[ SECRET POST #3129 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3129 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

On behalf of myself as a white person, I apologize for the "kill the POC character first" juggernaut phenomenon. It's like trope bingo in every freaking action movie.

NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

I think we ought to apologize for the Black Guy is also a dealer and a rapist trope too. Although the latter probably is going to be hard to shift given recent events. I saw a tabloid headline saying that if we wanted to see the face of rape culture, we should picture Bill Cosby. I for one, as much as I hate him for what he did, am not comfortable selecting a black guy to represent rape culture in the public consciousness.

[(Anonymous)]

Why in the world would you apologize? Do you think it's your responsibility to apologize for the actions of other people because you share a race/skin color?

I don't know about you, but this attitude always pisses me off. Like when a black person does something wrong and then the news media wants to talk to other black people about the "black community" as though they're a homogenous group in charge of policing everyone's actions instead of individuals going about their lives.

Or for myself when people ask me about terrorists in the Middle East and why they do what they do. How the hell should I know!? I have about as much in common with them as you probably do.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I'm sorry that the light-hearted tone of my comment didn't translate for you, nonny. I just think the "black character dies first" phenomenon is ridiculously predictable and over-used. I apologized on behalf of myself, as a non-creator of these works, which I thought would be universally understood as kind of ridiculous. I certainly didn't apologize on your behalf. But hey, find your outrage where you may.

NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Personally I think if we keep on calmly accepting that trope as an audience, and not calling studios out when they use it, we are guilty of perpetuating it. I think you made a good point, and I'm sorry someone else got bent out of shape. The sad fact is that when a movie needs a sacrificial character, a redshirt, to show the main characters that things are getting real, they use a black actor. They get their cast-diversity kudos without having to sacrifice a white character or have a black actor as a main character. It is racism, a subtler sort, but racism nonetheless and the white movie going audience ought to join the black campaign groups in calling it out. Frequently.

[(Anonymous)]

You didn't apologize on my behalf, but you still played into the tired old tripe of having a member of a race apologize for the actions of other people who just so happen to be of that same race.

Maybe you've never experienced it, but it is tiring beyond belief to constantly have to act as a representative of your race. To constantly have people ask you to explain or justify the motivations of people you have nothing in common with just because you happen to share a skin color, ethnicity, or place of origin.

I'm sorry if I came across as dickish -- it's just really...frustrating...to see people doing this because it implies responsibility where it is none.

Anyway, I'm sorry for missing that you were joking.