I guess it depends on your perspective going in. I love this movie. I have probably watched it 40 times, but I always noticed what I saw as a leftist, socialist bias. The greedy landlord is the classic symbol.
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I guess it depends on your perspective going in. I love this movie. I have probably watched it 40 times, but I always noticed what I saw as a leftist, socialist bias. The greedy landlord is the classic symbol.
They have no standard of right and wrong, or for morality whatsoever. I assume "bigotry" is "bad?" But to them, the concept of bad about as relevant as preference in ice cream flavors. They like chocolate and I prefer vanilla—so what?
Since it's all arbitrary for them, just call them bigots too and go on with your day 🤷
I mean, some academic departments just boil down to "Everything is racist", so this is just on brand for them
There is no racism.
"This thing that you like is actually bad and bigoted"
Whaaat else is new?!
There's no question it was socialist (doesn't change my love for it, but definitely informed what Capra did with the movie). I think the "racism" is more "it's a film from that time," not so much because of the music stuff the article talks about, but because you're just not going to see a film featuring black people as a part of white society during a time when things were segregated.
Capra was complicated (he was also incredibly antisemitic -- his autobiography literally straight-up blames Jews for his problems), but damned talented.
Bigotry is wonderful, merry Christmas!