When I revisit media from the 00s and 10s, I sometimes wonder why a certain actor or movie didn’t take off. Then when I look up the actor or movie in question, I find that the mainstream critics were overly harsh. The contrast with today’s critics, who wildly over-praise anything with a non-white lead, is pretty stark.
Knowing what we know now about the radical leftist orthodoxy that has dominated these spaces for decades - first in relative secret and now in far more brazen fashion - I sometimes wonder how many good actors and movies were squashed by the critic cartel simply for being white.
I guess I’ve lately started thinking less about all the subversive garbage being made and more about what has been denied us by those who control the levers of power in media. “We should be on Mars” applies to more than just space travel.
There was always some background noise of "us white men sure have a lot to apologize for huh guys" as far back as the 60s (possibly even earlier), but the message was never "white people, as a whole, are irredeemably evil and it's a good thing they're being genocided" like it is now until maybe 2012. It really kicked into high gear with Obama's second term when they felt confident that anti-white hate was socially acceptable.
Even when movies were guilt tripping us over muh water fountains and muh back of the bus, the overall message used to be that the past had bad parts but the present is bright. Now the past was a horrible nightmare and the present and future are also both horrible nightmares.