racist.

Totally racist and unfortunate. I thought you guys were cool.

*psst* this is a site full of cat pix. censored. *    sigh*

Cute, regardless of complaints. Used to have a cat that looked exactly like that one.

Sure, it’s a racist stereotype. But it’s not really a bad one, as they go…

—an Asian

“Everyone’s a little bit racist, today….”

Racism is binary, something either is or is not. Given that, if something is racist — and this is — then it is by definition not positive or acceptable. “It’s not bad” is exactly the kind of apologist language that has allowed offensive stereotypes like this to persist, and being an apologist when it’s your heritage that’s being denigrated and mocked is simply inexcusable.

Or maybe, Dreama, some people simply don’t feel the need to take offense to anything and everything that could be considered offensive. People are happier when they’re not insisting that absolutely everything they see on television or (gasp) the internet is G-rated. Is it racist? Sure. Does that give -you- the right to put someone down for NOT taking offense? No.

But I don’t expect you to understand that; you’re probably blacking out from the lack of oxygen up there on your pedestal.

Wow. That’s ugly.

I didn’t think the cat was Asian - I thought he just drank some bad lemonade.

“Inexcusable” “offensive stereotypes”.. that neither of the people here whom this stereotype is aimed at are offended by.. imagine that.

This cat pic is evil! This is just as offensive as Ling-Ling on Drawn Together looking at a bottle of Prell and exclaiming: “Oh Plerr, why must you make hair so full of shine and body and leave soul so full of shame and embarrassment?” If any of us thought this pic was cute on any level, we must now cut our heads off in shame after donating everything we own to some ultra-liberal thought-policing organiza.. I mean charity. Everyone else who viewed it but didn’t think it was cute will now have to be lobotomized as a precaution.

Perhaps because I am an Atheist living in the southern US, and I haven’t gone out on a spree of bashing peoples’ heads in for trying to convert me, (and believe me, people have tried) I’m a filthy apologist for religious intolerance and I should feel ashamed for my inexcusable tolerance for their intolerance? I mean, I suppose that is just as inexcusable (maybe more so! Yeah! Get pumped UP about it! Rage against the dying of the light and all that crap! ARR!) as Asians not being up in arms over a simple picture playing on commonly-perceived errors in pronunciation.

It used to be important to me that I was part Native American.. I used to rail at the injustices done to them on the part of “the Man”. Now I’m beginning to realize that all this “race” and culture crap is little more than an excuse for people to separate themselves off from one another and pretend to be superior about it.. and I feel a little silly about making a stink about things in the first place. The people most up in arms about “racial intolerance” seem to be the people with the most to gain from it. Or maybe a few people are just looking for more reasons to be offended.. who knows?

Thank you, Dreama. After spending the last few months trying to reconcile my growing contempt for humanity with my continued participation in it, I can say you’ve done your part to push me towards wanting to stick around to see it (the human race, that is) perish in a huge colorful fireball. Where’s a state-sized asteroid when you need one..?

http://plerr.ytmnd.com/

(bonus points if you can call me a hick or a redneck or whatever, without a hint of irony, just because I used “liberal” in a mocking tone and admitted to living in the South.. because of course you’d be doing the exact thing you’re complaining about.. but since when has that ever stopped anyone from attempting to insult someone else?)

Anyway, to the site owner(s): Thanks for the laughs.. I was really enjoying this site until I was stupid enough to start reading the comments. Between this one and the “absorption” argument a few pics back, I’ve come to the realization that the only way I’ll continue to enjoy this site is if I exercise the willpower to avoid clicking on the comment links.

Hey angry atheist-Southern-partial-native-american-but-most-likely-just-a-white-dude(Ben), if this were a picture of a black cat bugging his eyes out and sticking out his tongue with the caption, ‘I sho hope massah gives me some watahmelon!’ - not only would it not be posted here on this 99% awesome site, if it had, no one would be defending its right to be here.

