I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the general confusion over what a good father is in the BCT.
It thought Slayven was your boy, PD.
Calling him out in the Gwenyth Paltrow thread.
I just dislike the constant undertone of victimhood. Paltrow is an elitist, there are reports that she's difficult to work with, I understand why people dislike her...but at the same time she has given her money to charity and other good initiatives. She's also a celebrity which gives her a platform that you and I don't have. The fact that she would use that platform to raise awareness on an important subject is a good thing. She could easily just use that platform to sell people shit, but instead she's doing some good.
Slayven's post suggests he thinks this is not just a ruse, but some form of exploitation. She's dabbling in, or roleplaying with, suffering. And I think if he was questioned he'd call it black suffering - nevermind that there are more white people, specifically white women, on welfare and SNAP programs. In short he wants to paint this like she's some white person who goes to a 1960s civil rights march with a raincoat. That's the impression I got from his posts, and that's the impression I constantly get from BCT luminaries when they enter just about any race related thread. White people exploiting black
stuff for monetary gains or moral accolades.
I'm not denying that does indeed happen, but I'm so tired of everything being thrown into the same pot. We see that right now in the cultural appropriation thread. On what logical level does it make sense to compare what Macklemore does to what Riff Raff does? It just seems like there's a stunning lack of nuance to these discussions, and we're left with victimhood fuckery.
