[ SECRET POST #3591 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3591 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Schadenfreude

[(Anonymous)]

And missing that the Japanese are probably the closest group in the world to having white privilege. If you went to Japan as a white, you'd find that you don't have white privilege there at all, whites are just another bunch of foreigners regardless of how big a noise we are back home.

If you want to know what it is like to be black in America, be white in Japan. You can be a nice novelty to show off, if you know enough Japanese and are pretty/handsome enough, or a goofy clown that everyone won't mind tolerating in order to enjoy your Homer Simpson-esque blundering if you don't. Then you do something that attracts legal attention, or want something that isn't being generously given to you (or are not properly grateful), then you are in for it. Oh, big time.

Re: Schadenfreude

[(Anonymous)]

The better defense here, for the Avril Lavigne thing, is that it's a confusing situation where the Japanese context is fundamentally different from the Asian-American context, and where something was made that was intended for one of those contexts, but because of globalization, wasn't limited to it

I mean, at the very least, it doesn't require trying to parse specifically Japanese understandings of race, so that's something

Re: Schadenfreude

[(Anonymous)]

This whole rant doesn't change the fact that Americans were talking over the members of a certain culture that they weren't feeling the appropriate amount of outrage at this filthy evil culturally appropriative music video.

Re: Schadenfreude

[(Anonymous)]

+1.

"Americans were talking over the members of a certain culture that they weren't feeling the appropriate amount of outrage"

Perfectly stated. That whole thing was interesting to watch.