"You missed the point of the movie" says the media literacy crowd

>fireman dad murdered by black guy while putting out a fire
>blacks try to break into his truck, shoots one and curb stomps the other, goes to jail
>makes a black friend and decides to reform and become antiracist
>gets out and his little brother is on the same path, tries to persuade him to stop hating black people
>little brother defends a smaller white kid getting beat up on by a ghetto black, gets shot and killed by him the next day
>original ending the director wanted was derek staring in the mirror, full of grief, and deciding to shave his head again
>Edward Norton pitched a fit and had it changed to Derek reciting the final stanza of abe lincolns inaugural address (Abe wanted to send all the blacks to Liberia/Haiti after the civil war was over, but was assassinated)

While I get that the point being made is something about the cycle of hatred repeating itself, at the end of the day it's black people who spend the whole film murdering people for petty reasons and engaging in theft by trying to break into Dereks truck.

About the only thing Derek did that was legally wrong was curb stomping the second thief. But on the other hand we've got the utterly senseless murder of his father and brother by black people with zero impulse control, and yet the theme of the movie is that it's Derek who shouldn't have felt the way that he did.

The film casts essentially no critical judgement on the black people murdering white people, and spends all its time addressing how Derek feels about it.

For all the talk of "dereks dad planting the seeds of racism in him"

Was he really wrong about black people considering he was murdered while putting out a house fire for no particular reason by a black guy?

Making a black friend might show that yeah, not every person of a certain race is a caricature. But stereotypes still exist because they are found to be true often enough to be a good compass to run off of in the macro, if not the micro.

There is something bizarre going on that I can't quite put my finger on, but it can be seen in the replies to this guys post. This guy has been poking around in DMs and replies of lots of RW twitter constantly asking for followbacks.

As I alluded to in another thread, there is something strange going on. Weird influencer accounts in "MAGAville" that have followings relative to exposure that make very little sense.

Couple that with what I saw earlier, why are large "normie" themed MAGA accounts creating "twin brothers" that they are boosting? These accounts are obviously not being accused of impersonation, they are sanctioned, because the "brothers" are mutuals.

Are they using their platforms to boost and create high follower alts to sell? What I have heard goes on is that people will create accounts and use this followback strategy until they reach a certain size, unfollow everyone they follow, change to a blank slate name and PFP, and then sell off the account. People buy these blank slate, high follower count accounts in order to immediately jump into things like monetization and begin to engagement bait.

But there is a certain and very similar "vibe" to all the accounts here. They are all congratulating Dustin here, but despite their followings only getting double digit views and 1 or no likes for the most part. Though there are a few accounts in the replies I know are organic.

Additionally, this huge "knot" of accounts retweet each other constantly, but there is very little actual engagement in their posts compared to a typical 50k+ follower account.

I think the reality of what this guy is talking about is that antipathy towards blacks *from* most whites in this era was more or less gone. That doesn't mean it was reciprocated the other way.

These men are models of what we wanted blacks to be like, not how most of them actually are. Most racial discourse in the US amounts to white people wishing black people would stop doing hood rat shit all the time.

The left thinks this is because they're poor, or grow up without enough government services, which wouldn't explain the fact that poor whites of the same income bracket as poor blacks don't commit nearly as many crimes despite there being way more of them than blacks.

So when libs worship them like cows in India, what they're really saying is "Please see the light and act civilized we will do literally anything other than face the truth of the matter!"

And the traditional white conservative position essentially hinges on the police handling the problem and just throwing them in jail when they break the law while still more or less ignoring the racial element as best as they can.

The only thing that (privately) your average white american on the left or right would agree on if they took a moment to be intellectually honest is that they don't like most of the stereotypical "black" things that exist.

From stochastic irrational violent crime like Karmelo Anthony stabbing a kid for telling him he wasn't where he was supposed to be to black women being rude and disagreeable, whites really hate this shit and wish blacks would just act like Bill Cosby or Will Smith.

The real crime is that they taught an entire generation of white kids to treat blacks like they *were* Bill Cosby and Will Smith, when they are actually models of what white people wish black people were actually like.

The problem is that when anyone tries to confront this problem, the top 20-25 percentile of black america gets held up as an example that stereotyping is wrong and they aren't all like that. This is really just copium to the tune of "But they can change! Look at my black friend who went to college and has a mortgage and a family!"

