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What makes this racist?

posted 8 years ago by FreddyVoorheesTheThird
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I keep seeing people whine "THIS IS RACIST!!" and "BOYCOT NETFLIX!" but I've yet to actually hear from someone explaining how, exactly, it is racist or promotes "white genocide".

[–] Lunda2222 8 years ago

No idea really. Can't really say anything from the trailer, except it has a title that may some provoke people, but provoking that's pretty much just to catch people's eyes. It says nothing about the show itself.

It doesn't sound like something I would normally watch, but then I rarely watch any shows beyond the pilot (the last show I cared enough to watch three whole seasons was Misfits (2009)), this will probably be another.

But who knows? I might be pleasantly surprised.

It`s far easier to start a war than to end one.

[–] modica (4169) 7 years ago

Nothing makes this racist. It is a good show. Very well written and acted. I don't see how starting a conversation about issues is racist.

[–] lordbishop34 (1442) 7 years ago

I think the issue is if you replace this shows title with anything other than white it would cause a lot of issues regardless of the content and purpose of the show and most likely would be called racist. Racist is tossed around so much it really has little meaning anymore. I am not sure if many people would know what to do if they ran into a real racist.