🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

[Ruin]

I wouldn't say the name was racist, ignorant is more like it. And lazy, very very lazy.

This. If he named her Ching Chong Singy Dong Dong I would have called it racist. But this just seems like he wanted to come up with a plausible Japanese name and couldn't be bothered to do any research.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

trying to save face

Which is impossible. Ain't no saving that face.

 

[AJMLurker]

I wouldn't say the name was racist, ignorant is more like it. And lazy, very very lazy.

Sweet Bro is notorious for misinterpreting things. This is the man who believes he's a lolcow because you guys are EVUL LIBERALS out to slander and defame him since he a threat to the party agenda. It has never occurred to him that maybe, just maybe, he behaves in an inappropriate manner, which makes him the target of ridicule.

One reason I said I was impressed earlier is because I was expecting Sweet to keep the name the same, while resorting to some lame excuse claiming that the name was still accurate and not stereotypical and potentially racist (and possibly "parodying" what we say with Whitewash Jones speak).

I'm guessing it is because Sweet has no personal beef with Asians. Unlike liberals, feminists, and blacks, he cannot find a way to connect Asians to anything negative that happened in his life. Sweet feels he has a right to say the stuff he does about black people because all his experiences with them were negative. His autism convinces him that he is justified to use racial slurs against them and portray them the way he does in his comic. On the other hand, it also makes him unable to understand why people call him a "racist" when he vocalizes his feelings about black people. Sweet Bro can only empathize with whats going on in his head.

If an Asian person somehow screw him over, Belch would also be screaming about them in his rants. I mean shit, I'm just waiting for Belch to namedrop me in his blog since I've "betrayed" him by partaking in this community.

 

[sonichuis44]

This. If he named her Ching Chong Singy Dong Dong I would have called it racist. But this just seems like he wanted to come up with a plausible Japanese name and couldn't be bothered to do any research.

There is no way Sweet or anyone else thinks Tin Boo Tee is an authentic sounding Asian name. We could have a debate about the definition of racism and its relationship with cultural insensitivity (let's not) but there is no way it was anything but a "those goofy Asians! Her name sounds like booty!" joke.

 

[Adamska]

There is no way Sweet or anyone else thinks Tin Boo Tee is an authentic sounding Asian name. We could have a debate about the definition of racism and its relationship with cultural insensitivity (let's not) but there is no way it was anything but a "those goofy Asians! Her name sounds like booty!" joke.

This. Sweet has this obsession with farts and butts. He definitely made that name because it was either funny to him or he's a sick fuck. He was just really ignorant and said the character was Japanese, and then was dumb when he just didn't want to do changes.

 

[Le Bateleur]

Sweet really wants to get the Japanese name right. I'm impressed. Really.

Jon - why not log into your account here and ask us? We've got people in this thread who speak decent Japanese.

Spoiler: A formal invitation

 

[autism420]

I actually want to teach Sweets more about using computers. I like teaching. It would be fun.

 

[John Titor]

There is no way Sweet or anyone else thinks Tin Boo Tee is an authentic sounding Asian name. We could have a debate about the definition of racism and its relationship with cultural insensitivity (let's not) but there is no way it was anything but a "those goofy Asians! Her name sounds like booty!" joke.

Probably. He did say he found the typo'd name in the yearbook hilarious. I just realized though. If he based the Japanese character after the exchange student, why didn't he just give her the same name? He doesn't care about dropping people's powerword even if it's someone he likes.

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Sweet really wants to get the Japanese name right. I'm impressed. Really.

Jon - why not log into your account here and ask us? We've got people in this thread who speak decent Japanese.

Spoiler: A formal invitation

On top of that, Suzuko is a name someone here mentioned.

 

[sonichuis44]

Oh shit, Sweet figured us out! If he comes up with a plausible Japanese name, we all get banished back to the shadow realm and have to stop mocking him for being a failure at life!

ALL HANDS ALERT THIS IS NOT A DRILL

 

[Chan the Wizard]

I suggest he name her Goku Naruto Sasuke Sakura-chan for an authentic Japanese name.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

If anybody has a spare couch or a bunch of sports equipment that they're not using right now, they can store it in the interior of Jon's head for free.

 

[Trombonista]

Who cares what her name is anymore? She's a rejected character from a rejected story.

