tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post112212607853091766..comments2024-02-20T14:00:41.771-05:00Comments on A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: CrashUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-77484035022903836962007-06-04T07:06:00.000-04:002007-06-04T07:06:00.000-04:00hi, just a note to say thanks for your insightful ...hi, just a note to say thanks for your insightful ideas about the character sayid in lost and the representations and racial issues expressed through the characters in crash! I am currently revising for my a-level media studies and this has helped me loads! cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-1159139120529309602006-09-24T19:05:00.000-04:002006-09-24T19:05:00.000-04:00Sept. 24/06 -- I should add, because this review s...Sept. 24/06 -- I should add, because this review still gets hits on a semi-regular basis, that since I wrote this I have seen reviews by a number of people whose analyses I trust that are quite a bit more critical than I was in this piece of the film's failure to go far enough in showing the realities of structural white supremacy in North America today. Those pieces have shifted my thinking Scott Neighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415106335668233754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-1122163016724933892005-07-23T19:56:00.000-04:002005-07-23T19:56:00.000-04:00Well, I'm glad you reject "white guilt"...I do too...Well, I'm glad you reject "white guilt"...I do too. Guilt tends to get in the way of actually getting things done and working to oppose racism. You don't seem to have read the article very carefully, because I did not use the phrase "white guilt" at all. Perhaps you are thinking about the phrase "white privilege" -- i.e. recognizing that, in ways beyond individual control, whiteness confers Scott Neighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415106335668233754noreply@blogger.com