Ah, well if all of his contracted artists are losing money, maybe he’s losing his viability as a producer. Tastes change.

I’m guessing that in the short term, he’s got enough contracted artists to keep him happily employed. This really only hurts his public profile, which as a producer, is already kind of irrelevant. I didn’t even know Dr. Luke was actually a guy and not just some faceless conglomerate of songwriters and producers until…

Chris Brown. R Kelly. Etc, etc.

*shrug*

And he’s a fucking producer. It’s not like Phil Spector was hurting for work after it was learned that he was a monster.

Do you have a better suggestion for a reaction? Like in your mind is there something better that a white person could say in a story like this other that “what the actual fuck this is stupid”

Okay. Well, racism is normal for a lot of people. *shrug* I guess when it’s not happening to you, you can afford to be “shocked” at it. It seems odd that, in light of all that’s happened in the past few centuries, that people still shocked that people say and do racist things. I’m always impressed with people’s…

So, because you don’t experience racism, people who do should stop saying it’s a normal part of their life? Because it’s not normal for you? Because white people’s experiences are “normal” and the daily systemic racism that PoC face everyday is abnormal?

I guess if you don’t experience it yourself, it’s probably not normal. Consider yourself lucky. You don’t experience racism. *golf clap*

But it’s not “normal”. In no other country is this kind of anti-black racism “normal”. It exists but it’s something that America is especially sick with.

2016. Straight people: still dumb as hell when it comes to the queers.

Saying “well, this is normal” is accurate, though. Pretending racism is some kind of abnormal occurrence is what allows people to think that it’s not a widespread, systemic problem. Being “shocked” allows for people to make (mostly) performative gesture against racism and then continue thinking that the problem is…

Being shocked implies that it’s a rare occurrence. If you know that it’s not, the whole “shocked” angle just comes across as dismissive.

This whole “white folks being surprised at racism” just strikes me as a more polite, liberal version of “well, quit hanging around racists, duhhh!”

Really? The internet seems about as racist as anything else. Racial slurs are one small price of systemic racism.

I’m convinced that Prince is an untapped gif-mine. Every last gif of him I see, I save.

I don’t understand it either, but it’s fucking exhausting.

“Waaah, I don’t want to see the byproduct of the very same inequality that benefits me!”

Petulant isn’t a good look on anyone. I’m surprised you didn’t throw a “neener-neener” on that.