No, I don't remember the exact movies, tv shows, or people that made them off hand, but that's because they're so common that they don't stand out particularly. It'd be like asking me to remember the last asian joke I heard. I know they're made, but I dont have any examples off the top of my head. If I had to pull something out of my butt on the spot, i'd probably say a show like IASIP, and Adam Carolla.
But are you really telling me you never hear rape/roofie/qualudes jokes?
I think that joking about rape and other forms of sexual abuse, and using them gratuitously as entertainment help to sterilize them in the mainstream. I don't think the goal is to promote it, but the sterilization is just a by product. That's just my opinion.
Likewise, for hip hop, I don't think the explicit goal is necessarily to promote or glamorize violence, even if that is the byproduct of the music.
I thought we were talking about child pageants? I haven't heard progressives argue for child pageants.
When it comes to drag shows, yes, there are those that will make those arguments. I disagree with the shows, but I think the argument has more to it then "drag shows are great for kids". But, that's another topic.
You're missing my point. There is a microscope on "black problems". There is a racialization that happens to black people that doesn't happen to other groups. The very concept of things like "black on black" crime is ridiculous. It's just crime. Or gang crime. What does the race have to do with it when they're both black and the crimes aren't racially motivated?
When "white problems" happen, no one says it's a white problem. It's a Western problem, or an American problem, or a lack of religion problem. OR, it's just put on individuals.
But black folks are treated like a separate community within America as if we have an entirely different culture, or as if we all live in some gang-ridden ghetto.
So, yes, when everyone has decided these are "black problems", they get countered with "The white man's system". Because every white person in America and on the news suddenly becomes experts on black people when a gang war breaks out in a black neighborhood no white person has ever stepped foot in.
And then the white owned record labels, movie and television companies swoop into signal boost the "degeneracy" and gives it a much larger voice and audience it would ever have had...but...somehow it is blamed on "black culture" for spreading Compton gang culture all over the world.
I'm not saying rap is the deciding factor. I'm saying that people are saying that RACE is. That gangster hip hop and gang culture is BLACK culture. I am saying that it would be just as stupid and racist to say that child predation is "white culture" as it is to say that gang violence is black culture.
