I’m watching a science fiction movie and it suddenly starts focusing on black history instead.
So I’m offended by that bait and switch, or whatever you call it.
Is that valid?
Which movie?
Star Wars: Acolyte
Why choose “offended” as the verb here? I’m not saying I’ve never seeing an offensive movie… But what you described is an annoyance at most.
It’s almost as if you are claiming offense to be contrarian.
I chose it because the op chose it. To avoid confusion.
So the OP described an experience of black history erasure. You chimed in with a hypothetical movie that you wouldn’t be offended by but wouldn’t enjoy, but you used the term “offended” just so you could participate and make the experience about you?
Confusion appears to be immensely attractive.
To answer your question, no it is not valid. The fact that you don’t actually stand by the word offended really answers yourself.
Let’s try our own bait and switch:
I’m watching a science fiction show and suddenly they start focusing on American history instead.
So I’m offended by the bait and switch, or whatever you call it.
Is that valid?
The answer is still no, it’s not valid to equate a movie to, oh… systematic oppression. If you didn’t like the movie, you didn’t like the movie.
Depends - would you be okay with it focusing on white history?
Reminds me when Morgan Freeman said he didn’t want a Black History Month, I immediately went like “dude, shut the f*** up”.
there are two people i lost some respect due to a shitty r/iama: Woody Harrelson and Morgan Freeman
I was going through this thread and I saw someone share a Morgan Freeman video.
I just… Are we serious?
Anyone offended by history needs to reflect on their priorities and identity.
I’m not offended that white people claimed this land at the point of a sword, and even worse, in the embrace of a smallpox blanket. Horrified, yes, but not offended. I’m not offended that the backbone of the economy for a hundred years was built on the backs of stolen people on stolen land.
I’m not offended by history.
What I am offended by is the present. I’m offended that people who have been oppressed and started out life with less than nothing have been told by the privileged elite to “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps like the rest of us did”. That’s fucking vile. I’m offended that we keep trying to whitewash confederate slave owning generals, instead of teaching who they really were, and what they really killed for, and ordered other people to die for. Be offended about what we are doing now, and use history as the reason why we should change it.
