Lmao breh you have no idea. I about flipped out reading some of these responses from these guys. I got into it with them about the issue of white privilege before. I cited studies from Princeton, Harvard, and a few academic texts saying that whites and blacks are treated MUCH differently in most aspects of everyday American life and these dudes WOULD NOT concede the fact that this shyt was true at all. Replies consisted of "well my grandpa worked hard" or "I know plenty of Asians that...." that had absolutely nothing to do with the topic. I had to just remind myself this is a group of people who deny science and math as important and their feelings and lack of experience is all they care to consider in any matter.
Alright here's some responses to the discussion on 12 Years A Slave:
-I don't think this movie helps race relations..And I am not even 20 min into it
-Since Obama took office, there has been a concerted effort by the government and the media to divide the races and promote racial animosity, especially among blacks.
-seeing as how lots of things are falling apart and he needs some good distraction among his main constituency, obummer probably called his buddies and asked them to "stir it up"
-Liberal propaganda. I doubt everything that movie showed is true.
-IM sure many of those things took place but man this movie over the top and it didnt let up
-I have read many diaries from that era and many slave owners were very caring people...they did not abuse their slaves
-Of course not, it's obviously meant to inflame them.
-I believe that. I'm sure it wasn't that the blacks living in plantations were abused. They had a place to live and food to eat. Whites gave them a chance for work at least.
Maybe a few masters were racist and evil but not much.
-I'm not going to bother to see it but just remember that it's just that a movie. It's not real.
-Only in about 1% of cases. (This is in response to how normal the treatment depicted in the film was)
-...and now the thread turns into one of gilded cages.... this is exactly what the movie producer wants... it's the same as when Roots came out. It's not meant to heal wounds or explain history, it's meant to anger and frustrate people.
-One reason I despise Matthew McConaughey ,
as a white man he has done more to create hatred among black and white with his movies over the last few years-as long as it gets you $$ and fame I guess its ok to denigrate your own race
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I've posted this quote in another thread but this shyt rings true again and again:
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
