Running racism in America thread

That’s why our pronoun is they/them. They suck.

 

Man accused of racist attack on Black historian in Florida town faces assault charge

 

Representation = good
Using POC actors to play non-racial specific characters = good
Using Mickey Rooney to play a Japanese guy = bad
Using Emma Stone to play a Chinese woman = bad
Getting upset because the Little fucking Mermaid is Black = U R a racist douche.

 

Which might be bad business ethics, but it's a hell of a leap to brand them racists for it. If a Mexican chef visits Germany, comes back with a great Bratwurst recipe, and opens a food truck selling it, is he also guilty of cultural appropriation? Or should he only be allowed to sell tacos and burritos?

Thanks. I try. But in all seriousness, how is it not totally racist to run this man off the job because he's "not Indian enough?"
It sounds like the guy's only crime here is that his mother married a Dakota man. Since he was a child he's lived in that culture, immersed himself in it, and seems to want to honor it. But because he wasn't born into it, he's not allowed to celebrate it?
Are some of these Native Americans opposed to interracial marriages because they're afraid of diluting their culture? And isn't that the kind of idea that, if you heard it from a Klan member, you'd be justifiably outraged?

By "bitter old dipshits" I mean the 70- and 80-year-olds who explicitly say they would rather see this man's name and memory fade into the ether than let it go on another building where it can do some good and a new generation can learn about his contributions to the city.
A shitty thing that happened to them 40+ years ago. Their anger over that is understandable. Throwing eggs at what is at worst a goodwill gesture is not.

 

Nowhere in the article are they branded as racists. They're branded as recipe thieves.

Would I run him off? No. But the Native people feel differently, and it's not my place to tell them how they should feel about whether this guy should count as Dakota.

I don't think they view it as a goodwill gesture.

 

If the person who came up with the recipe says, "Sure, I'll share it with you -- feel free to use it in Mexico -- I hope you get rich," then I don't see the problem. Or if the person says, "I'll share my recipe -- you share your profits," and you both follow through, I don't see the problem with that either. But that's not what happened here. The rich white ladies came down from Portland and STOLE their tortilla recipe, which the owners had made efforts to hide. I don't know if it's "cultural appropriation," per se, but it's pretty gross. That and the whole kind of colonialist dynamic emanating from it at least makes it cultural appropriation adjacent, if that's a thing. I bet they even took selfies with cute little Mexican street urchins to post on Instagram. Not very Portland. Or at least not very Portland as it likes to think of itself...

 

Fuck Karen Johnson and her antisemitic attitudes in stealing Whoopi Goldberg as a stage name. Designed to insult an entire religion and culture. Imagine if Jerry Seinfeld changed his name to Javaris Jamar Javarison-Lamar

 

Was about to "well actually you" but thought I should look it up first. And what do you know, the US copyright office says you can't copyright recipes except in very specific circumstances. Learn something new everyday.

 

Yul Brenner as the African Pharaoh of Egypt?