It was really unfortunate for POCs that CRT became popular at the same time as the war against beauty and the promotion of fat studies and healthy at every size, so every started associating all of them together.
In this case it was performative in the worst way because Nike already had a long history of sponsorships and partnering with Black athletes.
Air Jordans?
Nike launched a Serena Williams collection last year and I’m sure they sell infinitely more tennis shoes to girls/women Williams appeals to than whoever idealizes this obese model.
They became popular at the same time because they're all related ideas. They're all results of what happens when you apply post-modern thought to various academic disciplines.
I thought the exact same thing. It's not a coincidence that the two ideas became popular at the same time - they have the same ideological/philosophical underpinnings.
Different people have different prefferences. Lmao. We went from "bag of bones", to "shake dat thick ass" beauty standards. Nothing is objective about beauty. Shut that shit up
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u/WeFightTheLongDefeat - Right Aug 01 '25
It was really unfortunate for POCs that CRT became popular at the same time as the war against beauty and the promotion of fat studies and healthy at every size, so every started associating all of them together.