http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2017/...trailer-sparks-backlash-netflix-faces-claims/
You should have sued for discriminatory practice. If someone is stupid enough to say that where you could hear it (instead of simply assuring the woman of color in her office that she was going to be taken care of) then it's a safe bet that wasn't her first rodeo and there could be a paper trial of habit.
Mostly it works the other way. Blacks only make up around 12% of the population. Of those who are in a position to do what you overheard, if all of them were similarly motivated, the rule would still be something else. And, in point of fact, the tendency toward favoritism runs the other way, even among minorites. I linked to an article that referenced a study on bus drivers, white and black, and how both appreciably gave breaks to whites over blacks. Even identically dressed soldiers or businessmen ran into it. So you caught a little of what happens more routinely and has historically to blacks, who mostly interview with white people for jobs under other white people. You had the opportunity for a real insight into the stupidity of racially motivated hiring practices. But worse than that is the less thought-out tendency of people to simply read-in a superiority to whites over blacks and lighter skinned blacks over darker skinned blacks and without any conscious effort make a racially weighted choice.
You're wrong and there are enough studies on the point (I linked to a couple of articles that referenced a few) that there's no excuse for you to hold that ignorant an opinion, but you've already proven you're invested in clinging to that mindset and given a chance to speak to and examine your bias you won't.
Where I'd be interested in hearing why you found them uncompelling. What in particular? I did a bit of looking for you and gave you another advance, my own, along with some statistical data to consider. I'd like to see your thinking on that as well.
It's possible to demean people who are white, but I believe you'd be hard pressed to demean many because they're white. Give a few examples of what you have in mind. But lose the "according to Town Heretic".
You're really just continuing your habit of making crap up, aren't you? White people have been lampooned a good bit. Eddie Murphy was beloved by blacks and whites for doing it.
Because we mostly run the media and our problems tend to be problems of privilege and power, when considered as a whole., or desensitizing others to problems white people face in the media
Powerful film. You think it should have been directed by a racist instead?
You didn't really understand that movie, did you.
No, you're just a guy yelling at facts and people who present them because you can't approach either objectively and aren't interested in either the education or self-examination that could lead you out of the bias that blinds you. You'd have to understand how peer reviewed, bias filtered inquiry works and why it is reliable, that sort of thing. You don't want to know.
Well, I gave you an argument to consider and a number of sources to reflect on...I meant to hear your particular thoughts on them, or at least on my particular thoughts and the statistical data as a point of entry into a serious conversation. So begin with what I wrote you directly. It's a good enough place to start getting into particulars.
You can't begin to make that case. Try it. Most of the successful characters you're going to see on on television are white. Television has done a better job in recent years of representing minorities in more than simply supportive roles, but from newscasts to serial television, the landscape is still largely white and affirmational, especially in terms of presenting authority.
That sounds serious. What does it mean? Whites pay what price and in what way do they react to injustice more than others? I'm looking for specifics to support your broad brush. Show me how that's true in logical parts.
Well, no. The whole film is about where the hatred of ignorant people comes from and how it warps, perverts, and destroys even what the racist loves.
You're so blinded by your hostility you can't even watch a movie that has something to say to you about its origins and chains. Remarkable.
I thought it struggled to connect the dots on Derek's transformation. The prison sequences could have been better strung together, though part of Derek's humanizing through close contact/exposure to someone he's been conditioned to hate and see as something lower was a nice touch. I've heard a number of people who would admit to racist tendencies in their youth say that military experience changed their view. My father was a pitcher for the Navy. He'd been indifferent to the race question until his service, but the experience changed that for him. The film was also good at presenting the notion of a surrounding hostile tribalism of racial politics and the hypocrisy that tied those factions together by necessity.
According to Town Heretic, there is no such thing as: demeaning white people, making comedy of white people, or desensitizing others to problems white people face in the media
No Dave Chapelle, Soul Plane, White Girls, Dear White People, White Privilege, anon anon.
American History X was directed by a Jew- I mean go figure. Who's the odd one out in that movie? Not the black gangs taking over and killing innocent people, or illegals sabotaging businesses- it's the white guy with a swastika who really was the victim from the get go :freak:
No, that just tells me you aren't actually looking at the data. When it notes white people making racist, negative assumptions about black people and when I note studies demonstrating the way even minorities view them largely, it's not creating a racist statement, it's recognizing the objective power of race in influencing choice.