Sheesh, he has to be right about everything, doesn't he?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I actually want to teach Sweets more about using computers.

I wonder if anyone told him about malware and malware scanners to combat it.* I'm guessing that the computers at the Sweet residence may have a really bad case of malware. Especially if the Sweet household uses Internet Explorer instead of free alternatives like Firefox or Google Chrome.

Sweet Bro can only empathize with whats going on in his head.

I think that is the foundation of Sweet's tendency to project, as well as his probable ignorance of the world outside of the tiny part he's apparently spent his entire life in - the "squashed gob of dung on the Missouri Bootheel," as he called it.

For example, Sweet has had primarily negative experiences with some black people, so that's probably why he's obviously racist against all black people - he unreasonably projects personal bad experiences onto the entire race.

That being said, at least lately he's shown some improvement with the whole overly discussed name thing?

*There's even free malware scanners out there for Windows called "ClamWin" (anti-virus), "Spybot Search & Destroy" (anti-spyware), and "Ad-aware" (anti-adware).

 

[AJMLurker]

Sweet Bro has shown improvement, but I doubt his reasons for changing the name are as noble as we want to believe. If anything, I believe @sonichuis44 has summarized Belch's logic well. Sweet Bro is looking for a way to get the Farms to stop mocking him for his failure to give his Japanese character a proper Japanese name.

Sweet Bro is lurking the Farms like nothing else. The character being an Asian character, he didn't feel the need to resort to his usual "you kids don't get vintage cartoon humor" schtick. His racism only seems to be reserved for blacks. He just doesn't want us mocking him... nevermind the fact that the only people reading his blog are the people he's mocking (The Kiwis).

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Why am I getting the following error:

Sorry, you have been blocked
You are unable to access kiwifarms.net

 

[Le Bateleur]

Why am I getting the following error:

Sorry, you have been blocked
You are unable to access kiwifarms.net

Where are you getting this error? From deviantArt? If that's the case, I think that dA block outgoing links to particular websites, and their staff have decided that the Farms deserve to be put on the block list. It's probably because we have a lot of threads laughing at various Tartlets, or due to hotlinking.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Where are you getting this error? From deviantArt? If that's the case, I think that dA block outgoing links to particular websites, and their staff have decided that the Farms deserve to be put on the block list. It's probably because we have a lot of threads laughing at various Tartlets, or due to hotlinking.

No, I was getting it here. But I think it was because I was logged into the Shaner thread at the same time on the same browser. It stopped appearing once I closed the Shaner thread.

Edit to add:

As for Mr. Sweet's inability to come up with an authentic name for someone from a specific Asian county, I'm not surprised. (Who is?) What does surprise me is that the name he came up with was merely a pun on booty and wasn't something along the lines of Long Wang, Phuc Yu or Suk Muk Dik. (With apologies to this bit in the ancient move The Groove Tube, from which the names are shamelessly stolen.) He certainly went all-in with the dick jokes in his aggressively half-witted short story "The Second Mrs. Pecker." What stopped him this time?

 

[Le Bateleur]

New Sweetblog. At this rate he should call the series Fridays after Friday.

It's a good 'un. Sweet tries to convince us that he works hard and had more fun at college than any of us. He also proves that he's always possessed an amusing lack of self-awareness, republishing one of his Bad Boy Herald columns which begins as a standard bar bore rant about how modern art is rubbish, but quickly detours to reveal he's been peeing in jars since boyhood.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

So is Sweet saying we're all constantly pessimistic?

Of course he thinks modern art is mostly garbage (based on a few examples). This is also someone who wanted the museum at ASU to get rid of "boring" stuff like artifacts of Native American cultures for more lowbrow stuff, IIRC. Also, I'm not surprised by the powerleveling either.

Sweet also brings up what he sees as ideal dating again: jacking off while on the chinaphone.

 

[John Titor]

Oh for fuck's sake. The Piss Christ incident happened in 1987. The government decided to stop funding artists since then*; Jon is ten years too late to be complaining about it.

* Disclaimer: It's been a while since I had this lecture so I don't know if that was accurate.

my beloved jar

What the hell is wrong with you, Jon? Why would you ever share that in public, ever? I want to know what the reaction letters to this was because I sincerely doubt it was fan mail.