The left-wing Democrats who operate the educational bureaucracy in America have hammered the “social justice” mentality so deeply into the psyches of young people that they don’t even recognize it as a ideology. Unable to think except within the formulaic boundaries prescribed by political slogans — “Equality!” “Progress!” “Diversity!” — the 21st-century Progressive Youth mindlessly invoke these amorphous concepts in banal clichés, seemingly unaware of any possible alternative worldview.
Last month at the annual Comic Con, there was a panel featuring the executive producer and several cast members of The 100, an apocalyptic science-fiction series on The CW network. The question was asked by a fan: “What does it feel like to be some of the best, most complex female characters on television for like you as an actor?”
To this, Eliza Taylor (who plays Clarke on the series) answered, “It is an absolute honor. I cannot tell you how many times I have played the dumb blonde slutty best friend of some guy, you know, that whole character. I’ve done that for 15 years now and [in The 100], I’ve been able to play someone smart and strong and responsible and worthy and . . . it gets me emotional because it makes me so happy I love that we’re in a day and age now where women can be portrayed that way.”
So, prior to the 21st century, no woman was ever portrayed as smart, strong, responsible and worthy, according to Ms. Taylor.
Next up was Marie Avgeropoulos, who plays Octavia on the show, who said, “I’m an auntie. I have nieces and nephews, so I’m just happy that they can watch TV and look up to me. I’m doing something positive, and inspiring . . . not just women, but you know, young boys as well, or just people in general. . . . Nowadays . . . I find young girls are looking up to the wrong kind of things. . . . My niece’s friends are wearing, and I was like, ‘Wow, I was not wearing that little of clothes at your age.’ So it’s pretty cool that we get to, you know, play warriors and really smart mechanics or doctors and, yeah, we have the best job ever.”
So, we are informed, The 100 — and other TV programming — is not entertainment, but is essentially didactic in purpose. It’s all about “inspiring” young people to emulate the values portrayed on TV.
Finally, the question went to Lindsey Morgan, who plays Raven on the series. She answered: “I personally am extremely grateful because as a woman, and especially as a woman of color . . .” Some women in the audience began whooping, and Morgan shouted: “Yeah!”
What? A “woman of color”? I looked at the video and wondered what this young starlet with the Total White Girl name “Lindsey” was talking about.
A quick check of Wikipedia: “Lindsey Marie Morgan was born in Georgia to George Morgan and Alice Burciaga, and raised in Houston, Texas. She is of Irish and Mexican descent.” Let us stipulate that, however “Mexican” Ms. Morgan’s mother might be, when your parents’ names are “George” and “Alice” and your surname is “Morgan,” it’s not as if your life story is some up-from-the-barrio struggling Chicana narrative. My brother-in-law’s mother is Mexican, but his surname is “Powers” and he certainly would never expect his two children — blue-eye white kids growing up middle-class in Ohio — to describe themselves as “people of color.” If Ms. Morgan’s maternal ancestry is slightly more apparent than that of my quarter-Mexican niece and nephew, it’s not so obvious that she’s likely ever to have been subjected to slurs, stereotypes or discrimination.
Right. If Donald Trump gets elected, Lindsay Morgan will be deported, or so we might be expected to believe from her “woman of color” rhetoric. Yet this is a typical expression of the same social-justice mentality that makes Eliza Taylor pretend that women on TV were never portrayed as smart, strong, responsible and worthy until The 100 debuted two years ago. Everything is about the Heroic Struggle Against Oppression, and TV series are just political sermons on behalf of the Democrat Party.
If that girl gets any whiter, she’ll be able to get sunburned by the moon.
If that girl gets any whiter, she’ll be able to get sunburned by the moon.
In Australia, if you questioned Morgan’s claim of being a ‘woman of color’ you would be liable for prosecution under the 18C law which prohibits causing offense to someone based on their race. In other words, Morgan could simply say that she was offended and you’d be in a world of pain. We have plenty of so-called aboriginal Australians who look like they’ve just stepped off the boat from Ireland. No public criticism of this however, is allowed.
