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> Edit: Want to also point out that in practice we don't seem to attenuate messaging in black pop culture. It's some of the most explicit sexual and sometimes v
by filoeleven 5y ago
> Edit: Want to also point out that in practice we don't seem to attenuate messaging in black pop culture. It's some of the most explicit sexual and sometimes violent content in existence and it appears all over radio, TV, and the internet. I'm not saying it's exclusively that, but it doesn't seem to suffer from expectation that it be attenuated "for white people".
Why do you think that this messaging is what you associate most with black pop culture? Attenuated messaging does not have to be universal. Imagine if white pop culture was almost exclusively promoted as Britney Spears et al., Dumb and Dumber, and slasher flicks. Is that an accurate portrayal, or a curated subset that projects a certain image?
- dcow 5y agoI didn’t say those examples are exclusive. I simply said there exists non-attenuated content.
- filoeleven 5y agoI didn’t either. Your phrasing suggest that it’s mostly violent and sexual.
- dcow 5y agoI don’t think I was suggesting that.
- ptr2voidStar 5y agoI'm sorry to be blunt. But your lack of self awareness is staggering- not something I expected to encountered in the hallowed corridors of HN.
- ptr2voidStar 5y agoThank you for stating this. I was just about to write what you said. The fact that what he/she associates with "black" culture is so negative - and doesn't seem to stop to critically analyse that - but accepts it as "normal". At the same time, he/she doesn't understand why people from that community might want to create something for themselves - where (for once), they are the gate keepers of their own content (aka "writing their own narratives").