Well guess what? It’s the same exact thing. If you think that the deaths of white and black people for civil rights, the imprisonment of the Japanese in American internment camps, and the mistreatment of the Chinese and Africans whose labor built this country are all trite issues people are overly sensitive about, I can only guess that you are: 1) Uneducated. Displaying a total lack of historical knowledge as it relates to contemporary culture, 2) An example of your own condemnations, ie “superior” via the notion that you ‘get it’ and those who care about race do not, or 3) Young and will probably change your mind once you live a bit.

Now what do I have to gain from pointing the racism of this picture out? Nothing according to your logic. I’m white.

Signed,
Angrier than you, agnostic, Southern, partial Native American, but really just a white dude (Jimmy).

Jeez, Ben. Who went pee-pee in YOUR Coke?

“Racism is binary, something either is or is not.”

That, Dreama and other folks, is precisely, exactly the opposite of true. It would be a lot easier to know to whom you are morally superior, if it was true. But it isn’t! solly

I found it FUCKIN’ hilarious!!!

Hey, how about we rant on for days about something that has the importance of a dead mouse in a bowl of tofu? Oh wait… that’s already been done? Ah… good then!

Seriously. People who are so uptight that they can’t laugh need a laxative and maybe a suppository. SURPRISE BUTTSECHS!!

Instead of ranting on a kitten website… how about going out and fighting REAL injustice. Or would you rather be a recliner activist? Oh the second one? Good then, I guess.

-Herr Kub

It’s a joke guys. get over it.

@Dreama- go change your f***ing name into f***ing Drama

@Krautkub- JAWOHL!

Wait, what? Jimmy, darling, how on Earth did you get from “Asian tendecy to mispronounce L and R due to the sounds being virtually the same in their native language” to “Imprisonment of the Japanese in American internment camps”?

I mean, really, everybody’s complaining about racist stereotypes here, but where’s the racism here? Who’s saying that a certain race is ultimately inferior to another? Who’s advocating discrimination based on race? Who’s insulting and badmouthing people simply for having parents of a certain descent?

Take a chill pill, dudes and dudettes.

“Hey angry atheist-Southern-partial-native-american-but-most-likely-just-a-white-dude(Ben), if this were a picture of a black cat bugging his eyes out and sticking out his tongue with the caption, ‘I sho hope massah gives me some watahmelon!’ - not only would it not be posted here on this 99% awesome site, if it had, no one would be defending its right to be here.”

Not really angry so much as fed up.. and waiting for that asteroid to come and kill the rest of you. (or for you all to kill each other over stupid crap like race and religion and nationality) Sure, I’ll die with you most likely, but hey.. the Earth will be given a fresh start at least, minus the plague of humanity. You might think to reply with something witty like “so if it’s so awful, why don’t you start by killing yourself?”.. but really, I want to stick around to see the rest of you go down in flames. If so many people out there can obsess over one dead idiot like Anna Nicole, why can’t I obsess over a few billion hopefully-soon-to-be-dead idiots like the human race?

“Well guess what? It’s the same exact thing. If you think that the deaths of white and black people for civil rights, the imprisonment of the Japanese in American internment camps, and the mistreatment of the Chinese and Africans whose labor built this country are all trite issues people are overly sensitive about, I can only guess that you are: 1) Uneducated. Displaying a total lack of historical knowledge as it relates to contemporary culture, 2) An example of your own condemnations, ie “superior” via the notion that you ‘get it’ and those who care about race do not, or 3) Young and will probably change your mind once you live a bit.”

…he says to the guy who just admitted he was an atheist.. something that would get me killed in many parts of the world (probably even some parts a little too close to home for my liking, if the local yokels thought they could get away with it) for even admitting to.. even, I’m guessing, by some of the people whose “cause” you are championing. Check out some of the articles on this site if you think atheists are unfamiliar with prejudice and discrimination: http://www.positiveatheism.org/ But hey, even though it could get me killed on sight in a decent chunk of the world, and even though people like Bush Sr. have said things like: “I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens” ( http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/ghwbush.htm ) I’m not here to complain about it. I just muddle through life, mostly keeping my head down, (or trying to, except for days like today) until such time as I can retire to some quiet and relatively uninhabited little corner of the world where I can hopefully watch the big explosion and enjoy it for a few seconds longer than the rest of you.

