One of the most recent comments (not linking to it for semi-obvious reasons) that had me (maybe misusing) the term ‘concern troll’ was on the Dave Chapelle story, where someone went off on a tangent about people like Beyonce Knowles and Halle Berry being successful because they’re pretty by white standards, all very couched in the PC language of privilege. It was the sort of thing that a person might nod their head at now, but if they thought about it for a few minutes they might think, “Now, wait just a damn minute…” Within my lifetime, someone like Beyonce or Halle would have been called a “zebra” and worse. Not that there isn’t a kernel of truth to it, but…well…I see a lot of stuff on here that’s couched in the language of privilege that ends up being problematic imho. :-}
I’m honestly not trying to stir the pot, just raising a concern. If anyone wants to argue about it, maybe we can argue it elsewhere.
Now that I think about it, my responses to that could have been seen as concern trolling as well, because I pointed out that within the past 50 years, some white-passing celebs were treated like they were fully African, and not in a good way.
