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Aren't crows pretty much standard for fictional scenes of disaster and death? Whenever I think of crows, I think of the opening scene to the original Diablo, which had a couple crows picking at a hanging corpse.
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Yeah, crows and ravens have been symbols of disaster for centuries. I don't even know where the racism thing comes into that.
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Samira wrote:
Yeah, crows and ravens have been symbols of disaster for centuries. I don't even know where the racism thing comes into that.
Some claim that the peace symbol is a depiction of a crows talon.
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So it's ironic?
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Like rain on your wedding day.
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Like rain on your wedding day.
I think that Alanis designed that song as a sort of meta-irony about using irony incorrectly. Like, she used irony wrong ironically, just to play a trick on rhetorical snobs everywhere.
Joke's on you guys.
Edited, Mar 28th 2012 10:21am by Eske
I think she designed it so we'd still be talking about it damn near 20 years later.
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Samira wrote:
Yeah, crows and ravens have been symbols of disaster for centuries. I don't even know where the racism thing comes into that.
It comes from people trying waaaaaaay too hard to find signs of racism in something.
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gbaji wrote:
It comes from people trying waaaaaaay too hard to find signs of racism in something.
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Red Doctor was tricked into appearing in this political ad!
Belkira wrote:
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Jophiel wrote:
Red Doctor was tricked into appearing in this political ad!
He prefers "Native American Doctor", you racist.
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Jophiel wrote:
Red Doctor was tricked into appearing in this political ad!
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Samira wrote:
Yeah, crows and ravens have been symbols of disaster for centuries. I don't even know where the racism thing comes into that.
Jim Crow laws.
It might be a bit oversensitive to accuse Santorum of being racist for using crows in an anti-Obama video, but like I said, it's probably more likely that he and/or the producers of said ad didn't even think about the racial context.
No gbaji, it's not trying to find racism in anything. If they had used a snake instead of crows it wouldn't be racist. Unless it was a black snake of course.
They could have used pretty much any other animal besides a crow (or a monkey/ape) and it wouldn't have been offensive.yeah, Crows aren't offensive either.
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PigtailsOfDoom wrote:
Samira wrote:
Yeah, crows and ravens have been symbols of disaster for centuries. I don't even know where the racism thing comes into that.
Jim Crow laws.
It might be a bit oversensitive to accuse Santorum of being racist for using crows in an anti-Obama video, but like I said, it's probably more likely that he and/or the producers of said ad didn't even think about the racial context.
No gbaji, it's not trying to find racism in anything. If they had used a snake instead of crows it wouldn't be racist. Unless it was a black snake of course.
They could have used pretty much any other animal besides a crow (or a monkey/ape) and it wouldn't have been offensive.There's also those three black birds from the Looney tunes cartoons that talked like the characters in A Gathering of Old Men. Granted, I think they were supposed to be magpies and not crows, but all those black birds look alike, amirite?
Edited, Mar 28th 2012 4:38pm by Bigdaddyjug
Totally. 
That's why I only trust the doves.
PigtailsOfDoom wrote:
Samira wrote:
Yeah, crows and ravens have been symbols of disaster for centuries. I don't even know where the racism thing comes into that.
It might be a bit oversensitive to accuse Santorum of being racist for using crows in an anti-Obama video...
Let's put that one to rest: it is.
Worry not, though. I'm sure he'll say something proper racist in the next day and a half or so.
Edited, Mar 28th 2012 7:48pm by Eske
PigtailsOfDoom wrote:
It might be a bit oversensitive to accuse Santorum of being racist for using crows in an anti-Obama video, but like I said, it's probably more likely that he and/or the producers of said ad didn't even think about the racial context.
Just a bit oversensitive?
There *isn't* a racial context. Not if all they did was show images of crows flying. Only via the most tortuous route would you see black birds, think of the name "crows" (sure they weren't ravens?), then think "that's like Jim Crow", and then conclude there's a racial context. It's pretty darn absurd.
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I'm sorry.
But are you actually going to ***** about that?
YOU are going to pester someone else for not admitting they were wrong enough?
I just needed to be sure this was real life.
But are you actually going to ***** about that?
YOU are going to pester someone else for not admitting they were wrong enough?
I just needed to be sure this was real life.
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Well... it IS absurd. Come on, people, there's enough real **** going on without making up more.
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PigtailsOfDoom wrote:
Samira wrote:
Yeah, crows and ravens have been symbols of disaster for centuries. I don't even know where the racism thing comes into that.
It might be a bit oversensitive to accuse Santorum of being racist for using crows in an anti-Obama video...
Let's put that one to rest: it is.
Worry not, though. I'm sure he'll say something proper racist in the next day and a half or so.
Edited, Mar 28th 2012 7:48pm by Eske
Okay fair enough. Ordinarily, it probably wouldn't have even occurred to me. But I've been reading "The Help," and also read a blog about how some people on Twitter are complaining that the character of Rue in Hunger Games ended up being black in the movie, and how it ruined it for them. So yeah, I've had race on the mind a lot the last few days.
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