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- Fax_Benson3
I'm wondering if the current trend of taking TV shows and films off various platforms is really the best use of time and energy, and isn't just the latest opportunity for people working in inherently biased industries to assuage their guilt. Or to get some guilt credit. Guilt positive.
Last Tuesday or whichever day it was, my instagram feed was almost entirely made up of blacked out squares posted by designers, architects, breweries, food bloggers, photographers etc. All claimed to be showing solidarity with BLM. Barely any of them seem to employ, feature, promote or show an interest in black designers, architects, photographers etc, and haven't since.
We mostly work in some of the most right-on liberal industries - which also seem to be some of the most inaccessible and resistent to change.
I'm certainly no better than any of the people I'm criticizing. I'm not really criticizing. Just wondering whether a 2 week national debate over whether comedians should apologise for making a shit tv show 15 years ago is really helpful.
- They've banned Fawlty Towers ffs.Doris_McSquirter
- yeah, that's exactly the kind of dimwittery I mean.Fax_Benson
- Someone pulled Gone With The Wind because it’s pro-Confederacy... lololnb
- Self-censorship by corporations is so dumb. I have to fly to EU to rent the new Woody Allen film???nb
- I meant Doris's dimwittery - getting worked up about a less important side issue because you've got the basic facts wrongFax_Benson
- I agree. It seems like upper class liberals simultaneously favor these obnoxiously over the top gestures of banning things, etc -- while at the same timeyuekit
- avoiding action on anything of substance.yuekit
- welcome to the shallow culture you support faxdeathboy