have people seen this? I think it is ridiculous and stereotypical. of course most of the comments on there ask people to just laugh it all off-but I am confused what am I supposed to laugh about. The stereotyping, the blatant disregard of power involved in relaionships between white people and people of color, or the fact that these supposed media are really just funny and not at all involved in he production and reification of inequality, oppression, pain, trauma etc? As some of the commenters do point out that this is more than a "white thing" this is a class thing, a sexuality thing, and a gender thing-but I guess that doesn't really seem to matter anyway since all white people apparently like the same shit anyway. huh-maybe I don't get it-just like No Country for Old Men. I am sufficiently annoyed for the day.
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the blogs posted on that site are done, as far as i can tell, purposefully, so as to point out the ridiculousness of all stereotyping.
it definitely walks a fine line though. much in the same way tv shows like 'family guy,' 'south park,' 'the daily show,' and 'colbert report' risk the danger of people who don't have the ability to think critically about racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. laughing at the comments/jokes made on these tv shows...when really, these jokes/comments are ways in which to create social commentary on said 'isms.'
just my personal opinion about the site.
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