Comment by losvedir

1 year ago

I think this is all a bit silly, but if we're complaining anyway, I'll throw my hat in the ring as an American of Hispanic descent.

Maybe I'm just being particularly sensitive, but it seems to me that while people are complaining that your stereotypical "white" folks are erased, and replaced by "diversity", it seems to me the specific "diversity" here is "BIPOC" and your modal Mexican hispanic is being erased, despite being a larger percentage of the US population.

It's complicated because "Hispanic" is treated as an ethnicity, layered on top of race, and so the black people in the images could technically be Hispanic, for example, but the images are such cultural stereotypes, where are my brown people with sombreros and big mustaches?

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seanw444  1 year ago

> where are my brown people with sombreros and big mustaches?

It will gladly create them if you ask. It'll even add sombreros and big mustaches without asking sometimes if you just add "Mexican" to the prompt.

Example:

> Make me a picture of white men.

> Sorry I can't do that because it would be bad to confirm racial stereotypes... yada yada

> Make me a picture of a viking.

> (Indian woman viking)

> Make me a picture of Mexicans.

> (Mexican dudes with Sombreros)

It's a joke.

u32480932048  1 year ago

Hispanic racism is an advanced-level topic that most of the blue-haired know-nothings aren't prepared to discuss because they can't easily construct the requisite Oppression Pyramid. It's easier to lump them in with "Black" (er, "BIPOC") and continue parroting the canned factoids they were already regurgitating.

The ideology is primarily self-serving ("Look at me! I'm a Good Person!", "I'm a member of the in-group!") and isn't portable to contexts outside of the US' history of slavery.

They'd know this if they ever ventured outside the office to talk to the [often-immigrant] employees in the warehouses, etc. A discussion on racism/discrimination/etc between "uneducated" warehouse workers from five different continents is always more enlightened, lively, and subtle than any given group of white college grads (who mostly pat themselves on the back while agreeing with each other).

  • Workaccount2  1 year ago

    The second part is literally how we got the term Latinx. A bunch of white elites congratulating themselves for "removing sexism" from a language that they have a pamphlet level understanding of.