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_refugee_  ·  3390 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When White Poets Pretend to be Asian

    He would get visibility while his "normal self" would not.

Well, yes, and if you're a member of the Jersey Shore cast, then that'll be enough for you.

    Visibility is powerful and nothing you can say can change that.

Sure. But the visibility of a porn star is not the visibility of a politician? Would one want the other's? There's this thing called "reputational risk" that adults - I mean, sorry - business owners and people who work in businesses are aware of. It's the cost of lost business that negative publicivity can create. Are you saying visibility can't create negative publicity? All visibility is good? Tell that to Subway's Jared.

No woman or minority fights for the 'privilege' that lesser quality work will be lauded over better product simply for the country of the issuer's origin.

#fuckingrowupmang