(December 27, 2020 at 2:43 am)Lawz Wrote: When visiting an activism meeting last year I was struck by the organiser's shameless usage of the phrase "middle age white men" as being the source of the world's ills. Given the context of the fact the villains in virtually every film/series of the last....er...25? Years have been overwhelmingly middle age white men, perhaps that organiser's ageist, racist, sexist views are understandable...to a degree (which they doubtless lacked, by my reckoning)...but no, not really...surely...thoughts AF?
I don't know about TV shows I mean the currently most popular TV show, The Mandalorian, features a black middle aged man as a villain.
But you know how it is: it is usually the privileged middle aged white men who run everything from religion, presidency, Senate, Congress, army, the Fortune 500; the wizards behind Hollywood and five-hundred-channel TV... so when the shit hits the fan people start asking if perhaps diversity would fix things.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
