[ SECRET POST #1976 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1976 ⌋

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

01.
[Ivanhoe]


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02.
[NHL: Chicago Blackhawks]


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03.
[Being Human US]


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04.
[Thor]


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05.
[Glee]


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06.
[azealia banks ft lazy jay]


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07.
[DBSK]


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08.
[Stand By Me]


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09.
[Glee/Game of Thrones]


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10.
[Torchwood]


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11.
[Avengers, Loki]


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12.
[Game of Thrones]


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13.
[Sakamichi no Apollon/Sex Pistols]


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14.
[The Neverending Story]


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15.
[Grey Is]


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16.
[Game of Thrones]


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17.
[Keane]


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18.
[Drive]


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19.
[Dallas]


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20.
[Lisa Eldridge]


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Notes:

Moving to Dreamwidth on June 2nd. Official announcement here for anyone who missed it!

In addition, Community Rec meme over on DW! A bunch of recs have already been left there, maybe you'll find an interesting comm. Or go promote yours!

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #282.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[kelincihutan.livejournal.com]

They do look really similar.

I'm going to go out on a limb from the word "racist" and make a guess that you are not white? If so, let me say, don't worry about it. Not because of any SJW business about privilege or whatever. There's this website called alllooksame.com that was started by a guy who immigrated to the US from Japan when he was 16. And he had a lot of trouble telling Caucasians, even those who didn't look very similar to one another, apart at first. But the more familiar you are with a given group, the easier it is to make distinctions. (You can read his thoughts on all this here (http://alllooksame.com/?page_id=16).) So I don't think this is racist.

[(Anonymous)]

Not being an SJWarrior here, but a white person would be called racist if the situation were inverted so, yeah, double standard. It's nice that the OP is aware of that, instead of saying "la la, I'm not white so I'll broadcast borderline racist thoughts with nary a second thought".

[(Anonymous)]

racism = prejudice + power

not that hard to grasp.

[(Anonymous)]

Racism, definition: "hatred or intolerance of another race or races."

Not that hard to grasp.

[kelincihutan.livejournal.com]

No, I agree, but I don't think it's that racist from white people in similar scenarios, either. White people aren't allowed to say this, though, which I don't really think helps. It just makes the whole thing a taboo subject that nobody can say anything about. I think it'd be better if we could go into a situation like this able to admit out loud, when necessary, that we will make mistakes but will try very hard not to. It might even help people get past this stage faster, if you get something like this where most folks are saying to OP, "We have trouble telling them apart, too. Don't worry." So then, these two get mentally classified as It's not just me; they are legit similar looking, and the mind can build up reference points of familiarity that much faster. All because, by talking about it, the person can get the benefit of perceptions that are familiar with the group they are working to acclimate to.

Maybe that's just my wide-eyed idealism here, but I just feel like it'd be easier on everyone if we could all admit what we struggle with instead of everybody pretending they aren't struggling at all. Making all this taboo doesn't seem to have helped very much.

[teshara.livejournal.com]

Last year somewhere there was neurobiological study on face recognition that proved we have an easier time noting differences in our own race than others and it was left over from when we were wandering around in tribes so people could easily distinguish themselves from 'outsiders.'

Personally, I'm mixed race and I have no memory for faces. None. Or remembering names.

But clothing! Good grief, I'll have all your shoes catalogued in a week.