True that. Ive seen some pretty awful crap supposedly dealing with native american history, eclipsing that perspective in favor of manifest destiny and white m ans burden. Simply moving this to a museum doesnt mean its getting an enlightened frame. Now Im suddenly curious about what sort of controversies are currently raging in the circles of museum curation.
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Initially misread prada as panda and I wondered what the poor pandas had done to be accused of racism.
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Yeah, I was looking at a Babar book that had a two-page spread of these images. It shocked me— I didn’t remember that from reading Babar as a kid. Definitely not just a problem of the English-speaking world.
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I had no idea, I guess you have to be really well educated to not offend anybody.
The way I read it, its pop culture thats offensive. Being well educated means understanding just how deeply racist american pop culture has been.
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Like that moment in Master of none, where Asiz suggests to his date that maybe she should show the Mammy jar to a black person and ask them what they think about it.
(On a side note, it’s a shame that there are absolutely no Master of None clips on Youtube.)
You’ve convinced me. I think I was cutting them too much slack.
Twitter has really been an incredible tool for following current museum curation controversies, particularly as Decolonize This Placed was in the headlines.
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That’s likely because Netflix is highly proprietary about their stuff, and possibly because of the backlash against Aziz Ansari for being a sexual predator.
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…Probably a stupid question, but is Paul Frank’s Julius the Monkey out these days as well?
Had a hard time remembering exactly what that was called, but it sure was trendy back in the day.
[Circles are round, the sky is blue, racism is bad, yes.]
That particular design is much more defensible; despite the red mouth, it still looks like a monkey and not freakin’ Sambo.
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