I'm not qualified to teach Racism 101 because I'm still learning it myself. That said? There is so much WRONG with your response.
I believe that is the true problem. But that's the problem of modern society, not the book's. Modern society portrays the average hero as a young white man with the ideals of western society. But there is no one in such books saying that the hero is actually white. It's the reader who imagines them this way.
I don't want to get into this debate now, but is it such a problem if a white american boy interprets such hero as a white american man? If he identifies with that man? This picture sums it up well. But this is for a far longer discussion and it's not what this article of yours is about.
NO. NO. NO. NO. NO.
You are not bringing that here into my space. Why do you think the book, and the assumptions readers are making are divorced from each other? That it's "the book's" problem that readers assume whiteness, or that it's not deliberate? Or that books doing that over and over again is not PART OF THE FUCKING CAUSE of that assumption?
And maybe I'd hash that out with you and we'd talk, but that cartoon? Oh hells no. I do not put up with that in my space. I don't like to ban people but I'm not continuing this discussion with you, I'm just NOT. That was offensive.
Just a simple flu was far more serious disease even a one hundred years ago.
Depending on where you live, what you have access to, and the condition of your health? The flu still IS a very, vey serious disease and I'd appreciate if you didn't trivialize that. Again, I don't know how you identify - but I do know that this rings of the privileged and Western assumption that certain diseases aren't serious/don't exist because medicines are readily available and accessible to the privileged among us to treat them.
To the uninsured or with no access to healthcare, to those with compromised immune systems, often to the elderly and the young? There is no damn thing as "the simple flu".
No, we are not doing this.
I believe that is the true problem. But that's the problem of modern society, not the book's. Modern society portrays the average hero as a young white man with the ideals of western society. But there is no one in such books saying that the hero is actually white. It's the reader who imagines them this way.
I don't want to get into this debate now, but is it such a problem if a white american boy interprets such hero as a white american man? If he identifies with that man? This picture sums it up well. But this is for a far longer discussion and it's not what this article of yours is about.
NO. NO. NO. NO. NO.
You are not bringing that here into my space. Why do you think the book, and the assumptions readers are making are divorced from each other? That it's "the book's" problem that readers assume whiteness, or that it's not deliberate? Or that books doing that over and over again is not PART OF THE FUCKING CAUSE of that assumption?
And maybe I'd hash that out with you and we'd talk, but that cartoon? Oh hells no. I do not put up with that in my space. I don't like to ban people but I'm not continuing this discussion with you, I'm just NOT. That was offensive.
Oh, and you need to take a look at this: About children identifying with certain baby dolls.
Oh and this?
Just a simple flu was far more serious disease even a one hundred years ago.
Depending on where you live, what you have access to, and the condition of your health? The flu still IS a very, vey serious disease and I'd appreciate if you didn't trivialize that. Again, I don't know how you identify - but I do know that this rings of the privileged and Western assumption that certain diseases aren't serious/don't exist because medicines are readily available and accessible to the privileged among us to treat them.
To the uninsured or with no access to healthcare, to those with compromised immune systems, often to the elderly and the young? There is no damn thing as "the simple flu".