How is commenting on his skin color ok? There should be no double standards if we're to take this seriously.
I agree that it is a bad look and it is not okay, but I don't have a problem with there being a double standard. Might as well have straight pride parades and white history month based on your reasoning. Minority groups are inherently at the behest of the majority.
that isn't the same thing. Celebrating one's heritage, religion, skin color, etc. is no where near the same thing as making fun of someone for their heritage, religion, skin color, etc. Not even close to the same thing.
No, it's not the same thing, and it may not have been the best comparison for me to use, but I was just trying to point out how making fun of somebody because they are white does not have the same impact as making fun of them for being [insert minority description here]. Since we live in a society controlled by straight, white, christian males; insulting somebody for being any of those things is pretty useless since they are in the ruling class. I realize I am still very privileged even if I am not all of those things.
I should note that I absolutely don't think it's okay to say what KD said about white people, but I am not going to treat it the same way as if it were Rapaport insulting KD's ethnicity.
I get what you are saying. I also get why people object to it. It seems like we have a hierarchy of groups that can be made fun of.
First, to be clear, this is a tangent. I don’t want it to take away from the vulgarness and prejudice in KD’s words. I also don’t want this to be seen as definitive, or some thing that I am strongly invested in. It’s just my own observation.
All that said, it seems like blacks stand on top of the social justice ladder. Perhaps women in general come next, with difference given to black women. Next are LGBT people. Then, it gets tricky. Hispanics qualify for social justice only in certain circumstances. Generally, they’re “brown” people. However, if they commit a crime against somebody higher on the social justice latter, all of a sudden they find themselves as a “white Hispanic”. Sorry, George Zimmerman, you’re no longer a minority if you kill a black person. That makes you white.
Even lower on the social justice ladder than Hispanics? Asians. Well, until recently, that is. In this exact moment, political points can be scored standing up to violence against Asians, so they are moving on up the ladder. But, for the last 200 years? Not so much. Asians have historically been victims of racism and oppression, whether it be Chinese railroad workers or Japanese in interred during WWII to Koreans and Southeast Asians discriminated against due to foreign wars. And yet, despite this oppressions, Asians are still discriminated against, and that’s completely legal. Asians are kept out of top universities for no reason other than their race.
Admittedly, I don’t know where Native Americans fall in. The fact that an NFL team used a racial slur nickname for decades says they probably don’t rate highly.
You would think that straight white Christian males are at the very bottom of the pyramid. But, on average, my guess is that Jewish folks rate even lower regarding social justice. Why? Because anti-semitism is acceptable among too many of those at the top of the ladder, as well as by those at the mid- to bottom.
And, this is why the entire thing sucks. None of this is about equality. It’s about who has the largest list of grievances, who has the loudest voice, and who has the allies to amplify that voice. I am hoping that at some point in my lifetime the Supreme Court will end this nonsense, at least in terms of hiring and college admissions.
But, again, this is a tangent. Regardless of hell double standards are defined, KD’s words are homophobic and gross.
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