Jordan Peele's first effort as a writer / director fairly simmers with rage — not at the clichéd southern - fried racist rednecks of most horror movies that have discrimination at their root, but
at white liberals who have all the right friends and say all the right things (or what they think are the right things).
Not exact matches
@johnfrichardson funny how you
white demonic perverted
liberals twist every issue
at every turn, lets see the
white man does for the whiteman when he gets in leadership position, the mexican helps the mexican, the asian helps the asian, and so on.
That was an amazing feat, taking place
at a time when the amendment's feminist and
liberal supporters seemed to be in control of every American institution except the
White House, but I was living in California
at the time, and the key battles of the ERA had taken place in geographically and culturally distant states: Florida, Illinois, North Carolina.
That is why the loudest yelps about
white privilege come from pale - skinned students
at the most expensive
liberal arts colleges.
White liberals, guilt - ridden (I write from experience), accepted this spurious definition
at face value.
Despair
at King's murder was the response of many blacks and some
white liberals, but others were not distressed, and most did not care.
As Cuomo increasingly seeks to position himself
at the national level, potentially with an eye on a future
White House run, by embracing a host of
liberal policy proposals, look for the Senate Democrats and their allies to keep up the «we could accomplish so much more together» drumbeat, even though
at this point it's pretty much a done deal that the Republicans and the IDC have renewed their power - sharing relationship.
For years, the
Liberal Democrats have piously presented themselves
at the national level as
whiter than
white, while engaging in ruthless, negative and often dirty campaigns
at the local level.
At first it seemed like another broadside from frequent
White House critic Representative Henry Waxman, a
liberal Democrat from Los Angeles.
Jordan Peele's «Get Out» is, again, a work of savvy craft that pulls an unsuspecting (
white) viewer into a Sunken Place that other moviegoers know all too well; the movie works as a horror film, as a goof on horror films, as a working street - map of African - American anxieties, and, for a
white liberal audience, as an endlessly reflective hall of mirrors that urges a hard, necessary look
at oneself.
Writer / director Jordan Peele tells the story of a young black man (Daniel Kaluuya), dating a
white woman (Allison Williams), meeting her supposedly
liberal parents for the first time
at their country house.
Missy and Dean have a party and all the wealthy
white guests come by to tell Chris every story they know about black people to put Chris
at ease in the keenest, sharpest observation of how rich
white liberals treat minorities I've ever seen.
Its uncompromising look
at racism within
white liberal types is what hooked the masses, but what lingers is the morbid visual imagination Jordan Peele injects that reveals the rotten flesh under the
white American post-racial facade.
BEST OF THE BEST It's been a pretty good week for education journalism, including a beautifully - reported NYT look
at how
liberal white Manhattan parents contribute, decision by decision, to the -LSB-...]
(Hey, whether you're
liberal or conservative, it's still fascinating to go behind the scenes
at the
White House — as I've mentioned before.)
In her latest, which won Britain's 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, she tells the story of Englishman Howard Belsey, a
white,
liberal academic who specializes in Rembrandt and teaches
at Wellington, an Ivy League school in the States.
With a new show
at White Cube Bermondsey, the artistic duo tell us eight things about their lives, art, fame, bigots,
liberals, Brexit, and their favourite East End Turkish restaurant.
The six installations included in the show were created
at a time when earnest discussions around identity politics in
liberal intellectual circles were causing a backlash from conservatives, straight
white men, shock - jocks, gross - out cartoonists and moviemakers, as well as bad - boy contemporary artists such as Rhoades.
Google waved goodbye to Damore on the basis that he was advancing «harmful gender stereotypes in the workplace» and following being adopted by right - wing media as a victim of Silicon Valley's
liberal bias, Damore retaliated on the basis that
white, male conservative employees
at Google are «ostracized, belittled, and punished».
«They're aimed
at three groups Clinton needs to win overwhelmingly: idealistic
white liberals, young women, and African Americans.»