Americans in middle America are not too keen on seeing minorities on their tv shows. It’s considered Woke. Obviously the streaming service got the message.
I live on the East Coast, and even I like to see traditional tv shows. I’m a fan on Petticoat Junction. Everyone is White, Straight, and English speaking.
Nonsense.
There are plenty of shows with mixed casts that are extremely popular.
Middle America doesn’t want lame ass shows that are all about an agenda and no story.
Thats not it.
Its another attempt to change what something has already been portrayed as by woke changes. Its another black Little Mermaid. People dont dislike it because shes black, but because wokesters decide to change the character for what the character is. People dont dislike it because minority actors are used, they dislike it because the history of the Pink Ladies has already been established and they are white girls.
These woke revisionist chracter changes for DEI reasons are why people don’t like it.
That’s not the problem. “The Cosby Show,” “Good Times,” The Jeffersons” to name a few were wildly popular when they were on. That’s because they were decently written shows with good casts. The weren’t always preaching at us. A little, but not blatant, in-your-face crap like this from the article:
“…creating lesbian kissing scenes and focusing on the racial identity politics of ethnic minority characters.”
With this mindless slander you have proven that your feelings are perfectly aligned with the cultural Marxist mindset, comrade.
I disagree. I don’t think it has anything to do with people not being keen on seeing minorities in their tv shows.
It has to do with the principle of authenticity in the context of honesty. Wokeness isn’t genuine. It feels absolutely un-genuine.
The secret of film (TV or Movies) is that somewhere, somehow, in some way, it has to touch a spark of genuineness in a person watching, no matter how small. But it has to make a connection.
To that person watching, that is the connection point that must exist no matter how minute, to conduct any appreciation or enjoyment.
It is a form of “truth” that forms in them act allows them to enjoy it.
I think that the secret to success is really to get people to be able to reach the point they can enjoy the movie by suspension of belief. Where they start paying attention to the story someone is trying to tell, and to identify with it.
That is why people watch movies.
Wokeness is the polar opposite of authenticity. It is completely false in its premise (that physical “diversity” is far more important than intellectual “diversity”. And I believe every person knows this is true, but to Leftists to whom any means is justified by the ends, that they can lie to themselves about something that fundamental.
So, when someone reads a book, sees a movie, watches a newscast, or hears a speech, the inauthenticity of wokeness overrides anything meaningful that the source might intend to convey. It completely blocks that connection of truth.
And in those who do allow their logic to be overridden by their emotion (the need to belong to the collective) and they allow a Mal-formed connection to be made (such as is seen in Leftists) it creates a cognitive dissonance that ricochets around inside their skulls, knocking out chunks of rationality as it flies about.
That is why I think “normal” people don’t want to watch it. It is fundamentally inauthentic. And who has time to waste on that?
My father and I used to watch The Flip Wilson Show, Sanford and Son, and Chico and the Man. Of the three, my mom only liked the Flip Wilson Show. We couldn’t stand All in the Family long enough to get through an episode. The theme song alone was just too screechy.
I doubt that has anything to do with it - this is the streaming service that has RuPaul’s Drag Race as one of its flagship programs and other similarly woke programming. Seems like virtually every advert for this streaming service contains it.
Like the Cosby Show, Family Matters, and countless others over the years, all of which were popular in middle America.
Don't make nonsense up.
>Americans in middle America are not too keen on seeing minorities on their tv shows.
No trolling, please.
People don’t want the constant victimhood parade nonsense and *paying* to hear people screech hatred towards them. Imagine that. Moreso now that it’s become obvious to everyone that it’s not just a downtrodden equality thing but an organized, one-sided, push to destroy the country for people of every skin.
Good bye Disney wokoids. Be seeing you, Pink whatevers. So long, Target (and doubly so now that the lefty AGs will sue them if they don’t selfdestruct with rainbow crap). Auf wiedersehn, Anheiser-Busch.