Melanin Offset

What is Melanin Offset?

1.

When movie directors cast a person of color in their films to avoid criticisms of being racist. It doesn't really work and follows along the same logic as a carbon offset, "I'm doing something bad, so I'll buy my way out of it so that I can continue to have the moral high-ground--or at least not be criticized as having a racist movie."

Samuel L. Jackson is in the new Star Wars movies, so they couldn't be racist. He's one of Lucas's melanin offsets. Mace Windu is a melanin offset for Jar-Jar Binks.

See melanin, racist, carbon
25

Random Words:

Zenrk
1. Someone who can't type, spell, use puncuation, and is generally bitter about things he can never do or have Zenrk hates everyone b..
Read more
Zabacadoo
1. adj.: wacky and endearing; a happyand agreeable disposition accompanied by an unconventional sense of humor, an excitable temperment, an..
Read more
Linkjack
1. To submit a page that links to some content of interest—rather than a link to the content itself—to an aggregator (reddit, digg, etc.), ..
Read more

Best StartPage for your browser.

All you need for a faster workflow in one place.



Get it for Free