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This seems more like boring pandering then epic fail or peak derp to me. Give em another month or two.
Also, as a parent myself, I find the whole "we have pre-determined exactly what our child/grandchild will do and become from the moment of their birth" a little off-putting.
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HachfaceNot the Minister Farrakhan you're thinking ofDammit, Shepard!Registered Userregular
I find this article deeply strange -- not just in the usual courtier press way, but in the way that it feels like an almost medieval reversion. Like when Queen Elizabeth retained John Dee as her court astrologer.
edit: Although I guess Nancy Reagan did in fact retain an astrologer for real.
Or publish softcore pornography and put it in grocery checkouts! That is one aspect of Europe I will never understand/be comfortable with.
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Unless you mean they have nipples and gonads on the cover... US has that covered. Granted, not so much politicians as actors.
Probably this. If you wanted to imagine a US equivalent, it would be as if The Globe or Weekly World News published a topless model in their dirt sheet. The Sun in the UK doesn't do it anymore apparently, but it's still a thing elsewhere.
Considering the lengths US news media will go to cover some stories, I wouldn't go out on a limb and say we're better about anything. We'd be doing it too if there wasn't an ingrained sense of shame over it.
Probably this. If you wanted to imagine a US equivalent, it would be as if The Globe or Weekly World News published a topless model in their dirt sheet. The Sun in the UK doesn't do it anymore apparently, but it's still a thing elsewhere.
That's the example I had in mind. I just find it weird that a kid can grab porn off the shelf and thumb through it while his mom is putting groceries on the conveyor belt.
edit- I refuse to believe that American tabloids would "count down the days until it could feature a topless girl on her sixteenth birthday". There's non-puritanical and then there's selling child porn in the grocery store. WTF
I'd prefer us having more nudity in the aisles and less extreme violence in prime time if we are going to sway our media one way or another. I say this as someone who likes violent movies.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I'm consistently amazed at how people are so afraid of the human body and sexuality yet seemingly don't complain about hundreds of things children see everyday that I think is actually worse for them, like rampant commercialization of literally everything.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Americans have this weird puritanical aversion to sex or nudity that you just don't see in other parts of the world. It's a values thing, and it's important to note that it isn't a universal value. I have to wonder how much of our pervasive sexual dysfunction and neuroses would vanish if we could stop repressing that aspect of ourselves so much.
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Also, I coulda sworn the local (US) Sun or Weekly World News or some other rag had the exact same thing going on, only with bikini shots. Even the same (or similar) page (if it wasn't 3 it was probably 5).
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I know the Toronto Sun has a non-nude page 3 girl.
This is the most politically cognizant burn of a restaurant review I have ever seen. From the opening:
What to do about Birds & Bubbles, a new subterranean restaurant on the Lower East Side that sells, as the name indicates, fried chicken and champagne? Gotta go, I guess, but man, I didn’t want to. After the summer of Ferguson and Eric Garner and 16,000 devastating words by Ta-Nehisi Coates, race relations burn bright in my mind. My white mind, but nonetheless mine.
This is the most politically cognizant burn of a restaurant review I have ever seen. From the opening:
What to do about Birds & Bubbles, a new subterranean restaurant on the Lower East Side that sells, as the name indicates, fried chicken and champagne? Gotta go, I guess, but man, I didn’t want to. After the summer of Ferguson and Eric Garner and 16,000 devastating words by Ta-Nehisi Coates, race relations burn bright in my mind. My white mind, but nonetheless mine.
I don't...get it? Fried chicken is inherently racist now?
This is the most politically cognizant burn of a restaurant review I have ever seen. From the opening:
What to do about Birds & Bubbles, a new subterranean restaurant on the Lower East Side that sells, as the name indicates, fried chicken and champagne? Gotta go, I guess, but man, I didn’t want to. After the summer of Ferguson and Eric Garner and 16,000 devastating words by Ta-Nehisi Coates, race relations burn bright in my mind. My white mind, but nonetheless mine.
I don't...get it? Fried chicken is inherently racist now?
Fried chicken in the US is inherently racially coded, especially in the South.
Boston Herald with a racist editorial. Man Boston you guys have problems.
Boston has had endemic racism problems, stemming a good amount from how the Irish were "normalized" into being white (basically, they gained acceptance by becoming racial "enforcers".)
This is the most politically cognizant burn of a restaurant review I have ever seen. From the opening:
What to do about Birds & Bubbles, a new subterranean restaurant on the Lower East Side that sells, as the name indicates, fried chicken and champagne? Gotta go, I guess, but man, I didn’t want to. After the summer of Ferguson and Eric Garner and 16,000 devastating words by Ta-Nehisi Coates, race relations burn bright in my mind. My white mind, but nonetheless mine.
I don't...get it? Fried chicken is inherently racist now?
Fried chicken in the US is inherently racially coded, especially in the South.
Yeah I get that
but fried chicken is not inherently racist
I eat fried chicken from the supermarket all the time
This is the most politically cognizant burn of a restaurant review I have ever seen. From the opening:
What to do about Birds & Bubbles, a new subterranean restaurant on the Lower East Side that sells, as the name indicates, fried chicken and champagne? Gotta go, I guess, but man, I didn’t want to. After the summer of Ferguson and Eric Garner and 16,000 devastating words by Ta-Nehisi Coates, race relations burn bright in my mind. My white mind, but nonetheless mine.
I don't...get it? Fried chicken is inherently racist now?
Fried chicken in the US is inherently racially coded, especially in the South.
Yeah I get that
but fried chicken is not inherently racist
I eat fried chicken from the supermarket all the time
Am I racist? Is the supermarket?
