Ronald Young Jr.
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I want to go like a bunch of pictures to this film.
I mean, yeah, apparently they're not thinking that all the way through, you know?
It's so funny because you say that.
You mean in the 80s because they would have been doing it for black characters.
Yeah, or women.
Anything that's like sexist or racist.
Oh my God, this person is evil.
Which, to be clear, I don't agree with sexism or racism.
listen, you got to say it these days.
I'm not trying to get canceled on a pop culture happy hour.
To use it as a trope in a film to say, this person's so evil, they can't even accept queer folks.
And I'm like, yo, that's definitely a nuanced stance.
But if you use it as just black and white in films, you actually undercut the importance of acceptance and inclusivity.
And in this film, you definitely do that because
I'm like, they have bigger fish to fry in this film, but you want us to care about this one issue, which of course we do care about, but it adds to the mess.
It just adds to the mess.
I got a simple one.