And good for them, but there's a reason the first thing black people with the ambition for upward mobility do is move away from all the other black people. The problem is that an entire generation was shown an aspirational version of black people and told "See? They're just like you and me!" while most of the black community hadn't changed at all.

So racism wasn't gone, white kids were just shown black people as we wish they were and nobody gave us the memo that this wasn't really true if you lived in a major city. I'm sure all these dudes live in neighborhoods that are majority white.

I had the viewpoint of the OP when I was younger, because there weren't really very many black people where I grew up. So my opinion was largely based on what I saw on TV or online.

But I've been stationed in Biloxi MS.. I've lived in Houston for 10 years now.. Not reality.

That's the other thing.. The Japanese in california had a generation where they were poor, new to the US, and picked our fruit. Next generation they took over landscaping across the state, all gardeners were japanese.

Their kids are now all dentists.

https://x.com/SmorglesBord/status/1910356166711926829

Indians seem to be doing to the internet what black people did to the mall

This behavior is low class (or should I say caste?) and scummy, but subcontinentals seem utterly shameless about it.

https://x.com/OldRowSwig/status/1906723773799116833

The ironic part is every Indian I've ever talked to on a positive basis generally agrees with me on this. This article is a pretty fascinating inside look, from an Indian who came to the west and had to "un-learn" a lot of things. Eye-opening.

zerohedge.com/geopolitical/i…

Relevant story from a political event in TX I attended a few years ago juxtaposed with a meeting I was at last night: 🦣

I have a friend who is a really solid political organizer in Houston, knows all the ground game and does amazing work, normie gen X dad guy who really puts in the work. He taught me a ton about how local and municipal elections work, because of him I worked on several local campaigns. Good teacher.

But he had me come to an event with him, and there was this old guy who has been a Texas GOP employee for a long time. My friend introduces me to this boomer guy who he states is pivoting to manage the state parties efforts to recruit the youth at the high school level. This guy is like 65 years old at the time, this was maybe 3 years ago, he chairs several GOP committees both at the county and state level here in Houston.

So friend introduces me to him as one of his locals who is very sharp and understands the younger perspective etc etc and leaves us to talk. I sort of throw a softball with an opinion on how the younger generation are polarized extremes, if they have any interest in politics it's to the far end of the right or the left.

He immediately disagrees with me and says "I think one of the problems with our efforts to recruit in high school is that all this Trump MAGA stuff is too extreme, if we want to get them interested we need to be more moderate."

Gave him a sneer and shook my head in disgust and did an about face to go grab a beer at the bar. Knew with an opinion like that he was beyond help.

I was at a meeting last night talking about this exact same problem, and we've essentially abandoned getting any assistance from the state party whatsoever and are working with a TPUSA field director who is a lot more accomodating. I spent many years not liking TPUSA and Kirk, but they've been improving over the last few years, slowly but surely.

Also, during this meeting one of the local hardcore grandma volunteers that I frequently have friction with, she takes the mic and talks about how polarized by gender Gen Z is (she's right ofc) but then says we need to direct more resources at the high school level to try and get girls interested.

I took the mic to respond to her and said it was a waste of time to dedicate too many resources to bringing young women on board. If a zoomer girl isn't already down with the right because of her own convictions or religion or worldview, she's basically gonna be a lefty forever until she gets hitched and has kids and may cross the picket line then, and that a full court press on young men that ensures they are energized enough to show up and vote and make their friends vote makes more sense.

When I reminded my friend of my interaction with the old GOP guy a few years ago he said "He's more GOP than MAGA, but that's a dying breed with no future."

Personally, I think *high school* outreach is a waste of time. College is a lot more fruitful, high school kids have way too much going on, both IRL and in their own heads, to start thinking of politics in any non-emotive way. It's just going to kind of attract the lame sheltered religious kids (who are good kids) but were already onboarded aggressively by their parents anyway.

But at the end of the day my political relationship to the boomers of the GOP has always been that they alienate anyone to the right of them, which is everyone younger than them on the right just about, and then wonder why they aren't "making inroads with the youf"

This is really bad

I've studied the negligible impacts of govt incentive structuring in Hungary and Japan, which has *some* impact, but not much

I'm convinced the only way to fix this is to get women to stop going to college, or to give men extreme preference in the most lucrative jobs at *scale*.

Sweeping away bullshit govt and NGO jobs by downsizing or taking govt grant money away is going to cause a lot of extreme selection pressure on women who work and have a degree.

There's gonna be more competition for those jobs but hopefully a lot of women decide to just dip out.