Can’t be racist if you get rid of all the brown people taps forehead

  • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Depictions associated with slavery and servile minorities are different than a little girl in a sun hat. Who would have guessed?

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      9 months ago

      Man, if you looked at a bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup and thought that was racist, you’ve got some issues. (The butter one, sure, got a point there

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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        9 months ago

        Wasn’t the butter one just… A human shaped bottle? Looking at the logo from the beginning until the end it doesn’t look like it’s ever been a thing other than simply a depiction of a black woman. Not even a caricature of such, just like a painting of a person who could totally be real. But maybe what I’m referencing doesn’t have the off-shoot flavors. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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        I too enjoy the white privilege of being able to look at something and judge it without thinking about context. It’s fantastic to be able to simplify things to just face value and not think about the racial history behind it. It’s one of my favorite privileges.

        Unfortunately, I somehow never got that middle-aged white man’s confidence of instantly knowing what other people should be feeling, better than they do. I must be defective. But it means I tend to defer to the people that are hurt by something to judge if they’ve been hurt or not.

        https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/2022/june.htm

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          Stfu. It’s not I ain’t heard this, it’s that I don’t accept it, in this limited case. And for someone don’t even know my race to instantly go with the white privilege line is fucking telling.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayOP
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      9 months ago

      The Sun-Maid girl is depicted performing a job that’s traditionally associated with slavery. Is depicting white people performing slave labor also problematic or is slavery only bad when it involves people of color?

      Also, the job she’s doing is predominantly done by immigrants nowadays. Is depicting her as white not disenfranchising these people by denying them representation?