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Posted on 06/10/2020 11:01:25 AM PDT by sevinufnine
Netflix subscribers are urging the streaming service to remove the Oscar-winning historical drama The Help as they accuse the hit film of having a 'white savior' narrative. The 2011 film, which was adapted from a novel written by author Kathryn Stockett, imagines the relationship between black maids, cooks and nannies during the 1960s, and the white people who they served. It has become the most-watched movie on Netflix in recent weeks.
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Blasting The Help, one Twitter user wrote: 'So The Help is now Netflix most watched movie. One question: WHO is out her watching The Help to understand racism and discrimination?
Thousands of Twitter users have voiced concerns about the message portrayed in The Help, which stars Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Octavia Spencer.
Blasting The Help, one Twitter user wrote: 'So The Help is now Netflix most watched movie. One question: WHO is out her watching The Help to understand racism and discrimination?
'Instead of watching The Help on Netflix which centers around a white savior complex, watch other works including: When They See Us, 13th, Malcom X, Dear White
People, Just Mercy, Watchmen, I am Not Your Negro,' added another.
The hit movie follows a white journalist as she explores the racial prejudice that black people experience in the town where she lives.
Well, guess I’ll watch it again tonight before it disappears.
Also, how is a white woman who believes black lives matter and put it out there for everyone to see, educate the white folks that is...in the 60’s no less...be a bad thing? Aren’t sympathizers to their “cause” what they want?
If they want it removed, it must be good.
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