And what is their remedy, I ask with great trepidation?The world of the left is just one looney thing after anther. m/r
Salon: 'A Christmas Story' is White Racist Nostalgia
We thought color-blindness was supposed to be a good thing.
12.28.2016 Mark Tapson
The social justice warrior's every waking moment is consumed by racial
resentment. The latest example: the radical leftists at Salon have deconstructed the classic holiday movie A Christmas Story as an example of white racist nostalgia.
Salon's Chauncey DeVega alerts you from the get-go that he's going to
ruin your Christmas movie-viewing experience by pointing out that film
and TV are very revealing in terms of "what stories are told and which
ones are not? Who gets to speak? Who is silenced? What groups are placed
front and center in American — and global — popular culture? Which
groups are marginalized or at the periphery? Whose experiences are
erased?”He admits to enjoying the comedy A Christmas Story as a child, but as he grew older he wondered why it wasn't more about people of color like himself. As DeVega notes, there are black characters in the film but they "remain peripheral. They have no real voice or agency." Perhaps that's because they aren't the principal characters. This isn't their movie; it's little nine-year-old Ralphie's movie, and Ralphie happens to be white, as does the radio broadcaster whose semi-autobiographical story this is.
The black characters "are shown in an perfectly inoffensive and neutral fashion," DeVega observes. Perhaps that's because the movie isn't racist. ...
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