If Mort Divine ruled the world

[CiG]

White kids, racism and the way privileged parenting props up an unjust system.

It may seem like there's already more than enough writing about white children. After all, the vast majority of children's literature is about white kids. But, Hagerman told me by phone, "while there is a lot of writing about white kids, there is not a lot from a critical race perspective. Much of the developmental psychology literature uses white kids as the sample, but doesn't interrogate what whiteness means or how it situates them in society." White children are everywhere, but their whiteness is effectively invisible and unspoken.

Not sure why anybody is shocked that people are commonly depicted as white in cinema, books, television etc when whites are a majority in the countries they focus on when talking about this subject. If you go to India, would anybody assume to find their media representation of people not brown? Yes we have a history of racism in the west (everywhere does) but it makes sense to me that people in media reflect the demographics of the location the media comes from.

Also the implication seems to be either that we should restrict choice in order to equalize people or that we should purposely hold back from trying to give our kids the best, because racism.

Pretty bizarre article.

 

[Dak]

The author writes a lot of "bizarre" articles.

 

[rms]

anyone watch(ing) the R Kelly doc?

 

[Dak]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/women-dont-belong-in-combat-units-11547411638

All anecdata, but I'll vouch for seeing similar anecdata. I met like 2 women in the USMC out of around 30-40 who could hang with the men, and they were exceptional specimens in multiple aspects. I met a 3rd who could hang physically, but was an emotional trainwreck waiting to happen. I married one of the ones who had no business in the military in general, and she'll agree with that statement. Was a matter of survival.

I will say that the USMC seems to be fighting back by upping the physical requirements across the board, which is a solid clandestine response.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

White kids, racism and the way privileged parenting props up an unjust system.

Noah Berlatsky

Stopped there.

EDIT: I lied

White children are everywhere, but their whiteness is too often invisible and unspoken.

lmao, who could be behind the unspoken and invisible privileges masquerading as whiteness

 

[The Ozzman]

Stopped there

Every. Single. Time.

 

[EternalMetal]

As for white adults, Hagerman says, if they really want a less racist world, they may need to rethink how they approach parenting. "Everyone is trying to do the best for their kid," she says. "But I actually think that there are times when maybe the best interest of your own kid isn't actually the best choice. Ultimately, being a good citizen sometimes conflicts with being good parents. And sometimes maybe parents should decide to be good citizens over being good parents." That could mean voting to raise taxes so to better fund public schools. Maybe in our case it should have meant choosing a public school rather than a private one.

Damn. The rich and privileged really do have a different view of the world. It seems ironic to me that the author of this article just automatically equates white with rich, and minority groups as almost like a child that needs to be coddled and bolstered. Do you really think that rich-ass black kid sitting in the seat next to whitey in some prestigious private school is going to face the same hardships as the black kid who grows up in poverty? The author of this article views our continuously more stratified aristocracy as a race issue, when in reality it is a socioeconomic one. Ironically enough, people like this author are actually doing a disservice to the idea of racism, imo. Your gated community tokens arent struggling, that's for sure.

I also envision this author going to some charity donation drive for poor inner city minorities dressed in a suit, and up on a power podium attempting to say how he is just like them. Nobody buys it, and apparently neither does he himself. He is right in a way though; the way that rich white kids are force-fed the idea of being charitable towards minorities just enforces how different the two are. It also breeds the type of class resentment that led to the core middle class standing behind and voting for somebody like Trump.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

anyone watch(ing) the R Kelly doc?

uuuuhhh, no
why is thing even being made?
is it like the anniversary of his pissing on a 14-year-old or something??

 

[rms]

Errrrbody seen the Gillette commercial? How ridiculous is the part where the guy goes to talk to a (gasp) woman(!) And he's quickly corrected hahahahaha

 

[The Ozzman]

Showing TYT on there shows where P&G's loyalties lie

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

the amount of backlash this ad is getting just warms my heart <3

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I hadn't bothered watching that commercial before. lmao, didn't realize they even had that Young Turks chick in it. P&G is one of the most pozzed companies out there right now.

 

[CiG]

lol

 

[EternalMetal]

Never heard of 'pozzed' before so I googled it. lmfao

The only thing that I can really knock the add for is the shameless TYT plug. Are people against the social propaganda aspect of it? Political adds have existed for ages now. The liberals have this one in the bag though. You are automatically pro-misogynistic if you disapprove of this add, and I can't even blame them for thinking that way. Real men should respect women. I mean, does anyone really disagree?

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Showing TYT on there shows where P&G's loyalties lie

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[CiG]

Real men should respect women. I mean, does anyone really disagree?

Corporations shouldn't be moralizing like that, in my opinion. Or they can, but I can tell them to fuck off, especially when their business practices are pure dogshit.

The trap is that it shames men not into respecting women (most already do to varying degrees) but that it specifically shames men into supporting #MeToo which is an entirely different thing. It also implies that there is a #RapeCulture where a minority of men need to stand up to some evil imagined majority, when we all know that statistics show that rapists and harassers aren't representative of men. If they really had any balls or sense of scope they'd have made the advert specifically targeting wealthy men, men in power, men of privilege and riches, they'd have called out Hollywood for example.

But no, same old shit, they just smear regular men with the actions of rich animals with no sense of boundaries. Fuck the advert on every level.

Only bit I liked was that they used that viral clip of the black guy breaking up a fight between two young black kids. Great clip, except it was mischaracterized by putting it in a video about men and their treatment of women, when that clip was about men and class.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Fuck the advert on every level.

Pretty much this. Fuck that misandric ad.

 

[CiG]

The only good thing to come out of the advert is the backlash. Great to see.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

the youtube comment section for that ad is a gold mine.

 

[Einherjar86]

I also love the reactions. Watching a bunch of fragile man-boys get their panties in a bunch is really exhilarating.

Seriously, if it offends you that much then don't buy their product. This is almost as bad as when people got up in arms over athletes kneeling during the national anthem.