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I'm wondering if you're familiar with thisissavvy on instagram (I presume she's on other platforms but that's where I know her from, because her content is very similar to yours (media analysis from a Biblical perspective, and current issues from a Biblical worldview), and you remind me of her, because both of you discuss these things in such beautiful, articulate ways, but pull absolutely no punches when it comes to calling out sin and poor filmmaking?
Hello! I don't know her. But she sounds like someone I'd like to be friends with! I'll check her out. Thanks for the tip!
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âItâs not oppression when you shackle your own feet, and no one's holding you back when the keys in your hands." Best line for accountability EVER!
Credit to Tiktoker thisissavvy
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#she doesnât fuckin miss when it comes to gender#thisissavvy#radfem#radical feminism#terfs welcome#rad fems please interact#terfs please touch#terf safe#non binary
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Check this out:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/29/white-outrage-about-will-smiths-slap-is-rooted-in-anti-blackness-its-inequality-in-plain-sight
Who knew the woke would be this quick to defy logic with more ignorance and stupidity?
Honestly, not at all surprised. I would be more surprised if they didn't try it. As Robin DiAngelo says:
https://robindiangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Anti-racism-handout-1-page-2016.pdf
⢠Racism must be continually identified, analyzed and challenged; no one is ever done ⢠The question is not âdid racism take place���? but rather âhow did racism manifest in that situation?â
If you didn't spot the racism, then you're the problem. Hence the rush to find it, or conjure it ex nihilo.
But have you noticed that the "accountability!" people are extremely selective with whom they'll hold accountable? Which is why a professor of Communications needs to lose his job for speaking Chinese, while Will Smith has activists rushing to absolve him of responsibility. It honestly resembles religious apologetics. The Communications professor sent himself to hell. Will Smith isn't a true sinner.
And I realize he has subsequently apologized and then resigned from the Academy. But that was of his own volition, rather than demands from the mob; on the contrary, they were making excuses for him, as this article did.
But letâs not forget why all this started in the first place. In case there was any confusion, alopecia is absolutely a disability, and one that Black women are more prone to.
No, it's not a disability. Just saying so doesn't mean it is, and pretending diminishes the plight of those with actual disabilities. And I say that as someone who's had alopecia.
Whether or not Rock knew about Pinkett Smithâs condition, the politics of Black womenâs hair is well known to be a historically fraught and often traumatising topic (he should know â he made a documentary about it in 2009).
Trauma, really? Black women are that fragile? Well, that just makes it okay, then. Chris Rock had it coming. He should, nay, did, know better. (This is implicitly an implementation of "words are violence"; you say something I don't like, I hit you in the face, and we're even.)
You can't shave your head as an act of empowerment, then act the victim when people notice it.
Itâs also not just about what Smith did; itâs where he did it and who was watching. Anyone who has been following these shows can see that Smith is being held up to much stricter standards than white men who have behaved just as badly or even worse in those settings.
He retook his seat, was comforted by others, including Denzel Washington, and then collected his Oscar. The only consequences so far are those he instigated himself. Remember when Kid Rock and Tommy Lee got into it? One was ejected, the other stormed out. Kid Rock was charged over the incident. Will Smith is certainly not being held to the same standard - but it's lower. John Wayne didn't have a multitude of Twits making excuses for him; people actually stood up and got in his way. What did Jada do?
The rest of the article basically rationalizes his actions, while simultaneously being very hyperbolic.
I also find it hard to believe that the same white audiences who consume violence against Black people on screen to an almost fetishistic degree...
Really??
For Black people who have been conditioned to constantly perform the most non-threatening version of themselves in order to retain white approval, the image of a Black man being âviolentâ in a space notorious for its overwhelming whiteness must have felt like an abomination. The ESPN commentator Stephen A Smith lambasted the actor on Twitter for âstainingâ the greatest moment of his career, before taking to a video to express his disappointment.
It was the fucking Oscars. The Oscars. The highest awards for the film industry. Not some backyard barbecue.
Wayne got to keep his awards after the incident, but pending a review, Smith could very well have his historic best actor win revoked.
Wait, it's historic now? You can't have it both ways.
Somehow, a violent interaction between two black men needs to focus on the behavior of white people. All while not just ignoring the victim, but blaming him.
