Racist street performance

delta_bravo · 11-01-2013 08:40PM #1

I was walking down Grafton Street this morning and spotted the usual activities on the street: musicians setting up and a few of those other performers. However one really got my attention. I had to do a double take when I saw this I haven't been down the street in a while so I don't know if this thing is a regular feature on Grafton street but to me it seemed quite a strange thing to have on the street. Firstly it seems overtly racist and secondly how do they expect people to give them money for doing this? It seemed quite unusual. Nobody others seemed to be paying much attention to it but thats often the case with these buskers that people ignore them. As far as I know buskers need permission to perform, I'm not sure if that applies to non music acts but it seems completely inappropriate to me.

MagicMarker · 11-01-2013 08:42PM

Context? exactly what were they doing?

El Guapo! · 11-01-2013 08:43PM

It's two guys in masks. A monkey one and an Obama one. What's racist about it? Are they calling Obama a monkey or are you just looking for a reason to be offended?

Lad Of Banter · 11-01-2013 08:43PM

Dean09 wrote: »

It's two guys in masks. A monkey one and an Obama one. What's racist about it? Are they calling Obama a monkey or are you just looking for a reason to be offended?

a gorilla, tbh

madalig12 · 11-01-2013 08:44PM

I can't see how that isn't racist....at all. Unless they don't know each other and met there by chance.

Snake Plisken · 11-01-2013 08:45PM

looks a bit racist alright think the guys behind the masks are eastern europeans, although have to say if I was an american tourist I'd be pretty uncomfortable about what they are implying with the guerilla mask beside their president!

El Guapo! · 11-01-2013 08:45PM

Lad Of Banter wrote: »

a gorilla, tbh

Some fúckin banter you are!

J Bourke · 11-01-2013 08:45PM

Do people go out of their way to be offended by stupid shit??

All I see is a gorilla sitting next to Barry O'Bama. Get over youself. :mad:

Rented Mule · 11-01-2013 08:45PM

Barrack Obama and a gorilla are walking down Grafton st .....

fullstop · 11-01-2013 08:46PM

Dean09 wrote: »

It's two guys in masks. A monkey one and an Obama one. What's racist about it? Are they calling Obama a monkey or are you just looking for a reason to be offended?

Sure everything's racist nowadays around here, didn't you get the memo?

Almaviva · 11-01-2013 08:46PM

Pretty shocking alright. You just cannot go around insult gorillas like that.

squod · 11-01-2013 08:46PM

Where did the monkey get that coat?

theT · 11-01-2013 08:47PM

delta_bravo wrote: »

I was walking down Grafton Street this morning and spotted the usual activities on the street: musicians setting up and a few of those other performers. However one really got my attention. I had to do a double take when I saw this I haven't been down the street in a while so I don't know if this thing is a regular feature on Grafton street but to me it seemed quite a strange thing to have on the street. Firstly it seems overtly racist and secondly how do they expect people to give them money for doing this? It seemed quite unusual. Nobody others seemed to be paying much attention to it but thats often the case with these buskers that people ignore them. As far as I know buskers need permission to perform, I'm not sure if that applies to non music acts but it seems completely inappropriate to me.

And in what way is this racist? Theres a good reason nobody was paying attention to it.....

Dr Turk Turkelton · 11-01-2013 08:48PM

About time someone highlighted the problems with these freaks coming over from Africa.

I mean look at the size of one of them-sure there won't be a banana left in the country if we keep letting gorillas in.

Kenny Logins · 11-01-2013 08:49PM

How exactly is that racist? I don't get it..

cml387 · 11-01-2013 08:51PM

I suppose that the fact that black footballers get taunted by morons making monkey sounds has passed all you guys by?

sfwcork · 11-01-2013 08:51PM

Is the gorilla on the left or right?

cml387 · 11-01-2013 08:52PM

sfwcork wrote: »

Is the gorilla on the left or right?

For example

Lad Of Banter · 11-01-2013 08:53PM

Actually,

It's quite a cleverly constructed political statement.

In 2007, Sen. Joe Biden said "Social Security is not the hard one to solve. Medicare — that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table."

In 2010, Obama Agreed That Medicare Is “The 800-Pound Gorilla In The Room”

http://www.gop.com/news/research/gorilla-in-the-room/

biko · 11-01-2013 08:55PM

It's two guys in masks that's sitting next to each other.
Without context it's nothing.

Is this racist? Without context we don't know.

senorwipesalot · 11-01-2013 08:55PM

Unless they started throwing sh1t at each other its not racist.

sfwcork · 11-01-2013 08:55PM

cml387 wrote: »

For example

Here fishy fishy

ted1 · 11-01-2013 08:56PM

Don't think it's racist, just think its stupid

ITS_A_BADGER · 11-01-2013 08:57PM

you can examine different situations and make your own conclusions

KyussBishop · 11-01-2013 08:57PM

If the performers are comparing Obama to a Gorilla (a common dehumanizing racist comparison, comparing black people to monkeys), then there's pretty much no way this isn't racist?

If this isn't what it's supposed to mean, then what political statement is being made?

If there's another political statement behind it that actually makes sense, then it may not be racist, but it's sure looking pretty bad...(find it hard to see how the performers wouldn't see potential, for it to be seen as racist)

cml387 · 11-01-2013 08:58PM

biko wrote: »

It's two guys in masks that's sitting next to each other.
Without context it's nothing.

Is this racist? Without context we don't know.

Good point. I wonder how it would be interpreted in Harlem, for example?

Dr Turk Turkelton · 11-01-2013 08:59PM

The op is clearly racist against people in fancy dress.

ITS_A_BADGER · 11-01-2013 09:01PM

KyussBishop wrote: »

If the performers are comparing Obama to a Gorilla (a common dehumanizing racist comparison, comparing black people to monkeys), then there's pretty much no way this isn't racist?

If this isn't want it's supposed to mean, then what political statement is being made?

If there's another political statement behind it that actually makes sense, then it may not be racist, but it's sure looking pretty bad...(find it hard to see how the performers wouldn't see potential, for it to be seen as racist)

maybe they arent making any political statement at all

J Bourke · 11-01-2013 09:01PM

KyussBishop wrote: »

If the performers are comparing Obama to a Gorilla (a common dehumanizing racist comparison, comparing black people to monkeys), then there's pretty much no way this isn't racist?

If this isn't want it's supposed to mean, then what political statement is being made?

If there's another political statement behind it that actually makes sense, then it may not be racist, but it's sure looking pretty bad...(find it hard to see how the performers wouldn't see potential, for it to be seen as racist)

YOU'RE the one making the racial connection here. All I see is 2 lads in masks.

Moghead · 11-01-2013 09:02PM

Those guys are outside brown thomas most days. There is about 4 or 5 of them doing the whole moving statue thing. Never saw them with the Obama or gorilla masks before though.

Tombi! · 11-01-2013 09:03PM

Would it not have made sense to actually ask them what they were doing instead of giving us a picture and asking us to do detective work?

Racist street performance

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