OK, so why is bad that that nice black man helping that white man with his addiction?

The worst thing about the internet is how it compels everybody to have opinions on so many things. Any of these Social Justice issues you see today would have been perfectly at home in the 1980s, or even before. But back in the ye olde, there wasn't this hideous technology that allowed any busybody on the planet to shove their nose into the business of remote in-groups.

So you got scolds. And people scolding the scolds. And here's me scolding those who scold the scolds. No doubt somebody down thread is going to scold me in turn. Its all so exasperating.

@2 Oh look, a racist who assumed the black man was the addict and/or dealer.

One parting shot seen online at oligarch terrorist, Mr. Coffee, now that his scheme has gone over like a lead balloon:

“Schultz 2020: I Could Pay To Have You All Killed And The Cops Wouldn’t Do Shit.”

@5:

Well, in the context of this image he has to be ONE of those two things, amiright?

@7 I assumed the nice black gentlemen was a professional drug addiction counselor helping that poor white addict. Afterall, drug addiction counselors don't wear suits and ties.

But then again, I'm not a racist like you.

Pretty racist to assume one of them is white and one of them is black.

Sounds like a really fucking dumb controversy which is why The Stranger is talking about it. If it's shit The Stranger is rolling around it for attention.

Please shoot oversensitive children like Timothy Kenney into the sun.

The intent of the artist is blatant - the respective grips on the bill and the package are identical, never mind the title of the package.

I wonder if the artist created this within the context of the article - it says he raised concerns prior to publication.

I’ve seen an older book on flipping property - there was a dark hand handing a white hand money on the cover. The elevations of the hands were different and there was no identical grip.

The photo is a mirror image. It’s the doll test.

So, as Denzel would say; explain to us like we are a 5 year old what was racist about the cover.
(Look up 'racist' before you do, however...)
Thanks

Only I have the requisite aloofness and lofty moral perch to scold the scolds who scold the scolds.
Tsk tsk, shame on you for passing judgement.
Consider yourself warned.

These kids were forced to sit through a week fo Black Lives Matter bullshit but let's spin out of control about an innocuous book cover.

This is why Seattle is shit. White liberals like this stupid fucking writer dictating to the rest of us we need to be offended. Fuck off.

There's always a bit of a bait-and-switch with the way biodiesel is presented. They always show the guys sucking out the old french fry oil and turning that into basically free fuel, which is great, but the trouble is there's a pretty limited supply of those waste products. We hit "peak grease" a long time ago, as any hippie of a certain age with an old diesel car would tell you about how they lost their free fuel hookup to commercial operators that pay restaurants handsomely for their old grease.

Biodiesel mandates of any great size necessarily involve cropland being used for the production of fuel, and biofuels from purpose-grown crops have a pretty spotty record when it comes to actually being significantly less carbon intensive than petroleum. Having Washington join CA and OR in a biodiesel mandate will just mean waste-derived diesel from Washington won't go south anymore, and so more crop-based biodiesel will be necessary.

Stories about wolves, wolf kills, and ranching often fail to mention the intersection of public lands ranching, which is heavily subsidized, and conservation efforts. We should not be condoning the slaughter of a recovering species because it very occasionally affects ranchers in the course of them mooching off public assets. And we should never cover the bill for protecting private ranch land from wolves if the rancher has not made serious non-lethal efforts to address the problem themselves. End of rant.

At first glance, the cover makes me think more of how Nixon, a rich, powerful White man, created the War on Drugs, which has disproportionately affected Black men.

Then again, as someone else has pointed out, both of them have the same grip on both the money and the drugs. So it could also be a statement about how it's not necessarily the lower-class Black man who's addicted to drugs, but perhaps the rich White business man who has an addiction issue, but we almost all jumped to the same conclusion, that it must be the guy in baggy clothes and a beanie, because surely someone in a suit doesn't use drugs.

I'm not Black though, nor have I struggled with addiction. And I'm not sure what the artist's intentions were. That's just how I saw the image.

This writer seems racist as fuck considering both entities have an equal hold on the money and drugs implying it is a problem for both entities. But hey. manufacture controversy and further race divide the community, asshole.

You can see racism everywhere if you're nothing more than a racist pretending to be woke.

in modern day PC thinking, any drawing of a black person by a white person is racist, and is made worse by the black person not being a magical/positive black person like the heroes in Green Book, Green Mile, Hidden Figures or Black Panther. Also the identitarian, essentialist, reductionistic thinking seems to go, if a drawing is of one race, it's of everyone of that race. Probably what everyone was wondering is if the artist was black, in which case, anything goes.

Isn't it sick this white boy writer for The Stranger is trying to beat up on high schoolers to virtue signal? This is exactly why the left is circling the drain.

I'm glad this kind of performative anti-anti-racism signaling still doesn't seem to be showing up in the real world. I talk to plenty of people e.g. at my kids' school who don't have any idea that racism exists after the 1960s, and some get plenty defensive about the very idea, but I really don't see the kind of routine that's so visible online. Not yet. Making online spaces more like reality would matter, but I guess owners like the Stranger are happy to have a troll-driven space if that gets them the clicks.

Why does the package say "cure"?

23 - anyone who disagrees with your take is a troll? I agree with your question about the label on the package. my gut take was that the art was tricky because it was a little laden. a piece on addiction would almost better suited with some metaphor like a snake eating its tail or a mouse self administering it's fix. I just jump in on the anti-anti-racism for the sake of our epistemology and to debate where the pendulum stop swinging. (I am all about civil rights but tired of weak and tired pronouncements of racism)

I'm just glad that cover makes it clear that women don't sell or use drugs.