The mental gymnastics are astounding.
The following TikTok was posted over a year ago during the uptick in anti-Asian violence, but particularly in response to occurrences of black perpetrators committing that violence.
https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/m9otnb/i_hoped_this_was_satire_but_a_look_at_her_other/
This is the face of neoracism. Sanctimonious, condescending, and full of the bigotry of low expectations.
Never mind that the anti-Asian violence was fuelled by Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality, which positions Asian people as "white-adjacent" oppressors on the Matrix of Oppression, and thus violence against them is "punching up." At least a couple of attacks I've heard of had the attacker rambling about the Asian person's "privilege."
https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1379286714775183361
Imagine how divorced from reality one would be to believe that we must not treat individuals as individuals but instead âsee color,â and then blame the recent surge in racial violence, particularly against Asians, on white supremacy.
A phenomenal response to the above girl, who subsequently deleted, is one posted by Savannah Edwards (thisissavvy).
"You said in your TikTok 'white supremacy has many mouthpieces.' Have you looked in the mirror? Do you have any idea what you're saying?
You're basically saying that minorities are incompetent. We are incapable of understanding the consequences of our actions. That we lack mens rea.
What you're saying is white supremacy.
Does white supremacy even have meaning any more?
You are saying that white people are the dominant race in America, that white people set the tone for behavior in society, and that in order for minorities to act right, white people have to act right.
That we lack the mental capacity to understand that right is right and wrong is wrong. That in order for us to really understand what is right and what is wrong, we need white people to define that for us.
I don't like to throw the word 'white supremacy' around because I feel like it's losing its meaning, but you are a white supremacist. You fit the definition perfectly.
My heart breaks for you because I understand that's not your intention. You need to take a quick look in the mirror. You are everything you're preaching against."
At this point, "white supremacy" appears to just be the equivalent of "god did it" in the current cultural tone.
https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1281023987242487808
To be clear, actual white supremacists certainly exist, and we can and should rebuke them. But they have, by and large, been relegated to the edges of society. And it's not what these people are talking about.
âSTOP: When we use the term White supremacy, we are not referring to extreme hate groups or âbad racists.â We use the term to capture the all-encompassing dimensions of White privilege, dominance, and assumed superiority in mainstream society.â
Sensoy/DiAngelo, âIs Everyone Really Equal?â
In this sense, "white supremacy" is like "the patriarchy" and the monster in the dryer who steals your socks. As with the "god did it" explanation in the world of the creationist, is an argument from ignorance. It neatly fills the gap between what is and what someone of the appropriate mindset/activism would prefer.
Either the cause of imaginary problems, like veganism, milk and men sitting comfortably, or univariate, ignorant and faith-based explanations for actual phenomena, such as lower black academic performance (a problem) or new mothers preferring not to work full time... or at all (not a problem, but contributes to the gender earnings gap).
At this point the "white supremacy" lunacy is obscuring real discussions, such as those on mental health, particularly that of men, who are 75-80% of suicides - and where the answers are either "LoL mALe tEaRs" or femsplaining to men that they should process their feelings the "correct" way, which is the way women do - and black men, where the topic is nigh-on taboo.
Will Smith is clearly going through stuff. His wife's condition has hit him hard, and supporting her has taken its toll on him. Now he's out of the Academy.
Chris Rock was the target and victim of an assault. Words are words. Violence is violence. Even Jada herself did not have the right to hit him, no matter what he said or how tasteless or offensive she found it.
The whole thing is sad for everyone involved. Nobody won. But sure, "wHiTe sUpReMaCy!1!!"
If you're on that hobby-horse, it's time to get off. Like prayer, you might feel good doing it, but it'll get you nowhere.
#Chris Rock#Will Smith#Jada Pinkett Smith#Academy Awards#Academy Awards 2022#white supremacy#neoracism#bigotry of low expectations#woke activism#woke#wokeness as religion#wokeism#cult of woke#thisissavvy#Savannah Edwards#religion is a mental illness
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thisissavvy back at it again!
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This is Savannah Edwards, aka @thisissavvy on tiktok and the âgram. sheâs v smart. i dont agree with her on everything but she uses logic and critical thinking which makes her a breath of fresh air on social media.
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