{"id":6757,"date":"2009-02-20T00:17:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T07:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2009-02-20T00:17:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T07:37:23","slug":"true-equality-is-the-equality-to-suck-like-the-white-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6757","title":{"rendered":"True equality is the equality to suck like the white man"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title of the post is from this Chris Rock video — in particular, from the final minute of the video.<\/p>\n

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Damn straight. True equality isn’t measured in how the extraordinary people do; it’s in how the mediocre do. When schmucks of all types are equal, then we’ve got something.<\/p>\n

Derek Kirk Kim<\/a> expands on Rock’s point:<\/p>\n

White roles go to white actors who are phenomenal, mediocre, and <\/em>shitty without condition. Why shouldn’t that be the case for Asian actors going after roles of Asian characters? The argument that only extraordinary Asians should be allowed to be on the screen is completely unfair and, if you’re Asian yourself making this argument, self-defeating. When they go to cast “Rob Roy,” are they really trying to find the most talented actor? No, they are trying to find the most talented white actor. As it should be–that role is for a white Anglo-Saxon character. As such, a role for an Asian character like that in Avatar MUST <\/em>go to an Asian actor, even if the best one they can find is simply mediocre. (You know, like a million kids’ movies like “The Chronicles of Narnia” starring mediocre white actors.) Or else we don’t have true equality. This kind of exclusion also makes it very difficult for that phenomenal Asian American actor to emerge. […] You can’t find gold if you’re not even aloud to dig or approach the river.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The title of the post is from this Chris Rock video — in particular, from the final minute of the video. Damn straight. True equality isn’t measured in how the extraordinary people do; it’s in how the mediocre do. When … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}