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Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:35 pm
by wub
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 32628.html
Some of the highlights;
The main offender is Aaryn Gries, 22, a blonde Texan model who last week, for little or no reason, flipped the mattress of the sole black female housemate, Candice Stewart, and then goaded her in an apparently mocking accent, asking “What you gon’ do, girl?”
Another white contestant, Gina Marie Zimmerman (no relation), yelled, “You want the black to come out?”
Gries warned her allies to be careful of Stewart in the dark, “because you might not see the bitch,” and dismissed Asian-American contestant Helen Kim by telling her to “go make some rice”. Among other slurs, Zimmerman recently referred to welfare payments as “n****r insurance”
Who the fuck yells "go make some rice" at an Asian person
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:36 pm
by ineffable
lol big brother
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:38 pm
by wub
I didn't even think it was still running until someone retweeted something about it the other week
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:39 pm
by particle-jim
inb4 this turns into a "who's more racist: US vs UK" thread
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:41 pm
by Sexual_Chocolate
particle-jim wrote:inb4 this turns into a "who's more racist: US vs UK" thread
but on that note, the uk bigbrother was just as racist iirc.
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:41 pm
by wub
DISCLAIMER - the fact this Big Brother is the American version is irrelevant. The UK celebrity Big Brother a few years back was fucking diabolical with the racially overtoned bullying of Shilpa Shetty. This thread is not a dig at America or Americans.
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:42 pm
by particle-jim
wub wrote:DISCLAIMER - the fact this Big Brother is the American version is irrelevant. The UK celebrity Big Brother a few years back was fucking diabolical with the racially overtoned bullying of Shilpa Shetty. This thread is not a dig at America or Americans.
I know it isn't and I know that ain't your intention but it always gets taken that way by some
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:43 pm
by Electric_Head
Big Bother is such shit TV anyway.
I turn on Big Brother Africa and they'll leave the camera on some sleeping bint for 30-45 minutes.
RIVETING STUFF!!!
I just want shower hour please.
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:49 pm
by magma
Blimey. Someone on the production team really earned their bonus when they picked a racist called Zimmerman and put her on Big Brother. SMDH Endemol.
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:51 pm
by wub
magma wrote:Blimey. Someone on the production team really earned their bonus when they picked a racist called Zimmerman and put her on Big Brother. Rub your hands together and laugh as you roll around on your massive, MASSIVE pile of money, Endemol.
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:01 pm
by garethom
wub wrote:
The main offender is Aaryn Gries, 22, a blonde Texan model who last week, for little or no reason, flipped the mattress of the sole black female housemate, Candice Stewart, and then goaded her in an apparently mocking accent, asking “What you gon’ do, girl?”
Shit, most things I say could probably be misconstrued as a "mocking accent", would have to see more of this one to see if it was actually racist.
The others aren't very nice though. Go make some rice can surely apply to most of the fokin world?! What a shit cuss. Eeediots.
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:26 pm
by dickman69
go make some rice is hilarious
who the fuck says that hahahaha
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:27 pm
by wub
rayman612 wrote:go make some rice is hilarious
who the fuck says that hahahaha
Can expand it to different cultures
"go make some curry"
"go have a plum pudding and a warm pint of bitter"
"go eat some haggis"
"go marry your paternal cousins"
etc
etc
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:31 pm
by dickman69
possibilities are endless :'0
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:32 pm
by garethom
Challenge: Find a race we cannot stereotype adequately via culinary slurs.
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:35 pm
by wub
garethom wrote:Challenge: Find a race we cannot stereotype adequately via culinary slurs.
Ethiopians.
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:37 pm
by garethom
They have no food man! Because they're too poor. Is that in itself not an adequate slur?
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:38 pm
by dickman69
slur madlibs
go (verb) a (noun)
eskimos
go eat a seal
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:38 pm
by wub
garethom wrote:They have no food man! Because they're too poor. Is that in itself not an adequate slur?
Yes, but it's not a culinary one, which was your original challenge.
Re: Casual racism on American Big Brother
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:40 pm
by garethom
I'd say it's still a culinary slur. Let's say for racism's sake that they eat sand or something.
If you told an Ethiopian dude to go and cook a SANDwich, I reckon they'd be pretty offended.