Dolce & Gabbana’s Cancelled Chopsticks Advert Shows Us Orientalism Is Finally Being Taken Seriously as a Form of Racism
24th November 2018
I’m a racist, you’re a racist, he’s a racist, she’s a racist, wouldn’t you like to be a racist, too….
I’ll bet you don’t know what ‘orientalism’ is. The author doesn’t, either, but it’s an ‘ism’ so it must be bad. Proglodytes love ‘ism’s, because it gives them a heresy to rail about.
Despite what some have claimed, the video is clearly not an homage to Chinese culture – but instead a racist depiction of the white West’s orientalist perception of Chinese culture.
Whenever a journalist says ‘clearly’ it’s a hand-wave regarding something that isn’t clear at all except to people who have the same delusional view of the world as the writer. The advertisement was clearly a humorous reference to how badly certain Western habits, like pizza, don’t match the way non-Western people live, like eating with chopsticks. The writer, of course, is incompetent to make any judgments about ‘the white West’s orientalist perception of Chinese culture’, because that’s just ‘burn the witch!’ fulmination.