Comic Books
Mala: It causes him physical pain to part with a single nickel!
Art: Uh-huh. I used to think the war made him that way...
Mala: Fah! I went through the camps... All our friends went through the camps. Nobody is like him!
Art: Mm... It's something that worries me about the book I'm doing about him... In some ways he's just like the racist caricature of the miserly old Jew.
Mala: Hah! You can say that again!
Art: I mean, I'm just trying to portray my father accurately!...
Art: Uh-huh. I used to think the war made him that way...
Mala: Fah! I went through the camps... All our friends went through the camps. Nobody is like him!
Art: Mm... It's something that worries me about the book I'm doing about him... In some ways he's just like the racist caricature of the miserly old Jew.
Mala: Hah! You can say that again!
Art: I mean, I'm just trying to portray my father accurately!...
— Maus on Vladek Spiegelman.
Live-Action TV
I really need to apologize to you about Ronnie. He makes us all look bad. He's just not who we are anymore. I mean, we pay taxes, we're good neighbors. Old Ronnie, he just... he can't quite seem to grasp the concept of... low profile. But though he may be a moron, he is one of our own.
— Sheriff Hartwell, The X-Files, "Bad Blood". He's talking about a vampire going around killing people like a horror movie villain.
Monica: Are you going to get a handyman to install this stuff?
Rachel: No, I was just gonna do it myself.
Joey: You're gonna do it?
Rachel: Yeah, why? You don't think a woman can do this?
Joey: Women can. You can't.
Rachel: Monica, will you please tell Joey that he is a pig?
Monica: (to Joey) You're a pig. (to Rachel) And you can't do this.
Rachel: No, I was just gonna do it myself.
Joey: You're gonna do it?
Rachel: Yeah, why? You don't think a woman can do this?
Joey: Women can. You can't.
Rachel: Monica, will you please tell Joey that he is a pig?
Monica: (to Joey) You're a pig. (to Rachel) And you can't do this.
— Friends
Stand-Up Comedy
Hey, I love Flavor. Lovin' him for 20 years. I love the Flavor of Love show; I think it's quite entertaining. But Flavor Flav must be killed. In order for black people to truly reach the promised land, Flavor Flav has to be shot. These are important times! We got a black man runnin' for President! We don't need a nigga runnin' around with a fuckin' clock around his neck and a Viking hat on his head! 'Not this year, Flav, PUT A SUIT ON!'
— Chris Rock, Kill the Messenger
Everything white people don't like about black people, black people really don't like about black people.
— Chris Rock, Bring the Pain
Video Games
Oh dear, who authorized this? A giant horned skull? Really? I'm sorry, I thought this was 2008.
— Satan, Sam & Max: Freelance Police, "What's New, Beelzebub?"
Web Animation
Here's me living for the day the mainstream media understands that video games aren't just mindless violence for twelve-year-old future Unabombers — and Mortal Kombat isn't helping my case. It's like a sitcom moment wherein Character X defends the intelligence of Character Y, while in the background Character Y is busy snorting Drano off the back of an enraged lioness.
Web Original
Could you possibly make us sound any more ludicrously barbaric? Follow the rules we apply differently to you than we do ourselves - indeed differently from what we even say they are - and we'll only treat you like shit instead of murdering you on sight. Unless you look us in the eye and we need to make a point. Or we feel disrespected by your grovelling. Or you try to reason with us using what we say are the rules, that right there's where you earn a genocide. Or really, if we just feel like it but you know best not give us excuses.
And this is the example of "civilized" you say gives us the right to dictate terms? Very much do as I say not as I do, except the do as I say part is disingenuous as well. And if we ever see what we really look like coming from anyone else real or imagined - the glorification of violence and criminality, fearmongering about population replacement in countries claimed by colonial occupation, the very pointed message that to be white is to be at constant war with everyone else who must be ground under the heel and that there are no alliances and nobody to look out for your future outside your own race - we fly into a full blown panic.
From a white person to a white supremacist: You give me nothing to be proud of, only shame and a reason to be afraid. You build nothing, protect nothing, love nothing, you only lay claim to what others have and declare yourself fit to decide if they deserve it. You will have nothing of mine except my contempt. The only thing you earned and deserve.
