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Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by throwaway2037 on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:33AM (#28087688)
You wrote: <<<I don't know what country you're from but if you don't think there are subcultures in your country under-represented by the dominant media I'd assert you're almost definitely wrong.>>>

Agree. I could imagine Netflix-for-Turks streaming in Europe for overseas Turks!

Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by jandrese on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:42AM (#28087811)
Or a Netflix for Gypsys. I've always found it amazing how many Europeans will berate Americans for their discrimination and then turn around and talk about how to best get rid of Gypsys that show up.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by playcache on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:33AM (#28088559)
Everyone feels for the plight of the Gypsies, right up until they move caravans onto the park behind your house.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by anthk on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:06PM (#28089994)
Or Gypsy women themselves fed up of their own backwards machoist culture.

Most well educated gypsies are being frowned down by their own relatives as if they became "non-Gypsy traitors" and they often run away from their own ghettos to never, ever come back.

That never happened in the US with Black people, even in the worst racist laws in the 50's. They even tried to live with the same rights as the White people.

Gypsy people in Europe, at least the tribalistic ones want to secede from the society, as a reverse MLK and live by their own rules, having those priority over state laws.

Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by throwaway2037 on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:36AM (#28088619)
I heard it is better to say Roma people now, instead of Gypsys. What do you think? (My old co-worker was from Romania and explained it to me. And I have see positive propaganda adverts in Italy explaining the same.)
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by selimthegrim on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:58AM (#28088041)
Or literally sterilize them.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by anthk on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:04PM (#28089979)
So just like the US against Latin people until very recently. Or Canada. But not under a fascism regime like Franco, but under a self-called democracy, which is far worse.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by luckylion on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:13AM (#28088267)
Turks in Europe tend to watch Turkish TV and prefer Turkish language, so there's not really a market for Netflix-But-Every-Actor-Is-Turkish in $europeanLanguage.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by sangnoir on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:34PM (#28089502)
I suspect you were aiming for sarcasm, but such a service would succeed in Germany, for sure.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by throwaway2037 on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:18PM (#28095380)
No, I was not being sarcastic. I was trying to think of a parallel example in Europe.