Surfer Magazine describes surf trip to Nigeria, Africa!
Just two days ago I posted a piece about living in shrill times where all of our words are subjected to such scrutiny, peeled apart and generally found to contain some sexist, racist or other inappropriate connotation. Safe spaces are erected to to protect us all from the tiniest bit of nuance. Etc.
But sometimes our words are just racist and wildly inappropriate all by themselves. Like Surfer magazine’s today!
The “bible of our sport” took to Instagram a few minutes ago and posted a picture of Luke Davis being barreled in the West African country of Nigeria.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYoJmUCFecy/?taken-by=surfer_magazine
Let’s read that caption again.
The country of Nigeria has always been synonymous with the darker parts of humanity. But a small coastal village is changing the image of the country one wave at a time. Join @lukedavisthegrey and photographer @alanvangysen on their journey to Nigeria. For the full “Lagoisan Oasis” article from our most recent issue, click the link in bio. #SURFERphotos
And one more time.
The country of Nigeria has always been synonymous with the darker parts of humanity. But a small coastal village is changing the image of the country one wave at a time.
And once more.
The country of Nigeria has always been synonymous with the darker parts of humanity.
For the honest to goodness life of me I have no idea what the “darker parts of humanity” could be referring to other than the obvious. Is it… a nod to the 1967 – 1970 Nigerian civil war? Or… being Africa’s largest economy? Or… I’m at a loss.
Surfer Editor-in-Chief Todd Prodanovich? Can you help me here? What “darker parts of humanity” is Nigeria synonymous with?
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would never got to central africa. i dont give a fuck. i got better shit to do
I thought volland’s first name was sean.
The traffic system in Nigeria is awful. And maybe I’m just a snob but I really enjoy a clean toilet
Imagine the intern that wrote this unfortunate statement: forced to labor in the instagram mines inventing instantaneous copy for infinite and infinitely indistinguishable barrel pics flooding in daily, picks up on one word to distinguish it from all the others, “Africa”, and, fresh from a $250,000, worthless English degree at San Diego State, recalls the one book short enough to capture his iphone-addled attention span, the Heart of Darkness, and thumbs in a stupid line, hoping his doomed internship is saved for at least one more day, when an exceptionally creative and alcoholic journalist, seething with rage from his last hire of an intern much like himself, decides to brand him inexcusably racist not two days after said talented writer argued for a nuanced approach to Nazi symbolism and fascist salutes by surfers; “That’s power”, the intern thinks to himself, “the ability to demand special pleading for ostensible Fascists one day, and the will to damn the career and dreams of a blundering innocent the next.”
If he paid 2500000 (including grad school)for a degree from sdsu, he’said got way bigger issues.
It was all those expensive “humanitarian”/college credit surf trips to destinations with poor locals and bitchin’ waves that did him in.
Chuck a water filter at ’em and get tubed.
I love that Chas of all people is the one to call them out on this.
I’m riveted by the comment. Please explain. I’ll give you an up vote if its good.
Nothing revelatory. Just that he’s not exactly, shall we say, a righteous guardian of political correctness.
The systemic proliferation of “political correctness” needs political incorrectness. You need Chas on that wall.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Surfer Mag Todd has been done by Nigerian money scam, no?
Instagram itself is the darker part of humanity, is it not
Simulacra of shattered souls.
While I’m very “meh” on the State Department their travel warning is pretty succinct…don’t travel to most parts of Nigeria. My experience when working at the airport was always mixed…very nice people but you had to be absolutely careful of the scams. Bad tickets (especially first and business class tickets), sneaking on excess baggage, etc. were the rule. Also the feedback I got from my friends who had to travel there wasn’t very enticing…everywhere they went it was with armed guards and they were advised to only leave the hotel if it was on fire (that was a direct quote from a pilot friend). So yeah, I’d say it ain’t the travel destination of the year.
I hear there’s a sweet slab in Mogadishu if Nigeria doesn’t interest.
I hear it’s The Mother of All Bombs!!!
Racist/facts
Just when I thought “surfing: not as racist as you think” was a thing.
Come on Julian, you’re better than picking on a lowly intern. We’re all just one poor turn of phrase and self-serving interpretation away from a scarlet “R” across our foreheads. The new Puritans are no more forgiving than the old ones.
I asked my smartphone what the sentence meant and Siri replied “only a Surfer knows the feeling.”
The country of Nigeria has always been synonymous with generous princes and access to their fortunes in exchange for a 4 figure minimum Western Union money order.