ghijkmnop wrote:Honestly, I have to wonder why we are even bothering to discuss this. IMO, this falls in the category of micromanagement. There are very big pictures we need to concern ourselves with before addressing racism in porn.
This is a redder than red herring. We don't "address" anything in any way whatsoever, we pointlessly discuss issues to no effect and no result. Nothing we do will help stop or address racism anywhere except among ourselves, and even then there's no big racism tracker on the site front that allows us to assess that, even were we stupid enough to try to use the site to make everyone believe what we believe, which we don't.
So discussing this is a roughly approximate waste of time to us discussing one of these bigger pictures, because nothing we say here will ever have enough importance or cultural relevance to be able to affect them on a structural level. As such there's no real point in complaining that we're discussing a non-issue beyond trying to shut it down.
Perhaps, but as several have admitted, and analyzed-- personal preferences do not equate to an "ism." This is simply mental masturbation, in my opinion. Pun intended, of course.
Exactly, which is why I'm mystified why people keep talking about preference over generalisations based on race when it's been pretty comprehensively stated that preference =/= racist generalisations.