Your wee cent and my two cents form a larger monetary value. ("Wonder Twin Powers Combine!") And on to the commentary:
...UPTIGHT! My GOD!
The reality: Satire. Amusement. Jokes.
The imagined offence: If Outkast had been "protraying racial stereotypes," he'd have half a dozen drunken native american men on stage, not the satirical Indian Princesses that he did.
I can't stand living in a country where everyone is offended by everything. It's beyond ludicrous.
I'm at a loss for coherent words. A choreographed musical act doesn't offend me... (this goes for tits *and* indians) society's up-in-arms responses disgust me to the core of my being.
Sue me, but I think there's an appalling lack of sensitivity and respect for other people in our culture, and I think it needs to stop. I'm quite tired of the attitude that everyone should just buck up and take their licks. People are getting more and more numbed out to the suffering of others. We've become a culture of sociopaths because we no longer have the ability to empathize with the suffering of others. Granted that this incident isn't quite the same as, say, someone torturing a small animal for fun, but the same thought process underlie both actions: a fundamental disregard for the feelings of others. It's the golden rule, y'know? I don't believe in government censorship, but I do believe in people taking responsibility for the effects their words and actions have on others. We are not islands. We all have the ability to hurt other people with what we do, and we all have to take responsibility to not do that.
This is the same flawed logic that somehow allows people to form class action law suits to prove that the sight of a human breast somehow scarred them emotionally, and they should be monetarily compensated for it.
There is no one who can "suffer" from Outkast's song and dance number, saving maybe for classical or country music fans. He was not on stage screaming "Filthy Redskin! Kike! Sand Nigger!"... he performed a satirical dance number to one of his own satirical songs.
What injury was done to anyone? The problem is that the US has become a nation of reactionary, professional victims who think that lawsuits are the way to financial freedom. Sue someone famous, become a millionaire.
No-one's suing anyone here. They're not trying to make money off of it. They're trying to call attention to the fact that what he did was insensitive to a racial group that is not his own, and therefore not his to make fun of.
People who belong to minority groups suffer every day from being dehumanized because they get reduced to caricatures and stereotypes of who they are. Things like this contribute to that dehumanization. It treats people as things instead of full human beings.
All this group is asking for is an apology from the artist, and from the network who allowed him to do the routine. All that needs to happen is something to the effect of a statement that says "I'm sorry I was disrespectful of Native American culture." It's not that complex, it's just an acknowledgement that he did something insensitive, which he did. No-one is dehumanized by seeing a boob on tv. But being made fun of because of your ethnic background or any other immutable trait IS dehumanizing.
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Re: huh.
...UPTIGHT! My GOD!
The reality: Satire. Amusement. Jokes.
The imagined offence: If Outkast had been "protraying racial stereotypes," he'd have half a dozen drunken native american men on stage, not the satirical Indian Princesses that he did.
I can't stand living in a country where everyone is offended by everything. It's beyond ludicrous.
I'm at a loss for coherent words. A choreographed musical act doesn't offend me... (this goes for tits *and* indians) society's up-in-arms responses disgust me to the core of my being.
Re: huh.
Re: huh.
There is no one who can "suffer" from Outkast's song and dance number, saving maybe for classical or country music fans. He was not on stage screaming "Filthy Redskin! Kike! Sand Nigger!"... he performed a satirical dance number to one of his own satirical songs.
What injury was done to anyone? The problem is that the US has become a nation of reactionary, professional victims who think that lawsuits are the way to financial freedom. Sue someone famous, become a millionaire.
Re: huh.
People who belong to minority groups suffer every day from being dehumanized because they get reduced to caricatures and stereotypes of who they are. Things like this contribute to that dehumanization. It treats people as things instead of full human beings.
All this group is asking for is an apology from the artist, and from the network who allowed him to do the routine. All that needs to happen is something to the effect of a statement that says "I'm sorry I was disrespectful of Native American culture." It's not that complex, it's just an acknowledgement that he did something insensitive, which he did. No-one is dehumanized by seeing a boob on tv. But being made fun of because of your ethnic background or any other immutable trait IS dehumanizing.
Re: huh.