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Hollywood never fails to disappoint.

posted 7 months ago by maixiu (708)
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A couple comments regarding this film:

I don't believe that the book mentions the race of any character at all, so naturally on the big screen we get two magical negroes to serve as the morally pure foils to all the white bullies. Justin and Summer are so faultless that I'm surprised CGI halos weren't superimposed on their heads. If they were going to go this route they could have cast a black actor to play Julian, but that would never happen. In today's world the villain must always be a white person.

The movie itself is a nearly 2 hour fable on how everyone has to accept the differences among us but that wasn't enough, so prior to the credits we have to get a ham-fisted sermon that repeats the same lessons they've just spent the entire movie trying to impart. Hollywood long ago stopped trusting its audience.

Finally, Julia Roberts's face is more bizarre than Auggie's.

[–] The_Rev (206) 4 months ago

^ Translation: "Boo hoo, I don't want 'colored' people in the movies I watch!"
Aren't you late for a Klan meeting or something? Go elsewhere if you want a racist echo chamber...

[–] maixiu (708) 4 months ago

Translation: "Shh, stop noticing all the anti-white hate!"

[–] The_Rev (206) 4 months ago

BWAHAHAHAHA... Sorry if you're used to being seen as the "superior" race, but white people are essentially just black people who evolved to have less melanin, due to their living in the northern part of the northern hemisphere for so long (and some other various genetic traits, too)... You see little boy, the reason "white people" are white, is because they've lived in areas that get less sun year-round, so their bodies adapted by producing less melanin. Melanin is the protein your body makes to prevent skin damage caused by the sun... It's also partly why "black people" are becoming less black than they were even a hundred years ago. You don't need a shit ton of melanin in the northern hemisphere. We simply don't get as much sun as they do towards the equator.

ALSO also, you know your ancestors were black once too, right?? Juuuust sayin. ;-)

[–] Kowalski (60472) 4 months ago

I LIKE YOUR STYLE.🫡

[–] moviechatterer (13558) 4 months ago

I like his intentions , values , forthrightness and willingness to confront these asshats .
Although I fear a scientific analysis of physical skin color rather than its cultural impacts and history of racial tension is going to be lost on the knuckle draggers.

Still , its a fresh angle

He's new here and probably not yet au fait with the sheer volume of militant white males with persecution complexes because they've seen a black person on their screens.

[–] maixiu (708) 4 months ago

Oh, you want to cloak your prejudices in science? Great! I believe in factual, verifiable, repeatable science too. And what observation of the real world tells us is that the differences among the races are profound and widespread. You tried to slip in the bland phrase "some other various genetic traits" so that you could later say you had already addressed this, but maybe you could enumerate some of those traits. What are they? Do they explain why much of Sub-Saharan Africa was essentially neolithic when Europeans arrived? Did they contribute to the ascendency of the Han and Japanese in Asia? Do they play a role in the ability of Ashkenazi Jews to succeed in countless countries outside their ancestral home? Can they answer why blacks and whites excel at different athletic endeavors? Do they help us understand FBI crime statistics? Or is it all down to that magical substance melanin?

And even if we accept your scientifically illiterate claim that the differences between black and white are only skin deep, what does it say about you that you then find it acceptable to have a culture and society that actively and institutionally discriminates against white people?

[–] The_Rev (206) 4 months ago

....In order to be discriminated against, you kinda have to have LESS power than the other person/group... After all, you can't discriminate if you wield no ability to effect others in a negative way. By and large, white people still hold the majority of power around the world... Certainly the majority of money too... Sooo... Until white people go thru thousands of years of enslavement, we will automatically have more power and privilege than the overwhelming majority of non-whites. Sooo... maybe u should just shut up and be thankful to be as privileged as you are, instead of demeaning those who aren't as privileged... It sounds like a decent idea to me.... ;-)

[–] maixiu (708) 4 months ago

Tell me which Fortune 500 company gives preferential hiring to white people? Which top tier university gives more weight to white applicants? You can't name one, because it doesn't exist. Every single instance of codified discrimination - and most of these outfits are quite upfront about their goal of erasing whiteness via DIE measures - does it at the expense of white people. Every. Single. Time. That's the very definition of "institutional racism", i.e. all the structures of power are openly on board with reducing the status of white people and of committing cultural genocide on white history. Government, academia, media, entertainment, Big Tech, corporations; there's no light between them when it comes to denigrating whites and promoting the new Jim Snow. That's true power, unlike your hoary memories of a century-old segregation. Join us in 2024 when you're ready.

As for your strict avoidance of the genetic question, well, that's what I thought. But I'm sure you have one of those signs in your front yard that professes how much you believe "science is real!" Until, that is, it runs up against your carefully cultivated sociological beliefs.