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Do you think they’re just confused in football? Like do they not know who’s under the helmets? Cuz like 80% of the players are black.
Remember when Capernick did that one thing that wasn’t football while on camera? The moment do anything that isn’t football it becomes woke or DEI.
It’s because they are in a performing role. They are token individuals destroying their bodies to create entertainment for the audience. It’s no different than how the south treats rodeo as some kind of beacon of equality for black individuals. It’s purely a facade to point at when denying the existence of inequality and dismissing civil rights arguments.
It’s also directly tied to the myth of the primal black man - all brawn and no brain. A racist sex symbol.
EDIT: typos
EDIT 2: flipped brain and brawn, didn’t notice. Fixed.
Isn’t the stereotype the other way around?
The virile black man stereotype? Not in the US. it’s apart of the myth that black men are naturally very strong and thuggish. It’s also usually paired with the concept of them being extremely sexual (think of the giant black penis stereotype and the constant fear mongering surrounding black men ‘stealing’ all the white women). These are extremely old stereotypes that harken back to when black slaves were viewed in a fashion closer to beasts of burden than to human beings.
EDIT: woops, saw my typo, should be fixed now.
Think they mean it should be all brawn and no brain. Unless im getting that wrong. Im not from america, and im not racist. Ive just seen tv and movies.
Oh woops, flipped em. Good call. Editing
It doesn’t have to be something everyone is watching… I had twitter for maybe 2 days before deleting it because somehow this fuckin Matt Walsh clown got served up to me. He was crying about how Drew Barrymore had a trans person on her show. He had like 40k likes on it. How the fuck do you make a living looking for things on tv to be mad about, and why is anyone cheering him on. That’s deranged. CHANGE THE FUCKIN CHANNEL YOU WORTHLESS STOOGE!
How the fuck do you make a living looking for things on tv to be mad about, and why is anyone cheering him on.
Spoken like you must not be recovering from a childhood in a conservative home, lol.
Finding things to be mad about, is living. It is as natural as breathing. Like breathing, you don’t notice you’re doing it unless you notice you’re doing it. It is what you think about when you plan your day and what makes you open your mouth to socialize with other people. It strongly informs your personality, your social circles, and your hobbies.
Just be careful you don’t accidentally spend years wrenching your brain out of the negativity malaise, or you might start to do dumb things like being content with what you have, working less, wasting time on rewarding hobbies, or doing nice things for people without expecting something in return. People you aren’t even related to! Could you imagine??
Of course up above when I say things to be “mad about,” that could also mean “afraid of or confused about, but I am tough and strong and not scared of things and don’t have wussy feminine emotions and so I’m mad rawr!”
Edit to add: I’m being tough on conservatives because they deserve it, but being addicted to outrage (along with all your favorite psychological biases and logical fallacies) is something that everybody has to be concerned with for themselves.
Uhhhh… Nobody is used to that unless they enable racism casually as a hobby
20% of people are casual racists, which means that the 80% are full time racists
If you roll your eyes and think ‘Oh, here they go being racist again’ while the news says how what they are saying is ‘controversial’ or ‘could be seen as’ or any other dismissive phrasing then that is what the post is talking about. Society refuses to call out their racism directly, which enables it.
Bring back calling these people weird!!
Call them sweaty for wanting to control women’s bodies. They should be called out every time they do something or support somthing dumb.
They’re not weird, they’re bad. Weird is not bad.
They like being bad, though. Bad is like Darth Vader.
I think we’re mature enough to recognize that weird (quirky) and weird (lingers around children) are different things.
“Call them the sweaty” can you explain this phrase to me? Or is it a typo lol
It’s making fun of people (generally Facebook boomers) who use the term “sweetie” condescendingly, but also can’t spell for shit.
Or maybe the meme has evolved and I’m behind… lol
Memes be like that sometimes.
You are a bit, akshully /s
The slang “sweaty” is used loosely to mean competitive or like overly anxious. Usually in response to making some inane point.
Comes from competitive gaming where other players who try to hard (“tryhards”) making gaming not fun for normal players.
“Too many sweaty hard lobbies made my favorite game not fun to play. How can I get good when I just get killed over and over!”
This is why I don’t try to keep up with slang anymore. Too many sweats.
