Internet debate about Orange is the New Black and whether or not it is trauma porn for white viewers. Not excusing its problems, a show at base about humanizing prisoners and taking the for-profit prison model to task in a public, digestible manner.
Complete white dismissal of the voices of poc, mainly black, regularly requesting that the evidence videos/snuff films of police murdering civilians, mainly black, consistently black, systematically black, not be passed around and sensationalized through media. Videos that outrage those who already know it’s all fucked, videos that don’t result in change, videos dismissed and mocked by white supremacists.
Look.
The street is not a courtroom, and people should not be tried and given the death penalty on it. Similarly, social media is not a courtroom, and we shouldn’t be here sharing videos and analyzing the violence to prove its trueness.
It’s a desensitization of violence. It’s an unfair burden of proof on survivors of violence. It’s a constant invasive trigger for survivors of systematic violence. And what more, if at this stage of the game, you need proof that these people aren’t deserving to die, the problem lies not in the proof.
—melony ppenosyne
Flommist Melony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s traveled to Virginia as a competing poet, co-written a play on mental illness that is presently being produced, and crafted a published essay checking the privilege and scope of art galleries. Copyright © 2016 Melony Ppenosyne.
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