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发帖数: 95 | 1 “Kimmel’s skit was mean-spirited, racist, and generally horrible.”
建议大家google“jimmy kimmel racist”还能找到更多论据，我相信他还真的不是单
单冲着中国人来的。
连接在这里：
http://flavorwire.com/417395/kanye-west-refuses-to-play-jimmy-k
[Kanye West Refuses to Play Jimmy Kimmel’s Game]
A couple of weeks back, a Google search screenshot did the rounds on Tumblr.
It was a study of how the media reports the public utterances of black and
white stars — Lady Gaga and Macklemore “speak out,” while Kanye West “
rants.” It came with the comment, “Coded language don’t really be coded,
” an observation worth revisiting in the wake of the rapper’s widely
reported response to a skit on Jimmy Kimmel’s show last night, a skit that
ridiculed the BBC’s interview with West earlier this week.
First things first: Kimmel’s skit was awful. It was a study in the sort of
contempt sections of the media hold for West, with Kimmel lifting quotes
from the interview (specifically, the part where West complains about
approaching Fendi with designs for leather jogging pants, which were
rejected, only for the exact same design to surface years later) and
ridiculing them. He derided West for “being his own hype man” and sneered
at West’s claim to be the “biggest rock star on the planet”: “Whatever
planet he’s on.”
As Slate’s Forrest Wickman points out in this excellent article, “instead
of trying to understand, Kimmel does the opposite: He revels in his lack of
comprehension, and puts Kanye’s words in the mouth of a child, in order to
infantilize him. The point of the joke is clear: I don’t understand these
remarks, so clearly they are the nonsense talk of a small child.” (A note
if you haven’t seen the skit, which I’m not gonna link here: Kimmel really
did literally get children to recite West’s interview. There are no words.)
Wickman’s observation is exactly correct, and it’s all too symptomatic of
the way that the media is happy to depict West: as a cartoonish figure, a
caricature to be lampooned and ridiculed. West is someone who is genuinely,
hugely passionate about his art and work; Kimmel used this fact to extract
parts of his interview, out of context, to perpetuate the image of a crazy
egotist. There are obvious and strong racist overtones to this, a point that
was broken down beautifully by New Inquiry contributing editor Ayesha A.
Siddiqi on Twitter last night. (That link is really worth reading in its
entirety.)
So it’s also gone this morning, with the reporting of his Twitter response
to Kimmel’s skit. Yes, West was clearly angry, and yes, he tweeted in all
caps. But equally, he had every reason to be upset — Kimmel’s skit was
mean-spirited, racist, and generally horrible. But look how his response was
reported — yep, it’s that crazy black man going on another rant: |
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