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BadMedAdvice t1_j08evud wrote

Reply to comment by ArrestDeathSantis in Adam Sandler wins the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by ZylonBane

Eh... Maybe? He did use a lot of racist speech. But last I looked, the characters that act as racists are portrayed in ways ranging from ignorant to outright stupid. And Mark Twain was a character himself, playing a more yokel type personality than Samuel Clemens really was.

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ArrestDeathSantis t1_j08f1kt wrote

Yes, that's what I said, it's missing the point

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BadMedAdvice t1_j08k9qc wrote

Well, yeah. But you said you think that Mark Twain would likely look down on you for being black. I'm suggesting that may not be true. That the man behind Mark Twain wasn't a racist, by measure of his time or ours. That Mark Twain was a character that was deliberately rough around the edges, and pretty anti-racist by free standards of that time... Which implies that the guy considering that character a hick was less racist than that.

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ArrestDeathSantis t1_j08nv35 wrote

Oh, I hear what you say.

Have you ever heard the expression 'mansplaining'?

I don't particularly agree with it but it's an useful device to explain my point.

Men who are said to mansplain are not necessarily men who hates women, who want to see them enslaved or so, they just have a tendency to believe women know less than them.

This is still sexism. Anyway, so I theorized that it might be possible that he would have seen me in such a way, because of the prejudices and because of the situation of the black population at that time.

That's what I meant by that, and I could be completely wrong, either way I'm not too flustered about it.

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BadMedAdvice t1_j099k3i wrote

Oh, man. Sorry. Didn't intend to make you feel like I was trying to talk over you. I was more trying to play devil's advocate.

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ArrestDeathSantis t1_j09h8tr wrote

Oh nah, we good?

I was just explaining my thought process here, nothing against you, I thought you'd understand where I came from.

Edit: Oh god no that wasn't aimed at you, that was just, as I said, a device to explain what I meant in my original comment that you asked clarification about.

I was just explaining that it might be possible that a man from this era, as enlightened as they may be, may hold similar "soft" prejudices against someone of my complexion, especially in that era.

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