ok so it's not just making a 'minorities work at taco bell' joke there, it's something else, and I'm being hypersensitive?
I'm honestly trying to check my reaction here, not do some passive-aggressive bleating about it being straight-up racism. But it did twitch me, thus the question.
Because being hyperspecific and adding adjectives makes it sound more like real small-print food ingredients.
At least one entry on a list like that must be "non-adjective adjective noun", and "non-something facial hair" is funny for this kind of list - so now you just need to pick your right first adjective.
It specifically has to be "non" dash "sciencyword" to get the right kind of "real ingredient" feel.
Like "non-hydrogenated vegetable oil".
The source is SomethingAwful. I'm not suggesting that Goons are *not* capable of being casually racist and generally tone-deaf, because, uh, "smarter than 4chan" really doesn't take you all that far. I'm just saying, this doesn't strike me as "racist" so much as "a perfect fit with the rest of the list, funny for non-racist reasons, in an otherwise non-racist joke."
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Date: 2011-02-01 09:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-01 11:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-01 11:16 pm (UTC)I'm honestly trying to check my reaction here, not do some passive-aggressive bleating about it being straight-up racism. But it did twitch me, thus the question.
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Date: 2011-02-02 12:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-02 01:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-02 02:28 am (UTC)At least one entry on a list like that must be "non-adjective adjective noun", and "non-something facial hair" is funny for this kind of list - so now you just need to pick your right first adjective.
At which point, "caucasian" just *fits*.
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Date: 2011-02-02 02:37 am (UTC)"Unsanitary facial hair"
"Unwashed facial hair"
... Sorry, I hate the "race fail" stuff, but this one got to me.
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Date: 2011-02-02 02:43 am (UTC)Like "non-hydrogenated vegetable oil".
The source is SomethingAwful. I'm not suggesting that Goons are *not* capable of being casually racist and generally tone-deaf, because, uh, "smarter than 4chan" really doesn't take you all that far. I'm just saying, this doesn't strike me as "racist" so much as "a perfect fit with the rest of the list, funny for non-racist reasons, in an otherwise non-racist joke."
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Date: 2011-02-01 09:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-02 12:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-02 03:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-02 03:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
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