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The "white privilege" comment


Why is it necessary to have some kind of bullshit like that in every single movie now? You simply can't have a movie anymore without anyone making any kind of comment about race or gender. And for what? For who? Who even cares about that stuff other than a few assholes in twitter? The main reason why most people watch movies is to escape real life crap like that.

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You nailed it. It's for the blue hair'd, weirdo, losers on Twitter.

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and those morons are broke as fuck, they can and will, never pay to see a movie.

so no need to pander to them.

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The reality is for better or worse, young people really do talk like that. While I don’t expect to hear it in every movie and TV show today, it would be odder to not hear it in any movie or TV show. Plus there’s a big difference between that, and the rhetoric from another 20th Century (Fox) and now Disney movie, The Hate you Give. Among other things, that movie has the main character get mad when a friend rightfully points out that that cops lives matter too. Note, I have not seen that movie, my information comes from a review I read.

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Young people do talk like this... It is frustrating working with blonde haired blue eyed women in their 20s that hate white men and claim to be American Indians. Nearly every world problem is solved by blaming when men - thank god my interactions with the new hires are limited.

When these people age into positions of power the west will collapse.

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I happily tell young people to shove their white privilege card up their asses, get out of their parents basement, get off social media and get a f*cking life.

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I have a child and nieces and nephews of all ages. We have always been a very moderate family, and none of us try to influence our kids with our political views. Regardless, they ALL have made it clear that most kids think the aggressive woke movement is a joke. I think there is a very vocal minority online that's giving the impression they represent more people than they do.

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im white, and to me, because of that character who said it, I laughed hard the first time he said it. it fit in a good funny way to me at that time.

I'm fully aware of the whole woke garb and that junk inserted in, and after several more viewings, it is no longer funny to me, but I get why it was funny when it caught me off guard the first time.

to me it was just a well placed joke that worked due to its random shock placement and delivery. Now, it is old, and I wish I could snip out just that little part. :)

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Serious, they shoehorn that stuff in so they don't get 'cancelled' by the mob.

They've obviously completed some kind of risk assessment and determined this as a mitigation strategy going forward.

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I think the racial and gender equality movements are initiated by corporations to increase potential labor pool, because businesses don't discriminate gender or race, they are all just potential workers. Modern union movements got on it as well because unions want to increase their potential members. So basically everybody counts politically is behind it and their message is that everyone should get out there to be a corporate slave and that is called liberty (to choose what kind of worker you want to be).

I think that is why the message has been pushed so hard from every possible direction, because it is the will of capitalism.

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Ah, neoliberalism in a nutshell.

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I think most liberal values are corporate values in disguise.

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Most ‘liberals’ are just diet-Republicans

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woke bs is everywhere now

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Because Hollywood is made up of liberals, and liberals are racist. Plain and simple.

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And the conservatives aren't?

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I'm with ya.

But a person talking about his advanced degree from M.I.T. comes off as a braggart.

So the white privilege comment was needed to keep his head in check.

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no doubt, these 2 kids also needed to be told about their white privilege. it was a great job !

https://youtu.be/1BzraMlg9Ek
students kicked out of Arizona State University

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The video is horseshit. In fact, I think it's staged. Videos created to get views, nothing more.

In general, for television to show a person's face, they need consent forms to be signed.

There is no such standard yet for YouTube and the like.

Hopefully, thus will change soon. To be rid of the many idiots who pull their phone out on a drop of a hat and the morons who just create fake incidents to get views...the world will be a better place.

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"The video is horseshit. In fact, I think it's staged. Videos created to get views, nothing more."


if you think that, then it's over for you. you are a truth denier.

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I don't think you get what I'm really saying.

Incidents like this didn't happen before the technology of video sharing arrived.

The motivation for views is a perversion to create these types of incidents.

Was the phone holder really outraged? Or really just wanted to put up a video that would get views?

A law requires consent of those two kids to post it is much needed to stop this tomfoolery.




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people believe ANYTHING online these days, won't they?
as if television shows were influencing them because they claim to be "Reality" television shows.
the amount of self deception these days is staggering.

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"Was the phone holder really outraged"

yes she was...... this is a new generation , they are weird as fuck and weak as hell as well.



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Or before the woketardism started?

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TRUTH denier? are you still talking about a video on YOUTUBE?
let me restate that...

a VIDEO on YOUTUBE?? No... seriously.... a video ON YOUTUBE?

just to be clear.... a VIDEO on YOUTUBE is "Truth"? Just looking for clarification on this postion.
Thanks.

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the george floyd video was also on youtube....... was that staged as well?

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never said there was zero real video on there.
but the entire planet knows youtube is a vast dumping ground of garbage and fakery to the tune of 500 hours uploaded every minute. EVERY MINUTE.

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