Forum has been having major issues for a bit now. Seems like it’s randomly eating various posts, attributing replies and likes to the wrong people, etc.
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Two folks were shot, one of them died. Its a tragedy. And i think its a good reminder to the gung-ho SJW crowd that the CHOP is not a safe utopia. Its no madmax dystopia either though. Its still the same safe/dangerous that the area always was. And just like your favorite sports coaches say, nothing good happens after midnight.
Also, that youtuber is a jackass. He is intentionally misleading with a crazy bias. Like, Alex Jones level of jackassery.
If he lived in the ghetto for a week, he would change his mind. As would the rest of the progressives. The idea of letting the community police itself is stupid and shows he has never spent any time in the communities he claims to speak for.
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Oh absolutely. But I was hoping for at least some different ideas beyond the obviously stupid. Or at least some good studies to discuss.
Can someone explain to me what is racist about Uncle Ben? I get it that Aunt Jemima was a character in stage shows that mocked black people but here I don’t get it at all. As a white man, should I be offended by the depiction of Mr. Clean? Is @zecarlo leading the protest against Chef Boyardee? This is all very bizarre.
My question is why did it take so long for people to notice that these depictions are straight out of the racist shit that marred old Looney Tunes episodes? I’ve seen the similarities since I was in elementary school.
Along the same vein as what Chris mentioned, Super Mario and Luigi are stereotypes as well. No one is getting up in arms about that. I’m all for the discontinuation of racist emblems, mascots, etc., but shouldn’t it include all races?
I was watching an episode of the Flintstones with my 4-year-old and saw an incredibly offensive caricature of a stereotypical Japanese guy.
Hell, does anyone remember what the head crow in Dumbo was named? Jim. This shit is everywhere.
The thing here is that Uncle Ben was an actual person, he was a well known chef. Same with Chef Boyardee, I think the right name was Boiardi or something like that and the spelling was changed to make it more marketable. Nothing in either of these brand names is any sort of racist caricature as far as I can see, I just don’t get it.
Maybe it would make more sense for Hollywood to stop making all these movies depicting black men as criminals and gangsters, and record labels signing artists that promote that kind of stuff. That does more to create a negative image of black people than Uncle Ben’s face on a bag of rice.
I agree. Those 2 images are exceptions, but who in the general public is going to take the time to research every image that could be deemed as racist?
I agree wholeheartedly with your second point. My wife is from Vietnam, in which there are very few black people, but anti-black racism is rampant there due to Hollywood depictions and what is portrayed in rap music.
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Just wait and see the quality of statue they will replace the original one with. Guaranteed to be a really talentless post-modern, piece of shit that will be hailed by all as magnificent.
@Aragorn
This ad is offensive because the black motaur is mounted on the bike, while the white and asian kids are subserviently fawning on foot.
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I have no issues with Uncle Ben’s rice. I buy the 10 minute rice. The packaging and depiction of Uncle Ben (according to Wiki is actually a guy named Frank Brown), is not in any way disrespectful IMO. Looks like a well dressed, old school black guy, that is it.
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Exactly my point.
Making an issue out of “Uncle Ben”= Not selecting your battles.
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Yet, no one who complains about colonialism, which is basically a form of migration, is giving their property back to whomever was here first and going back to their motherland.
These are the same people who look at Che Guevara as a saint.
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This is why nothing will change. These idiots are tearing down statues and complaining about syrup and rice. Meanwhile, how many people were shot this past weekend in Chicago? Once again, something that may have been a positive for poor black people gets derailed by whites.
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Wasn’t this change made in the absence of a specific complaint? I was under the impression they were “getting out in front” of the woke mobs. In other words, isn’t this a product of a decades-long battle that’s brought us to our now-evolved understanding of what is racist (Uncle Ben) and what is not (race-based government policies)?
It seems like this battle has been being picked, quite deliberately, over a very long span of time.
Now we’re here, where being a racist is the worst thing you can possibly be, narratives of racism are promoted with increasing vigor and “defund the police” is the next great progressive frontier we are to march towards.
Stupid reigns supreme in the age of information. If we can keep these leftists from gaining real power and re-writing history, historians will see what’s happening right now as a historically notable bout of hysteria. Not unlike the Salem Witch Trials.
She’s a racist. Burn her!
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but thoughts are even worse.
How - in an age when communication and education are entirely under the control of the same mindset? And now being used to craft legislation.
@Beyond_Beyond
Did you ever notice many communist sculptures and illustrations of people are blocky, lacking detail, and straight-up weird looking?
Much post-modern architecture is like an assault on the senses.
I usually get my rice from “Panda Express” anyway…
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