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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. The Divine Miss Darci‏ @saintwalker98 29 Aug 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl

      Again, I'm not saying there aren't people capitalizing on this, I am saying that the joke isn't inherently harmless even if there was no intent to harm, it's like calling a black adult male character "boy" cause his brothers are Roy and Troy

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 29 Aug 2020
      Replying to @saintwalker98

      *how*? It's already an absurd joke, where the people are defined by their profession being their name. Is "Black farmer" off limits? Like, this is not something that has *ever* come up before today

      2 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
    3. Cyrus @ vax adventures, or advaxtures‏ @chrysopoetics 29 Aug 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @saintwalker98

      I believe Lido means specifically to suggest there’s the potential for unfortunate implications given the exact phrasing of “in the fields” over eg “on the farm”, in this context, not the concept of a farmer who is Black?

      3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Aug 2020
      Replying to @chrysopoetics @BootlegGirl @saintwalker98

      The specific phrasing was "likes to till the fields"

      3 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    5. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 29 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @chrysopoetics @saintwalker98

      I mean, I really, really would never have thought to even question if that was an okay thing to say. My extended family's from the deep south and I've overheard racist conversations, and I'm not gonna repeat them but there's certain farm activities they associate w black people

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 29 Aug 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and

      But not tilling fields I really didn't want to wade into this. I suppose I'm out of my lane, but the lanes are being redirected by hostile forces and I'm trying to point that out

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    7. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Aug 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and

      I can kind of see the vague, unfortunate-association aspect as being worth a furrowed brow, but it's hard to really see this all as being proportionate.

      3 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
    8. Cyrus @ vax adventures, or advaxtures‏ @chrysopoetics 29 Aug 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @BootlegGirl and

      Does moving it from “tilling the fields” (specific task that is called that and done on farms, afaik can’t be rephrased much if at all) to “work in the fields” (generic) allow “farmer or ag worker” to be conceptualized as ever in question, is that the enablement work being done?

      3 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
    9. The Divine Miss Darci‏ @saintwalker98 29 Aug 2020
      Replying to @chrysopoetics @mssilverstein and

      At the very least tilling the fields feels a lot closer to a genuine act of farming, like it's a much more directed visual as opposed to the open and ambiguous "work the fields" which is a lot easier to lead the mind in a racist direction once that accusation is added in

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Aug 2020
      Replying to @saintwalker98 @chrysopoetics and

      If we're going to get into an absurd level of detail for a joke that was clearly thought up in about the amount of time it takes to say it -- A human being tilling the earth by hand would be unlikely for plantation agriculture, which by definition is large scale

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and

      On a cotton plantation, which is where most of our "classic" racist stereotypes come from, the plowing and tilling would be done by an animal, a mule or a horse The literal sowing of seeds was an "easy" task relegated to women/children/junior workers

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and

          The strenuous labor was the pruning and weeding of the crop and, most of all, the harvest It is the fact that cotton needs to be laboriously picked by hand and can't just be reaped with a scythe that kept the farms dependent on enslaved labor

          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and

          It's not to say that agricultural tasks in general weren't done by enslaved workers or that you couldn't have a small farm where all the tasks were done by a few workers and those workers were enslaved

          1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
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