Hi there. It seems my O.P. within the Will Smith thread has launched a much more important and nuanced conversation.
No doubt, stating I’m not a racist is a bit like someone screaming, " I’m not crazy !! "
If you’re not crazy, why are you screaming it?
Since nature abhors a vacuum and almost nothing is known about anyone here by anyone here, allow me to dive in a bit.
It’d be hilarious IMHO to be labeled a racist. My children aren’t the same race as me and they are not some illusionary extension of my inner racist defensive mechanism. They’re real and not white like I am. Chew on that for a moment.
Why did I say I thought I’d likely get banned? Because unlike 20+ years ago, free speech here has become a very different heavily filtered commodity.
I really enjoy being a Doper but last time I checked, free speech was more important.
The reason that the person who assaulted another person wasn’t escorted from the room is because the Producer of record is also an Africa-American. The optics in the control room truck, in the building, in the industry, would have been atrocious.
We all look out for our own. It’s human nature and I’m not sure that’s a definition of racism. It’s just human nature. I’m quite sensitive to attacks on Asian-Americans because my children are Asian-Americans and so it hits closer to home than it may for others not in this position.
I think that the Producer was looking out for his own and did not demand immediately that Security within the building escort the assaulter from the premises. Plain and simple. Completely understandable.
I wasn’t trying to be oblique. And while YMMV, I sure wasn’t trying to be a jerk. I was just trying to avoid disciplinary action on what wasn’t actionable from where I was sitting and typing.
Nothing more nefarious than that.
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