Random Thoughts

Going to preface this by saying I am not well educated in the issues affecting minorities and as such my opinions below shouldn't be assigned much weight. I'm always reluctant to share my thoughts on these issues as I feel that even with the best of intentions my defense of the shift in societal norms may do more harm than good.

Sorry to be very blunt on this but there is a constant back and forth I have whether the majority of the world has common sense or most are lacking it. As a black person, am I offended by a white person playing a black character? No, not at all.
And that's cool, I'm guessing a lot of POC don't care who voices what. But you're not a black voice actor losing out on work to white people. I am an advocate of equality of opportunity opposed to equality of outcome wherever possible but I don't find it hard to believe there are still industries where representation is lower than it should be.


Where do you draw the line? Does Kratos have to be recast because it's a black person portraying a white person? Do these people even see the irony in taking a job from one person and handing it to someone of a specific race in the name of anti-racism?
I see variations of this argument trotted out a lot in the comment sections of Facebook, the BBC, Daily Mail etc. and I wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole on there because I feel people either don't know any better or are so deeply entrenched in their position that there's no point but that's not the case with you so I'll ask; do you seriously believe white people face the same discrimination as any other race?


it seems like the extreme voices of a seemingly minority of people are the ones that get listened to.
I think this has always been the case, my experience of people is that they don't hold strong opinions or convictions, a lot of decisions are made by "the loudest voice in the room."

How did this whole anti-racism movement go from protest against police brutality and other forms of obvious racism to this? Black people are not charity cases but it seems there are too many people on either side who think we are.
I don't know exactly, at a guess I would say the whole thing has been an unlikely alignment of circumstances. For example the killing (I nearly wrote "death"...) of George Floyd being brought to light during a time when the west was in lock-down. For some people that would genuinely have been the first time they learned how prevalent and institutionalised racism could be.

By specifically casting a person of colour in that role for a character do you not further drive divisions?
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Yes, some white people would feel discriminated against.

What needs to happen is these underrepresented groups are given the pathway and impetus to be in the same positions as others. That takes time and requires fundamental change.
And the issue is so complex that I can barely begin to wrap my head around what an effective solution would be.

In my experience, around half of clickbaity cancel culture/outrage articles reference tweets from trolls. Blatant trolls.
I also believe there's a contingent of content producers that hold up ridiculous outliers as examples of an issue to diminish its validity overall.
 
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The answer being no to your question around white people suffering more discrimination than others. And I am with you regarding the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. The situation I mentioned seems to be pointing more towards equality of outcome as no other races are going to be considered for a voice role.
 
The answer being no to your question around white people suffering more discrimination than others.
Not being on social media I imagine you're partially insulated from this but there's a comical number of (generally older) white people that conflate equality with discrimination and genuinely feel that white people receive the highest amount of racial discrimination.

And I am with you regarding the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. The situation I mentioned seems to be pointing more towards equality of outcome
It definitely is (assuming studios make this a policy) but the reason I brought it up is that while I am a proponent of opportunity over outcome I accept that there are concessions that may have to be made short term as a kind of bridge to building true equality, the "how" and "when" of which we can probably all agree is far from clear.

I do appreciate like a lot of compromises it is contentious, I believe affirmative action is still quite a controversial subject.

For what it's worth I think these are good healthy debates to have because while people may disagree on the details they ultimately want to achieve the same thing for the most part.

Black people are not charity cases
Unrelated but as someone who grew up low-income I reflexively understood the negative connotation attached to the word charity but I got to thinking about what it means; helping the less fortunate.

From there it sent me on this personal etymology rabbit hole where I began to question what "less fortunate" meant, eventually arriving at the question of how people become "less fortunate" and it's been rattling around in my head a bit ever since.
 
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I was thinking about the decay of the simpsons (I think about that at least once a month), and despite the whole "change of writers, lack of ideas, satire that became satirizing, flanderization, politicization, worship of pop culture, lack of space to be belligerent, targeting lower common denominator, etc.", the idea of how "the average family" that the simpsons portrayed has changed in the last decade or so. And I find it hard to relate or pinpoint a core, maybe it's that I grew up and I don't have the idea of a nuclear family in my head, but seems like the internet really atomized the family, now kids can just be all the time in their own bubble, and the first lens to filter ideas is not the family or even school, it's not "parents trying to find out what their kids are up to" and more "parents trying to meddle into their own bubble" and where the shared experience of a family is constructed on an operational more than on a social/cooperative level. While "their bubble" was always important to create an identity on young teens, is today even more than ever in the reach of parents with an internet connection (which doesn't make it easier for kids to have a way to create their own values and contrast them).

Looking at the 90s the core focus in sitcoms changed from family to friends, relies more heavily into situational and that delayed "finding ourselves" period that young adults (again, delayed) feel thrown into a world they don't know where they fit in (the coming of age story that was usually centered around 15/18).

What would you say the "average family" is today and what would be their inherent traits ?
 
Looking at the 90s the core focus in sitcoms changed from family to friends, relies more heavily into situational and that delayed "finding ourselves" period that young adults (again, delayed) feel thrown into a world they don't know where they fit in (the coming of age story that was usually centered around 15/18).

What would you say the "average family" is today and what would be their inherent traits ?



funny because i was thinking about married with children (tv show) yesterday and watch some clips on youtube, it's still hilarious..then got me thinking how PC modern family was lol. also if you just went off modern family, you would think ed o'neill is a really kind, politically correct, soft guy. watch the clip below :ROFLMAO:

 
When using Google, does anyone else skip the paid for ads? I have been doing this for as long as I remember using the internet. I always find that they are loosely connected to what you are actually looking for. Sometimes the header is completely made up and when you click on it you get a different product or service.
 
I haven't laughed this hard at anything as much as the timestamped clip in this video for a long time:



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Affleck and Keaton donning the cape and cowl once more for the new Flash film apparently. Tits are officially buzzed all the way off.
 
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Anyone heard of the North Face Purple Label (which is exclusive to Japan)

some real cool shit
 
I wonder what the fuck happen with my Castle of Greyskull. I had it when I was a kid, at some point my mother told me that it was storaged "in your grandmother storage room", I check it ten years ago and it was no there. Same thing with lot of toys from back in the day. Everytime I try to find the truth about it I never have an answer. I think it is a parents consiracy all over the world and they sold it at ebay or something.
 
I wonder what the fuck happen with my Castle of Greyskull. I had it when I was a kid, at some point my mother told me that it was storaged "in your grandmother storage room", I check it ten years ago and it was no there. Same thing with lot of toys from back in the day. Everytime I try to find the truth about it I never have an answer. I think it is a parents consiracy all over the world and they sold it at ebay or something.

I remember when my brother was in hospital when we were kids. There was a toy room and I was absolutely enamoured with the fact they had a Castle Greyskull there. I've still got things like Skybase, Marineville, and Tracey Island in my mam's attic. Should probably donate em to Christie's.

Fun side-note: I also have the B:TAS Batmobile, that has indeed lost its wheel. Wonder if it's slowly decaying at the side of a motorway somewhere... 🤔
 
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