EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact
A local dad who reckons he’s sick of all this ‘woke shit’ has admitted that he much prefers to learn about his subconscious racial biases the old fashioned way, which is through comedic side plots in action movies about two people with conflicting personalities overcoming their differences to work together.
A big fan of interracial buddy cop style movies, Phil Biesky, 62, says the subtle weaving of the different lived experiences of two leading characters – from different backgrounds – into storylines is the perfect way for blokes like him to understand. Especially if there’s lots of violence involved.
Though he’ll scoff at most modern movies with a diverse cast, Phil will happily watch learn the lessons he needs to learn from the golden era of buddy cop movies, where the main villains are rich white guys from Russia or Eastern Germany – and the two protagonists are asian and black. Or white and black. Or poor black and rich black.
“There was no tiptoeing around anything. Everybody got made fun of, and everyone got the chance to blow someone’s head off and then immediately crack a one-liner.”
“Nobody got a free pass. That was true diversity!”
While Bill is clearly a reactionary who hates change, he does make a point that the political incorrect jibes that form the foundation of lifelong friendships in movies like Rush Hour – actually does a better job at changing people’s attitudes than getting sacked from their job because they used an outdated adjective in front of a young person.
More to come.
