It's so obvious what they're doing. Ghost Rider Scene (2007)
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This is one of the things that MIGHT have just been done with no thought but thanks to current day we see it through an ideological lens.
Give you two examples: John Stewart as Green Lantern and Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury. If they were done NOW not previously, regardless of quality they'd be a lot of people saying that they were blackwashing a character.
This could've been resolved with having a young White or Latino kid be the one getting the 'innocent' line but even back then there was a known predilection for young Black men to have 'wrong time, wrong place' syndrome so this scene might've been made under that than agenda pushing.
I know since I started "noticing" sometimes it's difficult to tell when a cigar is just a cigar. Even watching older tv with my mom, I'll catch what I believe is subversive material in The Andy Griffith Show. I dunno if it's there or if I'm putting in there.
Yeah, unfortunately, the SJW's succeeding in getting me to view entertainment the way they view it in most cases. "Everything is political". Well no it wasn't....but thanks for being so deranged and persistent with your propaganda that I can't hardly watch anything anymore like a normal person and now watch it like a friggin woke college activist seeing devils behind every bush. It's pretty impressive actually. For as impotent as we've called SJW's they've pretty well succeeded in forcing a biased pair of glasses on our faces. We come from complete opposite directions ideologically, but they have succeeded in ruining even past, good entertainment in a lot of ways just like they were hoping.
It’s not the SJWs to be fair, they are just used as the tool to push it
It's extremely hard to know as we've LONG known Hollywood was infected with commie sympathisers, it's just figuring out when they fully moved into the race and gender grift to subvert the West.
Andy Griffith was a Democrat. He actually did have subversive stuff in his show. Old school girl power stuff, plus near the end of the run of it or the Mayberry spin off there was supposed to be a black family that moved in. Plus, guess the ethnicity of the man who created the show? Still way better than what is on modern TV though.
Your first instinct is the correct instinct.
There really is no such thing as coincidence when it comes to institutions that require deliberate structure and format for deployment.
TV has always been used for propaganda.
I guess technically it could be accidental. But there's like 12 people in that scene, that they picked the only black guy to proclaim innocent by mere chance is highly improbable. But really though, Hollywood has led the way on the deliberate distortion of reality for a long long time, well before 2007. It was called the "long march through the institutions" quite aptly, and movies were one of the first steps in that march.
This is what makes viewing media pre 2014-2010 EXTREMELY difficult as you rightly pointed out, it was a long march so hard to tell exactly when they added new targets or changed tactics.
So as another comment pointed out, we risk seeing EVERYTHING as political unfortunately accepting the leftist framework. I'm trying to just get by with if it's shit or not as thankfully, the fully ideologically captured have no idea how to make entertainment.
I'm satisfied with differentiating myself from them by a general deferrence to objectivity. If it's a 50:50 chance it was random, I won't presume intent. If it's an 11/12 shot, I'm willing to bet on the majority odds.
Subversion and corruption thrive on benefit of the doubt and uncertainty. They never get punched in the face for being manipulative pieces of shit because everyone's so busy handwringing over the miniscule chance it's a coincidence or a misunderstanding and each individual insult is small, they achieve their desired effect by repeating it thousands of times at zero cost.
"Everything is political" wasn't an observation for them, it was a goal, and people left them to their devices in entertainment for so long that they largely achieved that goal. Recognizing that for decades now a large amount of media has had some cultist in the writers' room slipping in positive PR for their dogma isn't falling to the dark side, it's just abandoning the cope that they haven't got power.
Yeah exactly this. Why would anyone give open liars the benefit of the doubt?
The off-the-handle bullshit we see now couldn't have happened if the way hadn't been paved before, so I'm fine with assuming casting choices made since the 90s were done with political intent. There was a lot of propaganda even in children's cartoons; you'd see it with "Clinton is cool, Republicans old and mean" messaging in Animaniacs or the crippled team member in Extreme Ghostbusters.
Nick Fury was White in the comic books so ironically he was a blackwashed character to begin with. Most fans of the Marvel movies had no idea because they had never read the comic books. Marvel really struck gold and then threw it all away.
He was white, and a WWII vet in the regular universe. He was based on Jackson in the Ultimate series.
I just know I got the comic names wrong...
Yes, the character was blackwashed in the ultimate series way before the movies. You can tell it wasn't a coincidence because race swapping characters only ever changes characters that were originally White.
I think it's because the best version of him as white is the Hoff. That is a very different movie.
Wdym? John Stewart was entirely them trying to make a black Green Lantern for the sake of a having a black Green Lantern.
I put him, Samuel Jackson inspired Nick Fury and characters like them in a seperate category to diversity inclusion for one reason:
They're actual CHARACTERS, they're a PERSON compared to just a palette change as if I asked for the difference between Hal Jordan and John Stewart, you could at least give me 10.
These current colour changes you probably couldn't give me anything other than the non white one was shit.