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Have you seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Hours_of_Walking_in_NYC_as_... ? That statement, slur or no, was certainly one of the main points of contention of that video.


Was it? From the article you posted:

> even though the video creator said that she was catcalled by people of all races

> Hollaback! responded to the criticism by noting that this video was only the first in a series of many videos that would document different forms of street harassment, and said it regretted any racial bias in the video.[12][13] An analysis of the video documented that most of the scenes shown in the video were taken in neighborhoods with predominantly black and Hispanic populations, raising the question of whether the video was shot mostly in these locations, or whether harassment was more prevalent in these locations than in others.

Your summary is dishonestly inaccurate.


What you quoted confirms what I said - the fact that the producers "responded to the criticism" indicates it was certainly a point that was raised by some or many people.

I didn't post a "summary"; if I were to have done, I would have written, "It shows a woman in demure clothing walking through NYC receiving an awful lot of unwelcome attention, which must have been unpleasant for her". But a lengthier discussion of the video would have been remiss had it not at least mentioned that it appears that much of the catcalling and so forth that she received was from people from minorities. The reason for this is unclear, but it certainly is a main point of contention and did serve as a distraction from the real message of the video (that women get unwelcome attention from men on the street).


> An analysis of the video documented that most of the scenes shown in the video were taken in neighborhoods with predominantly black and Hispanic populations

They said they filmed 10 hours of video and then apparently chose the worst instances for their much briefer video showing harassment. It's quite possible that she walked through many different neighborhoods, but those hours of walking simply didn't produce the harassment desired for the video.


That;s very different to "they set out to make this point". Everyone involved in making the film deny that.


I don't see anywhere on this page that someone claims that they set out to make that point. Bshimmin did not say "one of the main points of that video", they said "one of the main points of contention of that video."

It seems to me that the creators of that video were simply looking for street harassment, from any source. They didn't find significant harassment from white men, but they did find it coming from black men. The picked the worst of the harassment for their short video and published it. Then people (no one in this thread) accused them of trying to paint black men as harassers, which they (reasonably) denied.

All of this made the question of racial variance in street harassment a point of contention (a matter of dispute) of that video, as Bshimmin suggested.

And yet you accused Bshimmon with "Your summary is dishonestly inaccurate." in response to "Have you seen [link] ? That statement, slur or no, was certainly one of the main points of contention of that video."

It does not appear to me that Bshimmon was being dishonestly inaccurate in that comment.




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