grouchymusicologist comments on Manufacturing prejudice - Less Wrong

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Comment author: grouchymusicologist 02 April 2011 07:15:49PM 4 points [-]

Are humans capable of, collectively, keeping real and humorous/ironic racism separate? No, they are not. What South Park "kicked" off as an ironic commentary on racism is becoming actual racism.

See also Truffaut's famous dictum that there's no such thing as a true anti-war film (obligatory TVtropes warning).

Comment author: rosyatrandom 04 April 2011 08:21:08AM 10 points [-]

And then there is Kurt Vonnegut's warning from Mother Night: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

Comment author: teageegeepea 05 April 2011 04:37:11AM 1 point [-]

And I thought Jerry Cantrell was being original in "Give it a Name".

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