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- cross-posted to:
- palestine@lemmy.ml
On 26 August, Sacha Baron Cohen and Sony Pictures showed off the new Ali G sequel. The response — it’s fair to say — has not been positive. And now, campaigners are asking cinemas to not show the film, with one UK chain already confirming the following:
Cohen is receiving backlash for three primary reasons. The first is that the character is basically just Cohen doing blackface:
When Ali G first came out, the joke was seemingly pastiching white guys who appropriated what they saw as Black culture in London.
Whether you bought that joke or not, it’s clearly worn thin to the point of being non-existent at this point, and as such people are understandably taking the character to be Cohen’s impression of Black people.
George would like a word with you. .
But putting aside the fact that no tf it isn’t, you cannot separate something from the context in which it originates. You don’t get to revise history because you don’t like a word that was used to make fun of white suburban kids who acted like black urban youth. Now if you want to tell me who that word is supposed to offend and why I’m all ears, or eyes, but I’m not gonna let you use a single word to invalidate me because you’ve got a victim complex.
Edit: Actually I’m not done. I’ve been thinking about this a bit more and what qualifies or does not qualify as a slur. I believe “Wigger” can certainly be characterized as a pejorative rather than a slur because it labels a voluntary pattern of cultural presentation or behavior, not an inherent or protected identity. It functions more like “poser” than a racial epithet: contemptuous, certainly, but directed at perceived conduct rather than ancestry. I guess I could see where you’re coming from, though.
Say, out loud, what that word means, dumbfuck.
You’re gonna call me a dumbfuck with the same breath. Let’s set aside that I’ve already thoroughly refuted your insistence that it’s a slur, words meaning and their etymology are separate. Further when you censor historically accurate pejoratives from being used in their proper historical context you allow for the revision of that history. If you care about these out groups as much as your ridiculous comments suggest, then you’d want their struggle preserved accurately, no? Furthermore when you dismiss the message for choice of word you discount good messages entirely and allow bad actors to sneak damaging messaging past just because they more carefully selected their words.
Yes, because you’re a dumb fucking bastard complaining that being called a dumb fucking bastard is a slur equivalent to calling someone a white n-word, a portmantaeu using both the n-word as an insult and implying they should be better than that because they’re white. It’s what the word literally means, and the fact all you little racist crackers used to say it twenty years ago is not a defense.
You
Dumb
Fucking
Racist
Oh, now I’m a “cracker” too?
And I’m the “Dumb Fucking Racist?”
I get your point and met your point and tried to have a genuine discussion with you and you meet me in turn with ire and actual slurs. There goes any shred of credibility you might have had. Did you read I Have A Dream?
Your “points” are entitled egoist nonsense whose only purpose is to avoid accepting that maybe you shouldn’t be using a slur just because you LOVE saying it so much because your shallow, entitled racist ass doesn’t have the capacity for self reflection or accepting that you might possibly have a character flaw you could work on by just not being such a tacky piece of shit about a worthless slur.
.world mother fuckers, lmao 🤣, unironically they’re going to try to “take back porch monkeys” next
Okay. Project harder.