I have had a few too many cocktails to make this a coherent rant, but here it is anyway.
Watched this weeks episode of “Survivor” and for those that don’t know it is a reality tv show in the USA. It starts out with teams, called tribes, which must survive with limited supplies and compete in challenges as tribes. The losing tribe has to vote out someone to leave the game. Come the end of the game the voted out players vote for who played the best and wins a million dollars.
It is a complex game of social interaction and is on that level interesting to watch; who can I trust?
An interesting turn happened this week. There comes a point where the tribes merge and the competitions become individual, not team competitions.
What happened this week on the show was the merging of the tribes. What is interesting to me is tha the 2 Black women and the 2 Black men who had little to no interaction before the merge formed an alliance to work together. Quotes, paraphrases from them on the show, note the quotation marks do not mark actual quotes, some are paraphrased, all from the Black participants.
“More than any other season on Survivor, I think season 41 has been the most diverse and most inclusive and representative of America.”
“As people of color there is a shared experience you immediately have this bond, oh your the only one in your classroom that looks like you? Me too.” This ignores the Philippine and the immigrant from Sri Lanka who experienced the same thing. It also ignores the various gender and sexual identity individuals, which are openly part of the participants identities. One actually in episode one objected to one of the show’s stock phrases, “com on in guys” and so guys has been dropped. I don’t care about the drop, as an aside.
Continuing on with the quotes from the forming of this alliance:
“The beauty of having a diverse cast is that it busts your possibilities wide open” but you are in this alliance saying that the possibilities are not open, they are racially constrained.
The immediate grouping and aligning based on race is repugnant to me. The fact that these people are doing so on national TV should be repugnant. There is no hiding in “people of color”; they are excluding other “people of color” and grouping themselves by racial identity. More than that, they think it is a good thing.
“I want us to be on the front page, like look what we did.”
“After this year we need this.”
This is not inclusion. This is racist thought: you share my skin so you share my experience and my beliefs
Watched this weeks episode of “Survivor” and for those that don’t know it is a reality tv show in the USA. It starts out with teams, called tribes, which must survive with limited supplies and compete in challenges as tribes. The losing tribe has to vote out someone to leave the game. Come the end of the game the voted out players vote for who played the best and wins a million dollars.
It is a complex game of social interaction and is on that level interesting to watch; who can I trust?
An interesting turn happened this week. There comes a point where the tribes merge and the competitions become individual, not team competitions.
What happened this week on the show was the merging of the tribes. What is interesting to me is tha the 2 Black women and the 2 Black men who had little to no interaction before the merge formed an alliance to work together. Quotes, paraphrases from them on the show, note the quotation marks do not mark actual quotes, some are paraphrased, all from the Black participants.
“More than any other season on Survivor, I think season 41 has been the most diverse and most inclusive and representative of America.”
“As people of color there is a shared experience you immediately have this bond, oh your the only one in your classroom that looks like you? Me too.” This ignores the Philippine and the immigrant from Sri Lanka who experienced the same thing. It also ignores the various gender and sexual identity individuals, which are openly part of the participants identities. One actually in episode one objected to one of the show’s stock phrases, “com on in guys” and so guys has been dropped. I don’t care about the drop, as an aside.
Continuing on with the quotes from the forming of this alliance:
“The beauty of having a diverse cast is that it busts your possibilities wide open” but you are in this alliance saying that the possibilities are not open, they are racially constrained.
The immediate grouping and aligning based on race is repugnant to me. The fact that these people are doing so on national TV should be repugnant. There is no hiding in “people of color”; they are excluding other “people of color” and grouping themselves by racial identity. More than that, they think it is a good thing.
“I want us to be on the front page, like look what we did.”
“After this year we need this.”
This is not inclusion. This is racist thought: you share my skin so you share my experience and my beliefs
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