Edit: The etymology of these words have nothing to do with skincolor, Blackness or Whiteness.
Are you Muslim or just from a mostly Muslim country?
Many Muslims have said America's treatment of Muslims is abhorrent and damaging. Why should she listen to you over them?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47245/the-cambridge-l...
It's a pattern in part because of the way white women get socialized and the role they get assigned.
I'm not excusing it or saying it's okay. I'm just saying widespread patterns tend to be driven by larger forces.
I'm not going to say more than that because it tends to be a shit show to try to say anything about the whys and wherefores.
Yes, it needs to stop. Helping white women escape the role society assigns them would be a more effective means to address this than just pointing fingers and being blamey.
To believe otherwise is a willful victimhood fantasy.
Just because something isn't specifically connected to race doesn't mean it is innocuous.
No one said otherwise. Luckily, "blacklist" is innocuous, and the only ones calling for its replacement and removal are neurotic leftists.
Dragons breathe fire, and my family burned to death. For my safety, please change your username to something that won't trigger me, your username is not innocuous. I see your username and all I can think about is my family burning.
Just because something isn't specifically connected to race doesn't mean it is innocuous.
According to wsj:
> Online marketplace eBay Inc. said it is working to prevent the resale of six Dr. Seuss books that were pulled earlier this week by the company in charge of the late author’s works because they contain offensive imagery.
It's laughably hypocritical in an era where pop culture is full of all kinds of 'offensive' material.
Go here, right now [1] to the Billboard Hot 100 and cruise down that list.
Over 50% of those songs are chock full of brutal misogyny, racism, sexism, violence, and all of the most vile and derelict behaviours we wold ever want to see in any person.
To think that EBay is 'banning' Dr. Seuss, but happily selling music that literally glorifies young men for murdering random people for looking at them the wrong way is a definite sign of social decline.
The author of this post is effectively correct.
The OP is correct to use Dr. Seuss as a point of concern eve if the owners of the IP have every right to stop publishing.
The author is dead, so couldn't. The IP is owned by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, which was founded by his wife. It's not some random corporation who swooped up the copyrights at an auction, but literally the organization created to manage them.
> Go here, right now [1] to the Billboard Hot 100 and cruise down that list.
Presumably those IP holders have decided to continue selling their stuff, which is also their right.
> To think that EBay is 'banning' Dr. Seuss
They're doing no such thing. They've decided to stop selling the specific books that are being pulled from publication.
Every last bit of this stuff is garden variety free market capitalism: an IP holder decided to stop publishing certain works, and a market decided to stop selling them. Because I support capitalism, I have to support their rights to make these kinda of business decisions.
I find this "revisionism" frightening. I fear it'll continue to get worse. I hope it does not.