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Nov. 1st, 2007 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterliveit seems that in the most recent TWOP recap of supernatural, perennially awful recapist demian repeatedly refers to dean's old buddy richie as dago and wop.
oh... oh, HELL, no. there's unfunny, and then there's fucking racist.
people. we are the internet. there HAS to be somebody to email about this. TWOP is owned by NBC, come on. find me somebody to rage at, please and thank you.
it is too early in the morning for this bullshit, i tell you what.
eta: i emailed glark, sars and wingchun at their TWOP emails. here's what i got.
from: me
to: them
If you hadn't been notified, Demian's latest recap of Supernatural repeatedly uses the words "wop" and "dago" to refer to one of the guest characters. There's a certain degree to which criticism of the character's portrayal can be read into it, but the context certainly doesn't support all the instances of Demian using offensive ethnic slurs. You're an NBC-owned company - I would strongly suggest you look into this matter as soon as possible.
from: "Bunting, Sarah (NBC Universal)" (Sarah.Bunting@nbcuni.com) 8:54 am
date: Nov 1, 2007 8:54 AM
subject: RE: Supernatural recap uses ethnic slurs
The terms were used ironically, in order to point up the extremely stereotypical nature of the character -- Demian was drawing attention to negative stereotyping, not perpetrating it. Please reread the recap.
Sars
Again, there is a degree to which that context applies, but even read at that angle it reads more as excuse to say "Richie the Wop" a dozen times than actual social commentary. I understand what Demian was going for, but he's not a good enough writer to pull it off. If you'd kindly add this to your surely-increasing pile of angry emails on this topic, that'd be super.
date: Nov 1, 2007 9:08 AM
Okay then.
Sars
add yours!! you can talk all you want, but you'll never convince them with anything less than numbers - so pass the email around and go to!
oh... oh, HELL, no. there's unfunny, and then there's fucking racist.
people. we are the internet. there HAS to be somebody to email about this. TWOP is owned by NBC, come on. find me somebody to rage at, please and thank you.
it is too early in the morning for this bullshit, i tell you what.
eta: i emailed glark, sars and wingchun at their TWOP emails. here's what i got.
from: me
to: them
If you hadn't been notified, Demian's latest recap of Supernatural repeatedly uses the words "wop" and "dago" to refer to one of the guest characters. There's a certain degree to which criticism of the character's portrayal can be read into it, but the context certainly doesn't support all the instances of Demian using offensive ethnic slurs. You're an NBC-owned company - I would strongly suggest you look into this matter as soon as possible.
from: "Bunting, Sarah (NBC Universal)" (Sarah.Bunting@nbcuni.com) 8:54 am
date: Nov 1, 2007 8:54 AM
subject: RE: Supernatural recap uses ethnic slurs
The terms were used ironically, in order to point up the extremely stereotypical nature of the character -- Demian was drawing attention to negative stereotyping, not perpetrating it. Please reread the recap.
Sars
Again, there is a degree to which that context applies, but even read at that angle it reads more as excuse to say "Richie the Wop" a dozen times than actual social commentary. I understand what Demian was going for, but he's not a good enough writer to pull it off. If you'd kindly add this to your surely-increasing pile of angry emails on this topic, that'd be super.
date: Nov 1, 2007 9:08 AM
Okay then.
Sars
add yours!! you can talk all you want, but you'll never convince them with anything less than numbers - so pass the email around and go to!
