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And I have to add: when Fleck is invited to De Niro’s tv show it is to play the
clown, to entertain and, most of all, to be ridiculed, laughed at, not with.
Hardly a sign of white privilege, but perhaps more like non-white artists and
non-white culture were often treated historically.
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> 10 okt. 2019 kl. 09:29 skrev Daniel Lindvall via Marxism
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> Wow, what BS. Racism is obviously a matter of fact. But to imply that the
> main driving force here is Fleck being spoilt by white privilege makes no
> sense. Throughout most of the film he does his shitty, precarious, low pay
> job and asks and expects basically nothing at all. On the contrary, he tries
> to make his mum realize the Waynes of this world don’t give a damn about
> them, white or black. Only when he has reason to believe he actually IS
> Wayne’s biological son he comes to think for a moment that this will make a
> real difference (a rather human reaction, I’d say). This arch-conservative
> review, posing as anti-racist, is just a version of the line that the kind of
> decent working conditions and welfare that the labour movement created are
> themselves at their very core about white privilege and have spoilt white
> workers who need to get over them and accept capitalism (”nature”, ”life”) as
> it is. It is intended to silence and split workers.
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> Re ”Joker”, I went to see it expecting to hate it, as I hate the Nolan films
> (thinly disguised fascism, here’s my review: http://filmint.nu/?p=5351). It
> is far from perfect and, yes, it could have treated its black characters
> differently. But nevertheless this actually is the complex, intelligent film
> that many claim the wildly overrated Nolan films to be. Class and
> exploitation are at the heart of it, not white privilege.
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>> 10 okt. 2019 kl. 01:59 skrev Louis Proyect via Marxism
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