evil racist reich-wing white supremacist!

I mean I don't see why somebody would immediately dismiss the notion.

It seems logical that the way you light the stage would impact how certain features look, and that historically they have been lit to flatter the majority or highest ranking actors.

"traditional stage lights" (an object) "discriminates" (an action)

this is what people "have a problem with" as you put it. an inanimate unmoving object can't be racist or discriminate. and standards of those lights haven't changed for decades, maybe centuries.

Stories like these really devalue the impact of actual racism, at least in my eyes. We can't even agree on basic race relations, these seem counterproductive as hell. Just fodder for blogposts.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Aug 15 2018 11:09am

I kind of agree that there doesn't really need to be a story about it. If it's an actual problem then it should be handled by actors or employees in the relevant companies or organizations.

Still, it shouldn't be a problem to point it out in the first place, but conservatives love to get triggered over nothing.


Also, what is "actual racism"? Or do you mean "intentional racism"?

"racism" has become a homogenized category, due to it's successful weaponization. If you can brand someone a racist the outcome for their lifepath is relatively the same. Whether they screamed "go back to africa Ni*****" or one time made an asian driver joke, similar to #metoo accusations being lumped together with rapists and just asshole bosses. Its all too tightly connected. I agree all instances of racism need to be addressed when they're overt, however this seems to be nothing but happenstance. Diversity in stage acting is decades ahead of diversity in film, let alone TV.

I dislike any cases where I feel people went looking for racism, it's like coming into an experiment with an expected outcome you can't let go of, just bad science. Intentional is a good descriptor of what i mean, but I would refine it a bit more to Intentional-Problematic.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Aug 15 2018 11:19am

Like dudes purposefully walking around holding hands in public just looking for reactions.
I’ve done seen it

This post was edited by IchBinDaddy on Aug 15 2018 11:23am

if i wasn't permabanned from this subreddit i'd point out their idiocy
https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/97hicq/then_and_now/

i have to try really hard some days to resist posting like 100 che guevara race quotes on r/latestagecapitalism

one weekend im going to get really tipsy and do it probs

There is now an industry built up around racism. People have made lucrative careers over fighting racism. Once that happens, racism wont be allowed to end because they need to keep finding new examples to justify their paychecks. That leads society to ludicrous ideas like stage lighting is racist. It becomes a parody of itself because it stops being about helping people and just about profiteering.

Either that or it starts a whole new era of REAL racism. :/