bankuei:

zuky:

As a dude of color who has been working since I was 15 and wore a tie through my 20s, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this lecture from adolescent white dudes who have been reading Nietzsche and Rimbaud. They assume I’m an automaton when they see an Asian man in a suit, that I have no thoughts of my own, I live a constricted life of drudgery with no art or emotion or wild abandon, and that they are revolutionary free spirits who have seen through society’s illusions. But as you can see, third-rate TV writers have these same thoughts so you gotta ask who’s actually the pre-programmed cliche. People who say these things can usually only speak English, wear shoes and sweater vests made in China, have never known life without plumbing and electricity, and can’t catch and cook their own breakfast. Whereas the Asian man in a suit just might live with a free-wheeling cosmic consciousness unbounded by the English language and the constrictions of Eurocentrism, does whatever his fluttering human heart desires when you’re not looking, spent the weekend transcending mundane consciousness itself in orgiastic rapture or sitting next to a waterfall or running naked through the forest howling at the moon. Sometimes deep thoughts are shallow, free thinking is cliche, and cliche is freeing.

White people assume because they’ve never questioned their culture, no one else has. 

My father was beaten by the teachers anytime he spoke Chinese - to the point he refused to teach me - is that non-questioning acceptance of a sheep?  The Catholic Church only agreed to help a friend’s family escape genocide on the condition of conversion - is that mindless religious acceptance? 

White violence very often leaves a lot of us with little choices but to blend in as much as possible, to take the most conservative of appearances.  That’s not blindly following, that’s camouflage in the face of violent predators.

Of course, white narcissism means the minute they discover something for themselves, obviously the rest of the world has never thought of it and simply needs a white person to enlighten them.

Um… like… do you know what show this is from? And what they are talking about here? They are literally talking about the way the human mind can be written and rewritten with different cultural programs based on experience. This is a show about people violently erasing people’s brains and identities. And one of the main characters, by the way, is an Asian female.

Topher’s point isn’t that “all people in suits are mindless automotons.” If you actually watched the context for this at all, you would know that Topher as ridiculous habits that are totally his own sort of “programming.” What he is talking about is that fact that someone WHO GREW UP IN A GIVEN CULTURE, is likely to be culturally programmed, and he is using this to both explain and rationalize the fact that he is erasing and rewriting people’s world views. This is a show about reifing the violence that is the removal and recoding of identity.

So really, you have no idea what you are talking about.

Also, how dare you call Joss Whedon a third-rate writer. Really?

(SPOILERS: You learn at the end of this show, that the Black man that Topher is speaking to not only knows all of this, but is actually the one of the first people to put that knowledge into use…)

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Or, this was a crossover with dollhouse and…

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