Yep, totally “unedumacated”.. curse those public schools of the 1970s and 80s. They were so boring, once I finished high school I decided I had had quite enough of school in general. Taught myself my own trade (computer repair) once, and I’m in the process of doing it again. (programming)

35 years is enough living for me to have changed my mind already. As I pointed out, I used to give a damn about the injustice of it all.. now I’m starting to wonder if the human race thrives off these idiotic injustices. Causing them.. suffering them.. complaining about them. Does that make me superior? No, it makes me tired of all the nonsense.

“Now what do I have to gain from pointing the racism of this picture out? Nothing according to your logic. I’m white.”

Everyone has something to gain.. even if it’s the so-called “moral high ground” for an argument on the Internet.

Signed,
Angrier than you, agnostic, Southern, partial Native American, but really just a white dude (Jimmy).”

“Angrier than me”? Is that supposed to make you.. superior..?

Oh, and while I’m thinking about it: You might be wondering why I’d make so much noise about religious beliefs in a thread about a racist picture. Well those beliefs had a big hand in coming to my decision to want to see the human race http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/2007/02/26/f-a-i-l/ fail. For some time I sat and thought, trying to find ways that I could maybe find a few people like myself (atheists, mainly) and separate ourselves from the rest of the species and go off somewhere to be left alone and do our own thing. But then I realized that that would never work. If a group of non-believers went off somewhere, I’m sure some evangelical bible-thumper-type would just try to follow us thinking we were in need of “saving”. No matter where humanity is capable of going, some part of it will always be capable of going there to screw things up. That led to thoughts of “why?”.. which led to ponderings on the apparent compulsion of humans to screw things up for other humans.. which, because I’m already tired of typing all this, is what we’ll use to bring this screwed-up post to a close.

Well, sheesh, you Americans sure make a fuss about such issues. Guess it’s kind of like we Germans do about our more recent history…

Anyways, I think this can be seen as an issue of linguistics, not necessarily of race. After all, “Prell” IS a terrible word to pronounce for most speakers of an Asian primary language (and a quite amusing case as well, I may say).

Damn

calm down will you?
It’s only a picture of a cat, and I’m sure loads of people find it funny.

Who shoved the stick up your butt, hm?

I am white, I live in New York, and the majority of my friends are non-white (so-called “minorities”), including Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, etc, etc, and we’re constantly fucking with racial stereotypes. We say things to each other that in a different context would get our asses kicked, and rightly so, but amongst us it’s OK because we know we are not racists.

This doesn’t offend me, but I won’t go so far as to say that it’s not offensive to others - I’m not Asian so I’m probably not “qualified” to make that statement. If it does offend you, well hey, sorry you feel that way, man, just try to remember that you’re looking at a website with stupid cat pics, and I would encourage you to try to have a sense of humor about it. While racism still exists on this planet, I see nothing wrong with poking fun at it. IMO.

To summarize: this shit if fucking FUNNY.

To all you saying ‘lighten up’ Once again - if it were a black cat saying something about ‘massah’ and ‘watahmelon’, no one would be arguing for it at all.

How about you all open your eyes up and see that what’s been stated is actually offensive. I realize you’d all rather write it off to ‘humor’ and ‘people taking things too seriously’ and hereby exclude yourself from actually using your heads about the issue. When you allow this sort of thing, you’re giving the concept an inch and then it will take a mile, ie you’re allowing people who don’t know any better to think this sort of thing is ok.

Pope lulz, yeah genius, it all all goes back to those big issues. Where the f*ck do you think it comes from? Doy.

Ben,

“…he says to the guy who just admitted he was an atheist.. something that would get me killed in many parts of the world (probably even some parts a little too close to home for my liking, if the local yokels thought they could get away with it) for even admitting to.. even, I’m guessing, by some of the people whose “cause” you are championing.”

Are you seriously comparing moral disposition to race? You realize that people can’t actually SEE that you’re an atheist right?

