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.
The gold standard for anti white messaging in film is Lethal Weapon 2.
Two cops in fucking California? Oh you better believe that they shove their dicks into South African politics.
There was a wave of anti apartheid in media at that time if I remember.
It's in the same vane as why James Bond under Timothy Dalton was less on the Soviets being the bad guys and more on the drug trade as cold War was easing and war on drugs were ramping up at the time.
i don't know how anyone with a brain can look at south africa now and say they're better off.
I don’t think most people know what South Africa is really like. Not in America anyway. Most people don’t know anything about anything other than what the screen people tell them.
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