But you are, child, you are.
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Ah, the old âdonât complain about a film|book|game|sports-car|D&D rules change|crying-baby unless you can make your ownâ game, eh?
Yet⌠I notice you commented on a blog-post instead of writing your own blog post.
Yet I do commend you on your confrontation of mass media by making your own media whenever you have a complaint. I look forward to watching your movies*, reading your books*, playing your games*, driving your cars**, etc etc etc.
* Not
** Did you design those brakes yourself? And the flames on the side of the car? SUPER NOT.
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No Iâm not. Youâre responsible for yourself & I am responsible for myself. Interdependence is only desired by the dependent.
[quote=âOtherMichael, post:285, topic:55360â]Yet⌠I notice you commented on a blog-post instead of writing your own blog post.[/quote]I can and have done both.
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But if one does not make, one cannot comment?
Am I allowed to criticize a law without ever having written a law of my own?
Youâre posting from a Micro-Nation that you built with your own hands? Impressed.
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Donât forget digging the trenches for the water main to his home, and the roads, and the phone linesâŚ
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[quote=âOtherMichael, post:289, topic:55360â]But if one does not make, one cannot comment?
Am I allowed to criticize a law without ever having written a law of my own?[/quote]I have nothing against critique, my problem is with censorship, like the idea of having a â31% cap became a mandate in Hollywoodâ.
Of course, nobody is actually saying that there should be rules put into place in order to force diversity⌠You did read the article, right?
And the âwhy donât they make more of their own entertainmentâ argument is ridiculous. They do, in fact, but it doesnât get much mainstream distribution because the people responsible for said distribution are almost exclusively wealthy white men. And they donât want to make entertainment featuring anything other than white men because of reasons. So yeah, criticizing that isnât really a bad thing.
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[quote=âOtherMichael, post:289, topic:55360â]Youâre posting from a Micro-Nation that you built with your own hands? Impressed.[/quote]Cute.
[quote=âanon67050589, post:291, topic:55360, full:trueâ]Donât forget digging the trenches for the water main to his home, and the roads, and the phone linesâŚ[/quote]No, those were all things I paid others to do. If they didnât agree to the cost, they wouldnât have done it. Their responsibility, not mine.
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Honestly, at the time I was kind of pissed that section existed at all. Which is really my own white privilege saying that I donât have to think about race or ethnicity. Itâs a pretty standard thing for schools to ask, for the reasons @Brainspore outlined.
And Iâm a literal person. I like things to be accurate. In order to be accurate, I checked both. With the side bonus that I got to be a little difficult.
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[quote=âWearySky, post:293, topic:55360â]Of course, nobody is actually saying that there should be rules put into place in order to force diversity⌠You did read the article, right?[/quote]Yes, of course I read the article. But this article, like most on how to increase diversity, relies on the idea of creating diversity by force & that is what I have a problem with. Nobody seems to be capable of finding a way to encourage diversity without some form of law enforcement backing it up.
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You know, I donât generally find you as confrontational as other people seem to, but flames on the side of cars are freaking awesome.
(hashtag thisisthehillidieon)
Well, if you read the article, you appear to have missed the point of it. It actually offers NO solutions on how to increase diversity, aside from âdemand more of itâ. Itâs just pointing out how ridiculous it would be to put a cap on the number of white men in film and TV, and relating that to the reality that this is exactly what is done right now to women and minorities in film and TV.
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Take it as a mental exercise then, as itâs never actually going to happen (at least not to that extent). The idea that nothing notable is happening to non white people is absurd, so itâs interesting to think about what their stories would look like. Itâs easy for a white person to look at the current situation as acceptable, but weâd be pretty annoyed if our on-screen presence was reduced, even if it were only to representational levels. Why is that? White people tend to be richer and more influential, but in many cases fiction can imagine exceptions to this rule and thereâs no a priori reason why a specific character must be white. Plenty of successful movies and shows have been about people who are not particularly influential at all, so increasing the diversity of our âmedia dietâ shouldnât be too hard, and thereâs plenty of scope to challenge tired racial tropes.
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[quote=âjsroberts, post:299, topic:55360â]
Take it as a mental exercise then, as itâs never actually going to happen (at least not to that extent).
[/quote]Iâd have a problem with it happening to any extent really. Pretty much everything that people do non-impulsively first starts out as a mental exercise.
I donât hate white people but I fear what some of them have risen up and historically done to us
Thinking this through further, I think youâre wasting your time looking for groups to hate. All you really need to concentrate on hating is anti-semitism, because with it you can be victimized even by fellow Jews; without it, you can be surrounded by white people or people of a different religion, and have nothing to fear.
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Like the Union army?
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Yes but you were talking about a mythical strawman of minorities censoring you, not an actual reality. Your strawman doesnât exist in this universe.
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Give @dias a break. He just joined for this thread to troll and has never been here before.
