Senate "Race" Relations (was "U.S. Society and Black Men")

@Jedi Merkurian And incredibly on the GOP Scumbag Barometer, Kennedy tends to be on the lower end of it. Still an absolutely POS don't get me wrong but compared to other GOP Senators, he is seen as being more reasonable. And even cannot help himself from being a turd sandwich.

 

I honestly have no idea whether to put this here or in the Gun Control thread but holy crap, I hate Paul Gosar. I expected this the moment I saw the surname of the shooter but it doesn't make my blood boil any less, particularly since it's one of my state representatives.

Oh, and there's also this:

 

My parents just informed me their suburban church has partnered with an inner city black church for Juneteenth celebrations. My parents are volunteering to help the joint event.

Actually pretty happy with this.

 

And what does it mean anyway? The aim is to defend the actors? Do that then. And while they're at it, they can give her better villain material.

 

Thing is, doing that means choosing a side and corporates do not want to do that. The same thing is happening on abortion in the games industry too. (Thanks to the Jimquisition.)

 

The comment was performative. They can't stop people from being mean on social media.

 

Fortunately conservatives will rush with their own performative measures, meaning passing legislation banning 'criticizing free speech' or other ****.

 

Yes and no? No one can stop another person from being mean. The only pushback that exists is declaring, forcefully and publicly, that one disagrees with such behavior and finds it wrong. The "performance" is all there is. It's not much, but it's overdue. I think we can acknowledge that it's good that it finally happened.

 

I thought they'd already made statements back when TFA and TLJ came out.

 

My memory is very poor for this kind of thing, but I thought that was retroactive. That is, Tran was already off social media by the time Disney commented that this was perhaps not the nicest way to treat people.

 

So to sum up, "Star Wars" and a portion of its fanbase are racist.

 

To Obi Wan you listen



The worst thing about all this happening, again, is that I see so many comments on social media posts about this by people trying to pretend it's not a problem.
Saying stuff like they're well paid actors so they should put up with it because they know it's going to happen. That the media is making this up to attack certain areas of the fandom because they can't handle any criticism. It's all part of the agenda by Disney/Lucasfilm etc

I don't see the issue with owners of big franchises speaking out against these haters, they're not fans anyway if they behave like this.
What's the worst that will happen, a small percentage of these so-called fans quit supporting them? Who cares? They're not numerous enough to have any financial impact the way a huge market influencer like China can.

I respect a guy like John Campea, who addressed this on his YouTube show and straight up said that anyone who wants to participate in racist & bigoted behaviour can get the **** off his channel & he doesn't care if he loses 1000 subscribers by calling them out because he doesn't want people like that following him.
Plenty of other content creators would be more interested in protecting their subscriber numbers rather than say anything.

 

Agreed. Nothing will stop the scumbags. There's no "if only you'd done x" card to play. There is no "can you meet them halfway?" It's not a percentage.

Is this late? Yeah. Does that mean it shouldn't be done? No. Overdue but definitely needed. Which is what I was badly phrasing before.

 

Tucker Carlson lives in Bizarro World where up is down, down is up, right is wrong and wrong is right.

 

I don't know much if anything about the bullying of Best. Was it explicitly a race thing or was it Jar Jar Derangement Syndrome taken to the extreme?

 

If I want a definition of entitlement, that is a damn good one.

You don't like a character so you find out who did the voice work, then where they live, all for the purpose of accosting them on public? That's all kinds of messed up.

 

Jake Lloyd was also treated pretty bad, and him developing paranoid schizophrenia.

 

Two podcast episodes I think is of interest here:

The Modern White Power Movement (2020) : Throughline : NPR
"The recent shooting in Buffalo, New York, which authorities are investigating as a hate crime, has yet again highlighted the threat posed by domestic terrorism in the U.S. At the center are violent extremists – the most lethal and persistent of whom are white supremacists and anti-government militias. They're part of a deeply interconnected movement which, since the 1980s, has pursued a mission to topple the U.S government with guerrilla warfare. Today, this movement is made up of highly-organized groups with paramilitary capabilities, but it hasn't always been this way. This week, we trace the rise of the modern white power movement."


By Accident of Birth : Throughline : NPR
"In August of 1895, a ship called the SS Coptic approached the coast of Northern California. On that boat was a passenger from San Francisco, a young man named Wong Kim Ark who was returning home after visiting his wife and child in China. He'd taken trips like this before, and expected to come back to the city he was born in, to his life and friends. But when the ship docked, officials told him he couldn't get off. The customs agent barred him according to the Chinese Exclusion Act, which denied citizenship to Chinese immigrants. Though Wong Kim Ark had been born in the U.S. and lived his whole life there, the agent said he was not a citizen.

Wong was moved from steamer to steamer for months. But he was able to contact representatives from the Chinese Six Companies, a consortium of Chinese business owners that often hired legal representation for people subject to discrimination. His subsequent legal battles culminated in the 1897 Supreme Court case United States. v. Wong Kim Ark: a case that would forever change the path of American immigration law, and play a pivotal role in the ongoing battle over who gets to be a citizen of the United States."