• FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    It's like that movie Crash, racist cops don't mean to be racist, they just need a personal tragedy to help them overcome their previous bigotry

    Just like how Sandra Bullock found out her real friend was her maid the whole time

    • Judge_Juche [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Sandra Bullock also won the Oscar for 'The Blindside' in which she plays a rich white lady who steals a black kid from his mom.

      • Headcrab_Soup [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        We had to watch that shit on rainy days at school and even dumb sheltered kid me was like "this seems really racist and condescending"

    • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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      2 years ago

      Crash also taught us that if a racist cop SAs a black woman, it all balances out if he saves her life later

      • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        We were shown that movie, with that scene in full, in high school and frankly I memory holed that so hard I had to double check to make sure it was the right scene I was thinking about. I don't even remember the tertiary reason we started watching it back then and I don't remember any of the plot, but that scene has stood out to me for well over a decade.

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Never watched Crash, more amazed that a film decided that was a good plot point and wasn't shamed for it.

            • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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              2 years ago

              Not just not shamed, it won the Oscar for Best Picture lmao

              Crash as a whole was a libshit "we're all humans man, we're more similar than we are different, and that means I can be racist" kind of thing, it's really really bad in a way that's honestly pretty illuminating when you consider how liberal hollywood LOVED it

              • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                Jesus I remember the phase of liberalism in hollywood in which it started with the "everyone's a little bit racist and that's okay" and then also went into the "better to not see someone by their color" colorblindness propaganda shit.

              • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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                2 years ago

                Until this point in the thread I was getting it mixed up with Speed