Whatever you do please donât expend finite political energy highlighting instances of racism to people to learn from when it could be better spent pushing centrist causes.
âDigital Blackfaceâ seems like a deliberately provocative way of describing the kind of white appropriation black culture thatâs always been a thing, only now weâre all stealing memes and words like âwoke.â
Sucks.
Gorsuch was the most likely dissent.
The law firm that prosecuted for chevron came up recently as they are lobbying to undo the case law that cities canât just chase homeless people around if they donât offer shelter. That case law, that you canât just endlessly persecute supposedly free people in a supposedly free country if you canât even offer them a place to go other than jail is largely why a lot of semi-permanent encampments came about instead of all those people hiding in bushes.
Donzinger, among others, represented 30000 indigenous people in Ecuador and won a big class action suit. Chevron decided it would rather crucify Donzinger and, as you say, literally hire the US prosecutors, than pay the awarded settlement.
United States of Chevron
Literally the worst thing you can ever hear when staying with your parents: âsuzzer, youâre a big techie guy. Can youâŚâ
I think the disconnect is in the amount of energy that YOU think is needed here.
Like this conversation for me went.
- reads an article on digital blackface
- oh yeah. That seems like a thing
- moderately changes my behaviour with no actual time, effort or pain required
- gets on with life.
Like literally no one in this thread or in the article has berated you, demanded you change your behaviour or âIMPOSeD POWEr on you ThrouGH wokENESsâ and youâve gone off on this whole tangent about how oppressive it is. Itâs weird.
Even the term digital blackface. Yeah, its confronting, so I dont use it, but no one seems to be willing to argue that the parallel isnt legitimate, which seems to land us on âyeah, well maybe thatâs an accurate way to describe it, but it makes me feel bad⌠soâŚâ
like whatâs the conclusion to that sentence?
Oh I forgot one thing. The judge hired the Chevron lawyers and then personally selected the judge that heard the case. Oh well at least there was a jury, right?
WRONG
The judge refused Donzingerâs request for a jury trial (because it was a misdemeanor) and then found him guilty and sentenced him to the maximum sentence, six months. He was under house arrest for like a thousand days during the whole ordeal.
Chevron spent about ten million dollars prosecuting this misdemeanor.
The breadth and depth of that expectation is canyon like.
Astronaut meme: Rule of law is a lie?
100% there will be swearing and tears.
People: Hereâs an illustration of how ingrained systemic racism is, and how it saturates everything, such that even this small, seemingly innocuous behavior carries racial hierarchy-perpetuating consequences. Yes itâs a very small deal. Thatâs the point of discussing this concept.
ChrisV: Youâre using your power to bully me.
People: Uh, weâre describing people inadvertently using their power to inadvertently bully. But if it feels like we are doing that to you, and you donât like how that feels, maybe you could step back and look at the larger pictureâŚ
ChrisV: No, itâs harmless and Iâm going to keep doing it to you. In fact, you are making me do it to you. You are prodding this reaction out of me. I am forced to retaliate, by continuing to do this thing Iâve just said is completely neutral and harmless.
I think the best way to sum up the disconnect is AQ making multiple posts arguing that scolding is not taking place using tone and content that is in fact doing that precise thing.
I would say theres a step missing in your analysis.
Letâs use an analogy.
You come to my house.
I say âhey. My house is a no shoes house. Can you take them off and leave at the doorâ
At this point. Iâm not scolding.
If you then say
âWtf is wrong with you! Iâll wear shoes wherever the fuck I want. Dont you DARE scold meâ
My reaction at this point could be considered scolding.
Get it?
Edit. To expand. If anyone was like âyeah. This digital blackface is a small thing. Probably not the best use of our timeâ there wouldnt be a disagreement at all.
Itâs a better use than playing a video game or something. And the use is in the way it illustrates concepts. People outright denying the concepts, is the waste of time.
Itâs worthwhile to occasionally remember and contemplate this right before you post a meme or use AAVE, even if you then go ahead and post it anyway
Like itâs worthwhile to know slaves held at gunpoint had a big role in producing the food youâre about to order, even if you go ahead and order it
Someone reading about this concept and immediately resorting to things like âwaste of time, and youâre insulting me to bootâ has very big âposting Who Cares under a corporationâs pride month tweetâ energy
Itâs the refuge of someone with no counteragument against something that makes them uncomfortable
On the subject of black people, I just realized that Snoop dog was wearing a blue bandana outfit and crip walking at the super bowl last year.