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The show Bridgerton is an alternate reality. I think if you wanted to do an alternate reality of slavery with white slaves captured in Africa, I don't think you'd get complaints from the "woke" except to the extent that it takes jobs. But I think you could do a script where casting whites in this role made sense.



I think if you wanted to do an alternate reality of slavery with white slaves captured in Africa, I don't think you'd get complaints from the "woke" except to the extent that it takes jobs

This is so far out of touch it's unreal.

Woke people are currently trying to claim that maths education is racist because too many famous mathematicians are white. And you're claiming those same people would have no issue whatsoever with making a TV show about the history of Africa in which the Africans were all depicted by white people? It's hilarious and sad that people are actually reduced to trying to claim that.

And no, Bridgerton is not some fantasy or alternate reality. For goodness sake. Absolutely nothing in it is out of place in any way for the time except the races of all the actors.


This is out of touch? It's one of the most popular shows in the history of Netflix. More than 80 million people watched the first one. But of course it was so racist, no one would watch the Bridgerton 2. Oh, wait, it had the biggest debut of any English speaking show in Netflix history. Who's out of touch again?

> Woke people are currently trying to claim that maths education is racist because too many famous mathematicians are white.

I'm in the middle of "Woke America" and work on math curricula, and I've NEVER heard anyone assert this in one of the most liberal public school districts in the US. Is there someone that has said this before? I'm sure there is. Just like there are people on the right who believe Blacks don't have the intellect to learn math - neither represent the majority of these groups.

Now if someone tried to pass off white Africans as real history -- yes, you'd have complaints. But a fantasy story about it I think could be absolutely fascinating. Spoken from someone who self-identifies as "woke". Just in case you're keeping count.

You're statements would be funny, if they weren't so scary.


Most people don't care about anti-white racism so much that they'd stop watching a TV they liked because of the choices of actors. That isn't evidence that it's not actually racism, the definition doesn't depend on viewer counts.

Is there someone that has said this before?

Oh boy, yes. Just search for 'racist maths' to find endless discussion of it. For instance here's Ontario editing maths textbooks to put woke nonsense at the start:

https://www.tvo.org/article/what-does-an-anti-racist-math-cl...

And California:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/focusing-on-the-correct-a...

Here's a British university jumping on the bandwagon:

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/04/11/decolonising-math-durh...

These are just random examples. There are many more.




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