Hahahaha.... true.Diluted Dante wrote:Mullets.Kow wrote:Sure, but you can't tell culture just by looking at someone. Saying that Polish, Irish, British etc are identifiable just by looking is nonsense.
Kow wrote:There are characteristics that are more prominent in certain areas. But that doesn't let you identify anyone really. Phrasing something as "they all look the same to me" is obviously unacceptable. But I couldn't tell you if someone is Korean or Chinese anymore than I could tell you if they are South Korean or North Korean. I don't have the knowledge to make a distinction, if there is one, but I don't think it makes me a racist not to know it.
Minnesänger wrote:Armitage_Shankburn wrote:I don't like kimchi.
Racist.
Kow wrote:I hope she gets the Ptolemaic era Egyptian accent right.
Diluted Dante wrote:I don't really get the calling to cast an African as a Greek, instead of an Israeli.
GooberTheHat wrote:Gal Gadot as Cleopatra then, seems to be causing a bit of a stir. Personally I don't really see the issues, considering Cleopatra was Ptolemaic, so of Greek/Macedonian origins, and also the Israelites were from the region anyway, so... Am I missing some context here or is it misplaced anger?
mistercrayon wrote:“White privilege” as a concept and why I don’t like it. (Of course I can see where it comes from and what it can mean). Firstly (but not least) my main issue with it is it defaults an opposition where none needs to exist. I think the concept sort of relates to structural problems but I think they exhibit themselves more likely at a personal level. I don’t see it as helpful in that context. More specifically I don’t think this idea that white people are inherently privileged is good when it is manifestly clear that most don’t have any of the trappings of privilege nor have they necessarily earnt in a fair way any ire. Yet the concept automatically puts that person on a back foot. They are assumed to come from a either start from a place of humility or be called out on it if they express anything where they stand up for themselves. I’m not keen on any situation where a person has to start with no conscious reason to be on the back foot. I just don’t think it’s a healthy way for a person to live. In preference I’d have people making mistakes and work through them not assuming the worst or humiliating the person into feeling like a racist when they might not be. I think additionally it feels like too much of a blunt instrument. From my own life I know dozens and dozens of people who have come to this country and have worked through their lives from very humble beginnings (ie our parents were all refugees). I’d find it extremely difficult to say to someone who worked at, for example, my school or cared for a relative that they’d had white privilege. So I wonder if i find it difficult to say that to someone how can I be on board with it? And even further if they decide to stand up for themselves but by accident happen to be white is it right to admonish them with that blunt tool? I think this is how I perceive the phrase being used right now. Maybe there is a subtler meaning to the term but I think if we are bandying such terms but we are implying subtlety then I think it’s the job of the term to reflect that subtlety. I think as it stands it is too much of a brutal weapon. Hopefully that gets across why I feel uncomfortable with the concept.
Facewon wrote:https://whitehotharlots.tumblr.com/post/621555436263522304/privilege-theory-is-popular-because-it-is/amp?s=09
Best deconstruction of privilege as a lense I've read. I've generally been ok with it, despite issues, because I think it describes something real, however, there's a devastating passage in this around rights and dignity that is so on point.
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