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Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it<\/span><\/p>\n
-Winston Churchill<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
[2020 note: I basically made this exact same post<\/a> three years ago, starting in a similar manner]<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
Not long ago, I saw that Community<\/em> was available on Netflix, which was pleasing to me.\u00a0 Community was one of those shows in which I\u2019d only seen sporadic episodes in no particular order, depending on whichever group of friends I\u2019d hang out with and happen to catch an episode or two at their point of watching through the series.\u00a0 However, crushing on Alison Brie withstanding, I liked the show, and I always thought it would be a good idea to binge the series in order if the opportunity ever presented itself.<\/span><\/p>\n
One episode in particular that made me think \u201cwhoa, this show is really<\/em> clever\u201d was the episode that most widely seems to be known as \u201cthe D&D episode.\u201d\u00a0 Not giving anything away, but the Community gang plays a game of Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> for a particular motive.\u00a0 However, if there\u2019s one scene in the episode that really sticks with most viewers, it\u2019s of Ken Jeong\u2019s character, Chang, completely painted black and wearing a white wig, because he wants in on the game, and assumes LARPing as a dark elf would get the job done (spoiler: it doesn\u2019t).<\/span><\/p>\n
But it\u2019s a little bit of a jaw-dropping scene because in all technicality, it\u2019s still Ken Jeong in complete black face (and hands and presumably all other flesh).\u00a0 But the thing is, he\u2019s not trying to imitate or ridicule black people, he\u2019s just trying to get in character as a dark elf.<\/span><\/p>\n
Well, I just learned that that episode of Community won\u2019t be available on Netflix anymore.\u00a0 In fact, any episode of any show, and presumably any movie, that features any non-black character painting their skin tone as to appear darker, has been scrubbed from Netflix\u2019s library, in light of the rampant racism problem, running roughshod in America currently.<\/span><\/p>\n
Blackface, has suddenly shot up the charts as a hot button, and all throughout the world of media, there\u2019s a whole lot of retroactive scrubbing being done, to eradicate all proof of any show, person, entity or whatever, partaking in blackface at any point in history.<\/span><\/p>\n
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I understand that people, of whatever degrees of notoriety, if they\u2019ve ever done blackface or anything racially insensitive, and they know it exists in some form of media, would definitely want to forget it happened, or at least really hope it never sees the light of day by anyone else, but what\u2019s going on currently is this mass craze of revisionist history throughout the world, where it seems more like people want to cover their asses and hide their dirty laundry, instead of accepting that what they did was wrong, learn from it, and strive to make better choices in the future and perhaps not do them, and definitely not put them on the internet.<\/span><\/p>\n
And that\u2019s what I\u2019m finding concerning in today\u2019s culture, is that there seems to be a collective attitude that it\u2019s best to eradicate, destroy and delete, negative or insensitive things or content, but it doesn\u2019t seem like anyone really wants to learn from it at all.\u00a0 And if things are deleted throughout history, who\u2019s to say that things won\u2019t, inevitably come back around and happen again, but if nobody knows it existed before, they most certainly would be condemned to make the same mistakes again.<\/span><\/p>\n
Take for example all the Confederate statues across the southeastern United States that have been destroyed, topped over, or just flat out vandalized and defaced.\u00a0 Sure, the Confederacy is somewhat of an embarrassment to American culture, but it sure as shit did happen.\u00a0 Now I agree that it\u2019s probably best if these historic racists weren\u2019t honored in statue form, prominently in major American cities, but at the same time, destroying them only helps wipe them from history books, and if in 100 years, there\u2019s an uprising from a radically conservative, racist faction of the country that rises to power, then there\u2019s nothing historically for them to refer to, to maybe think that their choices might not be the most kosher ones to be making.<\/span><\/p>\n
Why not relocate these Confederate statues and monuments to museums or something, where people can actually seek out knowledge in their history, and possibly learn on what not<\/em> to do, as Americans?<\/span><\/p>\n
Same as all the shows and content out there that had something like blackface in them at some point; sure, it\u2019s not right, it was never right, but acknowledge that it happened, and make it a teachable moment.\u00a0 Hiding them from viewers only sweeps the issue under the rug, while meeting it head-on and advancing from it seems a little more productive.<\/span><\/p>\n
And as for the D&D episode of Community, what bugs me is that Netflix nixed the episode, where those who had never seen the episode would never get to learn the context of the scene in the first place.\u00a0 Chang isn\u2019t in blackface to mock, ridicule or take a racist shot at black people; he\u2019s literally trying to cosplay as a fucking drow, a dark elf race in Dungeons & fucking Dragons.<\/span><\/p>\n
All I\u2019m really saying is that in light of current events, I think America and all its people are being a little too sensitive and reactionary to things that are offensive towards black people.\u00a0 Keep in mind for every Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben that\u2019s being scrubbed from existence, we still have a United States president<\/em> who makes every effort to associate coronavirus as \u201cThe Chinese Virus\u201d or \u201cKung Flu\u201d because Asian people are not black people and are therefore still fair game to be racist towards.<\/span><\/p>\n
Scrubbing too much out of history just creates room for future generations to repeat it.\u00a0 And believe me, they will, because creativity is nil, and what is once old always becomes new again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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