> > They represent a caricature of a negative racial stereotype. It's a little racist
> in my opinion. And embarassing.
>
> Maybe you should tell her that she is a cariacature of a negative racial stereotype
> and that you find her embarassing. Maybe she'd sue you too.
Can you explain to me why the focus was paid to her interview segment? Why music videos were created out of it? Why someone would take a still shot from the video and put a caption on it?
Just give me any explanation at all. Anything to identify what the motivating force was to pick *that* interview with *that* person saying *those* things. Anything.
I suspect that you cannot give any non-hand-waving reason that doesn't come down to how "funny" it is to see someone "act that way" and "say those things". Why is it funny? BECAUSE IT IS A CARICATURE. Because in that interview segment she looked and sounded like the prototype of a specific vision of black Americans.
I mean these arguments about "it can't be racist because it's true" are so self-serving. Hey I can find a Chinese person who happens to be a bad driver and then make a whole funny video out of showing how bad a driver they are with funny captions and stuff. But I guess it's not racist because that person actually was a bad driver, even though the entire reason that I focused on that person was because of the racist stereotype that "Asians are bad drivers"?
Racism is a complex subject and I'm not saying that people who engage in this kind of humor are akin to ku klux klansmen ready to lynch the first minority person they see. But let's not kid ourselves. This kind of humor is motivated by a form of racism. Maybe it's an "OK" level of racism for alot of people; I mean it's just humor after all. Myself, I find it somewhere on the edge of tastelessness, due to the racist implications. I wouldn't actively try to stop someone from making these kinds of jokes, but I would find it uncomfortable enough to want to get away from it.
Which is what my original point was. It's tasteless enough in a racially-charged way to be embarrassing to me to be "associated" with it, i.e. to post on a forum where it's actively accepted. If I was writing a post on this forum and someone came up to my computer saw the page with that image on it, I'd feel embarrassed.
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