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Honest question about the politics


Is it REALLY overt? People told me Get Out and Black Panther had overt "sjw" nonsense and when I finally watched both of those movies, I didn't find it all that annoying. How does this Purge movie compare to those?

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Spoilers:

The message the movie presented was that, given the chance to kill each other without consequence, a mostly-black community would rather have block parties and dance instead. It was only because Whitey sent in mercenaries to kill and rile things up, did the mostly-black community start killing in self-defense.

Kinda like Chicago is in real life.

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Except black people are killing each other in Chicago, not the "evil white man sending mercenaries in".

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Or so the evil white men would have you believe.....

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Yeah, that was sarcasm. I figured it was so over-the-top, I didn't have to point out it was a joke.

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Always gotta /s, brah. Always!

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As a writer, I never assume my readers don't get my humor.

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