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@wagatwe.bsky.social Another part, I think, is that through around 2010, minorities’ battle against white racism was framed in movies, TV and other media as a fight against uncool jerks that any smart, cool, empathetic person—including nonracist whites—could ally with and live vicariously through. >

Wagatwe Wanjuki

a big part of this is that US media is very white—and has only gotten whiter as the workforce shrinks.

David Gerstein

27 июл., 17:54

After 2010, an increasing number of Gen Z kids had grown up on a new, edgelord-ish media actually aimed at adults, focusing on hilarious bigot characters, often animated—Cartman, Peter Griffin—who were intended to look humiliating (and did, to the intended viewership), >

David Gerstein

27 июл., 17:56

but inadvertently gave underage audiences the unintended message that bigotry was inherently entertaining. Pair this with another problem—that after SCHINDLER’S LIST, Spielberg famously announced that he now considered it inappropriately frivolous/trivializing to make Nazis the bad guys >

David Gerstein

27 июл., 17:57

in all-ages adventure movies and comedies, as he and others had done for decades. Over about ten years following, IP owners reacted by slowly agreeing, often by restricting older anti-Nazi media from reissue or from rebroadcast during kids’ viewing hours. I think this was actually a huge mistake. >

David Gerstein

27 июл., 17:59

The combined effect of these changes was that after a certain point, white kids were raised with no easily-accessible images of bigots in entertainment except funny ones who could be perceived—if you were young enough—as viewer ID characters. This created a green audience ready to be tricked away >

David Gerstein

27 июл., 18:01

from the view that the fight against old-school white racism was everybody’s fight, and into a new view—pushed initially by millennial neo-Nazis in the mid-2010s, but then by much more prominent figures—that traditional antiracism was in fact a conspiracy to make *all* white people look bad. >

David Gerstein

27 июл., 18:03

This couldn’t be farther from the truth, but a confluence of events opened a space for it to become conventional wisdom for a lot of people. And the next step, obviously, is for real Nazis to intimidate media away from accurately calling them Nazis. For that, too, must be an anti-white conspiracy. 🤦🏻