| Oh, I've read much more racist things on All That Chat | |
| Last Edit: Singapore/Fling 12:41 am EST 02/11/21 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 12:38 am EST 02/11/21 | |
| In reply to: That is the most racist post I've ever read at ATC - KingSpeed 08:07 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
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| Is this the most racist post on this board? I don't think so. Yes, it's racist and gross. Yes, it displays white supremacist thinking, and the poster is clearly threatened by the growing cultural power of BIPOC artists. But the poster was also quick to correct themselves, at least partly, for throwing a tantrum over their fear that the remake was a negation of the original film, and thus, presumably, an erasure of the white men and women who made it. I mean, the poster didn't come out and say they were apologizing, but it was clear that was happening, especially because the second article didn't say anything that wasn't in the first article. it was a pretense to dial down the racism of a post that I would say is far from the most aggressively racist thing I've read on this site. And yes, it's also gross that in the sort-of apology and submission to antiracist culture, the poster tossed out this darkly cynical thought that any attempts to create shows that don't center white people is a calculated business move, rather than the decent thing to do. That's definitely white supremacist thinking, and it makes me fear that the poster can't see BIPOC as human beings, which is the core of the problem that we're having as our nation tears itself apart over whether White people are going to clean up the mess that their ancestors made of the world when they invented race 400 years ago. But, I can't tell you how many racist things like that get posted on this site on a regular basis, and some of them are much more aggressive in their hostility. There's some people on this board who did not see anything wrong with the stories the Racist Gays told 'round the table in the Netflix "Tales of the City". Maybe you haven't been following that as closely over the past few years, but it can get pretty toxic on this site. So when a post like this happens, it feels like Medium on the Racism scale. So I think it's worth pointing out the racism, in the spirit of antiracist principles, but I can also acknowledge the gap between passive racism and active racism. Perhaps it's my own moral failing, but there are definitely days where calling out passive racism is just not worth the effort, and I put that energy more deeply into my own antiracist practices. But to each their own, |
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