I remember my 80+ year old grandmother getting upset that there was a shot called "Blackish" and not a show called "Whtieish" or whatever. And like... I dunno Brady Bunch, etc?
My mother asked me a similar question some 15 years ago. It was why we didn't have White History Month or White Entertainment Television.
Sadly, I didn't have the ammo to fire back and say something like, "what about March thru January, and maybe all the rest of the television on TV since forever?"
I suppose Schitt's Creek would be the closest equivalent I can think of. If we're talking about a family living out of their stereotypical circumstances.
I feel like we should have just ignored these people. Deal with the ones who become problems, but otherwise not dignify their nonsense with a response. "Why is this movie so WOKE?" ... "So anyway the CGI in this movie was pretty bad right? lol."
We spent the last 2 decades feeding the trolls. Making them think they mattered even if it was to be hated or ridiculed by their enemies.
We spent the last 2 decades feeding the trolls. Making them think they mattered even if it was to be hated or ridiculed by their enemies.
YES! I have done my utmost to ignore these neanderthals my entire life because I grew up on 4chan and learned "do NOT feed the trolls" early. But apparently every news reporter and Facebook boomer since 2014 did not get the memo, and -waves at the general state of the world- here we are.
Couldn't agree more.
"👀 ...... So anyway..." has got to make people way more self conscious than any argument you can make. Arguing with these people just solidifies their position.
It doesn't have to be something everyone is watching.. I had twitter for maybe 2 days before deleting it because somehow this fuckin Matt Walsh clown got served up to me. He was crying about how Drew Barrymore had a trans person on her show. He had like 40k likes on it. How the fuck do you make a living looking for things on tv to be mad about, and why is anyone cheering him on. That's deranged. CHANGE THE FUCKIN CHANNEL YOU WORTHLESS STOOGE!
How the fuck do you make a living looking for things on tv to be mad about, and why is anyone cheering him on.
Spoken like you must not be recovering from a childhood in a conservative home, lol.
Finding things to be mad about, is living. It is as natural as breathing. Like breathing, you don’t notice you’re doing it unless you notice you’re doing it. It is what you think about when you plan your day and what makes you open your mouth to socialize with other people. It strongly informs your personality, your social circles, and your hobbies.
Just be careful you don’t accidentally spend years wrenching your brain out of the negativity malaise, or you might start to do dumb things like being content with what you have, working less, wasting time on rewarding hobbies, or doing nice things for people without expecting something in return. People you aren’t even related to! Could you imagine??
Of course up above when I say things to be “mad about,” that could also mean “afraid of or confused about, but I am tough and strong and not scared of things and don’t have wussy feminine emotions and so I’m mad rawr!”
Edit to add: I’m being tough on conservatives because they deserve it, but being addicted to outrage (along with all your favorite psychological biases and logical fallacies) is something that everybody has to be concerned with for themselves.
Yeah, I didn't grow up in a conservative house. I think it's one thing to be a hate filled individual who actually likes that, and a completely other thing to be a clown pushing that as your job. He brings no value into this world.
I would say I deleted Twitter not because it served me straight stupidity. More accurately, it was how mad I got seeing his dumb take and all the idiots cheering him on. I was late to Twitter and now I understood what others had been saying. It's designed to piss you off.
It's because they are in a performing role. They are token individuals destroying their bodies to create entertainment for the audience. It's no different than how the south treats rodeo as some kind of beacon of equality for black individuals. It's purely a facade to point at when denying the existence of inequality and dismissing civil rights arguments.
It's also directly tied to the myth of the primal black man - all brain and no brawn. A racist sex symbol.
If you roll your eyes and think 'Oh, here they go being racist again' while the news says how what they are saying is 'controversial' or 'could be seen as' or any other dismissive phrasing then that is what the post is talking about. Society refuses to call out their racism directly, which enables it.
In my experience with conservatives, black athletes broke that barrier a long time ago. The modern version is anything gay - if they see a gay character in a tv show, "everything's gay now".