Xsjadoblayde said:
verdant monkai said:
It's embarrassing how whenever anyone online tries to highlight an injustice or racism that affects white people, they get a load of hate and accusations for it. Its got to the point where you aren't even allowed to be proud of your race on and offline.
I usually leave this sort of comment for someone else to reply to, but screw this day; Leaving aside the whole "race" misuse, what is there to be proud of with a skin colour? So much, so that it is justifiable to complain that your preferred entertainment now contains a smaller ratio of people with matching skin colour to yours, without even seeing the main event?
The trouble is, people take cultural pride and then attach it symbolically to some obvious, but ultimately arbitrary phylogenetic trait like skin tone. It's not the skin color they're proud of, it's 'being x' where 'x' takes everything they identify as part of 'their' culture and folding it under the adjective (black, white, red, orange, green, blue, puce, plaid, whatever) that applies to themselves, so that they may liken the source of their pride unto themselves.
As if every light skinned person owned the accomplishments of Tesla and Twain, and every dark skinned person owned the accomplishments of Holley and Hendrix.
This obviously breaks down a bit when one must acknowledge that if skin matters so, then by the transitive qualities of one's skin, one who is proud of being pale must also own the accomplishments of Hitler while anyone prideful of their wealth of melanin must likewise own the achievements of Idi Amin. But rarely do we come to count the demons among ourselves. Melanin is neither a talisman of evil or a ward against it: we all have monsters in our ancestry we'd prefer to forget.
We are well advised not to be proud of the accidents of genetics and breeding that make the shape of us in the world, but what we do to make that shape emblematic of something good in our own lives. We should stand on the shoulders of giants, neither worship them nor rest on their laurels. Nor should we give a thought to whether or not our heroes or demons look much like ourselves: Martin Luther King Jr. was not great because he was black, but because he thought we could do /better/ than we had in extinguishing the falsehoods of skin.
Adolf Hitler was not a monster because he was white, but because he was so proudly wrong about the meaning of skin.
why would it be forced diversity? One character is black, the rest are white and they managed to up Star Wars usual average of female characters from 1 per movie to 2 per movie, I'd call that a step up.
