]

Potassium is an essential nutrient for life. We'd all be better Americans if we all ate more bananas and fewer potato chips.

I don't know, some would scream "Oh my god that's racist! I'm outraged!" While I would scream "Oh my god they put no original thought into their insult!"

 

[mirageracerx]

oh good. they have a banana for scale.

 

[theeedude]

This could be actually a very useful tool for anti-government protesters in Russia. Right now, their banners are torn down by police, but if they set up a laser projector somewhere hard to reach, they can get an effect of much bigger banner for a lot longer. Especially if they can mount it on a drone, and just hop to another place when the cops show up.

 

[Genx87]

Stay classy

 

[smackababy]

I can't watch the video, but how is Obama eating a banana racist? Is it racist now to depict any person of color eating a banana? Do humans no longer consume bananas after evolving out of the primate stage? I guess I didn't get the memo... Better throw out all those bananas I got lying around.

Next up, saying black people like fried chicken is now racist. Of course some black people like it; it is delicious! Have any of you tasted fried chicken? Every race likes that shit!

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Well that was tacky.

 

[zanejohnson]

Russia is notoriously racist..... it's pretty much a country of all whites... i think like less than 70k blacks total in all of russia...

 

[dank69]

I can't watch the video, but how is Obama eating a banana racist? Is it racist now to depict any person of color eating a banana? Do humans no longer consume bananas after evolving out of the primate stage? I guess I didn't get the memo... Better throw out all those bananas I got lying around.

Next up, saying black people like fried chicken is now racist. Of course some black people like it; it is delicious! Have any of you tasted fried chicken? Every race likes that shit!

Yes, let's pretend that pairing a black person with a banana isn't widely considered racist. This concept is new to me, let's explore the logic because I have never heard this 1000 times before.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Russia is notoriously racist..... it's pretty much a country of all whites... i think like less than 70k blacks total in all of russia...

I suspect the Russians dislike of Obama has little to do with race. What it does do is provide another means to piss others off.

 

[nehalem256]

Yes, let's pretend that pairing a black person with a banana isn't widely considered racist. This concept is new to me, let's explore the logic because I have never heard this 1000 times before.

And pairing a white guy with a banana is fine?

Now treating people differently based on their race is called what again?

 

[dank69]

I suspect the Russians dislike of Obama has little to do with race. What it does do is provide another means to piss others off.

No they hate Obama for many reasons, but they don't seem to have any hangups about broadcasting their racism in response.

 

[dank69]

And pairing a white guy with a banana is fine?

Now treating people differently based on their race is called what again?

Right, because pairing a white guy with a banana is widely considered not racist because whites have never been considered sub-human to the extent that black people used to be.

 

[nehalem256]

Right, because pairing a white guy with a banana is widely considered not racist because whites have never been considered sub-human to the extent that black people used to be.

Notice the key words.

Comparing Bush to monkey is all fun and games. But compare his successor to a monkey and you are an evil racist.

Liberal hypocrisy at its finest.

And also shouldn't it be only half-racist since Obama is only half-black?

 

[OutHouse]

And pairing a white guy with a banana is fine?

Now treating people differently based on their race is called what again?

lol the bush and banana pictures always makes me chuckle.

 

[dank69]

Notice the key words.

Comparing Bush to monkey is all fun and games. But compare his successor to a monkey and you are an evil racist.

Liberal hypocrisy at its finest.

And also shouldn't it be only half-racist since Obama is only half-black?

Oh I forgot, the KKK no longer exists and Stormfront isn't a popular website. Nobody considers black people to be inferior anymore, you win.

 

[nehalem256]

Oh I forgot, the KKK no longer exists and Stormfront isn't a popular website. Nobody considers black people to be inferior anymore, you win.

They have websites dedicated to grown men who like a cartoon for little girls.

I wonder which is more popular

 

[smackababy]

lol the bush and banana pictures always makes me chuckle.

The corn one always gets me.

 

[zanejohnson]

wait wait, are there really people in this thread trying to argue this WASN'T a blatant attempt at racism?


seriously?


i think it's more like people just want to argue for the sake of arguing.. debate mode if you will... argue that the skys not blue and such.

 

[nehalem256]

wait wait, are there really people in this thread trying to argue this WASN'T a blatant attempt at racism?


seriously?


i think it's more like people just want to argue for the sake of arguing.. debate mode if you will... argue that the skys not blue and such.

Were all the Bush->Monkey comparisons racist?

 

[zanejohnson]

Were all the Bush->Monkey comparisons racist?

Bush just happens to look like a monkey.. if you dont remember, that's what all those jokes were about... he actually looks alot like a monkey, and makes alot of monkey looking expressions...

like the new picture of Michelle faces next to monkey faces.... that was originally a bush joke as well.... there was the exact same "meme" going around back then.


this however....is completely racist...

especially once you factor in that it came from RUSSIA....i'd imagine surely, your aware just how racist Russia is towards blacks in general.

from atlantablackstar.com, on the worst places to be black in the world;

Russia
Black visitors will also have to be extra careful when they venture outside of Moscow into the rest of Russia. In a chilling warning, the Russia expert of New Republic, Julie Ioffe, said, “There’s quite a bit of violence against people considered to be Black” in Russia, raising new fears about the safety of Olympic athletes, visitors and media attending the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Ioffe warned that nowhere in Russia is safe for a person of color to visit, outside of Moscow’s city center.


here is some more info on racism towards blacks in Russia... you do realize there is only between 40 and 70 thousand blacks TOTAL in Russia correct?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Russian

 

[MongGrel]

Not much to see here, really.

 

[thraashman]

<snip> reasonable argument

You realize you're using reason with a person who has not once ever shown an ability to use reason and/or intellect.

 

[smackababy]

Bush just happens to look like a monkey.. if you dont remember, that's what all those jokes were about... he actually looks alot like a monkey, and makes alot of monkey looking expressions...

like the new picture of Michelle faces next to monkey faces.... that was originally a bush joke as well.... there was the exact same "meme" going around back then.


this however....is completely racist...

especially once you factor in that it came from RUSSIA....i'd imagine surely, your aware just how racist Russia is towards blacks in general.

from atlantablackstar.com, on the worst places to be black in the world;

Russia
Black visitors will also have to be extra careful when they venture outside of Moscow into the rest of Russia. In a chilling warning, the Russia expert of New Republic, Julie Ioffe, said, &#8220;There&#8217;s quite a bit of violence against people considered to be Black&#8221; in Russia, raising new fears about the safety of Olympic athletes, visitors and media attending the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Ioffe warned that nowhere in Russia is safe for a person of color to visit, outside of Moscow&#8217;s city center.


here is some more info on racism towards blacks in Russia... you do realize there is only between 40 and 70 thousand blacks TOTAL in Russia correct?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Russian

Are you trying to suggest that Obama doesn't also contain feature that could be considered "monkey like" other than his skin color?

Basically, calling a white guy a monkey is just fine. Calling a black guy one, however, is super racist!


The real question is: why the fuck is this news? Who gives a shit what some Russian dude with a computer and a projector does? Guess what? In the time it took me to write this post, a bunch of Americans called Obama racial slurs (one in particular, I'm sure). Where are the headlines?