supergee | Entries tagged with race

Today’s vote of thanks goes to the millions of white Americans (with one vote each) who know that all Asian-looking people (including those whose families have been here for over a century) have actually just arrived, bearing Oriental Virus Death. The lines at the Asian grocery were moderate.

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Approximately 90% of the people with one vote each who breathed a sigh of desperate relief that they won’t have to be governed by an intelligent woman are white, but let’s blame the Black Biden voters [The Root; you don’t have to click on “I’ve [you should pardon the expression] whitelisted.”]

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But what about the white people? [The Root]

We’re now hearing that a studio exec suggested Julia Roberts for the title role in the Harriet Tubman biopic. There are two things I find unsurprising about that:

(1) A rich, powerful white guy was enough of an asshole to suggest it.

(2) The studio as a whole was not quite stupid enough to go along with it. [The Grio]

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Conservatives Terrified New York Times 1619 Project Will Remind Black People Slavery Existed [Wonkette]

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Detailed account of how little the concept of race is good for

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Forgiveness is for white people. [The Root]

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and other racist terms [Mother Jones]

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100 Ways White People Can Make Life Less Frustrating for People of Color [Broadly]

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Amazon is angry at the researcher who showed that its facial recognition system doesn’t work well with darker faces. [Insurance Journal]

Thanx to

andrewducker

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In the interest of novelty, a story about lots of Americans being intelligent & humane. [BoredPanda]

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Adam Fortunate Eagle, a Native American, traveled to Italy and claimed it by right of discovery.

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

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Andy Duncan remembers a veteran who wasn’t welcomed home. [AP]

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George R.R. Martin is now so successful that his characters don’t have to be whitewashed.

Thanx to

grrm

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Reading about the subprime scandal, I learned that Angelo Mozilo, the CEO of Countrywide Financial, is a dark-skinned Italian who was once refused service at a Southern restaurant because of his pigmentation. When he told them he was Italian, the reply was, “That’s what they all say.”

The confusion remains:

* Mike Tirico

* Vivian Liberto (Johnny Cash’s first wife): Maybe Yes / Maybe No

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Yesterday I linked to George R.R. Martin’s lj post about how he will be playing a modest role in the TV adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death. VICE, in an inadvertent satire of cultural appropriation, made it a story about him, with a picture of the book cover with her name cut off. It’s simply an “African sci-fi novel” (by someone who was born in dark, exotic Cincinnati).

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I’ve been passing all my life. I’m about half Jewish and a quarter Slavic, but the rest is Hungarian, which is to say descended from the (Asian) Huns. Fortunately for me, that didn’t count, and I was officially, hegemonically White. Now it has been theorized that Ashkenazi Jews are not White either.

If humanity survives and looks back at us, the great fantasy of “race” will look even stupider than big-time “amateur” sports and punishing the poor by making them have more children. It was even worse 60 years ago. The treatment of Black people was significantly crueler than now, difficult as that may be to believe, and we had a totally unwarranted certainty that we could tell which was which. Those who wanted to could tickle themselves with fantasies of (in President Eisenhower’s charmingly Freudian phrase) “a big, overgrown Negro” menacing a nice blonde lady like Carol Channing.

There is no such thing as race, and people are punished for being the wrong one.

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“Why do you say, ‘I don’t see color,’ as if it were a good thing?”
Because, as Dr. King said, it would be a good thing if the whole country did it. But the Power Structure sees color, and so do millions of stupid white people who get one vote each, so we have to. It’s one of those things we can’t escape, like government and bondage to our bowels.

ETA: Thank to several helpful comments, I realize this should have been something like “I wish I lived in a world where I didn’t have to see color, where we didn’t have that particular element of collectivist politics that makes many people suffer and gives the rest of us another civic duty.”

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Just the other day on Facebook, John Clute, who definitely knows more words than anybody else now that Bill Buckley is gone, mentioned hypodescent: a system of racial classification where even "one drop" of blood defines a person born of mixed parentage as belonging to the subordinate (in socioeconomic terms) group. Today, we have an example: a Republican saying on television that Tammy Duckworth doesn’t look white enough to have ancestors who fought in the American Revolution.

ETA: And someone with a Spanish name is accused of Extreme Cultural Appropriation for attempting to make off with the obviously Caucasian word hence.