Sorry to overthink but are humans not hitting a level of technology/data addiction?????
Surveillance glasses… AI … social media 24/7 surveillance… devices now rewinding nearby conversations for you to listen over… QR codes to do ANYTHING… cashless shops not accepting money… email goggles… chatgbt relationships…. Robots everywhere… normalisation of filming strangers whether bad or good for content… every object you buy requires downloading an APP to work… 10+ hour screen times…. hunting down ppls jobs and addresses online… filming people kids and putting it online… electronic handless car doors… like… buying anything requires an email and phone number or you can’t buy it…. Like….we are normalising things to a point where I’m just a bit like…. wtf is going on and why are we normalising this?
Maybe it’s just me and I should shut up… (I’m also not innocent btw and very much am taking part in so many of the things listed) … but people should be allowed to choose whether they live a digital life or not… but now we are making a world where we might not actually be able to do anything without technology or handing over of data for tiny everyday things… idk just a rant 🤣
Yes, in fact, I do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonald’s should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That’s kind of the whole point of having a job and I can’t believe this is considered a radical position for me to take.
@sundayikale@PopCrave@Tyllaaaaaaa We can have 2 good musicians alive, in fact we’re so lucky we have more. Fans of both realize that everyone wins when we don’t put them against each other
Sorry but the discourse around Tyla’s identity has exposed something that deserves to be called out: expecting Africans to understand themselves primarily through a Black American racial framework, while refusing to engage with African’s countries’ racial hierarchies and colonial histories, is a form of xenocentrism that has already become xenophobic in this case.
At some point there has to be intellectual curiosity from
BA. Black Americans are not the only Black people with histories of racialisation, colonialism or oppression. South Africa’s racial classifications for example emerged from a distinct colonial and apartheid system with its own categories, meanings and consequences. Those histories cannot simply be overwritten by an American understanding of race, simply because Tyla wants to market herself to the BA audience. It doesn’t work like that.
Tyla did not invent South Africa’s racial hierarchy any more than Black Americans invented Jim Crow or the one-drop rule. Both are products of white supremacy, but they developed differently in different places. Expecting her to reject the identity that was historically imposed, negotiated and understood within her own country simply to satisfy an American racial framework is insane.