I guess I will never "Get It". I really don't think that I want to get it.
yes, we know.
😀
I know there are a lot of injustices towards African Americans or people of color. That deserves to be in the spotlight and needs to be corrected.
The movie Gone with the wind and the musical group Lady Antebellum are not the problem, History isn't the problem, Flags and Statues are not the problem. Improper law enforcement and not holding police accountable for these improper actions are the problem.
basically, you are correct here. The thing is though that you don't seem to accept that problematic cultural references that have long been accepted as normal representations of these things, actually feed the problems of injustice. This is, literally, what systemic racism is. Jim Crow survived long, long after the Civil War as not only a legal injustice, but even today as a largely mental and unaccountable institutional paradigm because the "quaint images of the happy negress" ...literally colored our interpretation of how tolerable it was to subjugate Africans for so long. "See, it really wasn't bad back then, right? They should only be so happy, now!" I mean, you literally hear that argument to this day--the patent lies about the realities of slavery. Today's injustice can only continue if the culture largely believes in the truth of these complete fabrications about a fake past.
Does that make sense to you? It absolutely colors everything.
My thoughts on Gone with the wind are it is a fictional movie made from a fictional novel. If you don't like it don't watch the movie or read the book. Christ this isn't hard. I fucking hate rap music that uses the same words and phrases that would cause a riot if i used them in the same casual manner.
Oh well that is life I guess. I'm glad I don't go through life constantly looking for some perceived wrong that needs to be righted. I'm sure it must be exhausting.
You propose simple solutions for complex problems (well, if you don't like it, just don't look at it!), which is why your ideas never work, and exactly why problems persist. I don't support outright banning of these things. I think it's ridiculous. Banning Margaret Mitchell, yes, doesn't solve anything. In fact, we should keep them around as historical examples of how shitty we've been but, more importantly--how we can become better. ....these things also aren't always treated as works of fiction. Hell, they stand in as "video lessons" for kids taking lazy history classes. Yes, we watched this shit in the south. It's simply fucking fucked-up to pervert young brains like that...BUT--it should be presented in context. That's the key. These things can be valuable tools, but they can't be used as myth-making propaganda.
You mistake social upheaval and the progress towards greater egalitarianism as "going through life constantly looking for perceived wrongs that need to be righted." ...that's ridiculous. No one really does that. People recognized real problems, and work to address them. Hell, that statement alone is the fucking essence of white privilege. You simply don't fucking get it, and don't care to fucking get it (As you admitted), because no fucking wrong has ever been done to you. You won't accept the plain truth that you were born on the 3rd base of social status and it will never be any other way for you, or for me for that matter. It's just a fucking fact.
