SJW Alert: HuffPo Pens 'Open Letter to Tim Burton From a Black Fangirl'
Burton is just another "willfully ignorant Hollywood disappointment of a man with a boner for whiteness and Eurocentrism."
10.3.2016
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Last week, director Tim Burton fell under the sword of "Social Justice Warriors" for allegedly not having enough "people of color" in his films, despite the fact that his movies always center on freaks and outcasts on society's fringes.
Since Burton didn't feel like kowtowing to the Marxists among us, he refused to apologize for this non-offense by saying that a movie should be cast based on inspiration, not ideological agendas. The Coen Brothers filmmakers agree with thissentiment.
Less than a week later, HuffPo has now published "An Open Letter to Tim Burton from Black Fangirl," a letter so unintelligible the author doesn't even know the proper definition of a "blaxploitation" flick. Let's unpack this one, shall we?
The letter's author, DeLa Doll, begins her SJW splurge by furiously telling Mr. Burton he "just pissed in my cereal" before lamenting how she now sees him as "just another out-of-touch, willfully ignorant Hollywood disappointment of a man with a boner for whiteness and Eurocentrism."
Keep in mind that Miss Doll, presuming that's her real name, is pushing this label on the director of EdwardScissorhands and Ed Wood, both films about freakish outcasts unaccepted by mainstream society. None of that matters to Miss Doll, and frankly, the entire left, because diversity only matters to them if Burton's merry band of misfits come in fifty shades of non-white.
"Timmy, my guy, you had to go and cough on my food," she writes. Fart by my sleeping face. Why couldn’t you just… not say anything? Why did you have to go and pull the whole 'anti-PC' bullshit that so many other disappointments and headaches use when they don’t want to confront their own prejudices and the reality of the world?"
Doll was, of course, addressing comments made by Burton during an interview with Bustle where he laughed off the SJW accusation by saying the following:
Things either call for things, or they don’t. I remember back when I was a child watching ‘The Brady Bunch’ and they started to get all politically correct, like, Okay, let’s have an Asian child and a black – I used to get more offended by that than just – I grew up watching blaxploitation movies, right? And I said, ‘That’s great.’ I didn’t go like, ‘Okay, there should be more white people in these movies.
For some reason, this deeply offended Miss Doll, mostly because of his use of "blaxploitation" movies as an example, which begs an important question: did anyone at HuffPo cross-check this article before publishing? Because the author has no clue what "blaxploitation" films were or who made them.
"You found the addition of black and Asian cast members to 'The Brady Bunch' more offensive than the often wildly offensive portrayals of black people in blaxploitation flicks?" she ragingly asks. "Flicks that wouldn’t have even been made if Hollywood wasn’t so fucking racist and weird when it came to diversity and fairness in casting in the first place?"
Not to condescend you, Miss Doll, but a simple Wikipedia search and maybe an extra 10 minutes on IMDB would show you that those "blaxploitation" flicks were actually made by black people for black people.
Another fact that Miss Doll and various other leftists criticizing Burton have gotten wrong is the assertion that Samuel L. Jackson's role in Burton's most recent Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is the first for a black actor in one of his films. Not true. That title goes to Billy Dee Williams playing Harvey Dent in 1989's Batman, and to Miss Doll's surprise, no doubt, Harvey Dent was actually a white man in the comic books. That means the racist, "Eurocentric" Tim Burton actually flipped the race of one of Batman's most iconic characters to cast Williams in the role. No mention of that anywhere in the letter, but there's plenty of this:
I feel that you’re a fraud because nothing is more typical than a clueless white man who treats diversity like a chore. Nothing is more boring, more common, more bland and expected than an old white guy who acts like people wanting to see themselves reflected in media is an [sic] nuisance or a problem as a [sic] opposed to a pretty reasonable desire.Please hand in your weirdo card. Please give back the label of eccentricity and outlandishness that you’ve branded yourself with. You don’t deserve, [sic] it dude.
Doll finishes off her letter by whining how she feels "isolated and alone" for not seeing enough black people in movies or TV shows, ignoring that Netflix just recently released the comic book show Luke Cage with a black actor in the title role. But even if no such show existed, Doll would still place her sense of well-being on the shoulders of Tim Burton rather than on herself, which she readily admits.
"Seeing more than just white character after white character with a few superfluous or negative black characters thrown in could have helped me feel less alone when I needed it," she concludes.
This is not healthy, and HuffPo should be ashamed for publishing it, because at the very beginning of her letter, Doll admits she once spent time in the psych ward after a failed suicide attempt. By concluding with the phrase "when I needed it," HuffPo and Doll are actually placing some of the responsibility for Doll's attempted suicide on alleged "lack of diversity" in Burton's films.
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