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Maybe—and I’m simply spitballing right here—however possibly the anti-woke motion is basically simply extra pro-white, anti-POC racism. Take the topic of racial range in Hollywood as an illustration.
Possibly white persons are solely calling Hollywood “woke” as a result of, of their minds, W.O.Okay.E is an acronym for “Whiteness Over Knee-grow Leisure,” or one thing to that impact.
Possibly the reality is white persons are so used to seeing themselves overwhelmingly dominate the leisure trade that when the pendulum swings even an inch in a course that prioritizes racial and cultural range, all they’ll see is reverse Jim Crow for white Hollywood and the implementation of woke supremacy. In different phrases, white privilege is a hell of a drug, a lot in order that white folks go into withdrawal after they see anybody else having fun with the illustration they’ve all the time loved, and, apparently, taken as a right.
On Monday, billionaire white man Elon Musk bemoaned the 2024 Academy Awards by declaring, “Successful an Oscar now simply means you received the woke contest.”
Now, let’s be honest. Maybe Musk aka Phony Stark aka Apartheid Vador aka The X-Terminator aka The Twitter Throttler (I made most of these up) merely meant that the liberal bias inside the Academy excludes conservative-leaning content material from getting its shine. Possibly Musk merely desires to see the Oscars promote extra patriotism and fewer activism, or possibly he desires to see much less politics in Hollywood altogether.
Nah, I’m simply messing with y’all—he was complaining that too many non-white folks had been successful.
In actual fact, as soon as it was identified to the Tesla CEO that way more white folks received awards than anybody else this yr, he instantly conceded that he was “mistaken,” and all of the sudden all was proper in his Caucasian world the place white supremacy is the pure order of issues.
That’s proper, people, Musk was educated on the truth that the Greatest Image, Greatest Actor/Actress and Greatest Director classes, amongst others, had been overwhelmingly dominated by white folks, and the Woke Boogieman that haunts his nightmares retreated again underneath his mattress and allowed him to relaxation relaxed.
So, you recognize, maybe he’s just racist.
Musk known as it “stunning” that white folks received essentially the most sought-after classes supplied by the Academy, however why? Excluding the predominately Asian blockbuster Every part, In all places, All at As soon as, which received Greatest Image and Greatest Director, white folks received all the similar classes final yr. In actual fact, there hasn’t been a single Oscars presentation the place the winners and nominees weren’t overwhelmingly white. So, what the hell are we even speaking about right here?
Hell, lower than a decade in the past, #OscarsSoWhite was trending on social media for the umpteenth consecutive yr as a result of Black folks and folks of shade may see clearly the truth of overrepresented whiteness that white persons are naturally blind to. (They are saying, “I don’t see shade.” What they actually imply is that they acknowledge the absence of shade because the default for social and cultural normalcy.)
Right here’s the factor: White folks name it “race pandering” when each time classically white characters are changed by actors of shade in remakes and adaptions, or usually each time non-white faces are represented in abundance in historically white areas (TV, movie, broadcasting, promoting, and many others.) However the demonstrable reality is that no racial group within the Western world has been racially pandered to greater than white folks—not even shut.
Right here’s what I’ve written about this previously:
When white folks speak about what lots of them name “compelled range” in Holywood, I wish to level out just a little factor I name “compelled whiteness.” Compelled whiteness isn’t so simple as altering the race of a personality from the race within the supply materials. Compelled whiteness is the systematic racial gatekeeping that has ensured white folks will all the time be placated and can by no means need for illustration. It was an uphill battle for film studios to develop into assured that they might promote a film with an all-Black forged—as a result of white folks wanted to see themselves on the display. It continued to be an uphill battle for anybody to contemplate that Black leads and predominately Black casts in big-budget motion movies might be a factor—as a result of white folks wanted to see themselves on the display. So, for the overwhelming majority of the historical past of our leisure trade, and even now, actors of shade have been boxed out of the just about limitless buffet of various roles and performing alternatives that white actors have all the time loved—as a result of white folks wanted to see themselves on the display.
As in all issues DEI-related, white folks assume advantage is the explanation white folks have all the time dominated all media platforms up till the final handful of years.
However the reality is white actors, administrators, producers, writers, showrunners and filmmakers have all the time dominated the Academy as a result of the Academy is basically made up of white folks and whiteness pertains to whiteness. So, white films are one of the best films and white actors are one of the best actors as a result of white gatekeepers relate to the white expertise.
White domination in Hollywood has by no means been about expertise. White creatives have historically been the only ones afforded just about limitless alternative to showcase their vary of expertise within the mainstream, in actual fact. It’s actually all about how expertise is seen via a lens of whiteness. That’s what anti-wokeness is basically all about, and the Elon Musks of the world are going to whine and flood the tradition with white tears till that commonplace is restored.
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