—Passerby responding to a white supremacist
, Fundies Say the Darndest Things
, Fundies Say the Darndest ThingsThe moment /r/antiwork died was tailor-made for infamy. Head moderator Doreen Ford went on with Fox host Jesse Watters for an interview that would demonstrate every stereotype about the group and then some: a self-identified autistic nonbinary dog walker with disheveled hair in a messy room, swiveling back and forth in her chair and looking away from the camera as she explained to a bemused Watters why laziness is a virtue. When Watters took pity on her and pitched a softball about future plans, she opined in a monotone that she might want to teach philosophy one day. It was an unmitigated disaster that set off a chain of events that would lead to the amused attention of the internet writ large, the formation of a splinter group closing in on 500,000 users, and the unceremonious banishment of Doreen and every other moderator in her orbit from the space as it worked desperately to restore a semblance of dignity.
It’s hard to overstate the fury directed towards Doreen immediately following the interview. A petition to shut the whole sub down sprang to the top almost immediately, followed by furious claims that sorry wouldn’t cut it and waves of direct messages urging her to step away if she had any self-respect left. How dare she, people asked, think she could represent the sub? What gave her the right to speak for them in front of millions? Didn’t she know they were a Movement, a growing force set on transforming the landscape of modern work? She had outlived her usefulness, and the user base, in no uncertain terms, told her to move along and quit embarrassing them.
It’s hard to overstate the fury directed towards Doreen immediately following the interview. A petition to shut the whole sub down sprang to the top almost immediately, followed by furious claims that sorry wouldn’t cut it and waves of direct messages urging her to step away if she had any self-respect left. How dare she, people asked, think she could represent the sub? What gave her the right to speak for them in front of millions? Didn’t she know they were a Movement, a growing force set on transforming the landscape of modern work? She had outlived her usefulness, and the user base, in no uncertain terms, told her to move along and quit embarrassing them.
Trace Underwood, "/r/antiwork: A Tragedy of Sanewashing and Social Gentrification"
Web Video
The Dom: This is gonna sound like the weirdest complaint in the world, especially coming from me, but...HOLY damn, this book is JUST. TOO. BRITISH!
(cut to skit)
Narrator: Are you sure you won't take some more tea, darling? Frith really has outdone himself with the crumpets and buttered scones today, don't you think?
Maxim: Yes, dear. (looking at newspaper) Good lord, Gloucestershire lost by seventeen wickets! Who the devil taught these ragabonds how to play cricket?! I've half a mind to go down there and teach them a thing or two.
Narrator: Oh, before I forget, Colonel Julian and the vicar's wife are coming for afternoon tea tomorrow, and I thought it might be a good time to discuss the-
The Dom: (walks into skit) AAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH, would you TONE IT DOWN JUST A LITTLE?! Good lord, I feel like I'm about to pass St. George's Cross out through my urethra like a KIDNEY STONE!
Maxim: ...I say.
(cut to skit)
Narrator: Are you sure you won't take some more tea, darling? Frith really has outdone himself with the crumpets and buttered scones today, don't you think?
Maxim: Yes, dear. (looking at newspaper) Good lord, Gloucestershire lost by seventeen wickets! Who the devil taught these ragabonds how to play cricket?! I've half a mind to go down there and teach them a thing or two.
Narrator: Oh, before I forget, Colonel Julian and the vicar's wife are coming for afternoon tea tomorrow, and I thought it might be a good time to discuss the-
The Dom: (walks into skit) AAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH, would you TONE IT DOWN JUST A LITTLE?! Good lord, I feel like I'm about to pass St. George's Cross out through my urethra like a KIDNEY STONE!
Maxim: ...I say.
Western Animation
Kyle: I've spent five years in this town making a good name for Jews and this stereotype comes in and wrecks it all! You know what my biggest fear is? That I'll become him, that somehow his mannerisms will rub off on me and I'll become a stereotype. I mean I'm a Jew and he's making me hate Jews!
Stan: Dude, a self-hating Jew? You are becoming a stereotype!
Kyle: You see?!
Stan: Dude, a self-hating Jew? You are becoming a stereotype!
Kyle: You see?!
— South Park, "The Entity"
(after getting kicked out of a restaurant for being a dog, Brian sees Lady and the Tramp eating spaghetti in an alley)
Brian: Oh, don't do that! That's what they expect you to do!
(the dogs stare blankly at him)
Brian: Yeah, o-okay, fine for you! But-But what about your puppies? And your puppies' puppies? God, am I the only one who's outraged here?! (takes a deep breath and collects himself) I'm... I'm sorry. Enjoy your dinner.
—Family Guy, "Brian: Portrait of a Dog"
