Our “white people problems” problem: It’s time to stop using “white” as a pejorative

[mrtonguetwista]

im white

**GASP**

 

[nrodgers]

^ill check back when red x isnt red

 

[Ethereal]

I read all of that shit — sort of regret it.

If you’d rather not engage with what a piece of art actually is—as in, what it expresses and how well it is expresses it—then fine. But don’t presume some kind of superiority because of that choice. One of the biggest fallacies in the way we talk about art is this idea that somehow personal taste equates to quality: That each of us miraculously only enjoys movies and music that are the best of their respective medium, and ergo, any movies and music we don’t enjoy must be terrible. It’s a standard we generally only apply to art. (Well, and politics.) If we dislike salmon, we don’t presume salmon itself to be bad; we just understand we don’t have a taste for it, and we’re generally willing to acknowledge that if prepared properly, we might even be capable of enjoying the occasional piece of salmon. It’s not that degrees of “good” and “bad” don’t exist, but ultimately our taste in art isn’t so different from our taste in food, in that it’s personal, and—if we’re being honest with ourselves—fairly malleable.

The fucked up thing is the author has a completely valid, and a completely invalid point intertwined. It is true that the cultural arts of America are saturated with snobs who seem to take great pride in what they enjoy while writing everything else off as being "terrible". Often times they are only vocal about what they don't like.

However, I have no fucking idea what any of that has to do with white people.

 

[DubbC415]

^^^^and "white" is a fairly good description of something bland, watered down, boring or cookie cutter.

 

[Nuttkase]

This whole thing reminded me of a time when I was trying to explain a movie to this middle aged black couple and I refered to it as a dark comedy and the lady was like "What's a dark comedy?" to which the guy replied "I think he means a comedy aimed at black folks. You know, Tyler Perry films and like Soul Plane, those type of movies" and I was just like "Ummm..." and before I could say that's not what a dark comedy is they thanked me for my help and left. I was just kind of like :ermm:

 

[MizeryMade]

 

[Defy]

This whole thing reminded me of a time when I was trying to explain a movie to this middle aged black couple and I refered to it as a dark comedy and the lady was like "What's a dark comedy?" to which the guy replied "I think he means a comedy aimed at black folks. You know, Tyler Perry films and like Soul Plane, those type of movies" and I was just like "Ummm..." and before I could say that's not what a dark comedy is they thanked me for my help and left. I was just kind of like :ermm:

that's because he exposed you for the racist that you are

 

[Defy]

oh, and I'm supposed to post that I'm not reading that like everybody else

 

[ColdBlooded]

This whole thing reminded me of a time when I was trying to explain a movie to this middle aged black couple and I refered to it as a dark comedy and the lady was like "What's a dark comedy?" to which the guy replied "I think he means a comedy aimed at black folks. You know, Tyler Perry films and like Soul Plane, those type of movies" and I was just like "Ummm..." and before I could say that's not what a dark comedy is they thanked me for my help and left. I was just kind of like :ermm:

He must have thought you said darkey comedy.

 

[SFC I-Side]

I stopped when I read "Roots for white people" what the hell does that even mean???

 

[SFC I-Side]

Arite I got through the first paragraph, Cold Blooded what the hell was that? I have never seen it but wiki tells me its a show about the media biz in American in the 1960s now why both of us would agree the show would be better from a comedy perspective if the whole cast was Han Chinese but thats not what the makeup of hollywood was in the civil rights era

 

[Mac Jesus]

It's a double standard that black men look normal with a shaved head whereas white men generally look like Howie Mandel.

 

[Mac Jesus]

We must now cast off the scalp shackles of follicular oppression!