Yeah, I've long held the belief that when anyone sincerely uses the term "politically correct" they're really saying, "Don't call me out for being an asshole!"
It looks like those many guys-- Chris Cuomo, Jacob Sobaroff, Don Lemon, etc do understand, and soon Megyn Kelly also was forced to "understand" there was a thing she was missing about blackface. You think it was unfair that she came under pressure, but her impulse in asking these questions on the air was that she IS racist and resented the expectation that she change her way of thinking and speaking. It doesn't bother her if black people are offended or not, she feels she has the right to continue to do as she pleases. That's what the right is fighting for isn't it?
You know I thought about it and I respectfully disagree on two counts:
1 it's generally within the $10 range to buy costumes at CVS or Michaels Cradt Store or Target and it's the investment in time that's the bigger problem for parents working multiple jobs
2 I dont think theres any consensus outside of people who inhabit boards like these and people who take the more artsy majors at liberal arts colleges that this is a bad or disrespectful thing. Saying they should know better is assuming they have the luxury to take liberal arts courses or to even consume that information in their off time coupled with the dogmatism they they have to agree with you.
Cultural appropriation is a neutral act: Pretty much all of Western culture has involved pourousthrough cultural exchange. People would not have a fascination with east Asian culture if they didn't see oversimplified simplifications of samurai culture or giesha culture in works like Milan or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I wouldnt have read the actual oral history of Pocahontas and the Powhattan tribe with all its brutalities and did a length project on it in college if I didmt have initial interest based on seeing Pocahontas.
I believe if you check my history, youd see ive posted links arguing it elsewhere.
But more to the point, I fail to see any way that this hurts the Indian community (unless I would see polls by the native american community that stopping costumes is a priority of theirs as opposed to say, stopping the keystone pipeline, creating economic opportunity, reducing suicides and rapes). Although its entirely possible, people like you are at least conscious of and raise thpse types of issues in an effective
I am making a judgement on Stephen R's character based on his statements. Stephen R is doing the same thing to Megyn Kelly and wants to destroy her life which seems far from altruistic
Now I think you should apologize to Stephen R for blaming him for this article, or to Evan Hurst for not giving him credit for his article, or to the whole wonketariat because you used the expression 'virtue signaling,' which suggests that altruism is a fraud and a lie.
Calling B.S. on that one! I grew up poor. It's a LOT cheaper to make your own costume than buy one. And, no, it's not OK to be an "Indian" for Halloween. No one's into shaming little kids but their parents should know better. I spent many Halloweens in old bedsheets (ghost), jeans and flannel shirts with straw sticking out (scarecrow) or old nightgown with pale makeup, $1.99 plastic fangs and blood (lipstick) dripping from my lips (vampire). None of that costs what a store costume costs. If you wouldn't dress your kid as a nun, priest or Jesus because it's disrespectful, don't dress them as a Native American.
Megyn Kelly was hired at Faux News because they love blond, blue-eyed, idiot women, willing to spout non-stop, nonsense. The funny part happened when she somehow convinced herself that she was not News Barbie but a real journalist! She wasn't alone in that though. The press in the U.S. all work for the man these days. They'll say anything, do anything, hire anyone, enable anyone, all for good ratings. They no longer have integrity. Poor Megyn just realized that she is a joke but, jokes on them, she's got an ironclad contract and they'll have to pay her many millions to get rid of her.
Well, you might already know this, but her flagrant denial about her own racist assumptions has (finally) cost her her jobhttps://www.rawstory.com/20...
so you might do well to do a little reflection on what yours might cost you.
Or, you could, you know, read the links and educate yourself so it doesn’t have to cost you *too* much. :-/
Or you could of course bury your head in the sand WRT your own complicity and continue to do the Megyn. But look what it cost her – and she was making$69M annually. My guess is that you don’t have that much to waste, but the point is that sometimes even the Duchess Barbies of White Privilege can go too far. Maybe use your head for a change instead of trying to hide behind your privilege trying to hit back at people.
Yeah, I've long held the belief that when anyone sincerely uses the term "politically correct" they're really saying, "Don't call me out for being an asshole!"
