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A bizarre racist outburst at a Texas school board isn’t an isolated event — it’s part of a national pattern

  • uxia@midwest.social
    54·
    1 year ago

    this is how it is for some people when there are non-white characters in movies, they consider it “pushing an agenda” when there’s nothing like that happening. it’s like they think people of other races just… don’t exist? therefore they should not be in movies? i don’t really get it

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      Because there is nothing to get besides racism. The very very few edge cases out there where race mattered and was miscast never get mentioned because usually the person who did it wrong says sorry and there is no story. You are giving the enemy too much credit.

      And yes I don’t think she was miscast in Annihilation. The second book came out after they started making the movie (which is when that one line about her facial features was put in) and the fact that she had partial Asian ancestry wasn’t plot important in any of the 3 books.

    • Auli@lemmy.ca
      17·
      1 year ago

      My problem is the race switching. It is so stupid and is done in stories already told. There are tons of stories that have not been told about the race you are race swapping with. Why can’t we tell their stories instead.

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
        21·
        1 year ago

        Or when they put random people of colour in historical dramas. I get that they need to somehow include actors of all origins, but I can’t help but feel like it’s also a kind of white washing? Like, sorry but a black person would not be a noble at the Louis XIV court, how about you actually talk about what history was like from that perspective rather than just shoehorning the actors and pretend like everything was fine and dandy for people of colour in those days.

  • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz
    38·
    1 year ago

    Even disregarding all bigotry and racism that this screams of, it’s dumb af because kids can be friends with FUCKING rocks. It’s pretty much their superpower.

    • butterflyattack@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      I mean, some of them are. Many of them are nazi-lite. They get upset if you point it out, though. A lot of them probably believe they are fine upstanding patriots. A few can be talked to, and some can even change, but most just dig in deeper, so the problem doesn’t seem likely to go away; it seems to be getting worse.

  • Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip
    26·
    1 year ago

    thats not new at all, I remember there being traces of that still in everyday interactions as a kid. Theres nothing new about the hate they are spewing, thats what makes it extra vile to me.

    • joel_feila@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      it is just a lot more in the open now. And sadly most of people I know genuinely side with right most out of believe that it is the more neutral or agenda free stance.

      • aedalla@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        This is my favorite part about racists worrying about white people becoming a minority. It’s only because they don’t consider mixed kids as their progeny. Your “white” genes aren’t being murdered by “black” genes inside your grandaughter. They’re both just kinda in there and that’s fine.

        • mechoman444@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          You can’t explain this to these people.

          Four indictments on Donald Trump and they still think it’s a conspiracy.

  • GreenMario@lemm.ee
    18·
    1 year ago

    It is now woke to be in the same room as another race.

    Add it to the list.

    Hey, can we start calling things they like woke? Like Jesus Trump and church and flags n stuff? I bet we can destroy this word by just stealing it back.

  • Riyria@sopuli.xyz
    101·
    1 year ago

    My wife tells me she thinks that I am being over dramatic when I say we need to start thinking about exit strategies for fleeing the US, and then stuff like this pops up.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      51·
      1 year ago

      You’re not being overdramatic. I’ve been thinking about an exit since 2020. I plan to have it figured out in advance of the next election so that I can flip a switch and go. Don’t wait for disaster. Have an exit decided and hope you don’t need it.