TIL!
In this context it means being creepy, but it’s a generally negative analogy
You are the sweaty /s
Lmao my mind totally filtered the “the” part in both comments, nice catch
I remember my 80+ year old grandmother getting upset that there was a shot called “Blackish” and not a show called “Whtieish” or whatever. And like… I dunno Brady Bunch, etc?
Friends
Golden Girls
Just about every 70s and 80s sitcom that wasn’t Sanford and Son or Good Times.
did she ever think why it might be called black ish… you couldn’t translate that situation to a white family in the US.
Gilmore Girls
My mother asked me a similar question some 15 years ago. It was why we didn’t have White History Month or White Entertainment Television.
Sadly, I didn’t have the ammo to fire back and say something like, “what about March thru January, and maybe all the rest of the television on TV since forever?”
I suppose Schitt’s Creek would be the closest equivalent I can think of. If we’re talking about a family living out of their stereotypical circumstances.
You’re giving her a lot of credit thinking she know what the show was about.
I feel like we should have just ignored these people. Deal with the ones who become problems, but otherwise not dignify their nonsense with a response. “Why is this movie so WOKE?” … “So anyway the CGI in this movie was pretty bad right? lol.”
We spent the last 2 decades feeding the trolls. Making them think they mattered even if it was to be hated or ridiculed by their enemies.
We spent the last 2 decades feeding the trolls. Making them think they mattered even if it was to be hated or ridiculed by their enemies.
YES! I have done my utmost to ignore these neanderthals my entire life because I grew up on 4chan and learned “do NOT feed the trolls” early. But apparently every news reporter and Facebook boomer since 2014 did not get the memo, and -waves at the general state of the world- here we are.
The problem with ignoring them is that it then tacitly shows acceptance of these behaviors.
We’ve already seen this with how women have been treated. Now we’re making some progress by calling it out.
Additionally, if it’s their goal to get attention then they will act even worse if they don’t get the attention they want.
Notice how I’m specifically talking about news headlines, Facebook boomers, and 4chan. All digital spaces. I never said I didn’t call this shit out IRL.
These people got attention on social media first, and then decided to move it offline. There are whole articles about how Steve Bannon used online spaces to radicalize people because doing it irl was too tough before and during the first Trump presidency. Then newsmedia and every social platform found outrage generated clicks which generated ad revenue during the first Trump presidency, and we have now been living in this racist, fascist hellscape for a decade.
Obviously context is important. In meatspace it’s much more important to create friction and pushback. If you’re moderating a platform it’s important to, well, moderate.
But on social media, attention (good or bad) is currency. So ignoring can be a good strategy.
This…isn’t a thing.
Right wingers don’t throw tantrums over these things - specifically talking about olympics and superbowl here - especially today. So if somehow you’ve run across someone who is doing this, it really IS weird.
Now when it comes to games and stuff - Games are meant to pander to the audience buying them, so it IS jarring when someone makes a game about 1185 feudal Japan, and there’s a 20% black population in the game somehow…or when you’re talking about a fighting game, but they refuse to make any of the women look fit, or people writing about FF7’s Cloud Strife being in a dress during one of the storylines and how he’s totally trans now, without understanding the context of the story and why he’s dressed that way.
You…need actual help.
I live in an area that is very red. People OPENLY bring this shit up in idle conversation all the fucking time. I work in sales, and people OPENLY talk about this unprompted while I’m just trying to do my job.
Right wingers don’t throw tantrums over these things
Hello welcome to Earth, which galaxy are you coming from?
Show me these tantrums about black people in the olympics and superbowl please. I’ll wait. Lemmy has turned into Left-Wing Truth Social at this point. I don’t know if it’s because people have lost their collective shit over the Trump election or what. About 6 months ago, people were a lot more reasonable…or I was talking to AI chatbots from Iran…which, might have actually been more reasonable and intelligent.
Bruh. Nice edit. I have some stuff for the super bowl.
Here’s an article. Low quality but it’s reporting on Twitter nonsense so that’s to be expected:
Here’s the tweet I saw:
Dude wants to say the n word so badly
I don’t watch mainstream media or TV for that matter, so pardon me for not knowing about this shit. Like, how many people actually complained about this shit for real though?
