So you're a racist now Ellen?

stunmer

The word racist is getting bandied about so much these days it is losing all meaning.

Check out this tweet by The Ellen Show on Twitter. Many people were offended.

time.com wrote:

The tweet prompted immediate backlash from many users who said the image was racist for showing a white woman riding on the back of a black man.

https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/765303894159208448

http://time.com/4454779/ellen-degeneres-usain-bolt-twitter-meme/

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/16/entertainment/ellen-degeneres-usain-bolt-tweet?sr=fbCNN081616ellen-degeneres-usain-bolt-tweet0353PMStoryLink&linkId=27719100

lertsnim

Too many people with little to be bothering them.

A_Sober_Paddy

People would want to cop on to themselves

monkeysnapper

Please..........the worlds gone bananas.

.... Shyte ..... I didn't mean that to refere to monkeys ......

Oh god I've done it now ......

The_Valeyard

There are people who spend hours on the internet, browsing, looking, commenting, Just waiting for the opportunity to be offended and launch verbal diarrhoea at why they are upset.

YFlyer

Just going to go on Facebook now to call these people dopes.

El Weirdo

Originally Posted by time.com
The tweet prompted immediate backlash from many fucking morons who said the image was racist for showing a white woman riding on the back of a black man.

Fixed.

the_syco

They'd probably be the same ones complaining if he was riding her.... :pac:

Widdershins

What a load of bollecks. White woman and black man having a bit of craic, sick minded people imbue it with nasty meaning.

Didnt look at it properly, ok its obviously not real but..the meaning is clear and a harmless joke..nothing to do with his blackness

pajor

When a respectable news source like Time use tweets like this as a source of said 'offense'.. then I begin to despair.

https://twitter.com/JazzleDazzler/status/765334023262515200

This is the difference between 'PC gone mad rabble rabble' and people who just don't have anything better to do than find sh*t to get annoyed by.

Wigglepuppy

Something kinda mean-spirited about making such downright defamatory remarks about a woman (this could lead to damaging her reputation/career) whom they KNOW is not racist (if anything she has expressed her solidarity with people who feel marginalised, having been there herself) and did not intend anything racially derogatory by that image.

It is also the people pretending it's racism who are the ones focusing on colour, when the joke just refers to how fast a sprinter he is.

I don't know whether it's the case but it genuinely would not surprise me if there were more white people than black people "offended" by it.

20Cent

Journalism today.

Find a tweet.
Search through replies for anything negative or abusive.
Dust off the x caused outrage template.
Back to Pokemon go.

Billy86

You know who I reckon is one of the LEAST offended people on either side in all of this?

Usain Bolt.

Peregrine

Oh, FFS. Stop giving these eejits publicity.

mzungu

Yet another nothing story. People going well out of their way to be offended over nothing.

Letree

I hope Ellen doesn't let the whingers win by apologising.

Widdershins

Billy86 wrote: »

You know who I reckon is one of the LEAST offended people on either side in all of this?

Usain Bolt.

Exactly!

super_furry

People are now at the stage where they're looking to be offended by people who claim they're offended. Trawling through twitter for edge case, fringe lunatics who should be ignored by are instead given a platform to allow everyone to get angry at them being angry.

mfceiling

Where is the racism? It's Ellen getting a piggy back from the fastest man on the planet.

Again....Where's the racism?

Ellen is one of the coolest women alive. I know it's extremely unfashionable to find her funny, but she cracks me up! I doubt she has a malicious bone in her body.

stunmer

Letree wrote: »

I hope Ellen doesn't let the whingers win by apologising.

No apology given. Good

https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/765576291160580096

El_Duderino 09

Crazy business. It says more about the people who see offence than anything. Its a joke about the fastest sprinter in the world. If those people would would exclude a black fella from the joke because he's black, then they are racist whether they know it or not.

Peregrine

Peregrine wrote: »

Oh, FFS. Stop giving these eejits publicity.

That's the key, but people love to be outraged at the outrage!

If we didn't give this stuff attention, the attention-seekers would shut the flup up.

Billy86

stunmer wrote: »

No apology given. Good

https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/765576291160580096

Not at all a fan of hers in terms of an 'entertainer', but there are few who know how to handle themselves and thread the line as well as she does. Good on her for not 'apologising' and if it escalates, hopefully Bolt tells the people so desperate to be offended on his behalf exactly where to go.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Ellen is one of the coolest women alive. I know it's extremely unfashionable to find her funny, but she cracks me up! I doubt she has a malicious bone in her body.

