A bizarre racist outburst at a Texas school board isn't an isolated event — it's part of a national pattern

A bizarre racist outburst at a Texas school board isn’t an isolated event — it’s part of a national pattern

  • uxia@midwest.social
    58·
    2 years ago

    this is how it is for some people when there are non-white characters in movies, they consider it “pushing an agenda” when there’s nothing like that happening. it’s like they think people of other races just… don’t exist? therefore they should not be in movies? i don’t really get it

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 years ago

      Because there is nothing to get besides racism. The very very few edge cases out there where race mattered and was miscast never get mentioned because usually the person who did it wrong says sorry and there is no story. You are giving the enemy too much credit.

      And yes I don’t think she was miscast in Annihilation. The second book came out after they started making the movie (which is when that one line about her facial features was put in) and the fact that she had partial Asian ancestry wasn’t plot important in any of the 3 books.

    • Auli@lemmy.ca
      17·
      2 years ago

      My problem is the race switching. It is so stupid and is done in stories already told. There are tons of stories that have not been told about the race you are race swapping with. Why can’t we tell their stories instead.

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
        21·
        2 years ago

        Or when they put random people of colour in historical dramas. I get that they need to somehow include actors of all origins, but I can’t help but feel like it’s also a kind of white washing? Like, sorry but a black person would not be a noble at the Louis XIV court, how about you actually talk about what history was like from that perspective rather than just shoehorning the actors and pretend like everything was fine and dandy for people of colour in those days.

  • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz
    38·
    2 years ago

    Even disregarding all bigotry and racism that this screams of, it’s dumb af because kids can be friends with FUCKING rocks. It’s pretty much their superpower.

  • Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip
    28·
    2 years ago

    thats not new at all, I remember there being traces of that still in everyday interactions as a kid. Theres nothing new about the hate they are spewing, thats what makes it extra vile to me.

    • joel_feila@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      it is just a lot more in the open now. And sadly most of people I know genuinely side with right most out of believe that it is the more neutral or agenda free stance.

    • butterflyattack@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 years ago

      I mean, some of them are. Many of them are nazi-lite. They get upset if you point it out, though. A lot of them probably believe they are fine upstanding patriots. A few can be talked to, and some can even change, but most just dig in deeper, so the problem doesn’t seem likely to go away; it seems to be getting worse.

  • GreenMario@lemm.ee
    26·
    2 years ago

    It is now woke to be in the same room as another race.

    Add it to the list.

    Hey, can we start calling things they like woke? Like Jesus Trump and church and flags n stuff? I bet we can destroy this word by just stealing it back.

      • teft@startrek.website
        17·
        2 years ago

        Radical compassionate homeless asexual socialist. He’s woke af. I’m not a 100% sure on what woke is yet but I’m certain Jesus is woke.

      • YaaAsantewaa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        112·
        2 years ago

        Trump voters would’ve been the Romans crucifying Jesus because he was “disrespecting Roman authority” at the time and being a nuisance.

        • grue@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 years ago

          I think the MAGAs would’ve been the Jewish establishment in your analogy, while the Romans would’ve merely been “enlightened centrist” liberals who didn’t really give a shit but wanted to keep order.

      • glockenspiel@lemmy.world
        83·
        2 years ago

        They are definitely turning on Jesus and have been for quite some time now. There is an interesting statement from the former head of SBC wherein he states churchgoers are finding Jesus’ supposed teachings as being too woke and part of a liberal agenda. Can’t make this up. It was only a matter of time.

        But Jesus also didn’t like mixing. That is why he instructed the apostles and other adherents to never teach gentiles and Samaritans. That was retconned years later by the church because they said people had visions of a resurrected jesus commanding them to mix with gentiles. But for a while there it was very much a racial/ethno in-group only. That is why Jesus supposedly stated he taught in parables; so gentiles wouldnt understand what he was talking about and find salvation. That is what Matthew 13:11-17 is about.

        People need to stop characterizing Jesus as some socialists woke advocate like I see in this thread. His character wasn’t. He didn’t preach universal love and compassion, and he taught contradictory messages about pacifism probably because dozens of people created this character over centuries.

        I honestly think people want to think the religion can’t be that bad and that the adherents are just awful.

        • ryry1985@lemmy.world
          8·
          2 years ago

          Many scholars believe that the reason they were told to not preach to Samaritans and Gentiles was that his disciples were not ready to face cross cultural rejection. This is because of their earlier exposure to this rejection by Samaritans in which they wanted to respond by fire and brimstone. Jesus rebuked this response then. Later on, he instructs them to make disciples of all nations.

          The passages in Matthew are referring to those that do not listen to his teachings (by choice), not the Gentiles. He’s saying they will not receive his blessings if they do not listen and learn from his teachings.

      • aedalla@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 years ago

        This is my favorite part about racists worrying about white people becoming a minority. It’s only because they don’t consider mixed kids as their progeny. Your “white” genes aren’t being murdered by “black” genes inside your grandaughter. They’re both just kinda in there and that’s fine.

        • mechoman444@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          You can’t explain this to these people.

          Four indictments on Donald Trump and they still think it’s a conspiracy.

  • Riyria@sopuli.xyz
    161·
    2 years ago

    My wife tells me she thinks that I am being over dramatic when I say we need to start thinking about exit strategies for fleeing the US, and then stuff like this pops up.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      91·
      2 years ago

      You’re not being overdramatic. I’ve been thinking about an exit since 2020. I plan to have it figured out in advance of the next election so that I can flip a switch and go. Don’t wait for disaster. Have an exit decided and hope you don’t need it.

  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
    31·
    2 years ago

    There is a good argument to be made for grinding right wingers up for compost to grow flowers.