Soskai
Big Brother Addictee
Actually, this isn't true. And it's important that people are educated and therefore know the difference.
More often than not we see people of minority groups qualify themselves in self-deprecating ways. This is done, contextually, to satirize the racist stereotypes that these people deal with on any given day. It does not embrace these stereotypes; far from it, self-deprecation is actually a way to expose how ridiculous the stereotypes are, but it's also a way to deal with them, particularly when racism becomes normalized within a society and one feels politically and socially impotent to face them. Satire/self-deprecation becomes one way to address this irritation. It doesn't further normalize racist power structures because these racial minority groups are already powerless. Sometimes, it's a way of coping/exposing these disparities. This is why you see many Youtubers of different racial backgrounds playfully talking about certain stereotypes that are used to qualify them, sometimes even embodying them for comedy. It's self-deprecation, but it's not the same thing as someone who is not of that racial background using the same "jokes" to qualify someone else. Let's not confuse the two, as doing so conflates them though they are entirely different contexts. In one context, someone is taking the racial stereotypes/slurs that they experience in real life and satirically embodying them, which exposes them for what they are. In another context, someone of a more privileged position points the finger and laughs. These two things are not the same thing.
So anyone who is criticizing her for anything she said in her promo truly needs to reassess the contexts within which racial minorities address these inadequacies of power. Self-deprecation/satirization is one way of doing this.
But: it's also important to note that "stereotypes" and racism are not always interconnected. Racism is specifically about the normalization of power structures that inherently demean and disenfranchise people who do not fit the racial qualification of the majority, and that ties into stereotypes, yes. But stereotypical behavior extends outside of racism. Take the gay stereotype, for example. There are many people who are quite comfortable acting in a way that is deemed streotypical, but there's nothing inherently wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with gay men embodying feminine qualities, or women embodying masculine qualities. If that's their comfort level, that's fine. Unfortunately, they know they fall into a stereotype, but then the problem isn't them -- it's a problem of production on different shows only wanting to cast that stereotype, further perpetuating the idea that that stereotype is all that exists.
.....eh. Ed was fine at first, but only at first. "Prince Charming" wasn't so charming as the show went on.