@8:

True, as a middle-aged cis-het white male I do enjoy a lot of privilege because of the color of my skin. But, unlike you, I don't have any swastika neck tattoos...

it's totally overused, but this illustration may be a good use of the term "problematic"

The other Roosevelt cover option was a greased, naked woman on all fours wearing a dog collar and being forced to sniff a leather glove.

@26

"Everyone I disagree with is a Nazi, hurrrr."

Isn't there a school board meeting you should be terrorizing or some other valuable thing in society you should be making toxic as a projection of low sexual worth rather than sitting here? We're talking about a High School book yet you're accusing people of being Nazis? You should really just lose 50 pounds and get a blow job. It would make a lot of your cuntiness go away.

Not a big fan of "presenting minorities as something other than perfect is racism" takes on racism. It's patronizing, it's belittling, it says "you aren't capable on your own without society kow-towing towards you".

Seriously, if you're against racism, how about start by looking in the mirror and decided not to judge people based on their skin color?

Imagine taking anything The Stranger says seriously. I thought it was unspoken of fact The Stranger has been a parody of itself since the turn of the millennium. Scary that people think this piece of shit actually has any sort of objective truth or reality.

The funniest thing about @26

He saw a German sounding name. Started screaming about his religion. Then accused someone else of prejudice based off of his own prejudice. What a fucking idiot.

@29:

Are you offering? I can meet you in the Men's Room at Cal Anderson, or would you prefer someplace you feel more at home? I know the Lobo has been closed for a while, but I assume there's still some place in town the skinheads and 88'ers like to hang out.

@35:

Yeah, I'm so hurt by the ravings of an anonymous troll who doesn't have the balls to post under a single handle, but has to keep posting and deleting accounts for fear of discovery, I guess. Care to join me and @29 (unless of course you're actually the same person, which might be - awkward?)? Apparently he's giving out free BJ's, so I thought you might want to get in on that. Of course, I realize it's probably difficult for you to get hard when you don't have testicles, but it might be a nice change of pace for him to suck on something soft and squishy. I'll bet if you're really sweet to him he'll take out his false teeth and give you a good and proper gumming.

"The other Roosevelt cover option was a greased, naked woman on all fours wearing a dog collar and being forced to sniff a leather glove."

@28 What's wrong with being sexy?

@38 Give Comte a break, he is still trying to answer how city soccer league teams of 15 year old boys can beat grown ass women national teams. The poor fella is being bitch slapped all across the internet today.

@3 well said

@29, it would only be sexy if the woman in question was morbidly obese. STAY WOKE!!!

36 I’m wearing jeans, a beanie, a hoodie, and a wool flannel right now.

It’s a good $700 in clothing, all told.

Her scarf is at home, though.

It’s all what you make of it, you classist prick! Nazi!

"@29, it would only be sexy if the woman in question was morbidly obese. STAY WOKE!!!'

@42 And had testicles.

@40:

Aw, look at the lil' anonymous coward trying so very, very hard to get in good with the other (apparently deleted) anonymous cowards! Must be a tough life when all you have going for you is trying to suck up (or off, as the case may be) to each other - or who knows, maybe to themselves.

Isn't he cute? Just like a lonely lil' Keene-eyed pound puppy whimpering for someone to take him home! I wish I could just give him a big ole' SQUEEZE and maybe a little pinch on the cheek!

@45 Anonymous man calls someone an anonymous coward. News at 5.

(P.S. Word to the wise you don't have to create an account every time to create a new ID. Now run along to that other thread and answer us why you didn't realize most women's national football teams play at the same level or worse of 15 year boy's city leagues).

The white guy's the one with the squinty eyes of an addict... Funny how woke racists see racism everywhere.

@47 Exactly. The black gentleman looks like a friendly, professional addiction counselor in some very stylish and probably expensive clothing, with a fashionably tied man scarf (nice touch sir, quite european in your fashion sense).

The white dude looks like a cocaine addict in an off-the-rack $100 Men's Wearhouse suit styled for the late 1980s. Probably drives a 1990s Ford with a few dents and snorts his coke after hitting the McDonald's drive thru. Maybe a used car salesmen before addiction took over.

@46:

You really are fixated on 15 year old boys playing soccer aren't you? I guess we should add latent pedophilia to your ever-lengthening list of personality defects.

@49:

I suspect so, but it's rather amusing to imagine how much time and effort he has to spend constantly coming up with new things to call himself, not to mention the borderline schizophrenic tendencies involved in his responding to his own comments as if they were written by someone else. Presumably he'll soon tire of the umpteen variations on "German Sausage" and move on to some equally banal set of handles that only he thinks is clever.

@47 what are saying all drug dealers are black? Racist!

Why have you guys decided that a tool or method for posting without registering cannot be shared?

I don’t see a contextual equivalent to a kid with a MAGA hat or some kid’s work of art with words about addiction next to them, I just see you decided because.. ?

48, for instance, reminds me of trans-Napoleon.

Someone with access to the table that has IP logs could tell us the truth.

People and their struggles with their lack of omnipotence these days :/

Hey blip, it’s colder up here. I’d rather be dressed like the quote-unquote slob.

I'd totally visit a wolf sanctuary on Bainbridge! Will the Senate Republicans fund it?

Whew! Why did I just read these 53 posts? I want my 6 minutes back.

Okay - should have said I agree with @53 but it took so long to get there....

Comte, the weakest of French cheeses strikes again.

@56 And give away the keys to the kingdom? As long as you can spot three store fronts in Greece, or 3 bicycles in Austin, or 3 fire hydrants in Sioux City, you're good to go.

This thread turned into garbage fast.

Damn boys, put those dicks away and go jogging or something. It's much better for you than being Mad Online.