Been seeing it a lot lately, wondering if there are any good takedowns of the concept.
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I think it's a matter of, one person said something unkind, and the next thing you know, the person who didn't like what was said is claiming "everyone is always" "saying stuff". And then it becomes "true" in the popular mind, because there was a scene on TV about it, and so on, and so forth.
Just saw this bullshit, second season of Umbrella Academy. Yeah, the whites were yelling .. but they weren't shanking, like the blacks in a blacks-only place would do ...
The second season of umbrella academy was one of the most blatantly woke bait-and-switches I've ever experienced. The first season was like a behind-the-music documentary about a dysfunctional team of retired child superheroes. Then they used time travel to turn the second season into a multi-arc history lecture about intersectional oppression. The white people of the south are cartoon caricatures of racism, the lesbian who destroys her family to fuck a trans girl is a hero, the tragicly doomed romance is literally super gay, and the new most powerful character is obviously a woman of color. I suffered through it for the story of Five, which is genuinely compelling thanks to a legitimately great performance. I will probably give season 3 about two episodes to ditch the socjus.
Yes, that's what I'm getting out of it. I like Five and Pogo, and that's about it now.
Oh, and don't forget they also had to slip a fucking retard kid in there, too.