It won’t be too bad - they have their limited-run initial series, then a subsequent “team-up” series, one starting after the other is done. They haven’t said anything about subsequent seasons for Daredevil, etc, yet. (Although given the highly positive responses, it increases the odds we’ll get to see more.) DC has their various shows with frequent cross-overs which must be a total production nightmare (especially as they’re increasing the number of shows).
Which makes sense - when they did the “ultimate” revamp of the character, they explicitly asked themselves, “Hmm, what if Nick Fury was Samuel L. Jackson?” and wrote/illustrated the character accordingly. So I guess it follows that Sam Jackson must also be Nick Fury.
I’m really really curious to see if they follow the War Machine plot and have Rhody take over, though I’m not sure I can see Don Cheadle carrying an Iron Man movie without RDJ. But Anthony Mackie has the charisma to potentially carry a Captain America movie down the road.
My point is, that for anyone who cares about social justice to constantly bang on about race and gender without ever mentioning the elephant in the room of class, the prison of the mind is working.
Because to achieve stuff (like making the world a significantly better place), you have to have agency. And class politics is simple these days - you have the homeless and destitute at one end, the vile overlord scum at the other, and the rest of us, who are actually little better off than the homeless and destitute, since most of us are trained to think we actually have a meaningful degree of agency. Ha.
Black? Female? No? STFU then, you reckon?
Yeah, well - if you could conceive of the relative proportions of injustice here (and believe me, I’m doing nothing to minimise endemic prejudice; it’s quite obviously holistically crippling), you might see that wrong is dwarfed by a parasite class bleeding nearly everyone dry, and pitting everyone against each other, to the point that billions are made from death, suffering and poisoning the future. Kinda trumps the average person being an arsehole, IMO.
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White people are not the only ones with TVs. If diverse shows get watched, they get renewed.
The only color the entertainment industry cares about is GREEN.
“White supremacy” is a system of advantages that places those granted “whiteness” above others. Overt “white supremacists” are only its most extreme representatives and adherents. Along with many others, most Jewish Americans worked their way into whiteness, then worked to keep others out of it.
Pretty white supremacist behavior, no? Surely you’ve heard, just for starters, of William Levitt, Jewish American founder of “whites only” Levittown?
you’re deliberately using a term you know will wind people up, sounds like classic trolling to me. even the dreaded P word isn’t this deliberately confrontational.
It’s honestly not a deliberate attempt to do that. I describe America as a white supremacist culture and society on the regular. bell hooks and others do the same (along with lots of other honest descriptors). Maybe white folks should get used to it, you know, face the facts, instead of continuing to keep them in the cellar.
You know, they actually changed Nick Fury in the comics before Jackson was cast. They based the Ultimate version on Jackson, and THEN cast him afterward. The weird thing is, I can’t really remember anyone getting particularly upset about that. Not the way people seem to get super upset at the idea of a not-white Captain America or Batman, anyway. Or a female Thor.
Edit: Sorry, I see I was long since beaten to this. Derp.
I have to respectfully disagree…the problem with Hollywood television and movies is people of color and women are only considered for roles that reflect stereotypes, that is, the black thug or pimp/drug deal/prostitute, or the Latin bracero, or “trophy wife”, model, or tired and drawn housewife. The problem is Hollywood executives live in a world whee they cannot accept that people are people regardless of their race, sex or assumed place in society. Sondra Rhimes (sorry Sondra if I have misspelled your name) has successfully supplanted the idea that you have to be white to be a doctor, law professor, et al. White writer, directors, casting people have difficulty understanding that race and gender do not define life experience.
It’s not me doing that kind of associating. That’s already been done. It was the ancestors of perhaps most white Americans today who did that just about as soon as they got here. Pursuing whiteness and knocking others back down the ladder was one of the surest ways of becoming a “real American.” Pretty assholish behavior, really, and not something I think we should just forget. In fact, its results are still with us, as this post and thread so fully demonstrate.
You are either driving trollies or you’re a bigot (or both, who knows?). Your definition of white supremacy is only used in an extremely narrow section of academia. You know exactly what it means to the vast majority of people. Pointing to one racist asshole and saying we’re all that way is as disingenuous as me holding up Louis Farrakhan representative of all black people.
But do continue on with your thoughts on the wider Jewish conspiracy.
It is you doing the association, you are claiming american society, as a whole, is white supremacist, a term that has a very definite meaning, you might be trying to use a more nuanced metaphorical reading of that term but you’re just throwing it out there knowing that nobody else is using the same definition, it’s trolling plain and simple.
