You know how they view the past as America being white centric or Euro-centric. Most of the movies were all white casts in the 50-60s and earlier, and they called that Eurocentric.
No that's just the natural result of a majority culture producing art. When those guys who make those funny action movies in Africa on those super cheap budgets, I don't for a second think that they're being "Afro-centric". They're a bunch of Africans who are black who are making movies using the people most around them.
That's what you expect and do see everywhere. In the 1960s and earlier the US black population was very small and people didn't have this retarded idea of equal representation, whatever that's supposed to mean so writers would write based on what their culture was like and things that formed their experience.
Now fast-forward to what they do now, the new Assassin's Creed being just the latest example, that literally IS afro-centric. They accused America in the past of doing something unnatural when it was the natural thing for people who write a story to it be based on THEIR culture, and use that as an excuse to do an actual unnatural thing which is force a distasteful culture on everybody and everything.
Everything the left does is projection. Colonizer? Which side is racewashing cultural and historical icons, tearing down statues, or dismantling one genders community groups like Boy Scouts while jealously guarding their own? Which side is flooding White countries with the least compatible groups possible?
Supremacy? Which side constantly props up their races/groups while demonizing a specific race when they dare do the same? There's a month for just about every group except White people now as an excuse for that group to jerk themselves off about THEIR achievements.
And it goes on and in down the line. To the point that when they come up with the next accusation just assume they are already a step ahead in doing it for themselves
One of the worst things to happen to entertainment is the obsession with representation and diversity. Nothing wrong with entertainment reflecting the majority population. There were shows before with non whites that were quite popular but the modern day effort to have equal representation is beyond absurd. I’d say lgbt over representation takes the cake. And then of course you have THE MESSAGE and we get to hear about oppression from wealthy young people.
Oh yea, and period pieces are beyond ridiculous today
And the diversity only goes one way. Not seeing a big push to include whites in traditionally black shows unless they need a strawman to hack at for 30 minutes with commercials
I haven’t seen any modern sitcoms for a while. I remember Sanford and Son had some recurring white characters along with the Cosby Show and Jeffersons. In Hill Street Blues you had white and black characters talking to each other in ways that wouldn’t be allowed today. I was watching the Rookie (cop show about a 40 year old who joins the force) and after Floyd a new cop joins the squad and literally harasses every black person and a black professor needs protection due to a white supremacist militia threatening her. I stopped watching after that
Cosby had to be destroyed. He was a wholesome black man who showed something aspirational to the masses.
He was also using his influence to give speeches to black people to take responsibility for their own communities.
The world these people live in is wild.
Yep. 15 years ago. A black samurai wouldve been fine. Just like how bikini girls were fine. The woke just drstroy both.
I never gave a moment's thought of: is this person the same race as mine (they never are, of course). Then we started to hear about nothing but that and you can't help but notice things.
Better times.
Really can't be overstated how much these people have made everyone way more racist. It's like they've turned race into The Game, and then incessantly interrogate you for losing The Game when they can't STFU about The Game.
Exactly
I remember laughing when my mother told me Star Trek DS9 only cast Sisko "because they have to have the black captain to be politically correct." Now I realize she was most likely correct, but at least they wrote the show where what race he was was irrelevant. (except when they didn't...)
In retrospect I think a lot of us wish we could go back to the days where the color-blind propaganda was subtle enough that whether it was someone's diversity checkbox or not, you really didn't care. Now the genie's out of the bottle and we can't help but notice.
I mean personally I consider myself colorblind in the sense that I won’t make a judgement about someone based off of race but I can see the agenda now. I liked DS9. I remember that episode where they help the hologram in the 60s Vegas program and Sisko is angry at first due to the racism. Odd since it would have been 500 years since those events. I thought overall Sisko was a good captain. Kirk will always be my favorite. Did your mom end up watching DS9?
Nah she watched a few episodes with me but she wasn't a trekkie or even sci-fi fan. I never particularly liked the "holosuite" stuff on DS9 but yeah that particular episode was funny. I'd have to rank Sisko as best or second best just behind Kirk. Picard used to be my favorite but the new stuff and Patrick Stewarts undying devotion to The Message completely killed the character for me. Or it made me aware of how annoying he was all along.
