Insane: Professor Says ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ has ‘bigoted’ ideas
The College Fix reports that, according to a Carleton University professor, the beloved Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” has “secret racial and bigoted” messages.
In the publication ‘The Conversation,’ which is taxpayer subsidized, a Professor makes the absurd contention, “Some depictions of music and sound beg analysis around how these reflect racist ideas about ‘proper’ musical, social, and community norms.”
This Carelton professor, who seems to see racism and bigotry everywhere where it’s not found, claims, “A key concerning aspect to the music heard in It’s a Wonderful Life revolves around the portrayal of Black musical forms and practitioners.”
At the iconic Bedford Falls dance, the band plays three songs, including African American pianist and composer Johnson’s “Charleston,” which is performed by a White band.
As American journalism professor Sam Freedman notes in a podcast on Whiteness and racism in America, the town features predominantly White citizens apart from a stereotypical depiction of a Black housekeeper in the Bailey family.
This professor even takes issue with the town of “Pottersville,” where the “alternative universe” is set.
The race-baiting professor claims, “The quaint main street is overrun by nightclubs and full of bright lights. Through Pottersville, the film projects a sense of moral degradation. While negatively portraying jazz practised by Black artists, the film simultaneously draws upon and appropriates Black musical forms as necessary and key to popular American life but in a White-controlled version.”
He then tries to ruin the movie by claiming, “Maybe we can appreciate the film on a deeper level, when we consider its varied and competing narratives around music, race, class and belonging.”
Another professor, writing for the same tax-subsidized publication, claimed what horrifies George Bailey, the central character, the most about Pottersville is how desensitized the people living in it seem to be to its harshness and cruelty – how they treat him like he’s the crazy, deranged one for wanting and expecting things to be different and better.
She even makes a reference to President Trump, since Trump Derangement Syndrome affects even how liberals view classics like It’s a Wonderful Life.
Sadly, some people are not capable of enjoying a classic American film without resorting to race-baiting and Trump derangement syndrome.
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