We scream into our pillow about racism and sexism so you don't have to!
We scream into our pillow about racism and sexism so you don't have to!
It'll be about 5-10 years before it dies down. White middle class self hatred is apparently eternal though, we'll always find new social movements to flagellate ourselves with. Just remember, though they may constantly swarm social media ready to berate anything that doesn't precisely fit with their sociopolitcal…
No, I just meant that it could be less transparent, and clumsy. America is insanely racially motivated, is it really the optimal solution to programming for everyone to have their own individual single race family show? I watch programs irrespective of the race presented. I don't watch the good wife or cheers or…
Wow so we've got a Jewish family, a Black family, a non specifically white family, and the Janitor family. I guess that's what you call catering to everyone in American television nowadays.
Clone high.
Clone High.
I agree on your second point, I can't really argue with that conceptually, but It's still kind of presenting things not how they actually are, but how we "feel" they should be to be more palatable to other groups. There's a worry at the back of many people's minds that these large cultural symbols will be emblematic…
Except it's a reflection of the British public school system, not your average south london comprehensive. The amount of screen time given to different ethnicities is not at all alarming compared to the real life schools it is a pastiche of.
I went to public school, there were only three black people in my year of a little over a hundred students. The entire point of hogwarts was to reflect British public schools. The library at Harrow was a potential site of the Hogwarts Library, Homerton College Hall was one of the possible sites for the Great Hall…