Sadly that is not how it has come across to me. In my less generous moments I think it is that Americans want to see all other countries as having exactly the same problems as they do so they can feel better about themselves.
So you bring this defensiveness to fandom race discussions because The US Folk R In Ur Internets, Disruptin' Ur Commonwealth Monopoly on Smug English Speaking Voice?
That's what it sounds like to me. Because your points about the specifics of location and cultural difference mattering in anti-racism are discussed by many anti-racists actually, many of them in the UK and USA, without such attempts to divert attention away from responsibility for white privilege by attacks on [still normalised white] US dominance of online voice.
If Commonwealth people's are really interested in the inter-sectionality of British legacies [including cultural], contemporary racism and political voice, then things like whiteness theory and Indian post-colonialism are a better place to start than rehashing always false UK/USA stereotypes.
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Re: As a fellow non-American...(admittedly not a Brit)
Date: 2008-02-27 05:45 pm (UTC)Sadly that is not how it has come across to me. In my less generous moments I think it is that Americans want to see all other countries as having exactly the same problems as they do so they can feel better about themselves.
So you bring this defensiveness to fandom race discussions because The US Folk R In Ur Internets, Disruptin' Ur Commonwealth Monopoly on Smug English Speaking Voice?
That's what it sounds like to me. Because your points about the specifics of location and cultural difference mattering in anti-racism are discussed by many anti-racists actually, many of them in the UK and USA, without such attempts to divert attention away from responsibility for white privilege by attacks on [still normalised white] US dominance of online voice.
If Commonwealth people's are really interested in the inter-sectionality of British legacies [including cultural], contemporary racism and political voice, then things like whiteness theory and Indian post-colonialism are a better place to start than rehashing always false UK/USA stereotypes.