Oscar: Hey, don't sweat it, Sykes. A lot of white fish can't do it.
[Record Needle Scratch]
Mr. Enter: Okay, what the fuck?! I'd count all the reasons that this joke doesn't work, but we don't have all day. I want to keep this review shorter than the movie. They told a race joke in a movie about Technicolor fish; where no two fish have the same color. Oscar isn't black. He's blue, green and yellow. If you wanted me to see Will Smith there, you should have made this movie in New York City and made it live-action! The pufferfish is yellow, purple and brown; not white. The joke doesn't make sense on any level.
[Record Needle Scratch]
Mr. Enter: Okay, what the fuck?! I'd count all the reasons that this joke doesn't work, but we don't have all day. I want to keep this review shorter than the movie. They told a race joke in a movie about Technicolor fish; where no two fish have the same color. Oscar isn't black. He's blue, green and yellow. If you wanted me to see Will Smith there, you should have made this movie in New York City and made it live-action! The pufferfish is yellow, purple and brown; not white. The joke doesn't make sense on any level.
— The Mysterious Mr. Enter, reviewing Shark Tale
"We are Siamese if you please
We are Siamese if you don't please
Now we looking over our new domicile
If we like, we stay for maybe quite a while"
We are Siamese if you don't please
Now we looking over our new domicile
If we like, we stay for maybe quite a while"
Now the Peke, although people may say what they please,
Is no British Dog, but a Heathen Chinese.
Is no British Dog, but a Heathen Chinese.
i refuse to consume any product that has been created by, or is claimed to have been created by, the (((Keebler Elves)))
—dril mocking the triple parentheses
meme, used in its more serious instances by antisemites to denote someone as Jewish
meme, used in its more serious instances by antisemites to denote someone as Jewish"Sesame Street has introduced two new black Muppets to help explain racial difference to children. Which begs the question: are these Muppets white?"
I’m all about acknowledging influences, but man, don’t try to tell me that Vampire: The Masquerade is a good reflection of the history of vampire fiction. What VtM’s clan’s are doing is not representing various eras of vampire fiction; what VtM’s clans are doing is several different variations on the broody 1990s urban fantasy vampire, interspersed with a bunch of cringey ethnic stereotypes. The only clan you can really point to as name-checking a specific era of vampire fiction outside the late 80s/early 90s are the Nosferatu.
(I mean, you’ve got your Italian vampire clan, a Mafia death cult; your Middle Eastern vampire clan, an order of fanatical assassins; your “gypsy” vampire clan, who are really good at lying and stealing; a clan that’s not explicitly an African-American stereotype, but always seems to be depicted in illustrations as hulking, scary black dudes, and what do you know, they’re super-athletic and their clan weakness is “supernaturally prone to flip out and wreck shit”... well, get the picture?)
(I mean, you’ve got your Italian vampire clan, a Mafia death cult; your Middle Eastern vampire clan, an order of fanatical assassins; your “gypsy” vampire clan, who are really good at lying and stealing; a clan that’s not explicitly an African-American stereotype, but always seems to be depicted in illustrations as hulking, scary black dudes, and what do you know, they’re super-athletic and their clan weakness is “supernaturally prone to flip out and wreck shit”... well, get the picture?)
Howlingly obvious Sinister Arab that everybody will pretend not to notice because you’ve made them an owl-man or something
—prokopetz again, on merchant NPCs in video RPGs
In this 1989 film, a Jamaican-sounding crab teaches Ariel that life is better "Under the Sea," because underwater you don't have to get a job. […] Are we reading too much into it? Do you see anything wrong with how they've drawn "the duke of soul" at 1:57? Still too subtle? How about at 2:01 when the "blackfish" appears? […]
In this 1941 classic, Dumbo the flying elephant runs into a band of jive-talking black crows who sing, "I'd be done see'n about everything/when I see an elephant fly!" Lesson Learned: Come on, blackbirds acting in a manner stereotypically assigned to African-Americans isn't that offensive. At least they didn't just get some white guy to do his best "black voice." Oh, really? They did? And, they called the lead character "Jim Crow?" Um, hey, look over there! It's a convincing, logical end to this argument! Best (Worst?) Moment: So many too choose from. The crows are very specifically depicted as poor and uneducated. They're constantly smoking; they wear pimptastic hats; and they're experts on all things "fly," so it's really a team effort contributing to the general minstrel-show feel to the whole number. You could pretty much pause this video at any second and use it as evidence in your hate-crime lawsuit against Disney. […]
Having outgrown the crude portrayal of African-Americans as black crows, in 1967 Disney decides to portray them as monkeys. All animals in the jungle speak in proper British accents. Except, of course, for the jive-talking, gibberish-spouting monkeys. Did we mention they desperately want to become "real people"? […]
Overt racism against African-Americans was obviously intolerable by the time this Chip n' Dale series began in 1989. Overt racism against Asians, luckily, was still on the table. Lesson Learned: Even as criminals, Asian-Americans immigrants, represented here by a gang of cats, have become integral parts of American culture. Kidding! They own a laundromat, run an illegal basement gambling operation and speak in horribly mangled "Engrish". It's like a designer of World War II propaganda posters accidentally quantum leaped into the body of a late '80s cartoon writer. […] Best (Worst?) Moment: The Siamese Cats sell their karate expert Juice Lee, a Japanese fighting fish, for a suitcase full of dead fish. If you can't find something offensive in that sentence, congratulations. You're a cyborg. […]
Even in Fantasia's beautiful, magical landscape, African centaurs are hoof-polishing handmaidens for prettier, Aryan centaurs. Also, 1940 was a great year to be a centaur fetishist and/or Don Imus.
In this 1941 classic, Dumbo the flying elephant runs into a band of jive-talking black crows who sing, "I'd be done see'n about everything/when I see an elephant fly!" Lesson Learned: Come on, blackbirds acting in a manner stereotypically assigned to African-Americans isn't that offensive. At least they didn't just get some white guy to do his best "black voice." Oh, really? They did? And, they called the lead character "Jim Crow?" Um, hey, look over there! It's a convincing, logical end to this argument! Best (Worst?) Moment: So many too choose from. The crows are very specifically depicted as poor and uneducated. They're constantly smoking; they wear pimptastic hats; and they're experts on all things "fly," so it's really a team effort contributing to the general minstrel-show feel to the whole number. You could pretty much pause this video at any second and use it as evidence in your hate-crime lawsuit against Disney. […]
Having outgrown the crude portrayal of African-Americans as black crows, in 1967 Disney decides to portray them as monkeys. All animals in the jungle speak in proper British accents. Except, of course, for the jive-talking, gibberish-spouting monkeys. Did we mention they desperately want to become "real people"? […]
Overt racism against African-Americans was obviously intolerable by the time this Chip n' Dale series began in 1989. Overt racism against Asians, luckily, was still on the table. Lesson Learned: Even as criminals, Asian-Americans immigrants, represented here by a gang of cats, have become integral parts of American culture. Kidding! They own a laundromat, run an illegal basement gambling operation and speak in horribly mangled "Engrish". It's like a designer of World War II propaganda posters accidentally quantum leaped into the body of a late '80s cartoon writer. […] Best (Worst?) Moment: The Siamese Cats sell their karate expert Juice Lee, a Japanese fighting fish, for a suitcase full of dead fish. If you can't find something offensive in that sentence, congratulations. You're a cyborg. […]
Even in Fantasia's beautiful, magical landscape, African centaurs are hoof-polishing handmaidens for prettier, Aryan centaurs. Also, 1940 was a great year to be a centaur fetishist and/or Don Imus.
