the Order of the Coagula are so racist that they don't care that they literally steal the bodies and lives of black people but at the same time they're not so racist that literally inhabiting the bodies of black people actually bothers them
shareDemocrat/leftist racism.
shareNot really all that different from despising black people while owning several of them was a symbol of status.
shareNot really the same thing. Slave owners normally never even had to touch their slaves. It's quite another thing to literally inhabit the body of a black person. To see a black face whenever you look in the mirror. To feel nappy hair on top of your head. To see black skin all over your body and to feel it all over you. That would be a lot to accept for people who are so racist that they're okay with literally stealing the bodies and lives of black people.
shareNo it's not really any less paradoxical than your whole way of life being dependent on being surrounded, daily, by people you hate and despise. And it is your choice to live that way.
shareYeah, but with slavery you get to exert control over them and dispose of them as you please. In 'Get Out', you become what you perceive to be the "intolerable other". There is indeed something of a paradox there.
shareSlave Owners didn’t necessarily hate and despise them, they viewed them as inferior beings. They were livestock just like the cows and chickens, or anything else on a farm.
But still, your claim that being surrounded by them is basically the same as becoming one of them is a really bad take.
Martoto,
You're still obscuring the fact that to literally inhabit something is not the same thing as merely being close to that thing. The same would apply just as much to the animals owned by slave owners. They saw these animals every day and sometimes even had to directly touch them. But that wouldn't mean that those slave owners would necessarily be okay with literally inhabiting the bodies of those animals.
You have to understand the perspective that this was written from. He's kind of taking all of the woke virtual signaling, love of black people at face value, and he's proposing that white people admire them so much because of their physical superiority. So much so that the evil white people want to take over their bodies. It's a black fantasy written from a black perspective.
The reality of these people is that they aren't honest. They will say all kinds of things to show how not racist they are, but it's not coming from a place of honestly, they are just trying to say what they think is socially acceptable.
In reality if people really believe that there is a white privilege, and the movie does allude to it with the cop scene, then no one would want to be black, and the opposite should be going on.
You seem to be saying 2 different things. You say that these white people admire blacks because of their physical superiority but you're also saying that they're dishonestly just trying to say what is socially acceptable. If they honestly admire blacks because of their physical superiority then why do they need to be dishonest in how they talk about blacks?
shareI was contrasting Modern day white liberals with the white liberals depicted in this movie. Modern day white Liberals aren't hateful. Racism towards black people usually comes in the form of ignorance. But they are full of guilt, and they go out of their way to try and show that they aren't racist. As for your question, I don't think the PC, say the right thing type of liberals would want to get in to a conversation about why black people excel in some sports.
The Liberals in this movie are just evil people. They admire black people as superior, but they want those superior genes for themselves.
The black superman theory is just a fantasy of the writers. They probably actually believe it, but it doesn't even make sense based on the movie. The grandfather for example was supposed to be an Olympic caliber runner, which would've made him more athletically gifted than 99.9% of all people, let alone the random black groundskeeper that he took over.
The grandfather for example was supposed to be an Olympic caliber runner, which would've made him more athletically gifted than 99.9% of all people, let alone the random black groundskeeper that he took over.