The leading Internet television network with over 93.8 million members has decided that their audience needs more racism, bigotry and stereotypes - and the public reaction to Netflix's "Dear White People" trailer has not been pretty. Dear White People | Date Announcementhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LzggK5DRBAFreedomain Radio is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by signing up for a monthly subscription or making a one time donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate
Hi everybody, Stefan Molyneux from Freedom Main Radio.
Oh dear!
Yes, a number of you have written to me saying, Steph, you've got to check out the trailer for this new series on Netflix called Dear White People.
And ever a slave to the preferences of my audience, I said, sure, I'll have a look.
I mean, really?
Really?
How bad could it be?
Well, my friends, I had no idea.
Okay, so this is...
And we'll put a link to the video below.
So, it starts off with very...
White!
White, white, whiter than white, whiter than my background in classical music, because apparently cultural appropriation is really bad, right?
Now, I can't think of a single cliché that this trailer doesn't exquisitely mine while trying to say that people should be sensitive.
Okay, there's a sassy black woman with green eyes.
Optical appropriation!
And she sits there condescendingly lecturing to white people.
Ooh, you so edgy!
Ooh, dissing white people!
Wow, you're just cutting edge!
You're so brave!
You're so...
Ooh, alternative!
Ooh, edge!
There's no edge whatsoever.
I mean, come on, all white people?
No differentiation.
From Poland to Iceland to the South of America...
All white people.
Just pick one giant sunburnt blob of bad rhythm.
It's like no differentiation.
Big!
I mean, maybe this is how non-whites view whites, you know, like we're just, we're all the same and, you know, just one big giant blob, no matter where we go.
No differentiation whatsoever.
Now, the first time you see white people in this trailer, You know, they're all clean-shaven, square-jawed, Aryan-looking, preppy, perfect people in sweater vests standing in front of a frat house.
That's right!
Because all men are preppy, perfect models who live in frats.
Because, you know, we really, really want to help avoiding stereotypes of people.
Now, the women...
See, there's a woman.
She's standing there, you know, perfect little Republican hairdo.
She's got pearls on.
She lives in a mansion, perfectly made up, exquisitely conservative looking.
And this apparently is some 18-year-old woman all wearing pearls living in mansions.
I don't know.
Have you seen the Women's March lately?
Not a lot of white women look like that these days.
There are some who think it would be better if they did.
But, no, that's not how things seem to be heading.
Now, the issue, of course, is that some white people put on blackface.
The only celebrity, at least, the only person I've known to publicly put on blackface was actually Sarah Silverman, a Jewish, I guess you could say, comedian.
But she's not in the video, of course, right?
I mean, that's natural.
I've never known anyone to put on blackface.
It seems to be rare enough.
That it shows up on social media.
There's a big brouhaha every time someone does it.
So it's really not that common.
And look, there's cross-pollination among races and cultures.
So what?
Disco started with white people.
Blacks made fantastic contributions to it.
Black women seem to enjoy appropriating Gwyneth Paltrow's hairdo.
I mean, who cares?
Cross-pollination, cross-fertilization.
Ah...
So, the white people are all portrayed as, you know, well-presented, well-groomed, pursuing an education, conservative, and so on.
And then we see a group of black people.
And what are they doing?
Well, they're all in a basement jeering at a video of white people.
Uh...
That's not a very positive image, in my humble opinion.
Now, when the black people are looking at a video or a picture of white people in blackface, what do they do?
What is their solution?
Do they come forward and educate?
Do they talk about the history of blackface and how offensive it can be and so on?
Do they come forward and make a case?
No.
This film, or this series, this trailer, shows...
Black men invading a party and attacking white people and trashing their speakers, like the guy crashes over the speakers and so on.
And this, of course, the very white classical music swells to a triumphant crescendo.
This is portrayed as a very, very positive thing.
But here's the problem, guys.
I can't believe I have to say this stuff.
It's the current year, people!
See, here's this problem.
There's a perception.
This is not a white perception, but it's a perception among non-blacks and a lot of blacks, some of whom have been on this very show and made wonderful contributions.
There's this perception among non-blacks that there's quite a lot of violence coming out of the black community.
And you can look up these statistics.
We've sort of shown them before.
I think if you put out a trailer and a show that's going to be eventually, I guess, seen by millions of people, should Netflix make the foolish decision to go ahead with this nonsense, the black community is getting upset about something that's not the initiation of force.
It's not a criminal action and so on.
Like, what tiny, tiny percentage of white people dress up in blackface?
So, this video, or this trailer, it shows blacks getting offended about something and then physically attacking white people.
I mean, we're talking home invasion, physical assault, destruction of property.
Is that...
What we should take away from this?
That if you upset black people, they'll trash your house, invade your property, and attack you physically?
I mean, that's racist on every conceivable level.
It's not just the one giant stereotype of white frat boys and so on.
It's a stereotype of blacks reacting to offensive violence.
And what sort of message is this sending out?
Like, let's just say you're a Japanese-American, right?
And you look at this trailer.
Who do you want moving in next to you, right?
Who do you want moving in next to all?
You know, preppy, pretty, well-groomed white people or jeering, physically violent black people.
Do you understand?
You're putting out entirely the wrong message about things.
You're not helping at all!
Of course it's cliched and it's offensive to blacks and whites and everyone else I can conceivably imagine, including people with tentacles for tits.
And it's boring.
As Paul Joseph Watson said, conservatism is the new counterculture.
This is not edgy anymore.
This is not, ooh, you're so daring, making fun of white people, criticizing white males.
Come on.
White males in charge?
No!
White people, and in particular white males, have been the boring whipping boys for 50 years now.
Come on.
Come on.
50 years now, it's been perfectly fine to attack and denigrate and make collective, gross, horrible racist generalizations against whites.
And in particular...
White males.
It's boring.
It's about as boring as the argument that poverty is the reason for crime in certain communities.
It's not the case.
The poorest sections in America are the Appalachians and very, very low crime rate happen to be white.
So it's more than just poverty.
In fact, the argument is much more interesting and seems to be more factually true.
That it's not that poverty causes crime.
It's the fact that crime causes poverty by destroying social trust and infrastructure and driving businesses away from certain neighborhoods and so on.
So it's boring.
It's boring.
White's been the whipping boys for like 50 years now.
See, here's the thing.
If you want to know who's really in charge, it's not white males.
Because you see, everybody can attack and criticize and denigrate and make gross collective racist generalizations and sexist generalizations against white males.
All preppy racists.
So if you want to know who's really in charge, you have to look at who you're not allowed to criticize.
I'll let you go down that rabbit hole, but hint, hint, hint.
