who would this show be insulting to? Certainly not you. I mean if the premise was White people being enslaved, this convo might be different
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I'm a Jew and could have objected to The Man In The High Tower on identical grounds.
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Jews---not because of their Jewishness but because of their whiteness---have a great deal more power in Hollywood than black folks.
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(I realizeI'm treading close to dangerous stereotypes here but I want to be clear that this is a comparison between Jews and black ppl...
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Not a general statement about Jewish power or lack thereof.)
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Ergo, it is more likely that if an antisemitic script goes to a network for approval, changes will be made. Not definitely, but more likely.
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Black folks, for very clear historical reasons, have no such confidence. If the script is racist, it's unlikely anyone will stop it.
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Or even really raise the concern. Furthermore, the incentives align differently. White Americans have no incentive to misrepresent...
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The plight of Jews in Nazi germany, except perhaps to overplay America's importance in ending that regime.
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White Americans have an IMMENSE incentive to misrepresent blackness, because a real understanding of blackness in America...
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Is a threat to white Americans' understanding of themselves and their country.
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That's not to say that Jews wouldn't have had every right to object to High Castle...
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It's just to elucidate some of the reasons why, perhaps, y'all didn't, and why we are objecting to Confederate.
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