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The War on Chris Pratt and Where I Go From Here
The War on Chris Pratt and Where I Fit In
This is an introspective 2,000 word aritcle, that is split into two parts. The first is the typical attempt to poke holes at Woke Thought and Cancel Cutlure. The second is an attempt to be introspective on my role in it. If you’ve already read my doing my shtick with the first half, skip along to the second half.
Roxana Hadadi’s review of The Tomorrow War is quite possibly the most offensive thing I’ve ever read from a reviewer. As I’ve written about elsewhere, there have been movie reviews that that ring like public service announcements to remind us of the existence of racism, homophobia and misogyny. There are also tremendous amount of reviewers who use their platform to police any violations of a narrow definition of politically correctness.
But I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a movie critic engineer a reason to hate a movie star simply because he’s white, religious and doesn’t get into his personal politics:
In her opening paragraph, Hadadi, writes:
“I don’t see personal stories that necessarily resonate with me, because they’re not my stories […] The voice of the average, blue-collar American isn’t necessarily represented in Hollywood,” Pratt said. That was a willfully ignorant statement back then, and it still is now.
Please note that this reviewer slams Chris Pratt for what he says in a press junket. These events exist solely for the stars to say positive things about their own projects. The…