It looks like those many guys-- Chris Cuomo, Jacob Sobaroff, Don Lemon, etc do understand, and soon Megyn Kelly also was forced to "understand" there was a thing she was missing about blackface. You think it was unfair that she came under pressure, but her impulse in asking these questions on the air was that she IS racist and resented the expectation that she change her way of thinking and speaking. It doesn't bother her if black people are offended or not, she feels she has the right to continue to do as she pleases. That's what the right is fighting for isn't it?
You know I thought about it and I respectfully disagree on two counts:
1 it's generally within the $10 range to buy costumes at CVS or Michaels Cradt Store or Target and it's the investment in time that's the bigger problem for parents working multiple jobs
2 I dont think theres any consensus outside of people who inhabit boards like these and people who take the more artsy majors at liberal arts colleges that this is a bad or disrespectful thing. Saying they should know better is assuming they have the luxury to take liberal arts courses or to even consume that information in their off time coupled with the dogmatism they they have to agree with you.
Cultural appropriation is a neutral act: Pretty much all of Western culture has involved pourousthrough cultural exchange. People would not have a fascination with east Asian culture if they didn't see oversimplified simplifications of samurai culture or giesha culture in works like Milan or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I wouldnt have read the actual oral history of Pocahontas and the Powhattan tribe with all its brutalities and did a length project on it in college if I didmt have initial interest based on seeing Pocahontas.
I believe if you check my history, youd see ive posted links arguing it elsewhere.
But more to the point, I fail to see any way that this hurts the Indian community (unless I would see polls by the native american community that stopping costumes is a priority of theirs as opposed to say, stopping the keystone pipeline, creating economic opportunity, reducing suicides and rapes). Although its entirely possible, people like you are at least conscious of and raise thpse types of issues in an effective
I am making a judgement on Stephen R's character based on his statements. Stephen R is doing the same thing to Megyn Kelly and wants to destroy her life which seems far from altruistic
That's very valid, I stand corrected
Now I think you should apologize to Stephen R for blaming him for this article, or to Evan Hurst for not giving him credit for his article, or to the whole wonketariat because you used the expression 'virtue signaling,' which suggests that altruism is a fraud and a lie.
Calling B.S. on that one! I grew up poor. It's a LOT cheaper to make your own costume than buy one. And, no, it's not OK to be an "Indian" for Halloween. No one's into shaming little kids but their parents should know better. I spent many Halloweens in old bedsheets (ghost), jeans and flannel shirts with straw sticking out (scarecrow) or old nightgown with pale makeup, $1.99 plastic fangs and blood (lipstick) dripping from my lips (vampire). None of that costs what a store costume costs. If you wouldn't dress your kid as a nun, priest or Jesus because it's disrespectful, don't dress them as a Native American.
Megyn Kelly was hired at Faux News because they love blond, blue-eyed, idiot women, willing to spout non-stop, nonsense. The funny part happened when she somehow convinced herself that she was not News Barbie but a real journalist! She wasn't alone in that though. The press in the U.S. all work for the man these days. They'll say anything, do anything, hire anyone, enable anyone, all for good ratings. They no longer have integrity. Poor Megyn just realized that she is a joke but, jokes on them, she's got an ironclad contract and they'll have to pay her many millions to get rid of her.
They all are...
Should never have hired the disgusting hoe in the first place.
holy shit batman ... isn't that an oxymoron
sorry dude attempted is still a crime... sounds like life to me or death
thanks for the reference ... had to look it up
pretty? beautiful? beg to differ
Took you all day to think of that?
Well, you might already know this, but her flagrant denial about her own racist assumptions has (finally) cost her her jobhttps://www.rawstory.com/20...
so you might do well to do a little reflection on what yours might cost you.
Or, you could, you know, read the links and educate yourself so it doesn’t have to cost you *too* much. :-/
Or you could of course bury your head in the sand WRT your own complicity and continue to do the Megyn. But look what it cost her – and she was making$69M annually. My guess is that you don’t have that much to waste, but the point is that sometimes even the Duchess Barbies of White Privilege can go too far. Maybe use your head for a change instead of trying to hide behind your privilege trying to hit back at people.
*shrug*
*blocked*
She was gone a few hours after the story broke. NBC knew which way the wind was blowing and they got the hell out of THAT.