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[glockgal]

THE WACKY COUSIN
cidercupcakes discusses an issue: 'it is not the duty of marginalized people to educate privileged people, or to fit some gold standard of "niceness" in calling them out on their privilege'Actually, while I fully 100% support what Cider is referring to (ie the erasure of a character's canon Jewishness by replacing it with Catholicism), her post

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[melisus]

"Intersectionality" is my FAVOURITE word/term!

[glockgal]

I KNOW I LOVE IT SO MUCH. People rail constantly against privilege - ie, by refusing to acknowledge their own privilege - without seeing (or caring?) that it isn't just one, standalone thing.

[melisus]

Exactly! And how different categories will affect an individual. I mean, I have privilege when it comes to race because I'm white, but I'm also a woman and so am therefore disadvantaged in some areas... while at the same time I'm also a woman in North America so that comes with some privilege, as well as the privilege and disadvantages that comes with being middle class.

Oh! I wanted to add as well, that privilege is one of those words people seem to immediately shy away from or get all defensive about. I guess it can be a bit of a trigger to people who don't get it, and that's where intersectionality comes in. I mean, with all these categories overlapping, the fact of the matter is that EVERYONE has some sort of privilege and it doesn't mean you're a bad person because these things are usually handed to us at birth. It's just something you need to be aware of, and recognize that it will affect the way you experience and view things (and what you may or may not have to struggle with) as you go along.

[glockgal]

It's just something you need to be aware of, and recognize that it will affect the way you experience and view things (and what you may or may not have to struggle with) as you go along.

Yes exactly. One set of privilege does not automatically nullify your marginalized experience - or vice versa!

[mijan]

RE: The Last Airbender

[glockgal]

You and I are at a crossroads right now. When it comes to topics and ideas that are becoming increasingly important to me, I kept believing we're progressing along the same path of learning, only to realize now that we're not. I'm disappointed in myself, that I've been holding on to that hope for this long.

I'm going to defriend you now and I ask one favour: please don't contact me via LJ, PM or email. I need time to heal, after learning an unhappy lesson: fandom is not my go-to place for trust or understanding.

Thanks.

[mijan]

Awww, poor precious baby!! Such a pampered little princess!

I feel your pain, your shock, upon emerging from your flocked retreat only to be faced with polite dissension regarding your recommendation of illegal methods for people to hypocritically see Avatar while publicly decrying the movie and beating their breasts. Isn't it obvious that all else pales into insignificance in the face of your vendetta? How can people get it all so wrong? You're just doing whatever you can, committing lesser felonies and crimes, for the greater good! Anyone who disagrees is just, like, wrong! And needing to learn and educate themselves! You know best! Some laws are meant to be broken!

Your flounce here is so precious!

[glockgal]

Your mistake is in assuming this is about The Last Airbender protest, which it's not.

[_inbetween_]

I really like those sensible suggestions; they take human nature into consideration and that the issue is to get the message and the hurt to the makers, so these are so much better than categorically forbidding the looking-at-those-images suggestions.

[glockgal]

Well ultimately racebending.com stands by the 'please boycott' and a lot of people are not being forced to make that choice. But the world isn't one extreme or the other.

I agree with ssj10 that if someone pays for that movie and is familiar with the whitewashing, they are consciously making a decision to see an institutionalized racist movie.

[glockgal]

OMGGGG was the show intending the viewer to side with the CBC employee?? *facepalm*

[glockgal]

It's Stockholm syndrome taken to a whole new level. A LEVEL OF FAIL.