The phrase “people of color” is one of those terms, like LGBTQ, that has only political meaning. Really, what do “Latino” and “Asian” denote? Exactly what do the Pakistani and the Japanese have in common? Why are the Brazilian and the Dominican lumped together in the same category? Same way with LGBTQ. As my lesbian friend Cynthia Yockey points out, “transgender” interests are dramatically at odds with the lesbian community.
The phrase “people of color” is one of those terms, like LGBTQ, that has only political meaning. Really, what do “Latino” and “Asian” denote? Exactly what do the Pakistani and the Japanese have in common? Why are the Brazilian and the Dominican lumped together in the same category? Same way with LGBTQ. As my lesbian friend Cynthia Yockey points out, “transgender” interests are dramatically at odds with the lesbian community.
She attended classes taught by Elizabeth Warren, and Warren probably commented on her ‘high cheekbones.’
Doesn’t get more documented than that…
She attended classes taught by Elizabeth Warren, and Warren probably commented on her ‘high cheekbones.’
Doesn’t get more documented than that…
Give it a few more generations and none of the racial terms currently in use will mean much of anything. Intermarriage in the Western world is increasingly making these terms meaningless from a genetic point of view.
“Person of color,” “African American,” “Latino” and so forth, are already and will increasingly be terms whose only meaning are social and virtue signaling. Look at our “first black President.” He’s only 1/4 black by any standard measure; he’s the son of a half-black, half-Arabic father and a white American mother.
Give it a few more generations and none of the racial terms currently in use will mean much of anything. Intermarriage in the Western world is increasingly making these terms meaningless from a genetic point of view.
“Person of color,” “African American,” “Latino” and so forth, are already and will increasingly be terms whose only meaning are social and virtue signaling. Look at our “first black President.” He’s only 1/4 black by any standard measure; he’s the son of a half-black, half-Arabic father and a white American mother.
Given that social “value” these days is dependent upon where one falls on the “Victim Pyramid,” is it any surprise that people will grasp any straw they can to position themselves above someone else or some other group? Without the “of color” bit, she’s just another attractive white actress and we all know what sort of epithets that can draw because of her “privilege.” The same thing is true of all these young women from wealthy backgrounds who attend elite private schools on their parents’ dime. Suddenly they’re “gender queer” because being wealthy and white just doesn’t cut it in modern SJW circles.
?From what I’ve seen, this is a way to celebrate victimhood and demand extra privileges by oh-so-carefully defining a minority within a minority and demanding even more special treatment and deference than the original minority would have received. And the original minority is supposed to stand aside because the “concerns” of the special minority come first always. It all depends on guilt and pity. Without guilt, there would be no power, no privileges, no special treatment, and no deference.
Remember the important thing here is that as long as someone defines themselves as a anything of color, they will never be considered a “real” thing. It’s doesn’t matter if it’s “pagan of color,” “woman of color,” or “bus driver of color.” They will always be less than is expected of the label, and that is deliberate. They always have an excuse that shifts responsibility from themselves to society.
And since they are a minority’s minority, they can never be a fully human adult either. Nor can the “majority” be allowed to escape it’s guilt.?
— NeoWayland’s Lexicon
?I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.?
— Rev. Martin Luthor King, Jr.
?I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.?
— Rev. Martin Luthor King, Jr.
They want to have the status of being a oppressed minority, so if you can play a bit of ethic heritage into a identity, it can pay off later. There was a scene in the Columbus Day Sopranos (which is actually a great episode) where Tony and Silvo run to a guy they know who is managing a Connecticut Indian Casino. He was formerly Italian but had discovered his Native American heritage (sort of like Elizabeth Warren).
What a racist thing to say.
What a racist thing to say.
They have to make up for “whiting” George Zimmerman, who was only 1/2 Hispanic.
They have to make up for “whiting” George Zimmerman, who was only 1/2 Hispanic.
>implying the US wouldn’t be better off if Lindsay Morgan were deported
>implying we don’t need to build a wall around Hollyweird after we finish the one on the border with Mexico
>implying implications
>implying the US wouldn’t be better off if Lindsay Morgan were deported
>implying we don’t need to build a wall around Hollyweird after we finish the one on the border with Mexico
>implying implications
Pink IS a color.
