[Lucas32]

Originally posted by ToLove

Critically acclaimed comedies are almost never funny. How in Christ's name did Trainwreck receive an 85% on that site? I laughed maybe twice throughout the entirety of that seemingly endless piece of ****.

It's gonna bomb anyway and set back the equal rights movement several decades

Trainwreck has 85% approval? that movie was awful.
Granted I usually don't like comedies but still. I only watched it because Amy's stand up comedies and some of her skis are gold.

[Artemisia]

Originally posted by Vrx.

That's what's ironic
Many immigrants that are minorities as well as minorities in general dislike African Americans because they minimize their issues and believe they had it the worst

Many immigrants and minorities don't like african americans because anti blackness exists within all communities. it's that simple, stop trying to come up with an alternative explanation.

I even see this among african immigrants who see themselves as above the african american community.

[collin]

OK, but in America, people get dirty treatment for appearing of Arabic-descent. The Muslim religion, esp. when it's practiced by someone of Arabic descent, is largely and bafflingly treated as hand-in-hand with terrorism by millions of people. This is a problem no one cares to fix or even take action against.

[Sunshine.]

I understand what she's saying. I'm trying not to be narcissistic'd and propaganda'd by all the sweeping fanaticism, but I don't see how minimizing the importance of a movement helps her in accomplishing hers.

If we're being extremely factual, it's also what Nina Simone was singing about in the 60s. And what Billie Holiday was singing about in the 30s. Because they're black and it affects them directly. Doesn't negate the importance of it. You can't ask people from the outgroup to take leadership in your movement. Who would even accept Beyoncé as the face of the Muslim movement?

What she said was definitely selfish and misguided, but obviously well-intentioned.

[TheVoiceXtina]

*prejudiced

Minorities cannot be racist, they dont hold the power silly!

[Nialler]

Trainwreck was the most unfunny comedy I have ever seen. Even those cringey Adam Sandler movies are funnier.

[Austin]

Originally posted by Ramos

That entire last paragraph is literally you giving your own interpretation to what she said

I literally read the exact same thing you read & I understand where she's coming from, like I said before, it might not be the best time or the right context to say it but she didn't lie.

And that whole way of thinking like "I don't care because it's not affecting me or I have my own issues that are actually affecting me" is the exact same way of thinking of the white racists, so yeah, not cute on your part to overlook other people issues like that. She never came directly for them, she was just mentioning the FACT that the entire Black Lives Matters subject has been talked about for a long time in America (which is good) but Middle East issues have never been really touched, she never said that it was wrong or anything, she just literally stated the fact that it wasn't something new (which it isn't).

Like, do we really need to digest everything for you guys?

I mean a LOT of people read her comments the same way I did, which is why it caused so much controversy

It's extremely problematic to suggest black/AA artists have to campaign for the rights of refugees hundreds of thousands of miles away when HUNDREDS of young people in their OWN community are being KILLED in 2016. The black community in America is facing a real and relevant problem, people are being killed on their doorsteps, so obviously that is the first issue they are going to want to deal with. Why is that so hard to understand? Why didn't MIA call out for the white American artists like Gaga or Taylor, who aren't currently dealing with devastating brutality towards their own community, to campaign for muslim lives, why did she specify Kendrick or Beyonce

Maybe 'Muslim Lives Matter' isn't such a big thing in America because... it hasn't got a huge Muslim American community, like the African American one?

[Artemisia]

Originally posted by ToLove

Critically acclaimed comedies are almost never funny. How in Christ's name did Trainwreck receive an 85% on that site? I laughed maybe twice throughout the entirety of that seemingly endless piece of ****.

It's gonna bomb anyway and set back the equal rights movement several decades

i thought bridesmaids and spy were both good, those were acclaimed

[Vrx.]

Originally posted by Artemisia

Many immigrants and minorities don't like african americans because anti blackness exists within all communities. it's that simple, stop trying to come up with an alternative explanation.

I even see this among african immigrants who see themselves as above the african american community.

Nobody is offering any other explanation, this is a well known issue within all communities
African Americans continue to isolate themselves

[Lord Blackout]

Originally posted by Artemisia

i thought bridesmaids and spy were both good, those were acclaimed

Spy was awful. Bridesmaids was great

[RihannasVeryOwn]

There's definitely solidarity between activist movements by Palestinians and African Americans, Angela Davis for example has always been an advocate for Palestinian liberation.

I just feel like MIA's intentions weren't pure when she was steering attention away from the extrajudicial killings of black Americans towards the plight of Syrians, in a kind of 'why aren't people speaking about this?????' way as if humans can't care about multiple things at once

[Lucas32]

Originally posted by TheVoiceXtina

*prejudiced

Minorities cannot be racist, they dont hold the power silly!

Power has nothing to do with racism. Anyone can be racist against anyone.
Power only plays a role when it comes to systematic or institutional racism.

[Ecstasy]

Originally posted by collin

OK, but in America, people get dirty treatment for appearing of Arabic-descent. The Muslim religion, esp. when it's practiced by someone of Arabic descent, is largely and bafflingly treated as hand-in-hand with terrorism by millions of people. This is a problem no one cares to fix or even take action against.

This is a good thing. If Christians were treated the same way then I'd say US was on the right track

[Vrx.]

Maybe it's because I've lived in the U.S.A, Asia, and Europe, but the U.S.A. is the messiest of them all

[collin]

What Lucas said: it's about including ALL people, not minimizing one for others.
This is definitively the message MIA always perpetuates: this time is no different.

[TheVoiceXtina]

Originally posted by Vrx.

Asian Americans in the U.S.A. are the most successful ethnic group across all of the ethnicities that exist (same in most of Western Europe)

What liberation?

And you are still discriminated against (see - College intakes of incoming/prospective Asian-American students), still persecuted (workplace) and STILL a minority/erased from popular discourse. You know, like how asian-american roles are either caricatured or whitewashed or never even involved lmao

but yeah successful!!1111

[Ramos]

[Artemisia]

you're all so ****** at separating intention (something we can never, truly know) from what was actually said

[Halien4Life]

Don't blacks everywhere come 2nd right after middle-easterns for Muslim population?

[Nialler]

Originally posted by Vrx.

Asian Americans in the U.S.A. are the most successful ethnic group across all of the ethnicities that exist (same in most of Western Europe)

What liberation?

They are the most hard-working people I know. They don't need affirmative action.