Poll of the Day > Is complaints about overt racism overplayed?

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I mean Hollywood, game developers, most big companies are all anti racism.

I get that there are microaggresions and annoying prejudices that must be dealt with but come on... does anyone care that cleetus and his trailer park crew yelled the n word.
also lol at the outraged of Kramer of all people from Seinfeld making racist rants... did that really hurt your feelings?

goldbman posted...

I mean Hollywood, game developers, most big companies are all anti racism.

only as much as they profit from it

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Blightzkrieg posted...

only as much as they profit from it

Yeah but basically anyone cool is anti racist...

Thank God the people who make Wolfenstein arent. I think CoD WW2 was ruined when SHG went the way of public pressure back when the whole erroneous anti-Nazi craze was in full-swing.

Michael Richards didnt say anything worse than what he was already called. The difference is his position and that the public/society is generally too stupid to see that.

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goldbman posted...

Yeah but basically anyone cool is anti racist...

And that basically only became true in the last few months after public pressure

The NFL was shitting on Kaepernick and then 180d like the craven little shits they are

Even still,virtually no company is willing to ackowledge the Uighur problem in China (and I suspect if it really came down to it, a lot of them would ultimately flip sides if pressured)

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Blightzkrieg posted...

only as much as they profit from it

Not really. They tend to push far-left causes even without a profit motive, probably in no small part because the industry heavily leans liberal.

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Zeus posted...

Not really. They tend to push far-left causes even without a profit motive, probably in no small part because the industry heavily leans liberal.

Businesses don't do ANYTHING without a profit motive. What are you talking about.

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goldbman posted...

does anyone care that cleetus and his trailer park crew yelled the n word.

I know I don't. Unless some people are actually attacking people of a different race all the time I'm not going to be outraged by a word. It all depends the context though. Most folk have probably made the odd racist comment in their life. Hell comedians sometimes do it. That is harmless and doesn't matter much to me. If however some folk decide to attack a race on a regular bases then yeah they have crossed that line to actually become a racist and that's something I don't stand by.

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more like goldbmid

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https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1270776202404474881


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Wanded posted...

https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1270776202404474881

the left literally does not control ANY of those things

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Mead posted...

the left literally does not control ANY of those things

What's the left wing to right wing ratio in those places?

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"Are complaints"

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Wanded posted...

https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1270776202404474881

Ah yes, our liberal administrative government, the Trump administration.

I heard AOC and Joe Biden insisted that Brie Larson be cast as Captain Marvel.

It was only through Ben Shapiro's timely intervention that she was prevented from killing Thanos in Endgame.

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Cacciato posted...

Ah yes, our liberal administrative government, the Trump administration.

https://www.foreffectivegov.org/node/3461

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Do you feel everything should be looked at through the lens of race?
Do you think minorities are a united group who generally act and think and vote the same?
Do you think white actors should only do voices for white cartoon characters?
Do you think white people are privileged?

If you answered yes to any of those - you are more of a racist than you may think.

Zareth posted...

Businesses don't do ANYTHING without a profit motive. What are you talking about.

That's completely untrue. For starters, you have overt-Christian businesses which sacrifice massive amounts of money to shut down on Sundays due to their sincere religious beliefs. While other businesses don't go to the same extremes, you certainly have other examples. More importantly, something like the film industry isn't like a typical business anyway and a lot of people within the industry operate from a position of advocacy.


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kukukupo posted...

Do you feel everything should be looked at through the lens of race?
Do you think minorities are a united group who generally act and think and vote the same?
Do you think white actors should only do voices for white cartoon characters?
Do you think white people are privileged?

If you answered yes to any of those - you are more of a racist than you may think.

Whites are the real victims of racism

https://youtu.be/ltmlvk9GAto

That's why there's literally no evidence supporting that idea

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kukukupo posted...

Do you feel everything should be looked at through the lens of race?
Do you think minorities are a united group who generally act and think and vote the same?
Do you think white actors should only do voices for white cartoon characters?
Do you think white people are privileged?

If you answered yes to any of those - you are more of a racist than you may think.

Of course white people are privileged to an extent, it's majority privilege and the fact that they've had the most time to cultivate wealth in this land, though in probably 90%+ cases the wealth has to be reestablished because people aren't going to be responsible with their money or just use it up before their deaths and not passing on much. It's just not a viable excuse for everything in this day and age. Though the steep cost of education really doesn't help mobility in the U.S.A.

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Wanded posted...

What's the left wing to right wing ratio in those places?

representative of the educated public at large

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Mead posted...

representative of the educated public at large

not what i asked

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https://youtu.be/ltmlvk9GAto

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