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the real technojeremy
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Whoa guy–I’m not sure where you got the impression that I was suffering. The pre-rehearsed lines you just threw out are the perfect response to someone who was acting offended because of the possibility of a racist comment–read my comment again and see if you can find that.
Again, the point I was trying to make is that racism is a very complicated issue that needs more nuanced understanding than, for example “I’m assuming you’re white because you commented about a possibly racist comment about white people and white people shouldn’t say anything critical about racism because of how they’re privileged or something that doesn’t really apply to the point you’re making.”
“Whites are privileged so SHUT UP about racism white people!” is a knee-jerk reaction that is not only a lazy response to an important issue, but also really counter-productive.
I don’t mean to be all preachy here, but your comment came off sort of snide and angry, and I think you’re sort of misguided in that anger. And again, I think it’s relevant in the context of this article that’s actually kind of about racism.
Sure, that’s true, but I guess my point also lies in your inference that when black people are racist they’re racist towards white people. There also exists African Americans with really negative views of Latinos or Asians or Middle Easterners (and all other possible combinations), and having such a white-centric view of racism doesn’t really help anyone’s understanding of or ability to address the issue. I certainly wouldn’t argue that that’s a reality everyone needs to be addressing all the time, but again–in an article that’s supposed to talk about delicate issues related to possibly racist portrayals of an ethnicity, it seems like a really poor starting point, if the author wanted anyone to read his article with the belief that he had a lot of authority on the matter.
If you want to talk about which people groups’ racism impacts the country the most or does the most harm, that’s a different discussion. But that wasn’t the point I was trying to make.
I don’t think anyone’s full of it (well, some people are. But not anyone who wrote this article, I mean.)…like I said I found the article interesting. I just thought that was a pretty heavy touch to start an article about the subtle and not-subtle ways racism can work and be evidenced in pop culture. “Whites are the worst (best?) at racism!” is a sort of benign comment, but in the context of this article it seemed like the wrong thing to say, unless he was being sincere, in which case…well, i think he’s wrong and maybe a little bit racist.
I enjoyed your article, it was thoughtful and interesting. But the way you look for racists is by waiting to see which WHITE person laughs longest? Haha, sorry if you’re being ironic in a way that’s beyond me or whatever but isn’t that sort of racist? Did you know people who aren’t white can be racist, too? It’s true. While you’re on your quest to find the most racist of all (super important job!), you should broaden your criteria so you can evaluate all the racists.
Wow, I disagree with almost everything you said in this comment. I don’t even know how to respond. It doesn’t seem likely we’ll see eye to eye on this, so I’ll just leave it at that, I guess…I respectfully disagree with you, sir.