Nevertheless, after reading everything that you’ve written, I can see that these posts aren’t so much about getting to the truth of a race matter, but instead we are witnessing a therapy session via internet discourse. With your misanthropic views, your ‘woe is me, I’m a discriminated against white computer repair guy’ attitude combined with your shocking age I just have to say one thing: It’s never too late for suicide.

kthxbai.

erm, why not just photoshop the caption and avoid the entire debate?

No thanks, I’d rather stick around to see whiners like you perish in flames.

Therapy session? That would require me valuing your input.

My age is “shocking”? What, do you think the Internet is only usable by mouthy teenagers who say idiotic things like “kthxbai”? I’ve forwarded this site to several people now, none of whom are younger than 23. Shocking.. adults use the Internet!

I think we’re done here, son. Nothing you can say at this point will turn this into any sort of meaningful discussion. You’re the “angry white guy” championing the cause of people who have already said they’re not offended by what offends you. Way to impose those beliefs on others! Hooray for liberal guilt!

People that get upset over something that is a tiny bit of race based humor need to settle the hell down.

Its a funny picture, if you dont like it, then go on to the next one instead of being all WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA about it

I didn’t find this racist at all. when one drinks sour lemonade the face that is made is similar to that of the cat. the resulting “sour face” can cause one to speak a little differently. if you truly find this racist then do as zomg said to do and move on.

Ok…i’m half asian and i think that’s HILARIOUS! It’s hanging up in my cube as we speak…take a joke people…

How about a modicum of proportion in all of this?
In a world where terrorists bomb others because of perceived racial, national and religious differences, how offensive is that caption, really?
I’ve worked with Japanese people and have as much respect for them as any other race and I’d like to think that if they didn’t find it funny they’d just ignore it.
What is insulting is all this white, middle class crusading on behalf of people quite capable of holding their own.
If you’re that stirred up about injustice, go and do something that’ll count - not whine about it on a webpage full of cute cat pictures.

It is a matter of linguistics. To simplify the whole matter, the issue of L’s and R’s is language acquisition FACT. It’s just what happens when those who spoke Asian languages first in life learn/speak English later on. It is unavoidable quirk of the language. If it were a lie, if things were not pronounced in that way, it would indeed be defamation and might potentially be considered intolerant. But for christssake, get off your moral high horses and realize that certain things in life are indeed funny and not nobody gots killeded. Getting offended by racial/lifestyle stereotypes (nigger, kyke, faggot, chink, dyke and so on..) only heightens the stigma of the word/stereotype, making even more powerful in the hands of those who do hate and discriminate (especially if you the offended do not actually belong to said maligned group). I know taking things lightly might not be your saucer of milk, but there is a time and place for outrage and this one was certainly misplaced.

“No thanks, I’d rather stick around to see whiners like you perish in flames.”

Says the whiner: ‘Lookitme! I’m an atheist in the South and everyone is so much more stupid than me!’ You’re living in a state of perish.

“My age is “shocking”? What, do you think the Internet is only usable by mouthy teenagers who say idiotic things like “kthxbai”? I’ve forwarded this site to several people now, none of whom are younger than 23. Shocking.. adults use the Internet!”

I’m older than you. Welcome to l33t.

“I think we’re done here, son. Nothing you can say at this point will turn this into any sort of meaningful discussion. You’re the “angry white guy” championing the cause of people who have already said they’re not offended by what offends you. Way to impose those beliefs on others! Hooray for liberal guilt!”

Of course we’re done here ‘Dad’(?). Your shallow thoughts at 35 years of age are clearly not going to be remedied by discussing this matter with someone smarter than you. Have fun living in the South loving being bitter. If you were smart and really wanted to solve your problems in life, like me, you’d have left.

Yes, that’s right, continue to focus on me while everyone else tells you to get over it.

Can please get white redneck lolcat - I is offended mys race is not represented.
Or please with a feather headdress cus I gets the native mericans inside me tooz.
KTHXBAI

“Yes, that’s right, continue to focus on me while everyone else tells you to get over it.”

you r teh verbose iz why.

