{"id":638,"date":"2011-06-21T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2011-06-21T01:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T09:00:31","slug":"racism-in-monstropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Racism in Monstropolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, freezeframe fun does not provide fun, but sadness.<\/p>\n<p>In the Pixar movie Monsters Inc., you can see the following file of a child at 12 min 40 sec:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"docs\/racism\/file.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/racism\/file.jpg\" width=\"440\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monsters scare children at night, and this is how they keep track of them. The file comes with a blueprint of the room, a list of date stamps, business-critical notes like &#8220;scared of snakes&#8221;, and the standard data like name, gender, age, and&#8230; uh, race??<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"docs\/racism\/file_detail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/racism\/file_detail.jpg\" width=\"440\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Albert Lozano, age 8, seems to be &#8220;hispanic&#8221;, and for monsters, this is apparently a feature that is important to them.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, that&#8217;s Monstropolis, a world inhabited by monsters that scare little children. Modern societies, on the other hand, have understood that &#8220;race&#8221; is a detail that is just as useful to track as shoe size. Oh wait.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"docs\/racism\/census_title.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/racism\/census_title.png\" width=\"440\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"docs\/racism\/census.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/racism\/census.jpg\" width=\"440\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, freezeframe fun does not provide fun, but sadness. In the Pixar movie Monsters Inc., you can see the following file of a child at 12 min 40 sec: Monsters scare children at night, and this is how they keep track of them. The file comes with a blueprint of the room, a list of &#8230; <a title=\"Racism in Monstropolis\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=638\" aria-label=\"Read more about Racism in Monstropolis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia","category-whines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}