Originally Posted by
Max
Go back to my original post. I went out of my way to try and be generous and give the benefit of the doubt by pointing out how many people have unconscious racial bias and how that can cause us to treat two people doing similar things very differently based on who is doing it.
That you got so upset and took it so personally, instead of just self/reflecting and deciding it didn’t apply to you, says to me that you are exactly the person who needs to take it personally.
If the last NIN concert I went to is any indication, this is a mostly white forum. If things are ever going to change for people of color and how they are treated, we have to unpack our biases. Bias isnt harmless. It causes people to pass over people for jobs, treat school children differently, call the cops on innocent people not doing anything wrong but taking a walk.
I’m not going to apologize for bringing up the possibility in this discussion that maybe the reason why we think it is okay for Trent Reznor to sample and not Little Nas X could possibly be related to bias, because what else is that different about two people directly sampling other music here?
If you don’t feel like it applies to you, then good for you. But your response indicates otherwise. The guilty flee even when no one is chasing them.
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