Comment on Better have done his homework

• Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You are assuming it’s a race thing at all. So you think this same photo where the restaurant was a family owned burger joint and the kid at the cash register was white that suddenly wouldn’t be racist? That makes you the racist. You clocked the race of the child and presumed a whole lot of information that was not given to you. How do you know this isn’t a summer job? How do you know the actual age of the kid? He could be 16 with a slower development. There’s so much that you are assuming based solely off of your experience around Asians and Asian restaurants.

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  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Seriously, a really popular show out now is Bob’s Burgers, about a family who owns a burger restaurant and he absolutely loves making great burgers. And they’re white.

    The idea is if it’s a small, family run restaurant, there’s a good chance those recipes are family recipes. So it’s gonna be good.

    Also, I understood the homework thing to be about his age , not about his race. I might be wrong, though.

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  • Actionschnils@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, its all a interpretation. But the picture is either playing with this assumptions or is at least tolerating them. If you want to do this joke without this … stale aftertaste(?), you have to set frame different

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    • Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re the only one thinking the joke is about Asians. Which makes you the racist. That’s what I’m saying. The joke is about family owned restaurants and you could have it be any family of any race. You’re the one focusing so hard on their race. You’re the one with the issue with the race in this picture.

      Read: you have a problem with the fact that there is an again child in this photo and would rather it be a non-Asian.

      Do you see the problem with that?

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      • Actionschnils@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        First of all: My main issue was the photographing of a kid without obvious consent. The racism, as I said in the first post, is only the “garnishment.”

        But still, its there. On a sub line. And Im willing to believe that the author isnt aware of the possibilty to interpret it this way. Its kinda nice, that you dont see this issue too. You have kinda “freed” yourself from this point of view. But on the other hand, you should be aware, that some poeple, with diferent bias, see things different. And if a right wing author would have posted this online, you would’ve thought about the post diferent too, I assume.

        I dont want to write a detailed analysis of the picture to frame out every issue in detail and combined and write every possible interprations down, but I try to summarize it.

        In this picture, a Kid, read as an Asian originated 13 year old boy, is photograhed. Obviously without clear consent. This is humilating for the kid and you could see this as an act of showing off power to him. He is quiet young and still has to work in the family bussines to keep it running. The family is very likely to be in need for customers, so he to needs to act as an servant and is unlikely to stand up for himself. The kid looks kinda nerdy and fulffills this way the cliche of the dilligent Kid from an asian family. The author isnt picturized, but the caption is in english and uses some kind of slang of the white majority for the offered food.

        Or in short terms: A white person in power is humilating a servant, looking like a cliche-asian-kid.

        Do you see it now?

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• beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  People don’t understand that.

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