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“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
Seconding this. And imagine the outrage if someone had made “X for white people”. There’d be riots in streets. The bizarreness and racist double standard behind this is just astounding seen from the outside.
It's rude to troll on someone's Launch thread.
Please remember to ignore this HN thread. I can already see it's becoming absolutely atrocious and is not even remotely representative of society at large.
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“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
I wouldn't call it a cultural divide (despite what our media wants), I would call America more a collection of cultures and I love being exposed to multiple different cultures just outside my proverbial front door. That said, this is a great idea and I wish this company the best. I'd love to see something similar for the Hispanic community, as well.
24/7 Caso Cerrado, let's goooo
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Seconding this. And imagine the outrage if someone had made “X for white people”. There’d be riots in streets. The bizarreness and racist double standard behind this is just astounding seen from the outside.
>And imagine the outrage if someone had made “X for white people”. There’d be riots in streets. The idea is that "X" is de facto "X for white people" in America. I don't necessarily agree with it, but that's the argument.
I still thinks it sounds like nonsense, but at least it explains the massive downvotes Im getting :D
It must be hard to live in a country where everyone is so obsessed with race, yet supposedly also how it “is not important”. To me that seems like a massive contradiction.
“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
Serving targeted programming to an identifiable minority audience seems like a perfectly reasonable business (and social) proposition.
I don’t know that “Netflix for Black People” will test well, but it seems perfectly fine to me. [white middle-aged male if context matters].
Edit to add: It seems like Fubu* is another extraordinarily successful story that used a similar Black solidarity message and targeting to positive effect.
* "For Us, By Us"
“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
But I don't think the divide is anywhere near as insane as you're imagining. People don't just belong to one culture and ignore any external infulence. Black, white, Hispanic, Asian, etc. people all watch the NBA, NFL, watch Marvel superhero movies, so on and so forth. It's just that everyone also has additional niches.
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> imagine the outrage if someone had made “X for white people”. There’d be riots in streets. The difference between majority and minority is surely not that difficult to comprehend from outside the US?
They are only a “minority” because someone decided to come up with a way (race) to divide people into groups where one group is bound to end up smaller, and somehow claim that division is of significant importance. IMO the solution to that problem is definitely not to reinforce that division.