Because it actually matters. I’m White, and I don’t hate other White people solely on the basis of our shared race, but the collective identity of “Whiteness” as defined by the course, IS a problem. We currently live in a society that is essentially a benign white supremacy. It’s not white supremacy in the Nazi/hatred…

But whiteness is NOT an immutable trait people are born with. It is a made-up social construct specifically designed to be exclusionary to protect the property, $, and power of some. How is that not a problem? Whiteness has been a problem from the very moment we thought it up—and I’m sure that is what this class talks…

Yep. It’s all a deflection from how white power structures result in abuses like this:

I mean I must have missed the part in American history where black people and Muslims held all the power and came to dominate the social, political and economic spheres

Yeah, it’s almost as if you have to think more deeply about what the phrase means instead of taking it at its most literal interpretation. Like a university student.

Could be a prank gone wrong, could not be. Either way, for all the passengers knew, it was real and all except for one man of color sat by and did nothing.

Asian erasure is so real. People feel like they get a free pass to say racist jokes about Asians because there is an absolutely incorrect idea that they don’t face discrimination or have to deal with a historical legacy of racism. It’s infuriating. I wish Cho had said something more direct, like, “Yeah I slightly…

Seriously? You asked, “How would you suggest Tilda gain knowledge on the subject?”

They could have had a full Asian cast and hired Asian writers and an Asian director to write a kick ass but nucanced acton film. Marvel is doing this with Black Panter and Captain Marvel.

You are talking about to completely different things and creating a false equivalency.

So the narrative would have become that time that Margaret Cho shut down Tilda Swinton on race. Either way she gets to be the bitch. How about putting the onus on Swinton for learning the things she needs to know and not putting the onus on Cho for not teaching Swinton in the perzact right way.

They problem is that this conversation:

Because Margaret Cho spoke about a lack of representation of Asian Americans in media then Tilda Swenton has thr right to ask for her time.and attention. Ultimately the conversation ended with Tilda not learning something or changing her position. It seemed like she wanted absolution from the head Asian.

This x 10000000. Stop making POC do your work for you. There is a whole internet and decades of both academic and casual discussion of these issues available.

Where has anyone called Swinton a racist asshole? You’re so out of pocket here. The only intense outrage is coming from the people who are just flabbergasted that anyone would dare criticize a well-intentioned white person.

I don’t know why this story is throwing me into a rage loop, but I’m disgusted by Jezebel right now.

She absolutely can complain! B/c she’s a vocal advocate for asian representation she then has to serve as personal informant for all other celebrities?? Fuck that! If Cho has been doing this for years then Swinton should read what Cho has already said! Or what any other advocate has written.

It’s not up to Margaret Cho to alleviate Tilda Swinton’s white guilt. It’s not her job. She is not Representative Asian #4. If Swinton had mixed feelings, she has the money to avoid the role and choose something else. Once she chose to move forward and do the role, then who is benefiting from those guilt feelings,…

She is also falling into the old habit of saying “I want to have a conversation” when what she means to say is “I want you to tell me that what I am doing is okay.”

Well, here’s how these conversations feel as a person of color. A white person reaches out to you sometimes - as the only POC that they know. “Hey, can you explain this one thing to me?” Like, I’m Mexican-American, so they might say, for example, “Hey, can you tell me why people think Speedy Gonzales was a negative…