(Punishment part 6)

Punishment Porn

Punishment porn is basically what I call pervasive media products that wet people’s appetites to see individuals from certain groups punished in a variety of ways. In the same way handicapped people can be used for inspirational porn (e.g., “So what’s your excuse?” memes and GIFs), and women are objectified in gradations of pornography, ranging from fast-food commercials to hardcore porn, individuals and groups can be presented to the world as objects to be acted upon and exploited for personal satisfaction.

Enter the concept of punishment porn.

Well over 90% of black people depicted in pervasive media products warrant and/or help to legitimate the belief that black people deserve to be punished. Everything ranging from standard stereotypes to shows of black courage, excellence and capability is or are seen as examples for why black people should and must be injured and silenced.

Pervasive media in the United States and around the world has NEVER missed or chosen to skip over an opportunity to vilify and incite punishment against individuals with dark rich melanin pigment. The very subtext of the narrative behind black presence in media is that “These people deserve to be punished.”

Most depictions of people living with HIV/AIDS in pervasive media platforms are black…

The only Oscars that have been awarded to black actors (and writers, now including Jordan Peele, and best picture “12 Years A Slave — Steve McQueen, and Moonlight — Barry Jenkins *which, admittedly I haven’t seen) have all focused on and/or pertained to the demoralizing and punishment of black people. Either the characters the actors portrayed deserved to be punished (Denzel/Mo’Nique), or the actors were awarded for portraying people who were BEING punished by life or their circumstances (Halle/Viola/Jennifer/Lupita).

Again, punishment is an addiction. So when addicts see people from a specific group CONSTANTLY being punished, or CONSTANTLY being depicted as ‘deserving of punishment’, it literally wets their appetite to get a chemical fix from them. Its like liquor commercials for alcoholics who don’t realize they’re addicted to alcohol…

Its no different than women with phat titties and asses being paraded around on the television. You may not even like or be thinking about voluptuous and curvy women until you get trended into it. However, once your ego starts to fixate on the hormone and neurotransmitter chemical releases it anticipates from experiencing the stimulations you’ve been primed for, your mouth will water and a deep guttural feeling will overtake you and cause you to believe you want and must acquire that which you’re projecting your desires onto.

And it doesn’t just end with Black people in media. Like, punishment porn has been used against Latinos, LGBT, and more recently, against white people, the U.S. and western civilization as a whole.

Like… (one could assume — that is, an astute individual might surmise that) the whole point of the current administration being in office and correlating well with the whole “Brexit” phenomenon is to get the entire world on board with hating and subsequently seeking to punish the United States and England. Prior to the current administration, the U.S. was barely liked around the world. Now we’re pretty much hated by everyone — and some would say, rightful so.

And every time people hear more bad things about America around the world, they probably feel the same way about the citizens here as racists and nationalists feel about black, brown, yellow and gay people.

“We should just destroy them all and be done with it. There isn’t a good person among the bunch. They’re the new Sodom and Gomorra. Let’s send them to hell where they belong, and let God sort them out.”

Right now, Americans look like the “niggers” of the world. To the world, Americans are a bunch of loud, brash, gun-toting, unfoundedly proud, tribal, belief-entrenched, culturally ignorant, entitled, greedy, aggressive, foolhardy people, who are only concerned with having a good time and feeling more important than one another. As of right now, in the eyes of the rest of the world, at least according to how Americans are presented in pervasive media platforms, America looks like a 90s rap video dipped in white…

Immoral, and ripe for some much needed punishing.