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Coming of age story and no wokeness

posted 25 days ago by curiousMInd101 (15)
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This was a wonderful movie. A great coming of age story. It felt like the kind of movies we used to see in the 80's, 90's, and early 00's. It was a fun movie, but it also had some sad scenes that hit you hard in the feels.
And if you are tired of woke Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, then this movie is for you. There is no diversity. No blacks. No Alphabet people. No trannies. No feminism. No pride flags being shoved in your face.

Now, with that said, technically there is one black guy in it, but he only appears briefly. Then there is one character who appears to be a normal straight White dude, but he also might be a closet homo. Nothing is ever explicitly said, so I choose to see him as nothing but a straight normal dude. And finally, even though I said there is no diversity, technically speaking, one of the main cast members is partially Lebanese so she does check some diversity box, but she looks like a normal White girl, Greek or Italian (she actually is of Bulgarian, Lebanese, Greek, Italian, and German descent), so I was fine with it.

All in all, I highly recommend this movie to everyone. Go watch it with your friends or family. You won't regret it. Also spread the word. We need to make sure movies like these are successful so that we get more of them.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (10634) 8 days ago

I understand your point. But your post is hilarious:

There is no diversity. No blacks. No Alphabet people. No trannies. No feminism. No pride flags being shoved in your face.

Now, with that said, technically there is one black guy in it, but he only appears briefly.

🤣🤣🤣

Then there is one character who appears to be a normal straight White dude, but he also might be a closet homo.

So they did actually try to hide some diversity in there!

[–] curiousMInd101 (15) 6 days ago

Yes, the hilarity was intended because we live in absurd times. Even in movies that are not "diverse", they are still diverse.
A good example of what I'm talking about is Oppenheimer (2023). On first watch it appears to only have White people in the cast like it's supposed to. And for the most part it does. But then when you "technically" look into it, they do have that one black guy in it playing an FBI agent. This is not a big deal because he literally appears in like one brief scene so it doesn't matter. But the point is he is there. He has to be, because you are not allowed to literally make a movie with just White people. But of course it doesn't stop there. Even though I said that the main cast is all White, that is not true either. The physicist David L. Hill was White (family tree says that he is of English descent) but he was played by Rami Malek (from Mr. Robot) who is Middle Eastern. This works because Rami Malek can pass as White — a weird looking bug eyed White — but White nonetheless. This is the reason he was chosen. We know that we need a White guy, but then the whole main cast would be White, this is not allowed anymore in Woke Hollywood, so how do we solve this problem? We get a guy who isn't White on paper but looks White. This way we can "technically" check that diversity box while still casting a person that fits the role.

This is basically the same kind of game that was played with Snack Shack. It uses the same kind of tricks. It's a normal movie made for normal people with a normal (straight White) cast. But.. since this is not technically allowed anymore, they had to jump through all sorts of diversity hoops underneath the surface to be able to make this kind of movie.

All you can do is laugh at this... Because the only other option is to cry.
...well that is not the only other option, but that's a whole other story and it would probably violate the TOS of this website. 😈

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (10634) 6 days ago

I agree with you that sometimes a story is about white people and there's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes an all black story needs to be told. Nothing wrong with that either.

But they can't shut out nonwhite actors. C'mon, that could lead to racist decisions.

Yes, it's absurd to portray Cleopatra or an English Queen as black when they were not. But if you need a detective in a scene, why not cast a black actor to make sure everyone gets a crack at it?

[–] curiousMInd101 (15) 5 days ago

It's not that I'm against diversity (or at least I didn't used to be), it's just that like you said, I think there should be all White stories and all black stories too. I simply want the choice to not have diversity if I don't want to. But this is not allowed anymore because of the subhuman woke zealots who have infested every level of Hollywood (and many other industries), and so you now have forced diversity. And the problem with forced diversity is that you end up hating diversity in general. Now that I can't have non-diverse stories, non-diverse (all White) stories is what I crave most, and because I'm not able to get that, I have grown to hate diversity in general. Now seeing any racial or sexual minority in any story immediately turns me off. I find it repulsive.
This is the end result of all the woke bullshit the zealots have inflicted on our culture. It pissed off a myriad people to the point of radicalizing them. It turned people like me, who were you're standard left wing liberals, into socially far right racist sexist homophobic transphobic ableist National Socialists. I hope they're happy. When the pendulum swings, and it is swinging as we speak, people who think like me will come to power, and then it will all come crashing down on their woke fucking heads like a tsunami. I see a lot of tears in their future.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (10634) 5 days ago

What would you think about a widget factory which decided to hire all white people? If a black person applies for a job they say "you're too diverse" and we only want our kind? You can't run a multi-racial society like that.

[–] curiousMInd101 (15) 5 days ago

I think that such a factory should exist. It's impractical to do this with a large corporation, but in a small business this is not only possible but preferable. Of course the Wokes are trying to make this impossible as well, but there are still ways around it. For example, you could use language as a way to only have White people. You could make it a requirement for people to speak a European language like Polish or Italian or Hungarian. Or Russian for example. It's unlikely that you will find a black person that speaks any of these languages, so this is one way you could have an all White business in practice.

You can't run a multi-racial society like that.

You can. That is how American society used to run. We had segregation. Both organically and through laws. It worked fine. Some would say better than today. The problem is that some groups were not able to be as successful and prosperous as other groups and so there was resentment. And eventually there was a demand for equality. Now, equality isn't good enough, today we have to have "equity".
But anyway, I take your point. The truth is that the best way to run a multi-racial society is to not have a multi-racial society. Every group of people should have their own country. I think we'd all be better off.