[ SECRET POST #4168 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4168 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[South Park]



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02.
(The Scarlet Pimpernel 1999)


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03.
[Daniel Mallory Ortberg]


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04.
[Twin Peaks]


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05.
[Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg]


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06.
[Lip Sync Battle: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Channing Tatum, Tom Holland]


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07.
[Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez]












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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

How does that even make sense?

[(Anonymous)]

If you're going to throw a shitfit because your friend didn't warn you that something like Song of the South was racist, then your self-entitlement to common sense ratios are a bit skewed.

Unless you're asking about the nut thing. Blame ambulance-chaser lawyers who make their living gulling people into class actions for that one.

[(Anonymous)]

If you're going to throw a shitfit because your friend didn't warn you that something like Song of the South was racist, then your self-entitlement to common sense ratios are a bit skewed.

Everything about this example is weirdly extreme and unreasonable.

Song of the South is a weird thing to use as an example, because it's actively known for being racist, which isn't usually the case with things. I certainly wouldn't necessarily assume that Fried Green Tomatoes would have racial issues in it. And no one brought up someone throwing a shitfit before you did - I don't even know where that came from. The question was, is it reasonable/polite to have a caveat or disclaimer when you recommend something to mention if it's racist, or isn't it.

So, just, what are you talking about here? How is this situation remotely like getting angry at peanuts for containing nuts? How is that a reasonable analogy?

[(Anonymous)]

It's a book about the south. Set predominantly in the 1950's. And you DON'T think that racism is something a sensible reader -- even one coming from overseas, even one for whom English is a second language -- might anticipate? In the American South in the 1950's?

At some point, I think you have to be able to assume that if someone is smart enough to sound out all the words, they also have some sort of basic grasp of life and history, such that they could maybe extrapolate that a book set in the pre-Civil Rights era isn't exactly going to be peachy-keen on equality issues.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT—I’m white, American, English is my first language, and I had no clue that Fried Green Tomatoes had racist content. Even without racism it doesn’t sound like something I’d be interested in reading/watching, but I don’t get your hangups about disclaimers, caveats, or warnings, about racism or nuts or anything else. “Hey there’s fudge in the breakroom, it’s really good but it has walnuts in it,” or “I really liked this book, but there’s a couple scenes with some heavy-duty racism” just seem like common courtesy to me.