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>I'd go so far as to say characterizing camel sports and shows as beauty contests, a phrase that implies "women" to pretty much every english speaker, is probab
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>I'd go so far as to say characterizing camel sports and shows as beauty contests, a phrase that implies "women" to pretty much every english speaker, is probably the most farcically and unselfconciously racist thing I have read in an edited publication.
Or they're just trying to distance it from dog shows and farm animal competitions like you see at state fairs because those are boring and well known and won't get western audiences to click.
Not everything is racist.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago> Or they're just trying to distance it from dog shows and farm animal competitions like you see at state fairs because those are boring and well known and won't get western audiences to click. One of the ways to be racist and put down other cultures is exoticism, make the culture feel more dissimilar than it is. They are increasing the sense of “otherness” and de-emphasizing commonality (the camel show has more in common with dog and horse shows than with beauty pageants) The title definitely is doing that and as you said, doing it for clicks which makes it all the more risible.