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you can be oppressed, and still promote and maintain the very same systems of oppression onto other marginalized people. being oppressed in one dimension doesn't allow you to be exempt from oppressing in other dimensions. the "villain" of the movie, remmick, being from the time period of the english colonization of ireland, all the while wanting to take a piece of sammie's own culture from him, use him for it. and this plot point coming after remmick witnesses the significance of sammie's playing within his culture, for his ancestors and how it would shape Black culture in the future.

even in today's society, ive noticed that people treat Black people like a commodity. our worth is only as much as other people decide it to be, and that's usually dependent on how much the oppressor can take from us. for example, the controversy of"internet slang" and how it is blatantly just AAVE with a bad disguise on

do you listen to Black musicians? do you watch Black movies? do you engage with Black creators? do you defend the racist tendencies you notice in your friends, in your family, or do you stay silent? do you listen when Black people tell you you've said or done something racist? do you actually care about not being racist, or do you just not want to look like you're racist?

i just think people have a very specific take on what racism is, and that if they're not committing KKK-levels of violence on people, then they're not racist. or if you've experienced oppression in one form, you cannot possibly be engaging with oppression in another form. but the ways in which we interact with other people and the world will always be through the lens of race, because that is simply what it means for oppression to be systemic, especially in the US and our current political climate

racism handled in these movies are exactly this way they challenge a sort of "everyday" person to look inward. movies about racism made by well-meaning liberals always have the white people who are bad and white people who are good. the greater trend of systemic racism and white supremacy get ignored in favor of the ideals of that a system that benefits these people can be fixed to 'accommodate'.

nuanced issues such as what op highlighted above really only can be handled by black creatives and why sinners' and similar projects' outstanding successes are about why we need to talk about the people behind them as much as the content.

you can be oppressed, and still promote and maintain the very same systems of oppression onto other marginalized people. being oppressed in one dimension doesn't allow you to be exempt from oppressing in other dimensions. the "villain" of the movie, remmick, being from the time period of the english colonization of ireland, all the while wanting to take a piece of sammie's own culture from him, use him for it. and this plot point coming after remmick witnesses the significance of sammie's playing within his culture, for his ancestors and how it would shape Black culture in the future.

even in today's society, ive noticed that people treat Black people like a commodity. our worth is only as much as other people decide it to be, and that's usually dependent on how much the oppressor can take from us. for example, the controversy of"internet slang" and how it is blatantly just AAVE with a bad disguise on

do you listen to Black musicians? do you watch Black movies? do you engage with Black creators? do you defend the racist tendencies you notice in your friends, in your family, or do you stay silent? do you listen when Black people tell you you've said or done something racist? do you actually care about not being racist, or do you just not want to look like you're racist?

i just think people have a very specific take on what racism is, and that if they're not committing KKK-levels of violence on people, then they're not racist. or if you've experienced oppression in one form, you cannot possibly be engaging with oppression in another form. but the ways in which we interact with other people and the world will always be through the lens of race, because that is simply what it means for oppression to be systemic, especially in the US and our current political climate

Blonde Blazer cuts one of the members in the team to send a message when one of the two candidates for cutting, Coupé, makes a comment about how she needs this job, implying she could really suffer if she gets cut, and this is never really challenged! like it's not considered a blemish on Blazer's character at all and she doesn't even bring up how messed up that was for her to do when the cut member reappears on Shroud's team. not to mention, they tell you straight up that SDN responds to subscribers' calls for Dispatch, meaning you have to be paying a subscription service in order to be helped by SDN's heroes - a really interesting facet that i thought would come up in a way where at some point you'd have to make one of those Moral Choices In Video Games where Robert or one of the heroes out on dispatch notices someone who isn't a subscriber needing help, but since they're not subscribed, corporate would tell them not to engage, and you'd get the choice to obey or do the right thing. hell, a way that they could've made Invisigal at all endearing instead of making her one of the most insufferable characters i've ever seen put to screen would be to have her be someone that would go "screw that noise i'm helping this one out", maybe giving some hints that she was poor in her upbringing by having her help out other poor people who can't afford the service or maybe even just someone who doesn't want SDN to put surveillance in their house. i mean she's the invisibility powered character, i feel like she'd be the nr 1 candidate for a character to go "this whole surveillance thing SDN has got going on is fucked up".

but no! there's no tension at all, the game is so disinterested in actually using its own premise and setting beyond having vague gestures at a Found Family or whatever - i don't think it ticks the found family boxes either but it seems like the kind of buzzword they'd use anyways, so. whatever. like even on a smaller stupider scale, Dispatch is just a hypocritical dull mess, like how it has Invisigal claim that she'd be doing the pegging (in another unnecessary sexual comment towards a guy who has been refusing her advances for four episodes at that point) but in her dream, that is not even the case! they already showed that is not the case! it wants to suggest at being a little Subversive and Transgressive by making little cheeky comments, but doesn't actually commit to it and thus ends up remaining extremely vanilla throughout the game's run-time. it's trite hetslop that everyone keeps uplifting like it's some kind of golden standard of writing and also somehow queer because it had the gall to apparently have the lgbtq tag. even people i otherwise trust the opinions of end up liking it, to the point where i'm starting to wonder if it is somehow hypnotizing people into liking it.