RACEIn the list of things that are racist we have arrived at…. Shark Week

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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 9 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

Not just racist, it’s sexist too.

The funny thing is, the premise for their complaint is destroyed in the fourth paragraph.

Lisa Whitenack loved sharks as a kid. She spent rainy days leafing through a guide to sharks in Reader’s Digest. Every summer, she would watch “Shark Week,” Discovery’s annual TV event that spotlights the ocean predator with seven days of dedicated programming.

But when the scientists appeared on her TV screen, she rarely saw any women she could look up to.

“Why would I know I could do that?” Whitenack said. “I don’t come from a family of scientists. I didn’t see very many people that looked like me on television.”

Whitenack, now a biology professor at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., found her way into shark research anyway.

[–]Haylstorm 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I can't believe that anyone buys that drivel. Like I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people can relate to Steve Irwin's love of animals despite not being Australian men lol. Frankly I think there's something wrong with you if you need someone that looks like you rather than more meaningful traits. Children can manage to see bits of themselves in things like Peppa pig ffs.

[–]OuroborosTheory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

just like with the "Black people can't be expected to work, show up on time, or talk with anything but the most stereotypical accent, that's white supremacy!" poster, they always beeline for extremely prejudiced stances, and they can't recognize they're falling into a trap because "well I'm not the sort of person who'd support something like that!"

so here they're tacitly saying white kids can identify with anyone who doesn't share their traits, while girls and Black kids are mysteriously missing that part of the brain that lets them understand that someone who doesn't Look Like Them is a person

(and even if they're not implicitly saying that, under their own rules of "you're not allowed to disagree with any bad-faith interpretation" that's the gospel truth now)

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

and they can't recognize they're falling into a trap because "well I'm not the sort of person who'd support something like that!"

Well, there's the problem.

These people KNOW they'd fall into the trap- hell, you ask them they'll flat-out say "yes, they are a racist- but it's not their fault, honest. It's not them that hates people of the other race, it's the original sin of being born [majority] that MAKES them hate people of the other race, and it's so insidious literally every other person of their race is a cartoonish Klan member. Why, the fact they ONLY hate this race the very small amount they do makes them still a good person by default; no, they're the most heroic person of their race in all of human existence for only hating the race that little and fighting as hard as humanly possible, only for the inescapable fate foretold by the stars in the sky of being born [majority] forcing them to hate people of this race this little bit!"

These people know damn well they're racist POSes. They just tell everyone else you're WORSE than them.