winterchillie [she/her]

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Cake day: January 21st, 2021
  • winterchillie [she/her]tomovies•HBO's "The White Lotus" is a Disappointing and Ultimately Pointless Look at Class Politics
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    3 years ago

    It is clear from this what Mike White’s opinion on leftism is; it is something for privileged college students to support performatively while real workers don’t really support it. The inclusion of Frantz Fanon here is especially egregious considering his focus on colonialism and imperialism in relation to the poor portrayal of Hawai’i Natives, but I digress.

    I think that has some truth, but not the whole story

    1. It's shown that the version of leftism these privileged white people espouse is some bastardized chauvinist and performative version, something like fanon absolutely rips and tears apart these western white liberals who take the name of "leftism" but end up reproducing every part of the imperialist power structure while giving nothing but empty words against it
    2. it's true in this show, that leftism has no roots in the workers here as they're just exploited and depressed here, but to claim such a view of leftism in the real world is just contrary to reality