No, but the supermarket isn't a fried chicken restaurant pairing the "low" fried chicken with the "high" champagne with the expectation that it will be served to rich white people who want play down for a night without leaving the confines of a haute scene.
Moreover, doing the non-traditionally fancy food as fancy is acceptable when you more or less play it straight, and its entirely possible to have a fancy fried chicken joint without being racist, so long as you're more or less presenting the food as high class.
Can fried chicken be considered high class? I mean its not exactly a complicated dish to make. I mean I don't eat fried chicken when I want to live it up. That's like a high class taco joint, ridiculous.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
This is the most politically cognizant burn of a restaurant review I have ever seen. From the opening:
What to do about Birds & Bubbles, a new subterranean restaurant on the Lower East Side that sells, as the name indicates, fried chicken and champagne? Gotta go, I guess, but man, I didn’t want to. After the summer of Ferguson and Eric Garner and 16,000 devastating words by Ta-Nehisi Coates, race relations burn bright in my mind. My white mind, but nonetheless mine.
I don't...get it? Fried chicken is inherently racist now?
Fried chicken in the US is inherently racially coded, especially in the South.
Yeah I get that
but fried chicken is not inherently racist
I eat fried chicken from the supermarket all the time
Am I racist? Is the supermarket?
No, but the supermarket isn't a fried chicken restaurant pairing the "low" fried chicken with the "high" champagne with the expectation that it will be served to rich white people who want play down for a night without leaving the confines of a haute scene.
Moreover, doing the non-traditionally fancy food as fancy is acceptable when you more or less play it straight, and its entirely possible to have a fancy fried chicken joint without being racist, so long as you're more or less presenting the food as high class.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
But generally yeah, for good or ill, people commonly equate fried chicken with the plebs and lower class food, and that can commonly be directed at the ghetto and have racist connotations.
But generally yeah, for good or ill, people commonly equate fried chicken with the plebs and lower class food, and that can commonly be directed at the ghetto and have racist connotations.
Yes, it can be. But a restaurant simply serving fried chicken is not racist.
There's also a big foodie thing with Fried Chickens and Waffles. That restaurant might be trying to push that trend.
Coding black people together with fried chicken and watermelons is inherently racist. Thinking every reference to fried chicken and watermelons has something to do with black people is also inherently racist.
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Remote control device, surely.
Wait, let me check the configuration of The Grand Cross and then I will make a prediction about whether a dumber one is coming or not.
People like boobs and they kicked the puritans out?
This seems more like boring pandering then epic fail or peak derp to me. Give em another month or two.
Also, as a parent myself, I find the whole "we have pre-determined exactly what our child/grandchild will do and become from the moment of their birth" a little off-putting.
I find this article deeply strange -- not just in the usual courtier press way, but in the way that it feels like an almost medieval reversion. Like when Queen Elizabeth retained John Dee as her court astrologer.
edit: Although I guess Nancy Reagan did in fact retain an astrologer for real.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/09/newsweek-adds-plagiarism-warning-to-fareed-zakaria-196287.html?hp=r11
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Unless you mean they have nipples and gonads on the cover... US has that covered. Granted, not so much politicians as actors.
Also some being very stupid and hawkish issues. But yeah, not good. Also seems to be fairly endemic in our elite media.
Probably this. If you wanted to imagine a US equivalent, it would be as if The Globe or Weekly World News published a topless model in their dirt sheet. The Sun in the UK doesn't do it anymore apparently, but it's still a thing elsewhere.
Considering the lengths US news media will go to cover some stories, I wouldn't go out on a limb and say we're better about anything. We'd be doing it too if there wasn't an ingrained sense of shame over it.
That's the example I had in mind. I just find it weird that a kid can grab porn off the shelf and thumb through it while his mom is putting groceries on the conveyor belt.
edit- I refuse to believe that American tabloids would "count down the days until it could feature a topless girl on her sixteenth birthday". There's non-puritanical and then there's selling child porn in the grocery store. WTF
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I don't...get it? Fried chicken is inherently racist now?
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Boston Herald with a racist editorial. Man Boston you guys have problems.
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Fried chicken in the US is inherently racially coded, especially in the South.
Boston has had endemic racism problems, stemming a good amount from how the Irish were "normalized" into being white (basically, they gained acceptance by becoming racial "enforcers".)
Yeah I get that
but fried chicken is not inherently racist
I eat fried chicken from the supermarket all the time
Am I racist? Is the supermarket?
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The Herald is basically a right wing tabloid paper.
No, but the supermarket isn't a fried chicken restaurant pairing the "low" fried chicken with the "high" champagne with the expectation that it will be served to rich white people who want play down for a night without leaving the confines of a haute scene.
Moreover, doing the non-traditionally fancy food as fancy is acceptable when you more or less play it straight, and its entirely possible to have a fancy fried chicken joint without being racist, so long as you're more or less presenting the food as high class.
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This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
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But then they got rid of the Sunshine guy (can't have women feeling 'urges', or worse yet, men) and kept the Sunshine girl.
Sigh, I miss those days.....
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Dear Satan.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_confit
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/01/ultimate-extra-crispy-double-fried-confit-buffalo-wings.html
But generally yeah, for good or ill, people commonly equate fried chicken with the plebs and lower class food, and that can commonly be directed at the ghetto and have racist connotations.
Yes, it can be. But a restaurant simply serving fried chicken is not racist.
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Coding black people together with fried chicken and watermelons is inherently racist. Thinking every reference to fried chicken and watermelons has something to do with black people is also inherently racist.
You'd think a requisite of that would be knowing how to make good fried chicken, but apparently not.