I wish New Zealand could come up with comedy that didn't depend... people of colour running their own cultures and people down.
Huh? You've said often enough in the past that you think it's not the role of white people to criticise what's genuinely offensive in non-white culture, but that that role is best left to those within that culture. But it's hard to square that with your now saying you don't want to see people of colour running their own cultures down. Perhaps by this you mean that you don't want to see people of colour engaged in non-constructive criticism of their own cultures - but are you able to judge what is and isn't constructive, as a white person? Or do you simply feel that these intercultural dialogues should be closed to outside scrutiny, for fear of inadvertently encouraging racists?
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Date: 2009-03-11 10:27 am (UTC)I wish New Zealand could come up with comedy that didn't depend... people of colour running their own cultures and people down.
Huh? You've said often enough in the past that you think it's not the role of white people to criticise what's genuinely offensive in non-white culture, but that that role is best left to those within that culture. But it's hard to square that with your now saying you don't want to see people of colour running their own cultures down. Perhaps by this you mean that you don't want to see people of colour engaged in non-constructive criticism of their own cultures - but are you able to judge what is and isn't constructive, as a white person? Or do you simply feel that these intercultural dialogues should be closed to outside scrutiny, for fear of inadvertently encouraging racists?