I'm sorry, this piece just really makes me think how limited a conversation occurs around these objects. I adore the New Yorker.
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I tether the participatory culture of consuming that video to people touring plantations, sites of agony, that get no reverence.
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It also happens to make the onus of empathy (the goal of circulating such violence) the duty of victims who then act as recorders
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That act of circulation made Emmett Till into an immortal symbol that various entities employ as spectacle to increase revenue.
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Circulating Till's corpse allowed its consumption by those who might reflect, empathize, etc., while feeding those who would not.
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What I have a problem with though is where is the conversation about how black suffering exists as commodity in this culture.
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that's interesting, what do you mean by commodity?
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I mean that the circulation of that video, or any object of serious violence has a way accruing attention=wealth.
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I appreciate this piece because it generates a conversation of a continuum that exists between these black victims. Thank you.
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yes it worst
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She is gonna have to go back to Standford to retake her studies again.pic.twitter.com/DwHID1nTxJ
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How dare you. You think you're clever?
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