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Gilda · 12-10-2006, 02:38 AM

Yeah, people care about what Richards said because he's famous. That's how it works. The video gets talked about a lot more than the man on C-Span because it's someone far more people are familiar with. That Richards had a meltdown and revealed himself to be a bigot gives consumers of entertainment media information on which to base their purchasing decisions.

And I'll echo the statement above that race relations in the US are about far more than black and white. There are Pacific Islanders, Asians, Native Americans, Jews, and Hispanics, all with a variety of ethnicities within the broader racial group, just as with white people. Pretending that there are no differences and pretending that ethnicity is deterministic are both mistakes, just as with dealing with the sexes.

Personally, I find the comparison to Mel Gibson very apt. We now know that they're both bigots, and can base future buying decisions based on that. The particular circumstances in which their bigotry was revealed matters less than that it was revealed.

12-10-2006, 02:38 AM	#29 (permalink)
Gilda 32 flavors and then some Location: Out on a wire.	Yeah, people care about what Richards said because he's famous. That's how it works. The video gets talked about a lot more than the man on C-Span because it's someone far more people are familiar with. That Richards had a meltdown and revealed himself to be a bigot gives consumers of entertainment media information on which to base their purchasing decisions. And I'll echo the statement above that race relations in the US are about far more than black and white. There are Pacific Islanders, Asians, Native Americans, Jews, and Hispanics, all with a variety of ethnicities within the broader racial group, just as with white people. Pretending that there are no differences and pretending that ethnicity is deterministic are both mistakes, just as with dealing with the sexes. Personally, I find the comparison to Mel Gibson very apt. We now know that they're both bigots, and can base future buying decisions based on that. The particular circumstances in which their bigotry was revealed matters less than that it was revealed. __________________ I'm against ending blackness. I believe that everyone has a right to be black, it's a choice, and I support that. ~Steven Colbert Last edited by Gilda; 12-10-2006 at 08:29 AM..