Check out the recent spate of black athletes and celebrities posting openly anti-Semitic comments on social media (one directly (mis)quoting Hitler re: Jews) with zero repercussions.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2020/07/08/stephen...
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/jewish-leader...
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/9400472/i...
A really thoughtful piece about this by Kareem Abdul Jabbar here too:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-i...
[0] https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/entertainment/nick-cannon-via...
How about Ice Cube, Stephen Jackson, DeSean Jackson, Dwyane Wade, etc. and all those who supported the comments or brushed them off as "speaking their truth" or some other nonsense? They will face no consequences, because, again, racism is deemed okay in the current climate as long as it's aimed correctly.
Can you even _imagine_ the absolute chaos that would rein if a white NBA player started quoting David Duke to millions of followers, and a bunch of white NBA players and commentators supported them?
> Can you even _imagine_ the absolute chaos that would rein if...
I think everyone has their own media diet, influenced partly by their own choices and partly by algorithms. Your media diet likely has a huge effect on whose reactions you see and thus which reactions you perceive to be "brushing something off" or "absolute chaos."
But at the same time, these are well known public figures broadcasting openly racist and anti-Semitic thoughts to millions of people.
I'm not completely sure what to make of it.
>“When you have a person that has the lack of pigment, the lack of melanin, they know that they will be annihilated,” Mr. Cannon said during the June podcast. “So therefore, however they got the power, they have the lack of compassion — melanin comes with compassion, melanin comes with soul. We call it soul — we’re soul brothers and sisters — that’s the melanin that connects us, so the people that don’t have [melanin] are a little, and I’m going to say this carefully, are a little less.”
>“They’re acting out of fear, they’re acting out of low self-esteem, they’re acting out of a deficiency,” he continued. “So therefore, the only way that they can act is evil. They have to rob, steal, rape, kill in order to survive. So then, these people who didn’t have what we have — and when I say we, I speak of the melanated people — they had to be savages. They had to be barbaric because they’re in these Nordic mountains. They’re in these rough environments. They’re acting as animals, so they’re the ones that are actually closer to animals. They’re the ones that are actually the true savages.”
But he started talking about conspiracy theories relating to the illuminati and the Rothschilds (who, yes, happen to be jewish) and how they have all the power. Nothing derogatory or about jewish people in general that I saw.
Every single headline on my news page says he was anti-semetic and completely ignored the blatant racism. What fun times we are in.
??? what are you talking about.
If you want to do this accounting, I'm really here for you.
Also, he didn't lose his job here: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/16/nick-cannon...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/16/nick-cannon...
Even if this were true, which it isn’t, pushing this message leads to worse outcomes for the populations in question. If you are taught that the system is against you and you have no agency, the only rational response is not to try, and instead just harbor resentment. This perpetuates a vicious cycle and leaves everyone worse off. Learned helplessness is real.
https://cos.gatech.edu/facultyres/Diversity_Studies/Bertrand...
The issue for myself and likeminded individuals who actually do not have a stake in the current "power dynamics" -- I could post during the Twitter hack -- is "part" (2).
Where are the "scientific" and "rational" studies on the du jour mob tactics cum "remedy" to social injustice? As a spectator it is reminiscent of previous attempts at "remedy", notably the Cultural Revolution by Chairman Mao. That didn't really solve anything, did it?
Distorted power dynamics certainly should be addressed. There are actually quite a few elephants in the room that aren't even discussed. But please do not make a claim that mobilized mob squads are a "proven remedy to fix power dynamic's distortions in society". The historical verdict on this is: one group of power holders replaces another.
You left out Stonewall, the Haymarket Riot, and the LA riots.
And maybe the Civil War or American Revolution.
I don't know if it's your intention, but the way you phrased it makes it sound like you don't think we should do anything about racism unless it's being done by whatever group is currently the most powerful. Considering that white people are a global minority, it doesn't seem to make much sense to say that posting anti-white/anti-semitic statements to a global audience isn't a big deal just because the person who said it happens to live in a country where they are a minority.