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Comment by ash_091

15 days ago

Could you explain that? Absent other context (i.e. a broader collection of works demonstrating some bias) I'm not understanding how this poster can possibly demonstrate "offensive racial and cultural bigotry".

If it had been two Asian girls, it would not have invoked the image of non-Asian people lacking respect for Asians. This image encourages hostility and even bigotry among Asians.

Schadenfreude does not require both parties to be different in some meaningful way. The poster confuses schadenfreude with cultural bigotry in which schadenfreude may play a non-essential roll.

  • see my comment above. It's you and those who view the world in the same way who have the automatic fixation with race, not someone just showing human interaction.