She does come across as a decent sort. I think they picked the wrong target to slur here too, she's not the type to just take it and say nothing.

For Forks Sake

mfceiling wrote: »

Where is the racism? It's Ellen getting a piggy back from the fastest man on the planet.

Again....Where's the racism?

Here apparently... even for the perpetually outraged, this is one hell of a stretch to make....

777-9311 ‏@MiQL 21h21 hours ago

@TheEllenShow @usainbolt So riding on his back like a mule, a horse as some form of property is fun to you...
Ok.
19 retweets 43 likes

Wigglepuppy

And then when people pointed out there was no racism intended, someone responded that they knew there was no racism intended but it was still racist, and it doesn't have to be intended.

Letree

Bolt could really hit the outrage merchants in the teeth if he came out and said its not racist at all.

Widdershins

Letree wrote: »

Bolt could really hit the outrage merchants in the teeth if he came out and said its not racist at all.

They would say it's institutional racism or something. That he doesn't understand it himself!

razorblunt

20Cent wrote: »

Journalism today.

Find a tweet.
Search through replies for anything negative or abusive.
Dust off the x caused outrage template.
Back to Pokemon go.

So, how long have you been the owner of Joe.ie then?

wakka12

would they ever pish off is anything not racist now jesus christ

Billy86

Wigglepuppy wrote: »

And then when people pointed out there was no racism intended, someone responded that they knew there was no racism intended but it was still racist, and it doesn't have to be intended.

And that's where this becomes a farce. You can completely be racist without intending to be, it happens all the time... it's usually most easily spotted in generational shifts, etc. But this isn't at all that.

Even if Usain Bolt were very vocal about black oppression and such, I am guessing they would have decided against the image - and I could see why. But Usain Bolt is about one of the most smiliest, happiest, easy going athletes in the entire world (and he's been in the spotlight for 8 years, so it does seem very much genuine by now). I don't follow sprinting at all, but don't recall his skin colour ever really even coming up, it's not as if she photoshopped herself onto Jesse Owens or anything.

Just remarkably stupid carry on.

mzungu

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Here apparently... even for the perpetually outraged, this is one hell of a stretch to make....

There is no stretch that can't be made by the perpetually outraged.

Widdershins

These types of accusations make the term Racism meaningless.

razorblunt

Jesus wept, some folk have nothing better to do.
I also made the mistake of reading through the profiles of some of those that were complaining about it.

They'd make you despair for humanity at this rate.

tritium

Ah now here, get away its clearly not racist...



Oh, hang on, woman using and effectively objectifying a man as a beast of burden.....

SEXISM!!!!

You monster Ellen!!!

Why, why, why......

(Thank God hes not white or it would loose its outrage power)

Grumble, grumble, down with this sort of thing

DEFTLEFTHAND

Look at the profiles of the people whipping up the outrage against her.

Bunch of race baiters and agitators. She shouldn't even acknowledge them.

BorneTobyWilde

There are so many people who say and do racist things that are not racist .

DrumSteve

I don't understand the outrage.

I've seen multiple instructional videos with black men on white women and I don't hear any outrage about that.

BorneTobyWilde

“If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?”

Kelly Osbourne
Second she said it she realized .

Not racist either .

Outlaw Pete

Wait, is she is trying to suggest that white people could never travel that fast by foot unless they jumped on a black person??

How fcuking racist can you get.

#WhiteAthletesMatter

Wigglepuppy

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

“If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?”

Snort

lawlolawl

Ellen is a prominent lesbian so she can't possibly be racist.

MilesMorales1

I tend to think of myself on the 'Liberal SJW' spectrum, but I'm struggling to see the racism there, more just people looking for things to complain about.

Son Of A Vidic

I think Ellen really should have had a suitable response to all this nonsense.

B.A._Baracus

I am offended that you are offended that other people are offended.

Hi my name is John and I am your 21st century man.

Widdershins

I'm not offended. I think it's ridiculous.

Arghus

The_Valeyard wrote: »

There are people who spend hours on the internet, browsing, looking, commenting, Just waiting for the opportunity to be offended and launch verbal diarrhoea at why they are upset.

But wait, isn't that what boards is all about too? The discourse of choice around here is being offended about people being offended.

Sparko

Letree wrote: »

Bolt could really hit the outrage merchants in the teeth if he came out and said its not racist at all.

He retweeted it so I'm guessing he's OK with it!

Smondie

He's running in a race...that makes it racist

Capt'n Midnight

We could bring back duelling.

There'd be a lot less offended people.