I thought this was about black football players, or black athletes.
I thought this was about black football players, or black athletes.
That’s what old Jack there is implying when he says “DEI”, unfortunately.
Doesn’t watch mainstream media or TV
Confidently expresses authoritative opinion about mainstream media and TV
wut
That’s because Tv is now designed for outrage, and none of it is truthful. Didn’t your parents ever teach you to not believe everything told to you?
The thing is - when shit like this is truthful, it starts to get talked about in larger and larger circles. If I haven’t heard about it, it’s likely because it’s some tiny community, and some news network is using it as rage-bait.
You literally stormed in here to start raging… About something you later admit you have zero knowledge of.
Just like that “tiny community” that owns a large portion of our media and control all 3 branches of gov…
It’s being blasted all over social media. I only open Facebook to use Marketplace, but even just briefly opening it today my feed was filled with tantrums about the halftime show.
“I don’t know about it so it’s not real.” Typical moron logic.
You still haven’t convinced me that this is real. Oh noooo some twitter twat posted something racist.
You can probably find anything you want from cherry picking twitter posts.
I hang out in the real world, with real people, and not a one of them has ever said anything remotely of the sort; despite tons of them talking about the super bowl recently.
You didn’t answer the question – how…many…people…actually complained? Like 10? On Twitter?
What do you want me to do, find every Twitter post and do a quantitative analysis? If you want to know what the Internet is saying, just go listen.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep moving those goalposts. I’m not playing your stupid games.
You still haven’t convinced me that this is real. Oh noooo some twitter twat posted something racist.
Not our obligation, and I don’t think anyone’s interested in convincing someone who doesn’t seem to be acting in good faith.
Right wingers don’t throw tantrums over these things
And yet here you are, throwing a right wing tantrum.
No one is forcing you to play the new Assassin’s Creed game.
Did you know that black people play video games too? Sometimes even women?
Video games are also not porn, so I’m not sure why you need all the female characters to be fuckable. There are ample modding communities if you are really that desperate to goon.
This shit is so funny, because it’s the opposite. Hoards of loudmouthed perpetually online complaining about characters who were scanned in from actual actors being “unrealistic”. Sorry that not being overweight triggers you. Sorry about your racism and being triggered by “the whites”. Wouldn’t want to hurt your feelings, so we made all the characters uglier than you. HAHA. The problem solves itself, all of these instances the games TANKED. They made the games for you, and then YOU DIDN’T EVEN BUY THEM! HAHA
You seem pretty triggered mate - maybe have a lie down? I’ve never been particularly bothered by playing a white or black protagonist. Sometimes I play video games with protagonists who are frogs or lizard people. Video games are fun, and I don’t really get upset by video games that aren’t for me - otherwise the yearly FIFA/2K releases would probably get really difficult to make it through.
Something funny I was thinking about you mentioned earlier - you know people were having all kinds of interpretation of Cloud’s cross dressing scene way before the remake came out? If you try pretty hard, you can actually go on the Golden Saucer date with Barrett in the OG (This is how I can tell you aren’t a real gamer by the way - complaining about FF7 without knowing Jack shit.) But yeah, I’m pretty sure I saw hundreds of Cloud crossdressing doujin back in the early oughts lol.
You’re absolutely pathetic.
Dumb take.
I’ve seen what you think is a “smart” take, and I’ll go ahead and take my chances.
You’re one of those people who think Rick from Rick and Morty is really cool, right?
Just go to Twitter and search “DEI Super Bowl” or “DEI halftime”, and you’ll see exactly what people are talking about.
I took your advice, and it’s almost impossible to actually find anything on using those terms. There’s one article on Yahoo out of all of the links that corroborates the claim, there’s some links to threads which are praising the diversity, but I’m not seeing the same thing you are.
So yeah, I find it hard to believe this is a true thing, when even searching Google doesn’t bring up much about it.
I am starting to think the people saying this is a thing, are in some sort of rage-bait algorithm because the companies have found it drives engagement with them.
Or I’m in the opposite bubble where they have found I don’t engage much with race-baiting.
Legitimately, even searching for this brings up almost nothing for me.
It would be weird, if i couldn’t set my watch to it happening.
Never heard of the last 2
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