Including this:
The issue isnāt pornography but rape. It is not prudishness to feel revulsion at global companies that monetize sexual assaults on children; itās compassion.
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Totally. I thought he did a really good job clarifying that this wasnāt kink shaming or porn shaming, it was all about consent. That first article was a very heavy read, so I was happy to see the follow up.
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Canāt wait to see the reactions to this!
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I figured it would be Dr. Fauci (in the news practically every day and fighting the good fight re a worldwide disaster). Still, TIMEās choice is just as good if not better: Joe and Kamala as POTY really sticks it to Trump. So many people getting their licks in. Good.
AND thereās this:
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Meh. Rich people just trying to get richer.
Benjamin DeMott diagnosed this problem a long time ago.
At almost every level of popular culture, from Ken Burnsās The Civil War to Murphy Brown to childrenās books and ad campaigns, we are presented with images of blacks and whites interacting in an easy, friendly, compassionate mode. While this is not, in and of itself, an insidious vision, it is a highly inaccurate one. It is used, DeMott says, to purvey an ideology that dissolves racial difference, historical injustice, and the true caste nature of American society in a treacly, warm milk of human kindness. Racism is reduced to a matter of personal interaction, ``keep[ing] social fact at bay.āā
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While I agree with DeMottās thesis, I donāt regard Snoop and Marthaās friendship as a vision. YMMV.
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I donāt know and donāt much care whether theyāre really friends or not. Who knows what happens when the cameras arenāt on?
What I would like to learn more about-- and more to DeMottās point-- is whoās pushing that diversionary image in pursuit of profit.
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I guess that feels a little cynical to me, not that purveyors of culture do indeed do that since they clearly do, but to assume that in a particular case. Possibly thatās naive of me. I can see the utility of pointing out the difference between interpersonal relationships and structural racism, but not how that diminishes the interpersonal relationships.
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I tend to see the successful reintegration of a former convict into society as a good thing per se.
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In a generic sense, I agree. But not if said integration takes the form of a soft and cuddly black celebrity, whose function in corporate media is to convince liberal white people that theyāre open minded and good hearted.
If Martha and Snoop really are friends, yay, good for them. What Iām talking about, and disapproving of, is promotion of that friendship for profit, and worse yet, the consequent reinforcement of subdued white-liberal racism (which always favors individual instances of interracial harmony over real awareness of, let alone reform of, real-world injustice and inequity).
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I mean, she did a brief stint in white-collar jail and baked them cookies, but yeah.
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This would be awesome.
I mean, hella fuckin late, but still awesome.
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