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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8534743" data-attributes="member: 22779">Here's the thing though.  What are the results of a white person watching something racist?  Up until very, very recently, nothing.  I grew up with Andrew Dice Clay and various other unbelievably racist things that people not only watched but applauded.  There was pretty much zero negative results from a white person watching something racist. The fact that there might be some mild inconvenience now isn't really much of an implication or result.-----Edit to add.See, the thing is [USER=6795602]@FrogReaver[/USER], what you are not understanding here is that when you are a minority in a country racism and cultural insensitivity isn't rare.  It's not something that pops up once in a while.  It's something you have to deal with every single time you open a newspaper, turn on the television and pretty much every single time you leave your house.  There is always something.  Every day.  Whether it's some news article in the paper where the mayor is saying that foreigners should be kept under surveillance because if there is an emergency, foreigners will be the ones looting and killing.  ((Actual quote from the mayor of Tokyo by the way))  It's people screaming at you while you walk down the street.  It's being followed by sales people the entire time you are in a store because they are "just being careful".  On and on and on.It never stops.  And, as a minority in a country, you must never, ever forget it.  The second you do, it will bite you on the ass very hard.  THAT'S the reality of living as a minority.  So, when you talk about a white person liking a movie with racism in it, you're not actually saying anything out of the ordinary.  People in the majority like things that make minorities look bad all the time.  One only has to watch the news to see that.  The only difference is that now, at least in some countries like Canada and the US and others, where you have such a huge minority population, it's slowly, very, very, very slowly becoming socially unacceptable.</blockquote>

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