Timeline for Is the often used black and white symbolism inherently racist?
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| Oct 9, 2020 at 8:54 | comment | added | SBK | Inherent: existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute. Asking whether it is "inherently" racist seems to avoid the more practical question of whether or not it is reasonably seen as racist in today's society. And the answer to the latter seems to be obviously yes to me given the reality and history of racism. | |
| Oct 9, 2020 at 0:55 | answer | added | MarielS | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 0:34 | answer | added | Kate Gregory | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 18, 2020 at 18:56 | comment | added | cmm | Again, as an old white guy, I can't speak for what a person of color would find racist. In my opinion, based on my personal biases, I don't find it racist. A dark personality, to the limits of my own self-awareness, is not correlated with skin color. But, you should be having this conversation with someone on the wrong end of biases, and get their experience. Do they find that dark traits are projected on them because of dark skin? | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 18:53 | comment | added | gaazkam | @cmm First, I don't have to give my characters a black hat or a white hat, as old Westerns did. Will I be a racist if one of my characters says to another that X has a 'dark personality'? This seems absurd, and yet this also seems precisely what the liberals nowadays imply. Then it is not necessarily always bad to reuse cliches. On the contrary, some works thrive on it. | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 17:35 | comment | added | cmm | I agree that this question is seeking opinions, but I would like to place it in the context of the current discussions about race. I'm a white guy, and not qualified to speak about most aspects of racism, but the concern seems genuine. I would avoid white/black and try to look deeper. Every metaphor becomes cliche, which you must always avoid like a hawk. If there are aspects of the nocturnal/diurnal experience that you would like to use, go deeper into the roots of that distinction. Don't make things or people black and white, and expect that to have good implications. It won't. | |
| Jun 11, 2020 at 15:43 | history | edited | rolfedh |
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| Jun 11, 2020 at 15:16 | answer | added | rolfedh | timeline score: 7 | |
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| Jun 9, 2020 at 23:13 | comment | added | rolfedh | According to Wikipedia - Color terminology for race, "The Martinique-born French Frantz Fanon and African-American writers Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, and Ralph Ellison, among others, wrote that negative symbolisms surrounding the word "black" outnumber positive ones. They argued that the good vs. bad dualism associated with white and black unconsciously frame prejudiced colloquialisms. In the 1970s the term black replaced Negro in the United States." | |
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| Jun 8, 2020 at 8:35 | answer | added | Chronocidal | timeline score: 11 | |
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| Jun 8, 2020 at 0:18 | answer | added | Acid Kritana | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 23:36 | answer | added | rolfedh | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 23:08 | history | edited | rolfedh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2020 at 20:11 | history | asked | gaazkam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |