Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation

Re:Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation by little_goat_boy on Sunday January 03, 2021 @05:13AM (#25620860)

Can we talk more about this? I think of hacker news as a place to discuss differing opinions and this response seems like something I'd like to understand better. When does opting out of a cultural scene == racism?

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Re:Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation by yaakov34 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @05:32AM (#25620944)

Why are you playing dumb? Rejecting things as "too white", "too black" or "too Asian" is racist.

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Re:Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation by bgilroy26 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @05:37AM (#25620965)

It's a matter of taste and taste is speech. Let it be freee

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Re:Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation by antisoeu on Sunday January 03, 2021 @07:14AM (#25621340)

It's still racist. I personally even think racism should be legal - in general, people having wrong opinions should be legal. Doesn't mean I have to like them.

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Re:Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation by bgilroy26 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:46PM (#25783963)

>Doesn't mean I have to like them.

Yes.

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Re:Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation by antisoeu on Sunday January 03, 2021 @07:26AM (#25621378)

It's racism if you define a scene by people's skin color. Not sure what there is to talk about.

yaakov34 explains it well.

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Re:Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation by SideburnsOfDoom on Sunday January 03, 2021 @10:36AM (#25622316)

I do not think that a person noticing that they are the only person of colour in the room is being racist.

You might as well say that it's sexist to _notice_ that the tech conference is all dudes.

It's the same victim-blaming absurdity.

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Re:Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation by antisoeu on Sunday January 03, 2021 @02:46PM (#25624540)

You are not a victim if you are the only non-white person in a room or the only woman at a conference. It's absurd to make a connection to "victim blaming" here.

Noticing such quotas as such is of course not racist or sexist. Acting because of them is. Feeling like a victim because you are the only "X" in the room is also racist or sexist (depending on context).

And are you saying his ONLY reason for "leaving the art scene" was because everybody else had white skin color? Not even because of their behavior? How is that not racist? And if he left because of the behavior, and describes it as being "white", it is also racist. There is no way to interpret his statement as not being racist.

As for "leaving the art scene", I bet he doesn't reject "white money" and 99% of his funding is from white people. In the article it is also stated that "European museums" bought his art.

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