"Groagun" (groagun)
05/28/2015 at 20:21 • Filed to: None
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"Groagun" (groagun)
05/28/2015 at 20:21 • Filed to: None | 2
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I come to write this post after another online gaming incident that involved another ‘online tough guy’ who decided to have a racist outburst online that lasted for several minuets and ran the gamut of stereo types, slang and sayings that most everyone can imagine.
These are not regular occurrences but lets just say that nor are they rare. It seems the prospect of online anonymity and the usual separation of hundreds to thousands of actual miles, gives any individual the safety to act and say things they would never do face to face or in public at large.
By now you should be asking what any of this has to do with cars. Well nothing: except this next bit:
So this pretty little picture is from the poster for the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este 2015, better know to most of us just as Villa d’Este in lake Como Italy. It’s a beautiful place with extraordinary cars all in a unbelievable show. Someday, I will attend this show and enjoy every minuet of it.
Funny thing about the poster picture though and the pictures from the event, not the cars but the crowds and the people who attend and are invited. For the most part, invitees are the power elite, the ruling class. Not just of Italy and or Europe but the upper crust of the world at large.
The public days don’t actually happen on the estate: you do not get to wander the grounds or the estate unless you are invited. The public part of the show happens at Villa Erbe, a park just a short distance away. I understand that and that is probably the best idea, who wants the ‘riff raff’ going through your stuff?
Back to the picture though: notice anything odd? Rifle through the event pictures taken by professionals and non pros alike of the event itself, notice any thing odd or missing?
Most of you are smart enough to have already figured out what I’m on about. This show and all like it are the realm of the rich, powerful, influential and white. Yes this and all the shows like it are white washes.
I’m not here to apologize or feel bad for those who are not invited or ‘of the means’ but, I think I’m attempting to understand and feel what it might be like to have an entire system actively work at not including you. Not just work to keep the status quo but actually work at keeping you out.
What must it feel like to see these kinds of gatherings and people and not see anyone who looks like you? I don’t have to guess that it sucks, it just simply does!
Are the organizers and or invitees and participants an organized group of racists? No! Literally were there no people of ‘color’ at the event? No. Is Villa d’Este a good general representation of society at large? No.
Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este is simply a car show. It does highlight though the inequities of society at large and the active campaign to keep things as they have always been: run and controlled by white christian hetero sexual s.
If given the choice, would the organizers invite and include anyone of importance in the auto industry regardless of color or any other difference from their traditional group? I bet they would and by no means am I targeting the show or it’s organizers, not even it invitees.
I think Villa d’Este simply shows for all to see that things haven’t really changed all that much and we have a very long way to go. What do you think?
Yes, that is a floating pool, built out in the lake itself. Oh what I could do with that kind of money.
daender
> Groagun
05/28/2015 at 20:26 |
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“I don’t want that pleb-water polluting my bathing suit!”
jkm7680
> Groagun
05/28/2015 at 20:27 |
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Pretty sure he wasn’t slow dancing.
wiffleballtony
> Groagun
05/28/2015 at 20:27 |
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If I have learned one thing in my time on this world, life is unfair, cruel and depressing.
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Groagun
> daender
05/28/2015 at 20:30 |
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Haha!
XJDano
> Groagun
05/28/2015 at 20:35 |
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Only thing that stood out was those pants, wtf? I need a pair like that for my next company Christmas Party.
(You make a valid point)
GhostZ
> Groagun
05/28/2015 at 20:38 |
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I wouldn’t call rich people the “ruling class.” Corporations are the ruling class, the upper 1% are like their close advisers, knights, or retired citizens with vocal, but not actual, influence.
That being said, a lack of diversity does not always imply or mean racism.