Don’t do this. That’s the only lesson people should be learning here.
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I have nothing to add…
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Yeah, that’s the movie that was nagging me the whole time, and I couldn’t place my finger on it. I mean, I was a teenager in the 1980’s, a college freshman when this movie came out, and remembering just how much it made me cringe just to see the ads… and I’m a nondescript heterosexual “white” male. I mean, I’m neither the rich kid using blackface to sneak a scholarship, nor of the minority whose status he tried to exploit, so I wasn’t personally affected, but it still bothers me.
I think the movie did do try to have a message, to be uncomfortable (except for certain Republicans, but you covered that). I am being charitable in that it wanted us all realise just how wrong blackface is, be it minstrel blackface or an attempt at realistic makeup. It just forgot the main rule of Hollywood, that anything it does will look cool by simple virtue of being on the screen.*
*My thanks to Oliver Stone for saying this out loud about how he realised how impossible it is to make an anti-war movie, during an interview about Platoon.
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Hey sweetie.
That’s all that needs to be said.
White people who don’t want to be seen as racist need to stop with this shit.
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“Were you driving a car or truck at the time?”
“No, I was steering and controlling the speed of a conveyance with 4 wheels and an engine.”
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We now know how bad it was by his answer to every question at his Iran/Contra hearings: “I do not recall.”
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I have thoughts like this every time the issue comes up. I knew some one who went to Oxford and at the time I met them made convoluted excuses for various fancy dress party costumes of rich English assholes. That was actually the first time that I ever encountered some one who actually knew people like that personally. And that bothered me even at that level of contact. It seems like a right of initiation for some certain class of dirtbag.
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This thread… 
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Finally! This nation was built on racism. But finally it’s been ended by the Orwell system: Just never use the word. If you can’t say racist then no one can be a racist.
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It depends on how broadly you define elites, because I’m normally caught in many ‘elite’ definitions out there - because while I’ve never seen blackface I guarantee I could point to the kids that did that shit in my high school, as could my wife’s who grew up as poor as it gets. Basically anyone that is placed in a special social category for the area; frats, society types, sports teams, church groups, etc. Anything where a bunch of white people both gather in a small insular social group that tells each other they are better than others and beyond reproach in some form.
Like, my football team wouldn’t have let it slide but I guarantee my wrestling team would have. The frats I hung out at in college kicked people out racist costumes, but I know which ones wouldn’t. That type thing.
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There’s probably a demographic difference otherwise not specified to be totally honest. I guess what I mean is who one knows isn’t necessarily representative of who is around. I guess it allowed my privilege to be visible in my actual surprise that this is, in fact, a thing. Shitting on people for fun is definitely a rich people thing though. Maybe not only rich people, but definitely rich people.
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I am constantly astonished that Nina Turner is not running for President herself.
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