It’s beyond parody. It’s ACTING for Christ Sakes. This new Woke concept that writers can only write from their own ‘pigment perception’ (whatever the fuck that even means), actors can only act Re same, etc: How is this not racist? Not to mention counterproductive and stupid? Isn’t the point of fiction, film, art etc to use your IMAGINATI…
It’s beyond parody. It’s ACTING for Christ Sakes. This new Woke concept that writers can only write from their own ‘pigment perception’ (whatever the fuck that even means), actors can only act Re same, etc: How is this not racist? Not to mention counterproductive and stupid? Isn’t the point of fiction, film, art etc to use your IMAGINATION??? How did we get here, to this bizarre Orwellian grotesquerie?
Yet, as always, it only goes in one direction. No one seems to complain when female authors put things out with male characters. If we were to use their logic, this should be beyond the pale. How can, say, Spike Lee write a White character's lines following that same logic?
Again, it goes back in my view to the NSDAP roots of this movement. All Aryan parts must be played by Aryans. All Jewish parts must also be played by Aryans because we can't have Jews on the same stage as Aryans. These people seem to have no conception of the road they're blissfully ambling down.
Right. Because this stems from the Marxist fringe left. They all had Foucault shoved down their throats. Everything in their mind is about power dynamics. So white men = evil; everyone else = good. A lurid, Manichaean attitude which is grotesque, loathsome and sad.
And then they grafted NSDAP racial fixations onto the whole mess. As far as I'm concerned they left any Marxist pretensions behind the exact second they made everything about race.
I agree. I have a socialist friend who left his socialist club cause younger woke people joined and were trying really hard to shift the narrative from class to race.
And that's why I focus on the NSDAP. I don't think some of them have enough experience (or possibly actual education) to see where this path ends. Class is at least somewhat understandable and mutable. Race in their minds is a fixed element that automatically defines who you are for all eternity without any sort of shading or individualism. Change a few words (and often only one or two) and many woke slogans could come right out of the NSDAP's propaganda playbook. Letting them hide behind the left-wing or Marxist labels both gives them too much credit and deflects too much of the danger of what they're trying to do.
It’s beyond parody. It’s ACTING for Christ Sakes. This new Woke concept that writers can only write from their own ‘pigment perception’ (whatever the fuck that even means), actors can only act Re same, etc: How is this not racist? Not to mention counterproductive and stupid? Isn’t the point of fiction, film, art etc to use your IMAGINATION??? How did we get here, to this bizarre Orwellian grotesquerie?
Michael Mohr
‘Sincere American Writing’
https://michaelmohr.substack.com/
Yet, as always, it only goes in one direction. No one seems to complain when female authors put things out with male characters. If we were to use their logic, this should be beyond the pale. How can, say, Spike Lee write a White character's lines following that same logic?
Again, it goes back in my view to the NSDAP roots of this movement. All Aryan parts must be played by Aryans. All Jewish parts must also be played by Aryans because we can't have Jews on the same stage as Aryans. These people seem to have no conception of the road they're blissfully ambling down.
Right. Because this stems from the Marxist fringe left. They all had Foucault shoved down their throats. Everything in their mind is about power dynamics. So white men = evil; everyone else = good. A lurid, Manichaean attitude which is grotesque, loathsome and sad.
And then they grafted NSDAP racial fixations onto the whole mess. As far as I'm concerned they left any Marxist pretensions behind the exact second they made everything about race.
I agree. I have a socialist friend who left his socialist club cause younger woke people joined and were trying really hard to shift the narrative from class to race.
And that's why I focus on the NSDAP. I don't think some of them have enough experience (or possibly actual education) to see where this path ends. Class is at least somewhat understandable and mutable. Race in their minds is a fixed element that automatically defines who you are for all eternity without any sort of shading or individualism. Change a few words (and often only one or two) and many woke slogans could come right out of the NSDAP's propaganda playbook. Letting them hide behind the left-wing or Marxist labels both gives them too much credit and deflects too much of the danger of what they're trying to do.