Ok so I'm not watching #FreshOffTheBoat tonight, despite a brilliant review from @juliannehing. I made it as far as the first episode.
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That means the main character kid, Eddie, gets to enact physically violence against the only black character in the show.
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At the end of episode 1, you're made to feel like everything is right in the world. Because a black kid got beat up.
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#FreshOffTheBoat could've picked to enact violence in a white kid. But no. Post Sanford, post Ferguson, this show picks a black kid to beat. -
Or, better yet, not have a fight at all.
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I don't care what the intention was. I'm not ok with feeling satisfied that a black kid got beat for having a big mouth.
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And, ultimately, I'm disappointed that I didn't see my non-black tweeps, and Asian tweeps especially, talking about this.
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@aurabogado i was bummed out about that. Its the way it happened in the book. :( Wish it was one of the shitty white kids lol. -
@jamiekilstein Why am I not surprised?
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@aurabogado there was a decent discussion about this in the WOC fb group but it got hijacked by someone who wanted to trash Kat -
@aurabogado yeah it was awkward. black woman with a lot of pain :-( -
@aurabogado it wasn't really about Kat so much as anger at Asian Americans who are assimilationist
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