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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

IS HOLLYWOOD 'WHITE-TRASHING' AMERICAN TELEVISION?

In the Weekly Standard, John Podhoretz identifies television shows like "Justified," "True Detective," "Breaking Bad," "Sons of Anarchy," and "The Walking Dead" as "Hollywood folk making mincemeat out of poor rural folk" and part of the "ongoing American culture war that should not go unremarked." Podheretz notes that "[e]ven Mad Men’s Don Draper, the well-to-do man from Westchester, was damaged forever by being born to a hooker in rural Illinois and raised by a vicious farmer who beat him regularly."

I'm not so sure.

You can certainly argue that the production design of these shows is Pure White Trash, but when it comes to characterizations of the rural poor and working class, Hollywood has actually come a long way. You can't judge a person by his double-wide.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The common themes are designed to demean and diminish the white man, just like Hitler did with the Jews before the real discrimination and discrediting begins. The general populous will be more accepting of the discrimination. Then laws will be designed, property confiscated, white ghetto's will be established to herd all ethnic caucasians into before the final solution. For those that do not allow black blood in their families it will mean relocation to FEMA camps and prisons, then euthanasia.

In 10 to 15 years, whites will be fleeing the United Socialist States of America just as Jews fled Nazi Germany or as citizens risked their lives to flee Communist Soviet Union.

This is the Obama fundamental transformation of the USSA.

Anonymous said...

8:57 PM,
You're crazy and sooooo racist. Big businesses have outsource so many companies overseas. Rich people have made more investment overseas. People with money have brought homes overseas. Majority of the American 1% er's spend more time overseas than here at home. And, this trend has been going on since Roosevelt's presidency. One can also blame Reagan, bush, bush and chaney.

Anonymous said...

both of you need to go back on your medication.

Anonymous said...

I think they have been studying the people I see at the local Walmart.

Anonymous said...

8:57 and 1:03 it really doesn't matter what Hollywood does they are so in the tank for Satan the argument is a moot point..we don't have 15 years at the current rate of destruction