https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19887910/
"Activists inspire white women to confront themselves and to acknowledge their own racism and complicity in white supremacy, and the part they can play in tearing down systems of oppression."
As a white person interested in learning more about my own privilege, I am interested in watching this.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JaxlfTxY50
The video is on iTunes/Vimeo, hopefully someone already liberated it:
https://www.deconstructingkaren.com/
Here's their activism website:
https://www.race2dinner.com/
Couldn't find this on btdig, TPB, TL, IPT or Usenet.
I couldn't find it, but it was requested on PTP, so it might show up sometime...
--> "As a white person interested in learning more about my own privilege, I am interested in watching this."
Did your reply have an element of sarcasm in it or were you truly thinking you could learn something from a film/doc along these lines??
I'm not taking the piss [as we say in England] here - i'm genuinely interested... esp as you're a longer term regular to this site etc.
Does anyone think a decent discussion of this issue can take place when
- Everyone seems from middle class america
- there's at least one black female around the table
Those two aspects when merged mean manufactured guilt strains will possibly override honest chit-chat... ?!
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Yes.
In all honesty, the only semi-racist thoughts I have been having in recent years have to do with American pop culture and, in particular, rap music. I grew up loving hip hop, but there's this attitude in rap culture that I just don't really like that much. And Americanism in general. I love Jamaican/Rastafarian music, so I know I am not racist. But this America stuff is a bit cringey...
An honest, straight forward response there Mr C.
However on one level it's a little telling and sad. I've known you on and off for nearly 2 decades and you're a decent human being full stop [or period as you say in the US continent].
So why do many of us have to state consciously/unconsciously : "so I know i'm not a racist" etc?!?
I believe 90% of ppl in the west are nothing like racist BUT we've been blasted neurologically on this topic that it's almost hard wired to assume we're flawed in some manner... totally warping our ability to act in the future due to bubbling fake guilt...?!?
shuffl3r
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For me, I can't figure it out, because as of 5 or more years ago, I still downloaded and listened to rap. And then something changed in me - I am not sure if is just age and maturity, but I make fun of American pop culture now. I don't even watch Saturday Night Live anymore (an American sketch comedy show). In a certain sense, I might be a little bit pretentious now and sitting up on a cloud looking down on all the sheeple!
But yeah, the race thing is probably a social media/social hysteria type of phenomenon, like cancel culture. Only now that there is social media, "wokeness" and politically correct mindsets, now we have a wide variety of hysterical reactions to anything that might be considered "controversial". It's strange and I use social media sparingly because of it...