Why hasn't Gaga commented on any of the race related issues in america recently?

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But I bet none of these people have ever marched for immigrant rights or for gay rights or mourned the loss of LGBTQ people.  Straight silence = homophobia. Right. 

You should know that Gaga philosophically agrees with the movement. She has tweeted about it multiple times. But this is a complex issue that isn't as easy as marching for marriage equality. Marriage equality is solved by law. Systematic racism is solved by changed attitudes. It can't be dismantled in a day. It can't even be done in a decade. This movement needs particular types of voices and Gaga must know that she's not one of them. She's making the intelligent decision of not speaking about something she knows nothing about.

You're subtly trying to suggest that Gaga is being racist by not bending over backwards for this particular movement, but in fact she's being wise. Until "black anger" turns into Black decisiveness, it will continue to turn off people who disagree with riots and violent demonstrations. 

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But I bet none of these people have ever marched for immigrant rights or for gay rights or mourned the loss of LGBTQ people.  Straight silence = homophobia. Right. 

You should know that Gaga has philosophically agrees with the movement. She has tweeted about it multiple times. But this is a complex issue that isn't as easy as marching for marriage equality. Marriage equality is solved by law. Systematic racism is solved by changed attitudes. It can't be dismantled in a day. It can't even be done in a decade. This movement needs particular types of voices and Gaga must know that she's not one of them. She's making the intelligent decision of speaking about something she knows nothing about.

You're subtly trying to suggest that Gaga is being racist by not bending over backwards for this particular movement, but in fact she's being wise. Until "black anger" turns into Black decisiveness, it will continue to turn off people who disagree with riots and violent demonstrations. 

​Straight silence is consent for homophobia to take place, yes it is. & I'm not saying she's racist, I'm questioning her silence. Yes it will may take a long duration of time for systematic discrimination to be abolished, but why can her voice not be heard in a time like this? It most definitely won't be easy but I'm sure gaga didn't voice her opinions on marriage equality due to the simple fact of it being easy. Tony Bennett was present during the civil rights movement, this is still talked about today, does it make his voice any less valid because he is a white male? No, she can be just as effective with race relations as she is with the LGBT community, that's if she wanted to be.

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Busy watering her cabbages

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​Tweets will help, shedding light on a serious issue will bring attention to the fact that this issue is one that needs to be openly discussed.

​But she isn't the sort of person people look for when discussing public issues. In fact, her absence of comments on the subject aren't even noticed, except for her crazed fans who wonder what brand of tampon she might be using.

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So you think her silence means she consents racism in the U.S.? 

Not many people have addressed the increase of s-xual assaults in college campuses but that doesn't mean they consent s-xual assault. 

I don't think a tweet about this is going to help. Is there really someone on social media who is not aware of this? It's the only social issue that has been getting a massive amount of attention in social media. 

 

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If silence means consent, we have a helluva lot of music artists and celebrities in general, who support racism, homophobia, s-xism...terrorists activity, rape, child abuse....

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Maybe because shes's centered on the new album, C2C Tour and AHS (along with other things) right now, so she doesn't have time to be on social medias always  

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If silence means consent, we have a helluva lot of music artists and celebrities in general, who support racism, homophobia, s-xism...terrorists activity, rape, child abuse....

​Those pictures say white silence = white consent. It's not the same thing as consent for everything under the sun... 

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I feel like some people in this thread are being purposely obtuse in their defense of Gaga. None of us know why.

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I feel like people in this thread are being purposely obtuse in their defense of Gaga. None of us know why.

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​Those pictures say white silence = white consent. It's not the same thing as consent for everything under the sun... 

That wasn't his point. The point is that if silence means consent then everyone who doesn't say anything about child abuse consents it or that everyone who doesn't say anything about violence against transgender people consents it. 

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That wasn't his point. The point is that if silence means consent then everyone who doesn't say anything about child abuse consents it or that everyone who doesn't say anything about violence against transgender people consents it. 

​But in this particular case it means something completely different, where it is stated WHITE silence = WHITE consent. This is a statement geared towards white privelage. Yes, white people that are silent about such things and their privelage allow/consent them to happen. Just because you are quiet about your privelage doesn't mean it's not there. Speaking out against it is the only way/means of takling such problems. Sitting back and pretending it's not a problem isn't going to allow us to move forward as a people. So no that statement clearly didn't mean 'SILENCE = CONSENT TO EVERYTHING' 

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​But in this particular case it means something completely different, where it is stated WHITE silence = WHITE consent. This is a statement geared towards white privelage. Yes, white people that are silent about such things and their privelage allow/consent them to happen. Just because you are quiet about your privelage doesn't mean it's there. Speaking out against it is the only way/means of takling such problems. Sitting back and pretending it's not a problem isn't going to allow us to move forward as a people. So no that statement clearly didn't mean 'SILENCE = CONSENT TO EVERYTHING' 

To be honest it doesn't make sense to me.

MALE silence about s-xual assault = consent.

CISGENDER silence about violence against trans people = consent.

YOUNG PEOPLE silence about discrimination towards old people = consent.

AMERICAN silence about discrimination towards immigrants = consent 

Being a male is a privilege, being cisgender is a privilege, being young is a privilege, being American is a privilege, being white is a privilege, so I don't see the difference between that statement and the statements we already mentioned.

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I'd like to believe it's because Gaga is white and, therefore, people shouldn't be looking to her for commentary because she is not a member of the oppressed group in this situation. I'd hope her thinking would be that people should be listening to Black individuals and that her commenting and making a statement would be detracting from the Black voices that need to be heard at this time for this issue. While she stands in solidarity, she doesn't want to steal the spotlight (see: people who were uncomfortable with Macklemore's Same Love because he's a straight cis man commenting on lgbtqia+ issues).

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To be honest it doesn't make sense to me.

MALE silence about s-xual assault = consent.

CISGENDER silence about violence against trans people = consent.

YOUNG PEOPLE silence about discrimination towards old people = consent.

AMERICAN silence about discrimination towards immigrants = consent 

Being a male is a privilege, being cisgender is a privilege, being young is a privilege, being American is a privilege, being white is a privilege, so I don't see the difference between that statement and the statements we already mentioned.

It's not the same thing. Being physically assaulted and someone having higher power than you in society merely due to skin pigmentation are not the same thing. One is clearly tangible and visible. The other is deeply engrained in society. We are both talking apples and oranges. So take it how you may.