RE: Triggered by Banana Peel
September 1, 2017 at 3:14 pm
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2017 at 5:16 pm by Neo-Scholastic.
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(September 1, 2017 at 2:19 pm)FFaith Wrote: It was shitty for the person to leave the banana in the tree like that if they meant to send a racist message, but cancelling the retreat seems really dumb. What's that going to accomplish? Some people are racist. Duh, but if a banana peel is causing people to feel so mindfucked that they have to cancel events, that's pretty pathetic.
Exactly, this. I'm not arguing whether it was a symbolic contextualization or just random stupidity. Thump and the rest of you are saying that this was a crystal clear racist message and that simply is not true. Anyone who has ever written an email knows that even one written with the best intentions and carefully crafted can still be misconstrued. If this was indeed a message it was even more vague than when Marcel Duchamp put a urinal in an art gallery because Duchamp at least titled the work! I doubt 1 in 10 of you could tell me the meaning of "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even" or the significance of "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" without doing an internet search.
What you didn't know? Jane you ignorant slut, how could you be so oblivious to the subtle nuances of important art symbols from the last century! (and how many of you young readers caught that reference.)
You're all assuming the kid had all this background knowledge about other people's experiences. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. Before yesterday (when I started this thread) I had never heard about bananas being hung in nooses or heard of a gorilla trap. And you're going so far as to say that now that I have been 'educated' I should acknowledge it as a racist statement. Well, what the fuck. If this banana peel was a symbolic act then it was about as vague and ambiguous as it can possibly be.
You leftists spend half your time calling more conservative people hapless ignorant rubes and the other half of the time saying they are carefully attuned to cleverly disguised 'dogwhistles' and making insidious secret references that only we understand. In reality, you're the ones constantly on the lookout for any hint of racism. And then you accuse us of bigotry because we haven't got a clue what you are talking about. You are no different than people who say certain biological features are obvious signs of intelligent design. Well gee whiz, they looked for subtle signs of design and glory be they found them! Maybe it was never there, dipshits, it just looks to you like design...I mean racism.
