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Originally Posted by nico-t
so the only thing what defines that individual victim of her insult, is that she has black skin, therefore her insult automatically applies to ALL black people in the world.
You see what i mean?
I'm not saying what she said isn't stupid. But to think she is actually a racist is preposterous. You could say she tries to make edgy jokes in bad taste that don't really work, but we all know she doesn't care. She's like your crazy aunt that you shouldn't take seriously all the time. However, nowadays the professional full time outrage crowds make it serious, to cause a chain reaction of outrage that is completely unnecessary - talk about a cult-like reaction, it's crazy.
Now her show is cancelled, which employed people of all colors (what a racist!), and the loser twitter outrage stooges got a 2 minute chubby from excitement and fulfilment in their attics. On to destroy the next career!
What if i said:
Ron Perlman looks like a gorilla
and
Serena Williams looks like a gorilla
Is that racist to both white and black people? Or am i just insulting these particular individuals on their appearance? Which is it?
Think outside the box  |
It's not that she said it about one person. It is that she said it publicly. Had she said this on set or at a table read or something like that where it was only her co-workers that heard it, they might have tried to reprimand her and get her to apologize. Saying it online let's the world know you are saying something racist and that you may, in fact, be a racist. Immediately the show's co-runner's quit over this because they don't want to work with a racist. She had to go. Even she admits it was the wrong thing to do.
Also, there is a difference between commenting on someone's appearance and calling a black person a monkey. Referring to black people as monkeys has a long, dark history in this country. It's off limits in this country. You grow up in this country knowing it is off limits.
If you want to say some soccer player looks like an ostrich, that isn't racist because there isn't hundreds of years of racism behind that statement. Saying Serena Williams looks like an ape is racist because of said hundreds of years of history.