Survivor: The Fittest Race

[e_dog]

At first when i heard about it, it was too unbelievable to be true.

But indeed the Survivor t.v. "reality" game show is actually having a show where the divide the contestants into different ethnic groups to compete against one another.

[jimboloco]

they called me mellow yellow
they called me ready red
they called me groovy black
they called me whitey
way back when
and then
along came peggy funk
and plunk my heart went
pitter patter
just in time a shoshone maiden
had my attention
and bahama mama
had me wid plantains for awhile
but got beguiled
by frau suzie
and her alpine loosie goosie
mercy
jimbo loves all th pretty women
all th womens of th world
red an yellow black an white
jimbo loves them all alike
jimbo loves all th pretty womens of th world!

[Traveller13]

What's this TV show about anyway?

[the flaming ace]

red and yellow white and black
they all have a big mac attack
left on a deserted island
they have to make a stand
they can fish and swim
and try to get under each others' skin

[Traveller13]

Outcome:
the whites choke on fishbones and become allergic to the local jungle plants
the reds catch malaria
the yellows organise a twisted cult that ends in mass suicide
the blacks get bored and bugger off
in the end the blues win

goooo blues!

[the flaming ace]

lookz liks a paint job to me
fish bones soup!

[stilltrucking]

'Survivor' Premiere: The Amazing Race War
By Lisa de Moraes
Friday, September 15, 2006; Page C01

I'm working up a pretty good outrage watching the first episode of CBS's "Survivor: Race Wars" when they cut to an ad in which Audrey Hepburn has been exhumed to sell skinny black pants, which I'm guessing are made in some Third World country, for the Gap.
Audrey Hepburn is the patron saint of waspy white chicks. I am a waspy white chick. I am really angry. Oh, that's probably how this show is supposed to work. Sure, CBS has taken one of the whitest shows on TV (which is hard to find in a reality series) and made it ethnically diverse, not because it's the right thing to do, but so they can play the race card -- dividing contestants into the African American tribe, the Hispanic tribe, the Asian American tribe and the white guys -- in hopes the media attention will goose the show's sagging ratings.

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But the contestants on "Survivor: Race Wars" were dumb enough to let themselves be used by CBS to whip up the race.

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Audrey Hepburn, on the other hand, is dead; the patron saint of waspy white chicks did not get to choose. And it's a crime and a sin what the Gap has done to her. I am a waspy white chick, and this is my tribe.

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And sure, the episode is being hosted by Jeff Probst, who recently acknowledged that, as a "white guy from Wichita," when he'd looked at a map of the world -- or rather, when a map of the world flings itself into his field of vision -- he had not grasped that the funny little shapes with all those pretty colors were actually different countries. It appears, as my colleague Gene Robinson observed, that in all the years Probst has done this show from various far-flung places, he thought he was in darkest west Wichita all along.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02069.html

[e_dog]

the weakness of her criticism id most remarkable. [freudian typos -- i had writ 'id' 'stead of 'is' -- left that one, and 'irrearable' stead of 'remarkable' changed that for intelligibility.]

they're not 'playing the race card' anymore than Sudan is 'playing the genocide card'. They are outright stoking racism. Period.

Audrey Who?

[stilltrucking]

I liked the bit about "wispy white chicks." But that isn't what she said now that I re-read it. It is not as funny as I thought. But the bit about Wichita was pretty good I thought.

Audrey Go Lightly, that's who. I liked that movie a lot.

I can't believe anybody actually watches those shows. But I do like Jerry Springer a lot. I can only stand it for about a half a minute but I love to watch the audience trash the guests. So revealing about human nature.

Id may be the most mistranslated word in the German language.

[e_dog]

re: Id being mistranslated

how's that?

[stilltrucking]

My bad hyperbole Professor. I can’t slide anything by you.

I read so much Walter Kaufmann I can’t remember which book he talks about Id/It and the mistranslations.

The late Walter Kaufmann, a gifted translator but unreliable scholar, saved Nietzsche from the misrepresentations of the Nazis