Contristo wrote:odilon redon wrote:vociferously defending at length any music critic let alone the white male music critics collectively, you can't get any more perfectly embarrassing
I'm not defending Fantano or music reviewers specifically, but more so the right of any person - regardless of race/gender - to be given an opportunity to discuss art without being immediately dismissed as "unable to relate" before they open their mouths, solely because of their race/gender. I'm defending inclusiveness in the art community while rejecting notions of gatekeeping in any form, especially when they're related to things people can't choose (like their race or sexuality).
I'm arguing against the comment: "Why is this person relevant at all (or any white male reviewers for that matter lol)."
Which essentially states that white male reviewers shouldn't be relevant, and strongly implies that white males are the only identity that should 'stay in their own lane' in regard to art-related discussion. I consider that extremely dangerous.
I'm expressing my displeasure in someone pigeon-holing the life experiences of millions of people, especially in their relation to understanding and engaging in art-related discourse.
I genuinely assume Darlene is not aware of the vast diversity in terms of socioeconomic, sexuality, and other factors among the white population in countries like the U.S., South Africa, etc. It's fine -- there are countries that are extremely homogenous in terms of the white population's socioeconomic and social circumstances, so I'll just assume Darlene lives in one of those countries, and has no knowledge of historical figures like Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma who made white people feel very similarly to the non-white male experience in the the super homogenized white countries.
Genuinely, if Darlene's comment said something like "white people who have never experienced struggles with socioeconomic and/or personal identity struggles should not review art related to socioeconomic and/or personal identity of other races," then I wouldn't have an issue -- but Darlene is actively pigeon-holing an entire race and generalizing.
Darlene wrote:P.S. You can't be racist to white people.
water, sunbeams wrote:Won't someone please speak up for white men?
deadbass wrote:
Contristo wrote: Webster's defines racism as:
mortimer wrote:contristo, your tone is really sending your awful posts over the top. can you talk like a normal person? 'peoples'
badhat wrote:bike solve all problems
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