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How Do White People Feel About This Movie?


I've read around on social media that a lot of white people felt Get Out was "anti-white" or "racist against white people." I feel like the only way you could be truly offended by this movie is if you were an actual racist, as this movie holds a fun-house mirror up to racists showing a distorted, disturbing version of what you own hatred could turn into.

I can't imagine a non-racist feeling targeted by this movie, as it's just that, a movie (thank God, although American slavery did actually happen). I'm curious how white people felt watching this? If you felt it was racist to have white villains, why so?

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I would love to own some black folk

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Gtfo

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Anti-white? Nonsense. People, nowadays, are just to thin-skinned. Can it make a white person uncomfortable while watching it? Yes, but it's in no way racist or anti-white. I'm a 30 year old white male, and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. It wasn't all that scary, but it was creepy and the satire element was perfect. I really liked how it feigned predictability throughout, only to throw a great twist ending at you, but I don't see much replay value in it.

7/10

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I'm white, and I don't feel either offended or anything like it about this movie because this is not the point.
The whole racist aspect is but a decoy.
This movie is not about some people hating another race or putting them into slavery. This movie is about people stealing bodies. They don't care wether they're black or white. they just consider quality, and trend...
Hence all the questions about physical power, anatomy, african american condition. Because the movie induces it, we read it as racist comments, but in the end, we realize that they behave just like some people inquiring about a car they might purchase in the long term. Black just seems a new trend to them. (why not, it seems like one of them also tried an asian body)

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I'm white and I do think it's racist in the way that ALL the whites are unfavorably portrayed. There could have been a cool white friend. Was there even a decent white person in the film? I also realize that it's a silly movie that shouldn't be taken seriously. I do worry that some morons could watch it and think that whites do think this way. The bingo game is offensive to me since it reminds me of a slave auction. I would have liked the movie as a horror film if they left out the racial nonsense.

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Im a white guy and i really liked it

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I just saw it and I have to share the exact same sentiments as some of the other posters here. I thought it was great, but I felt like it was less of a jab at white people, and more of a commentary of how ultra-paranoid black people are of them. Everything about the way white people were represented felt like it was trying to be as hilariously unreal as possible.

Consider that before visiting the parents he didn't have this reflection of his white girlfriend at the time. She was just a normal person that was white. But once he was SURROUNDED by white people, suddenly things started to get ridiculously bizarre. Like the image of her at the end, listening to her 80's pop music with her legs crossed on her bed while eating cereal and milk separately. Or the way her brother wore that wool sweater vest. They were so hilariously stereotypical that it felt more like a surreal dream in the mind of an ultra-paranoid black person.

I honestly thought that the over-dramatized image of white people was what the director was going for. Like he was showing white people how black people think of them when they're surrounded by them, in the same way that white people clutch their bags when they see a group of black people crossing the street. It never even occurred to me that it was supposed to be racist against white people.

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"If you felt it was racist to have white villains, why so?"

This question just proves how much of an idiot you are OP. Or just proves how much movies you haven't watched.

You sound like you like to victimize black people. I grew up in an integrated school and never questioned the color of people's skin or my own color of skin, until around 2013 when people like you started spewing stupid propaganda-esque shit.

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I'm white, and I've never been so satisfied with a movie ending in at least...10 years or so.
I was really hoping to see the whole Armitage (?), well Lisa's family w/e the name is, die before the end of the movie. Glad they did :)

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