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    Pop Culture Blasphemy Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Everwood was the best show on telelvision, and there isn't a single show on right now that comes close to it's quality.

     

    Sofia Coppola is one of the greatest living directors, and Lost in Translation is the most beautiful film ever shot. (not sure this is blasphemy, just a response to an earlier post)

     

    The Hudsucker Proxy is in my top 3 Coen films.

     

    Drew Barrymore is unbearably annoying and unattractive.

    Stuff White People Like

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    This site is satire if the author is white. This site is racism if the author is not. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander, and the goose has already been cooked countless times by the ethnic minorities suppressed and ridiculed by the overbearing white grind.

     

    White people like to look at pictures of a blogs author. White people like to feel like they share a connection with an author that they like, or that they have nothing in common with an author they dont like. White people like to make fun of themselves, but only when they feel a connection with the person making fun of them. White people, deep down, dont like to be wrong. It makes them uncomfortable.

     

    White people with enough sense not to drown standing in the rain feel self-conscious about engaging in conscious racism. White people engaging in unconscious racism dont like to be called on it. White people engaging in unconscious racism will continue blithely onward, telling themselves, This is different. This has real merit., until someone smacks them in the face with a metaphorical car door, as they ride by on their $5,000 bike, on the way to the sandwich shop where they volunteer for the humane society, and on weekends teach black kids to read.

     

    See that? That is a stereotype. It sure stands out, does it not? Why? Because you think Im white.

     

    White people like to feel a connection with the author of material that makes fun of them. Otherwise, they start getting uncomfortable. White people dont like to be wrong.

     

    By the by, you have a column made up of the most profoundly racially polarized material Ive seen since i left the GNAA website, and you put a * in CUNT? Please, grow up. Your so called morality is shifty, baseless and without merit.

    Stuff White People Like

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Trust me, kid, it's a small, small price to pay for the lifestyle you enjoy. In fact, it isn't even a price at all.

     

    I understand what you are saying, and that is probably the best explanation I'm going to get. So that I don't lose all credibility here, traveling means maybe taking a trip or two up to St. Louis every year to see friends. And without getting all "do you know who you're talking to", I can support myself with the film work I get outside of my studies, because I've worked for it and haven't rested on my parents "treasure trove". I pay for everything I listed in my first post. I'm not saying that is anything special, but maybe we'll talk in a decade and you'll have grown out of making assumptions about how other people live.

     

    The point was (and maybe this is an entire different discussion) that I still fit into this "white person" stereotype, but it's not because I was born into it, it's because all things have lead me to believe that these things can be part of a healthy, fulfilling lifestyle. Does that mean I disregard that family and friends are the most important things in life? This point has been made a thousand times on this board and others, but we're all sitting here on our computers, on a message board, we are all more privileged than most.

     

    I can take a joke and laugh at myself. Maybe that is the point of this blog, but it seems to go a bit far in skewering things that I can't help but see as positive, no matter what race or class you were born into.

    Stuff White People Like

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    With the exception of "80's Night" and a few other entries, I don't see the problem with enjoying most of the things that are listed on this blog. Going through the points on this blog, yes, I'm an [upper] middle class film student who enjoys indie music/radio, good food/beer/wine, I've read a few Sedaris books, I own Apple products, I have a netflix account, I enjoy "breakfast places", coffee, film festivals, travel, etc. Am I supposed to feel bad about all of that? I'd like to think my motivations are in the right place. I just don't get what this blog is trying to say.

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