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I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to describe woke. It’s mostly genders and race, it becomes a problem when you’re trying to watch a movie and you start
by gondaloof 3y ago
I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to describe woke. It’s mostly genders and race, it becomes a problem when you’re trying to watch a movie and you start noticing the minority token that exists exclusively to gain imaginary social points but adds nothing to the story.
This isn’t anything new however, cinema is soft power and the US has been at it for nearly a century now.
- rootusrootus 3y agoIs that not a perception issue, and more descriptive of the viewer than any specific action on the part of the creator? How do we objectively define what 'adds nothing to the story' looks like?
- kulahan 3y agoThis is a weird question. You can't objectively define that because what adds nothing to story A could add everything to story B. However, it's not very difficult to read an individual story and pick out which parts do and don't contribute to the plot well. This is just talking about Chekov's Guns.
- foldr 3y agoHow is someone having a particular ethnicity a Chekov's gun? When a show introduces a white character, do you expect there to be some kind of plot payoff in a future episode where the fact that they're white makes all the difference?
- foldr 3y agoNot every story with a black person in it has to be a story about the person being black. We're pretty used to seeing shows with white characters whose whiteness doesn't contribute anything to the story. The implicit rationale here seems to be that any character who isn't white and male needs a special justification for existing.