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.
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