From the people who thought Brexit was a good idea comes this bullshit.
... bruh.
... bruh.
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U.K.’s Channel 4 Takes British Family to Africa in New (racist) Reality Show
- Thread starter Rvaan
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I want the first episode to be everyone else just kicks them out of their fancy house and they keep it for themselves.
Seems elitest instead of racist. "Look at the modern comforts we have that you (presumably) don't."
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So they're going to be making it even more tempting for the youth to abandon their families' traditional way of life in favor of the modern world. Seems similar to the Amish practice of letting their kids experience modern life before deciding whether to go back to the Amish way of life. Wonder if the tribe shares that sentimentality on the subject.
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For those outside the UK, channel 4 is bizarre. On the one hand, it has what is easily the best news program on TV, and on the other it broadcasts absolute bottom scraping shit like this or the poverty porn series it had on recently.
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Running water and electricity in Africa! What will they think of next.
the whole point is to see them struggle. Why would you give them all of their creature comforts?
I don't see that it's racist, but fuck me its fucking awful.
They should've donated the money this cost to a water aid charity instead.
They should've donated the money this cost to a water aid charity instead.
Pfft, it's not INTENTIONALLY racist, but it's still gonna be racist and there's no doubting that, guys. :p
I'm pretty sure Channel 4 will produce/present literally any show that any writer pitches to them. Sex Box was a defining moment for that.
Really? I don't get how you can't see it, it's almost as if you're joking. This is such an obvious reinforcement of the old school "african" stereotype, especially the "savages" into contrast with the "advanced" brits. Why do you think they selected a nomadic tribe that looks the closest to the racist sterotypes they have as possible? Perhaps you think they'll try to educate and debunk stereotypes about africa and africans, but c'mon, it's going to be the opposite.
I wasn't downplaying it, it's 100% racist be it out of intentional malice or unintentional ignorance, and that makes it awful.
Elitism is racism when it's directed against another race. There's a reason they chose an African tribe.
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I spit my lemonade out all over my white suit while reading this.
Seem pretty intent on breaking up what's left of the union, tbh.
Thanks for explaining. I didn't think of the stereotypes angle. I see what you mean.
Addressing this part, no, elitism is not inherently racism if the elitism happens to be toward people who happen to have a different skin color. One does not automatically imply the other. The show's in bad taste, regardless, as it seems to be trying to show off presumed advantages that the British family has over the tribes people. It's doubly in bad taste as the tribes people seem to already have an issue with their young leaving the tribe to go after modern life amenities. I just don't think it's automatically also racist because the two groups have different skin colors. It'd be just as in bad taste if the British family involved was dark-skinned.
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Just for context, part of the justification given for British colonialism was claiming that they, the whites, were civilized and were heroically granting other people the gift of culture via their colonial interests. Compare this poem from Rudyard Kipling. a pro-imperial British man born in India:
to this letter from Robert E. Lee, the American who led the fight to keep Africans and their descendants enslaved:
Also seen in the modern era when Bill Maher tells you that he's fighting racism so he's allowed to say the N-word.