I did like Vic Fontaine and downloaded his music same here with Picard. I still watch TNG reruns but it does hurt my interest when they can’t shut up about their politics
From the 1940s onwards (could be earlier too haven't done a deep dive on it) America has used it's media as a way to project culture to an extent it bleeds into other countries culture.
You can see that through the many phases, anti communist, pro capitalist, pro abstinence (Friday 13th films). The problem is who is controlling it for the past 2 decades at least has tried to brainwash people into believing seeing minorities everywhere is natural than the obvious they are minorities for a reason.
In Asia at least, that doesn't work thanks to one country in particular: China. You have to be pro border control and anti immigration by default in Asia or you will be swarmed by Chinese trying to land grab through immigration. The Middle East just don't give a fuck, Africa is the same and South America are using the US as a release valve sending their worst there. So when America centric media tries to brainwash and in AC case, rewrite history to project a message that minorities have always been a part of your history, it's met with backlash immediately.
I dont see how they don’t get that if you push it into everything people will tune out
One of feminism's most cherished principles is if "society" believe a lie, then the lie becomes reality. Combine this with feminism's deep and abiding hatred of white men means that you will constantly get pushes for "representation" in order to "smash the patriarchy" (read: white men).
As feminism has been accepted as sane and logical by both liberals and conservatives, you will never see the end of this.
Hollywood has also been heavily Jewish, and has propagated Jewish cultural values among white Americans, to the point that the "American" identity in the 20th Century became as Jewish as it was WASP, Irish and Italian. Which to be clear, I don't inherently have a problem with, the JQ can be addressed as a legit subject without having to go full-reichtard. Even the history of the Third Reich itself can be analyzed in a way that acknowledges the two-sidedness of the ethnic rivalry between Germans and Jews going back centuries, without simply demonising or lionising either side.
My point here isn't to sperg about da juice, although no ethnic group should be beyond reproach, and Jews have made both very positive and very negative contributions to Western culture (while still not quite being Western themselves). It's merely to point out that if leftists wanna play this game, they leave themselves a huge opening, because once you validate "representation" as a problem, you open the (wooden?) door to examining the JQ in media.
I don't even think the Jewiness of Jewish-produced media is deliberate for the most part. As with anyone else, it's only natural that Jews would produce media featuring Jews and brimming with Jewish cultural biases. Which in and of itself is fine, but if largely Jewish activists wanna start harping on white people this and white people that, that conversation can go both ways.
I've bitched about this before(and will likely do so again many, MANY times in the future), but part of the issue is that Americans vastly, VASTLY over-estimate the true population of minorities.
They really don't think that black people only make up around 13% or so of the population. We know why, or atleast part of the reason - hollywood propaganda constantly shoving minorities in our face to the point that they're no longer a minority. The monkey brain sees the pictures; pictures make up reality.
My teenage cousin didn’t believe me when I told her the black and lgbt population and she was shocked when she looked it up
They claim the japanese/asians are racist for being homogenous but at the same time that blacks were always there and played a big part of the japanese/asian history or culture lol.
It's basically raping art.
Leftists & Blacks don’t care if you call them hypocrites.
Just call it what it is and always has been: Blaxploitation. It's tokenism all over again with a new coat of paint to make it socially acceptable again. Is there really all that much different between Blackula and Muh Historical Black Samurai? All it's doing is trying to pander to minorities and faux "cultured" whites.
And the new spin is no different between the "Colored People" vs "People of Color" crap. It's the same fucking thing, but retards will never learn I guess.
I am convinced that none of this is going to stop short of these people receiving physical pain as a direct and unambiguous consequence for their actions.
The complete and total removal of physical violence from societal interaction has been an utter disaster for mitigating malicious and unhealthy behaviors.
There's an image floating around of 'blackwashed' characters. One of them is Achilles, who is black. However, if I remember correctly, that was from an African production.
I don't expect folks in Ghana to go find the 1 white person in their country to play Achilles. I'm actually quite happy that they would make a movie production of the Iliad there, and if they have the majority population black him, God bless 'em.
That was BBC production of Troy
Then I'm either misinformed or just confused.