Dear White People (2014)
Living in the post-modern world has proven to be quite challenging. If keeping up with fleeting of information and the changing of fashions is hard enough, try being politically correct. It would drain out the last ounce of strength in you. It seems that people these days are all so fragile and can easily cringe like mimosa pudica the moment we hear something remotely unsavoury.
If you use a word that feels benign enough not to offend anyone, the same people would turn around and tell you that by skirting around the issue, you are actually promoting discrimination. For example by using a sex-neutral pronoun, one may allege that we are accentuating the divide!
This film is a satire on the above subject. It is a bold attempt to put in the open, the dilemmas that the Ameican blacks that go through in their day to day interactions with the other. It portrays identity issues surrounding black students amongst themselves, with white students and with authority in a fictitious Ivy-League type of University.
There are many youtube clips of a Canadian Professor in Psychology, Jordan Peterson, who has been creating such a stir in the net. Netizens are saying that he is a zealot and male chauvinist pig. What he is essentially saying is "don't whine or demand pity on your helplessness but do something on your situation!" In many of his presentations, he had created such a furore in highlighting the ludicrous nature of the modern society in wanting to use the right things and the need not to offend.
Watch how Prof Peterson keeps his cool and his words well crafted in this BBC Channel 4 high-strung interview with Cathy Newmann who battles it out on gender pay gap and gender equality.
If you use a word that feels benign enough not to offend anyone, the same people would turn around and tell you that by skirting around the issue, you are actually promoting discrimination. For example by using a sex-neutral pronoun, one may allege that we are accentuating the divide!
This film is a satire on the above subject. It is a bold attempt to put in the open, the dilemmas that the Ameican blacks that go through in their day to day interactions with the other. It portrays identity issues surrounding black students amongst themselves, with white students and with authority in a fictitious Ivy-League type of University.
There are many youtube clips of a Canadian Professor in Psychology, Jordan Peterson, who has been creating such a stir in the net. Netizens are saying that he is a zealot and male chauvinist pig. What he is essentially saying is "don't whine or demand pity on your helplessness but do something on your situation!" In many of his presentations, he had created such a furore in highlighting the ludicrous nature of the modern society in wanting to use the right things and the need not to offend.
Watch how Prof Peterson keeps his cool and his words well crafted in this BBC Channel 4 high-strung interview with Cathy Newmann who battles it out on gender pay gap and gender equality.
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