Good morning, Kossacks. I’d like to talk to you about this new movie coming out.
Perhaps you’ve seen trailers for it.
From the get-go it’s a really problematic concept:
Mild-mannered, gentle, intellectual white man is harassed by LARGE STRONG MUSCULAR AGGRESSIVE BLACK MAN, and, naturally, it becomes a physical confrontation.
It is implied that the white man got the black man fired from his job, but I think we can all agree this isn’t something to go straight to fisticuffs over.
That’s the gist of the movie in a nutshell, and I felt sick as soon as I saw the trailer for it on Youtube by unfortunate happenstance.
Seriously, look at the poster. The ever-present trope of the LARGE SAVAGE BLACK is in full play here. This trope has existed since Slavery days and continues to rear its ugly head in various ways, often in an insidious way. Black women are portrayed as large, aggressive, and loud. Black men are big, savage confrontational beasts.
But it doesn’t end there, oh, no.
Upon examining the movie’s plotline at length (a ‘comedy’, if you can call Race War 2017: The Movie a comedy), it is laden with all the sickening tropes the alt-right and the aggressive white racists love.
Aside from the aforementioned tropes, #FistFight doubles down on making sure all the white racists who will no doubt rush to see this flick hate the savage black antagonist by having a white woman (gaaaaaaaaaasp!) be sexually interested in him.
And it’s a doozy. She is portrayed by Christina Hendricks, and is described as ‘intense’, which, of course, means she’s gonna be the oversexed, heavily endowed, curvy, salacious, passionate, insatiable Semiramis that all white women who pursue black men are shown as by the Alt-Right Neo-Fascists. They are not ‘normal’ — they just have to be these weird, sexually insatiable, busty, stacked dynamos of erotic energy. You can get the subtext there — normal, decent, ‘good’ white women do not normally allow themselves to be attracted to black males.
Now, ordinarily, I’d give people the benefit of the doubt and brush this off as just being a stupid comedy movie, but it's just too friggin’ coincidental. The timing is far too sharp.
The themes of this film are far too resonant with the prejudices currently floating around in society.
So, tell me: am I being paranoid and overly sensitive, or does this movie tick all the boxes of the things white supremacists are currently worried about?