This is a deeply bad idea. Don't do this, guys. Please.
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Two white guys making a show where black slavery features prominently. This is profoundly tone deaf.
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Replying to @MMads2 @Loganchance and
The point isn't endorsing, it's understanding and respecting. I'm not confident they will understand and respect black POV on confed.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @MMads2 and
So they can't understand... because they're white? That's racism.
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Replying to @tomalakgeretkal @MMads2 and
No, actually. They can't understand because they didn't grow up in majority-black environments.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @tomalakgeretkal and
I grew up going to majority-white schools and later working in majority-white workplaces, so I understand white people decently...
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Replying to @csilverandgold @tomalakgeretkal and
but I recognize that I don't have the same level of understanding of white people or whiteness that I would had I grown up in a white family
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Replying to @csilverandgold @tomalakgeretkal and
And based on these particular white men's work in GoT, I doubt that they in particular understand black POV sufficiently for this premise.
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Now that you know my actual argument, can you explain to me what part of it you find racist?
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