krantzstone
Krantzstone
krantzstone

Navigating popular culture with the lens of critical race and gender theory is... painful. Makes me want to destroy maybe a 1/4 of my music collection, most of my movies, and a large chunk of books need to be rewritten... but all change is painful, and at least it’s change for the better for me, so I can’t complain.

Nothing deluded about us SJWs. :)

I’m really glad about this: I’d been uninterested in watching his videos because I’d heard about his problematic material in the past, but I’m glad to see he’s grown up to address it publicly. I may actually start watching him now.

I think DZ will be really fun for me to play, once they get all the bugs out and balance the game properly so I’ll still play. Thank you for explaining how it works from the other side. I’ll just have to remember to keep my multiplayer to invite only for now.

Well, I support guaranteed livable income for all, even if it means willfully ignorant people like Nance can sit at home and announce his ignorance to the world.

Best part is you will no longer have to worry that he will be forced to face the consequences of his actions, so I see it as a win-win. :)

Mike Fahey works for Kotaku: GamerGate has been trying to do that for months to him and everyone else who works there, so I suspect he has a better idea of exactly how ‘dicey’ it is than the average gamer.

The difference is that Mike Fahey didn’t do what this guy did: when a fan who was brave enough to reveal their

I tend to recognize GTs that I blocked and reported, because I took screen caps with the Avermedia LGP, which are saved on my computer’s Pictures folder, which is also where my screensaver shows random pictures from. So every time I walk away from the computer, I come back to my desk to get an eyeful of racist,

Heh, have you noticed that when you hover over ‘Friends’ on your map, it shows you people playing the game who you blocked 2 years ago?

I reported this during the beta, but still not fixed, and the major reason why I refuse to go into the DZ until they fix it. The last thing I want is to lose all my loot to some asshat

What’s sad is that my 2008-era 360 Fat is still running with zero maintenance, while my 360 Slim (Halo: Reach edition) is about to go back for repairs... again. :P

Now if only I could get an ac wifi adapter for the 360 Fat, and a bigger HDD...

I’m not denying that at all. Discussion of race and ethnocultural identity is fraught with nuance and the pitfalls of false equivalence or false comparison.

Even within the ‘Asian American’ demographic, there are endless different permutations that alter the essential lived experience.

For example, while I would be

I wasn’t suggesting “Danny Rand” was culturally appropriating within the context of the story, I was stating that Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, the creators of _Iron Fist_, were culturally appropriating and engaging in the “Mighty Whitey” trope, as well as emgaging in the Orientalist tradition.

Even if the creators and

I think that depends on how lightly people take terms like ‘prejudice’and ‘bigotry’ to begin with. I don’t think prejudice and bigotry should be taken lightly, because they are (at least) one-half of the racism equation (which is a lot). That being said, I can see why if people are much more worried about being called

Sorry, I should have been more specific: I was agreeing to your first sentence: “To be fair, the prejudice + power definition is not a universally accepted definition of racism.”

Because there are some social justice groups that don’t operate by that definition.

And to the extent that if we are talking strictly about

That was the point of my last sentence: that root causes don’t absolve anyone of moral responsibility for bullying or prejudice. But without taking into account root causes, it makes it that much more difficult to solve as a global societal issue, because these issues transcend geopolitical boundaries.

In the end, it

I think the issue is that just because someone _passes_ for one ethnicity doesn’t mean they have the kind of background they can draw on to accurately portray a specific ethnocultural background related to that ethnicity.

Not saying actors can’t do research, but considering how egregiously bad accents and portrayals

Likewise. :) Always wonderful to encounter on the internet pleasant discourse on a sometimes very contentious topic. Then again, the internet can turn something innocuous like talking about the weather into a vitriolic flamewar. ;(

Ur, that’s not why. You can disagree with it if you like, but it’s not due to a mistaken shorthand. There’s even a social psychology paper that explores this very definition:

Aww, thanks! :)

Fair enough, although I think Hollywood is seriously delusional if they think they can keep going as they have and not expect a backlash, or indeed, causing PoC and other marginalized groups to start building the foundations for direct competition at a time when the power of the old guard in the entertainment industry