Getting Robin D’Angelo to pay reparations to one of his crew, who is blackish, is outstanding.
“MLK said a lot of things!”
The tension between “white centricity” and avoiding “cultural appropriation”.
White people are oppressors and there is nothing they can do about that (so why are we here again?).
It is amazing not just that reviewers are not reviewing it, but that so many publications that the “top critics” are employed by are writing articles about the movie. There is no way that is not deliberate.
Agreed. And I would expect more to come out about this story. Not all the RT top critics are leftards. The majority undoubtedly lean left because that is the sea from which they are mostly recruited and in which they swim, but the best of the breed, first and foremost, are serious about film and want to do serious criticism, because they all understand that propaganda movies are almost always garbage. (We can allow a few exceptions here.) They will follow the story where it leads, and parodies, spoofs and mockumentaries should be in their wheelhouse. The really good ones will try to keep overt politics out of their reviews unless they are specifically criticising excessive politicization in a movie. A few might even be clandestine conservatives, and more probably identify as libertarian or independent. Some are proudly contrarian.
Many of them grok what has gone wrong with Hollywood and understand that alienating half the country in the interests of ideological fetishism compromises artistic integrity and is suicidal for the art form that they love.
Getting unanimity out of this crowd is unthinkable without some serious thuggery behind the scenes. For all I know, some of the top critics actually have reviewed Am I Racist and RT is simply refusing to print the reviews or is perhaps even threatening them with a loss of access to the platform. How, for example, can The Atlantic publish a long article on Am I Racist — which Matt Walsh thought was reasonably fair — while The Atlantic’s film critic refuses to review the hottest documentary of the year? I’m wondering if one or more of the top critics will break omerta at some point. Or if Matt Walsh will be tipped off and blow the whistle. Something as yet unrevealed is going on.