What about the jew fro gene?
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What about the jew fro gene?
That's not a gene, it's just a sign of their covenant with Satan.
For the record, I believe you're a nice guy, and I do have a chip on my shoulder.Quote:
Originally Posted by g0zen
But I'm no fool.
Look at it a different way. Everyone can and regularly does enjoy things they don't relate to strongly. However, everything everyone is interested in is not well represented in the media. Someone may be able to watch a show about anything but will find it harder to be cast in a role on such a show because of their race. Lots of sitcoms about white families, not so many about asians; Native Americans are often treated like folk characters, etc. So they organize to support each other and create the stories they feel aren't being told and the roles they have trouble finding. And people who support those ideas support their organization. And so you end up with racially focused organizations and audiences. Not because they are unable to watch something like Seinfeld unless it has a black person cussing, but because they'd like to see more minorities have a wider range of roles in the entertainment you don't relate to.Quote:
Originally Posted by buttcheeks
From the old "Mako dies" topic:
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"Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West," Mako said in a 1986 interview with The Times. "That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes — waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain."
The company's mission soon expanded to include training writers. "Unless our story is told to [other] people, it's hard for them to understand where we are," Mako said."
Which is someone who helped found such a group explaining part of the reason why it was done. Whatever your opinion of these kind of groups is, they generally aren't formed because someone has it in their mind that they can only enjoy entertainment featuring a particular minority group.
Does being born by hatching out of a jew egg not mean they are different racially?
Race is a social construct and while technically you are correct, if Jews are regarded by themselves and by much of society as a race, does the distinction between race and not race really matter?Quote:
Originally Posted by g0zen
I kind of knew that point, but had forgotten it. It can be easy to forget that just 20/30 years ago that minorities were not getting the roles that they are now. So yes, I can understand that point.Quote:
Originally Posted by rezo
But your point seems a little bit different from razor's. Yours is more like "hey, my people do that stuff to, so let me play roles about those things" and his is more like "My people don't do things like that, we need our own shows to bring to light those things about us that are different that you are not representing."
There seems to be a distinct difference between one being about inclusion and the other being about diversity. But you may both be right. I've noticed a generation shift on how black people feel about this issue. Adults seem to want inclusion and equality, while young people want diversity and their own thing. It might just be the difference of maturity.
But if you agree with Mako, you have to at least understand why things like BET or Mtv are attacked so much. BET at the very least does a poor job of representing black people as a whole. I think we all know that not everyone likes rap music or r&b and relates to a gf putting a brick through their windshield for catching them cheating. If anything, that channel replaces old stereotypes with new ones.
This is a snippet that says absolutely nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Vegetable
This deals with similarities between human and chimpanzee DNA, no mention of genetic evidence for differences of race between humans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Vegetable
Now, what you WANTED to post was the NYT op-ed done by Dr. Armand Marie Leroi where he tries to claim that recent research into the human genome leads us to re-examine science's decision that race is social and historical, not genetic. He is a minority opinion, but you can read about the debate here.
That this wasn't the first link you posted confirmed my suspicions about your opinions here, that you came in with your own preconceived notions and then when called on them desperately sought out validation.
They didn't. But Richards certainly made sure to validate their heckling by his response.Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Vegetable