āCoastal elitesā are in a bubble. So are white working-class Americans. See the full story (and the rest of Patrickās tweets)Ā here.Ā
Actually, I would like to say – since I am also in the rural Red Zone – that while heās right about this part of the country being like 99 percent white with a power structure heavily slanted toward ādudeā, the answer isnāt going to be āthey need to get out moreā because, frankly, they canāt.
Lemme put it to you like this: Iām in a Town. If youāre on the coast, youād consider my Town to be a badly dislocated suburb. One. Suburb. It has one starbucks. One mcdonalds. One (small) strip mall. Iād have to travel 30 miles to get a full service FedEx place or bookstore. Iād have to drive a hundred miles to get to a City, and quite a bit more than that to reach a Major City. āget out moreā, for what you want, would involve basically taking a vacation because itād be at least 12 hours of driving. And on minimum wage (which is nearly all the jobs out here) vacations are few and far between.
And therefore my response to you is this: REPRESENTATION MATTERS. You know what people around here use to see the rest of the world? TV. Thatās what. And if all your villains are foreigners, or non white, and all your good guys are straight white dudes, there is nothing in the world hereabouts to contradict that. Thatās what we see because there sure arenāt a lot of non-white, non-straight, non-christian types here. What people here know of all that diversity they get from hollywood.
You want to teach the locals that black people arenāt all thugs? Cast more black heros and romantic leads. You want to teach them that muslims arenāt all terrorists? Start making a point of representing them more positively in oh, I donāt know, everything?
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