Elvis and the Non-Existent Cultural Appropriation Debate

There is no way that Baz Luhrmann could make Elvis and not get criticism for issues relating to race. If he includes B.B. King and Little Richard in his film, he will get accused of only paying lip-service to them. He’ll be accused of making a white savior film (a poorly employed catch-all for films that critics don’t like). If Luhrmann makes a film that shows Elvis grovelling to his Black friends for being famous while they’re not, well that wouldn’t be historically accurate, but who cares about that? Certainly not Paul Thompson of The Ringer who felt the King’s mourning of MLK Jr was “clumsy” despite it being taken from a verbatim quote. In other words, a movie about Elvis Presley somehow does a service to its figure by not having him be anti-racist enough.

Bill Maher, a talk show host who is always bold in calling out the absurdity of wokeness, recently had a popular clip clip:
New Rule: The What Were You Thinking Generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugLbotr1RuQ

In it, he says, “You can’t blame people for being woke 30 years before being woke was a thing”

We are living in unprecedented times of idiocy (make no mistake: the right is destroying the country politically) where a certain idiotic class of mostly white activists are not doing…