Experimenting with White Privilege On Stage

Alzo Slade and MacArthur Genius-winning poet and playwright Claudia Rankine explore the wages of whiteness in her latest experimental work for the stage “HELP”

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It’s embarrassing how easy the system divides people don’t give them any of your energy 👌

[Psychopomp]

Any establishment that is attempting to make a person feel bad for the way they are when they are born is disgusting.

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Well done Vice, well done...

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Ironically, this is probably the most racist video I've ever seen 😆

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Racebait = the new clickbait. C’mon VICE, do better with your vid titles.

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After watching half of the video, i believe that i have the white male privilege to stop watching the rest of this BS

[keysautorepair]

I would never let anyone degrade me or anyone else like this no matter what color you are it's sickening.

[corentinrobin]

Imagine putting all whites into a single box and claiming you're working against racism. Reducing an entire population to a label and treating them according to that label is the litteral definition of racism.

My mother raised me right, I've always grown up respecting people based on their character and nothing else. I grew up in China from a young age, around chinese people all the time, and never once did I feel different or not at home. The whole concept of seeing "race" in people is something that never came into my mind until social justice became a thing.

I'm not saying there isn't work to be done, I'm saying this is the wrong way to do it. Morgan Freeman put it best imo: racism is dead when I can call a black man black and he can call me a white man with no negative connotation.

This doesn't look like social justice, this looks like payback.

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Let's fight racism with racism yay!!!

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"You guys are white men playing white men. So is it really acting?"

Talk about reductionism. The fight against racism is about fighting these reductive stereotypes that say the colour of your skin says everything about you and your place in a social hierarchy. That was just such an incredibly tone-deaf opening comment that reveals an attitude that white folk are some undifferentiated mass.

The play looks like it has important things to say on that front, particularly looking at what being white means in a society as obsessed with race as America. But the presenter seems really completely uninterested in any of that.

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I'm 33 years old Slav. Slav actually comes from Slave. My country disappeared from the map for 123 years. We were slaves of Germans and Russians. Similarly to USA in 60's there were tables in trams "only for Germans". People died for being Polish and speaking Polish language. In 80's Police beat anyone who protested or said something bad about the government. You could disappear and die or go to jail for years without your family even knowing about it. When we got freedom in 90's average sallary was 200 $. My country has maybe 2% of black people because we never had colonies somehow someone tells me I have white privelege and I should kneel too. I hate the fact in USA everyone just distinguish people by skin colour and not by the fact if they are good people or not.

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I'm not an American and we don't have that problem over here. But what I think they don't understand, that every heavy attack towards a group of people, will have a counter effect. If you want minorities to do better, heavily focusing on ideas that divide people by their ethnicity and race is not doing a favor for that. It will make resistance. It is saying that some people should be put down because of their race.

[jailbreaker]

this is getting old Vice. Theres no such thing as white privilege. We're tired of your woke BS

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racism on stage? How tolerant and anti-racist lol