Let's just cancel the world and start over.
Cancel Culture
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Aren't they trying to cancel Billie Eilish for lesbian baiting and making a racist comment or something like that?
I d like to know their opinion on how people get fat if not from overeating.
Didn't she say that a teamate, who is half ethnically Chinese, looked asian in a photo? Probably wise to not say anything at all but it doesn't sound overly racist to me.
When you’re interacting with twitter accounts like that it’s a sure sign you’re way too immersed in the online culture war. Nothing good will come of that.
This is what I don't know, to me, if it's a comment on a picture or something where someone's expression has literally made them look Asian, I don't really see how it's racist.
Why? Are milf slayers not credible now?! As a milf appreciator(not graduated to 'slayer' yet) I find this highly offensive.
And is this a problem? (When it's not malicious)
It depends on each situation. The person she said it to might have had no issue with it, even if others might have reacted badly to the exact same "joke".
For me, ideally these kinda jokes would never be used and then there would be no issues.
When done in such a way yes it does feed into long-established racist tropes. It reduces a massively diverse community (with a wider ranger of eye shapes btw) to a single characteristic that has been used in many periods of time to discriminate against Asians.
If Rapinoe had said big lips make her teammate look black or a certain nose shape makes them look Jewish then people can make an easy association.
It's certainly true that it's not intentional and not the most racist or offensive thing that can be found on social media but it does feed into an old racist trope used to discriminate in the past. It's one of those things where I wouldn't call her a racist but advise she refrains from making such problematic comments again.
Definitely. Probably slightly hypocritical considering how much time I spend on here but Twitter seems so amazingly toxic it intuitively seems way more damaging to devote a lot of headspace to.
And if all you ever do on there is back and forth culture war point scoring then it’s got to leave its mark on even the most balanced of individuals to begin with.
What if comedians make a joke about it?
It doesn't change that it's still feeding into racist narratives but culturally, the general public usually gives comedians a little more slack than other celebrities. That doesn't mean they should, in my opinion, since "it's just a joke" has its own history of dehumanizing people and excusing it. I mean look at the old minstrel shows. Excusing it as "comedy" doesn't work for me.
I may well be completely wrong, but I'd say that possibly points to it being someone with a mental health issue. As such we should probably view it as a product of that rather than the voice of some kind of movement. If I had a friend who was posting that stuff with that regularity, I'd be a bit concerned for them.
Asian has their own cancel culture, unrelated to western politics but they have it.
There is a lot of Asians tbf. I'm sure a lot of them are into it.
One week later
wtf do they put into the drinking water in the US.
What the feck...
One week later
wtf do they put into the drinking water in the US.
Is she the same psychiatrist who told her class that in her dreams she dreams about murdrering white people and burying their bodies?
The Yale speech? I think so.
Would be bad enough if she was just another militant pseudo-academic, but an actual physician with a medical degree and specialising in psychiatry, wow.
Sounds like she needs her own psychiatrist.
Or a date.
One week later
wtf do they put into the drinking water in the US.
WtF did I just watch. Wish I'd never discovered her.
Not sure what it's like in the US but no practising psychologist in the UK describes themselves as Psychoanalysts. It's a not a term given much respect at all.
One week later
wtf do they put into the drinking water in the US.
Feck sake
I'd bet very good money she describes herself as an "anti-racist" as well.
All sorts of shit: https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ng-water-contamination-forever-chemicals-pfaswtf do they put into the drinking water in the US.
i didn't look thoroughly but it seemed to be an astrology/witch account. that's a different, terrifying level of online.
Pretty much.
These clips really show the economics underpinning the ''cultural war'' shtick. One week it's owning conservatives to viral and the next it's interviewing Dr. Death To White People.
Exactly this. And the irony of it is amazing as always
Hope whoever cancels that Megan Rapinoe for her racist tweet about asians.
Always knew there was something fishy about her.
at the end of the day racism is racism.
Always knew there was something fishy about her.
at the end of the day racism is racism.
what do you think should happen to her?
I find it odd when some of you who are ostensibly against this kind of thing want proponents punished for being hypocrites on it. if you think its mental (I do) then don't be for it ever no
Actually I found this interview with Marc Lamont and Lindsay pretty good although quite brief. I guess I found it good because it's rare that the anti-woke and the woke actually share a platform and debate each other.
dunno, im still new to this..
but whatever usually happens in this situation.
I dont like racists
Oh? Like what?
Posers, show-offs, full of themselves narcisists
these lot usually have something to hide...
her being outed as a racist disappoints but doesnt surprise me.
I especially love how Fox news of all things asked for a clarification on her tweet. Isn't most of their line up old men whinging about cancel culture? Do they not see the irony?
I hope Billy Ellish another recently outed racist gets 'canceled' too.
But is she too big a star?
But is she too big a star?
Yeah, that is definitely what has happened alright.