winterpunk:newwavefeminism:kindredspirits39:newwavefeminism:When media starring POC are constantly u
winterpunk:newwavefeminism:kindredspirits39:newwavefeminism:When media starring POC are constantly under-valued and ignored, it’s business as usual.But the mere thought of a film with an all-white cast losing to a moving staring black people means that it’s a sham?If your first thought whenever POC are successful is about how undeserved that success or acclaim is - you’re racist and are working to defend and uphold system of racism.Seriously though, look at how success for POC is automatically coded and interpreted as something being STOLEN from white people.White entitlement is real, pervasive and covert. La la land received 14 Academy Award nominations & broke records for the amount of Golden Globes received by one film. It has already received so much acclaim considering it is has an overwhelmingly white cast in a movie WITH JAZZ as the backdrop - yet that isn’t enough because whiteness cannot possibly allow it to be outshine by Moonlight.No, the article has a point.What I don’t get is why people are deconstructing La La Land and making it all about “whiteness”. It’s a movie that some people really enjoy and some really don’t like. It’s a musical - that’s usually how it goes. Why are we making it about skin color? If it were a movie with an actual racist agenda (and by racist I don’t mean having a so-called “white savior”; that one’s a horrible argument), sure, I’d agree 100%, it’s trash. But it’s not. Saying stuff like this, OP, is how overt racism starts - Singling out a race as a whole and demonizing it without a solid argument.See this is my point, people out there truly believe this nonsense. That the only way something can be racist is that if they literally have David Duke’s rubber stamp on the front (and even then, people want you to see both sides).White Savior Complex is like movie trope 101. Racism isn’t something that starts and stops, it’s been a constant in our society and culture and is able to persist when time and time again those who point out racist themes are repeatedly silenced.You cannot almost completely erase the role of black people from the history of jazz (or music in general) and then claim that it has nothing to do with race. -- source link
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