Pink IS a color.
So you can now say “woman of color” but old raaaaacist were called out when they used to say “colored woman”?
So you can now say “woman of color” but old raaaaacist were called out when they used to say “colored woman”?
So, prior to the 21st century, no woman was ever portrayed as smart, strong, responsible and worthy, according to Ms. Taylor.
They are so bloody ignorant of the history of their own occupation.
They’ve apparently never heard of Barbra Stanwyck or Joan Blondell. Even when Jean Harlow was playing a “dumb blonde” she wasn’t dumb. She was always street smart.
They are fighting cliches that exist only in their heads.
“They are fighting cliches that exist only in their heads.”
You just summed up the entire political Left.
My dad could have been classified as Hispanic as he grew up in Mexico and was fluent in Spanish. His mom also had Native American ancestry. When I harp on this to my son he says “You’re the whitest guy I know.”
My dad could have been classified as Hispanic as he grew up in Mexico and was fluent in Spanish. His mom also had Native American ancestry. When I harp on this to my son he says “You’re the whitest guy I know.”
You know George Zimmerman is way darker than her and he was being called a white Hispanic.
I get called a white supremacist all the time and I’m a Nuyorican. Lindsey Morgan is way paler than I, but I guess because I’m a conservative I can’t be a person of color. I suspect I have more of and ethnic background than Lindsey Morgan, I actually remember Spanish Harlem.
I get called a white supremacist all the time and I’m a Nuyorican. Lindsey Morgan is way paler than I, but I guess because I’m a conservative I can’t be a person of color. I suspect I have more of and ethnic background than Lindsey Morgan, I actually remember Spanish Harlem.
There entire world is in their head. Most of the voices too.
Our first black president was actually white. Zer0 was just the first one with dark skin.
This reminds me of a Sanford & Son moment:
Redd Foxx: “I was robbed!”
Cop: “Were they colored?”
Redd Foxx: “Yeah. They were colored white.”
It also reminds me of how my dad, who was 1/16 Chippewa Indian, used to do a rain dance in the bar when the Cubs were ahead in the 6th inning.
White is a color.
White is a color.
“Wow, I was not wearing that little of clothes at your age.”
Can feminism please settle on a position? This is starting to make my head hurt. Is it due to patriarchal oppression that women act slutty or is it a sign of female empowerment? Because you can’t have it both ways.
My grandma grew up pre-wwII and I can guarantee women didn’t dress that way back then, it being the height of patriarchal oppression.
“Wow, I was not wearing that little of clothes at your age.”
Can feminism please settle on a position? This is starting to make my head hurt. Is it due to patriarchal oppression that women act slutty or is it a sign of female empowerment? Because you can’t have it both ways.
My grandma grew up pre-wwII and I can guarantee women didn’t dress that way back then, it being the height of patriarchal oppression.
Yeah, me too. I’ve got a small trace of Cherokee which shows up very strong and that’s supposed to be the trump card of all trump cards for racial discussions in America, but alas, wrong politics.
Yeah, me too. I’ve got a small trace of Cherokee which shows up very strong and that’s supposed to be the trump card of all trump cards for racial discussions in America, but alas, wrong politics.
Wait, is this a Rule 5 post? I didn’t see any category tags, but the pic of the woman of color???
Yep! White is the presence of all colors.
That was because he dared defend himself against one the left’s pets.
How’d you raise a son to be such a bigot?
But, but… being ignorant of history is all part of the plan, don’t you see?
But, but… being ignorant of history is all part of the plan, don’t you see?
^—- THIS.
Please, beautiful woman, tell us how oppressed you’ve been.
They’ve already settled on one, Squid: whatever men want is wrong. Now, you might think that defining their principles relative to someone else’s makes them in fact unprincipled, but that’s because you’re a man and therefore wrong.
They’ve already settled on one, Squid: whatever men want is wrong. Now, you might think that defining their principles relative to someone else’s makes them in fact unprincipled, but that’s because you’re a man and therefore wrong.