| re: Happy Talk racist? |
| Posted by: keikekaze 05:37 pm EST 02/20/19 |
| In reply to: re: Happy Talk racist? - Michael_Portantiere 02:58 pm EST 02/20/19 |
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| I've always read the entire lyric of "Carefully Taught" as Cable generalizing (correctly, I think) from his own upbringing to the universal. He isn't singing about any particular group, neither as the subjects of the racism nor as the objects of it; he's singing that ***everybody*** does this. So the "oddly made" bit isn't a slur on any particular ethnic group's eyes; it could be Asian people thinking European people's eyes are "oddly made." It doesn't matter. The point is that fear of "the other" is universal. |
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