“You’re the “angry white guy” championing the cause of people who have already said they’re not offended by what offends you. Way to impose those beliefs on others! Hooray for liberal guilt!”

I’m of Japanese descent and am very offended by this image w/caption. In addition to myself, I have shown this specific image to several other Asians who also find it repulsive. I think it’s safe to say that there will be more of us out there offended by this imagery. I’m sick and tired of ppl thinking it’s OK to make fun of Asians racially & culturally and assume that we are “cool” with it.

I wish I had the luxury to just laugh this off, but in reality I know what it’s like to have people assume that just because I LOOK the way I do - or have a non-Anglo name, I’m not capaple of speaking English fluently. I’m not talking about the Nazi skinheads that shot pellets at us screaming things like, “oh, i rike lice!” but sadly, by co-workers in prominent positions, store/service clerks, police etc.. So, yeah… my first reaction is anger/frustration versus laughing at this.

It’s the idiotic steroetypes portrayed in this imagery and everyone’s attitude to go with the popular vote, that makes me have to work a little harder. Dreama is right and you probably disagree because you’re not Asian and don’t care for equal treatment of people or just never experienced racism/discrimination in an extreme situation. If you have, you probably just don’t care and have accepted the discriminating treatment to you as being deserved.

Ben, I think Jimmy was shocked that you are 35 and hold these views and not that you are 35 and on the internet. I too am atheist but to be honest, this factor has never been an issue in the way that being Asian has. My life has never been threatened because of my atheist beliefs by a complete stranger in the way that being Asian has.

OMFG. IT IS A JOKE. GTFOI.

It’s not my fault you are offended, but since you have shown signs of offense, I must thank you, for now I have even more ammo with which to mock you.

i didn’t even get that it was racist at all…i had to look at it a couple times.
still it’s not that bad…

OK LOOK. The cat in question is a Siamese kitten. This site contains captions imagining what kitties might say if they could talk. So in this case if we know this is an Asian kitten and we consider that it may be native to a country where the r vs l issue is a reality of English as a second language, we can then construe that this is in fact an accurate representation of how said Asian kittie would speak this particular sentence.
And yes the r vs l thing is real. I had to give my old boss an email alias of Froyd because that’s how his Asian contacts would spell his name (Floyd).

Oh PUHLEASE. Stop going on with your “These people went through hard times” PC bullshit. In case you haven’t noticed, LOTS of groups of people suffer discrimination on a daily basis. Blacks, Jews, Asians, Atheists, women, even whites. And I can’t stand when they bitch and moan about it, even when I am 3 of the above mentioned. I am discriminated against, maybe not daily, but it still happens. And guess what? SHIT HAPPENS.

He has a right to post whatever the hell he wants, it’s up to YOU to read it.

As the great Penn Gilette once said: NO ONE has the right NOT to be offended.

So go cry somewhere else about it, where someone actually gives a damn.

I love how in America there is only type of “white”. Don’t you maybe think it’s a bit culturally insensitive to be considering people of Italian, Irish, Spanish, Scottish, Welsh, English, French and so on as exactly the same?
Yet I see posts here automatically discounting any “white” person’s opinion because they aren’t Asian.
Would a picture of a cat with bagpipes with some poorly written stereotypical Scottish accented text be offensive to anyone? Or maybe a kittie with a bottle of whiskey passed out on a coffin with a badly rendered Irish brogue caption referencing Joyce? Judging by most of the reactions to the controversial “remonade” image, it should be.

Shut the fuck up dude.

‘Would a picture of a cat with bagpipes with some poorly written stereotypical Scottish accented text be offensive to anyone?……………… Judging by most of the reactions to the controversial “remonade” image, it should be.’

It’s a tough one.
Here in the UK we have a MOBO awards show - MOBO being “Music of Black Origin”.
There’s no way they’d ever have a MOWO………….
Why is that?
Is it only OK to praise the achievements of a minority?
Or is there something else going on here?

Politically Correct Cat Approves Of Censorhip.