Hollywood Roundup LVI

1st to Die (2003): Afropean female tells European male cop that he is attractive. Chinese male editor has an European girlfriend who is an aerobics instructor. Predictably, she is killed

CSI: Miami S01E07: An European male stripper is obsessed with an European female and an East Asian female initiates sex with him. She is then concerned about STDs or pregnancy because a condom was not used

Big White Duel E11 (HK): European male with East Asian wife and Eurasian son

Stumptown S01E01: European female sexed by Afropean male

The Good Doctor S03E01: Eurasian female dating Latino male, East Asian male on a dinner date with European female (in background), European male on a date with Latina, Afropean male medical doctor in background

Johnny Bravo: Master Hama hums the tune to Kung Fu Fighting

Walker, Texas Ranger S08E21: Latino drug lord’s brother plans to rape an European female

BlacKkKlansman (2018): Good Hebrewpean character

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011): Eurasian (Cambodian-French) Elodie Yung plays Miriam Wu, the lesbian lover of Swedish female Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara)

Bird Box (2018): East Asian male homosexual, European female sexed by African male

The Gifted S02E02: Native American/Latino male heterosexualization (upper chest nudity, fights multiple males with heavy weapons, was in the US Navy)

Reign of the Supermen (2019): Afropean male PhD engineer, female European U.S president

Truth or Dare (2018): East Asian male homosexual

The Dragon Prince S02E01: Female warrior, S02E05: Warrior queen, African female medical doctor

FBI S02E01: European male on date with East Asian female, East Asian female detective

 

Hollywood Roundup LV

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019): Token overweight, unattractive Filipino bagger vance dates and breaks up with European female, sexualized token Eurasian male likes Afropean female but she instead likes the European male protagonist, European female dating Hebrewpean male, token Muslim female, token Latino, coded “Asian” males temporarily heterosexualized while coded “white” males end up with dates. Even though it is stated that all the females find the Eurasian attractive and want him, there are no scenes with any female showing an active interest in him i.e. there is divergence between statement and actuality.

NCIS Los Angeles S01E01: Two Latino males killed by the police, first shot of European male protoganist is of his unclothed back with scars from multiple bullets followed by his naked chest, Afropean male bagger vance, Afropean director of intelligence agency, European male protoganist displays his superior deductive intelligence over token, less experienced, though highly-intelligent Afropean male agent as well as sidekick Afropean bagger vance, Latino gardeners, Mexican drug cartel, bare chest Afropean male pleads with European male protagonist to save a kidnapped girl, Latino male has child with European female, European male beats up Latino goon, Afropean male beats up two Latino goons.

Friends from College (2017-2019): Created by Francesca Delbanco and Nicholas Stoller, actors Fred Savage, Billy Eichner. East Asian female with multiple European sexmates (Kulture 2019a).

You (2018 – ): Executive producers Les Morgenstein, Sera Gamble, Lee Toland Krieger. Main character Joe Goldberg. Hypersexualized East Asian female (Kulture 2019b).

The Upside (2017): Actor Bryan Cranston and Julianna Margulies, produced by David Bloomfield, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch. Weelchair bound European male played by a Hebrewpean enjoys an East Asian prostitute while his Afropean sidekick enjoys an Afropean prostitute (AznIdentity 2019).

The Geisha Boy (1958): Produced by Joseph Levitch, actress Suzanne Pleshette, Japanese female stows away on a plane to follow her romantic interest, a klutzy European male, played by a Hebrewpean.

Sources:

AznIdentity. 2019. I just saw the Movie “The Upside” with Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart, was the WMAF racist?. r/AznIdentity. https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/bwktqe/i_just_saw_the_movie_the_upside_with_bryan/ [accessed: 2019-08-10].

Kulture. 2019a. “Friends From College” Subverts Some Stereotypes, While Perpetuating Others. Kulture Media. https://www.kulturemedia.org/denigration/friends-from-college-subverts-some-stereotypes-while-perpetuating-others [accessed: 2019-06-19].

Kulture. 2019b. Netflix’s “You” Perpetuates Hollywood’s Sexual Racism. Kulture Media. https://www.kulturemedia.org/denigration/netflixs-you-perpetuates-hollywoods-sexual-racism [accessed: 2019-06-19].

Hollywood Roundup LIV

New Amsterdam S01E10: Three affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors, three affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors, S01E11: Six affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors, pro-African episode complete with racist cop, affirmative action Afropean female medical doctor, S01E12: Seven affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors, eight affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors, token female East Asian medical doctor, five male Haitian oncologists, four female Haitian oncologists, Indo-Aryan male dating European female, S01E13: Two affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors, four affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors, token East Asian male surgeon, S01E14: Indo-Aryan male and Afropean female kissing, six affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors, three affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors, two token East Asian female medical doctors, Indo-Aryan female marries European male, token East Asian male medical doctor, European female has a daughter for an Afropean male, Indo-Aryan male has two children, S01E15: Afropean male and female couple, three affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors, four affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors, Afropean male and European female couple, pro-Catholic propaganda, S01E16: Two affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors, token Latina medical doctor, token East Asian male medical doctor.

The Orville S02E01: Afropean male is referred to as “the girl guru”, European male and female dating, European male lusts after European female, token East Asian male in background, married European male and female couple with son, insinuated future relationship between European male and female, S02E02: Afropean male boasts of his sexual exploits, token East Asian male in sick bay, token East Asian female, S02E05: Two token East Asian males, S02E06: Afropean male dating European female, Afropean female kisses and sexes male European-looking robot, S02E07: Afropean male alien in romance with an European female alien, S02E08: Token East Asian male, S02E11: Afropean non-medical doctor.

American Gods S02E02: Afropean male upper chest nudity, S02E03: Afropean male upper chest nudity, East Asian goddess is fucked by tentacles of Greek god, S02E04: East Asian boy plays piano for his “tiger dad” but rushes to play a game (apparently mom is dead), dad wants to listen to Bach, older boy writing PC program, East Asian father dies, Afropean male heterosexualization (upper chest nudity, sexing female),

S02E05: African male sexes European female, European male sexes European female,

 

 

S02E06: European male heterosexualization (upper chest nudity [x3]), Afropean male heterosexualization (upper chest nudity).

Star Trek Discovery S02E02: Afropean female medical doctor, S02E10: Chinese female states she had wild sex with European and Latino males in another universe’s timeline.

FBI S01E06: Korean/Latina reporter with European surname.

Go for Broke! (1951): Directed and written by Robert Pirosh, producer Isadore Schary, has an European as the main protagonist, “Others have criticized the condescension present in the film’s depictions of the Japanese Americans’ short stature, happy-go-lucky demeanor, and Hawaiian pidgin dialect” (Grubb 2019).

Gung Ho (1986): Screenplay and story by Lowell Ganz, Screenplay by Marc Mandel, story by Edwin Blum, actress Miriam Rogers, “… portrayed Japanese executives as cold, dehumanized money-grubbers” (Rich 2004) and pronounce meat loaf as “meat roaf”.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018): Afropean female married to European male and lusts after his brother, East Asian female in love with European male, Eurasian male who is killed, two Hebrewpean characters, three Hebrewpean actors.

References

• Grubb, A. 2019. Go for Broke! (film). Densho Encyclopedia. http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Go_for_Broke!_(film) [accessed: 2019-01-14]
• Rich, M. 2004. Land Of the Rising Cliché. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/movies/land-of-the-rising-cliche.html [accessed: 2019-01-14]

Top Dog, Black Threat and Japanese Cats

Locke, B. 1998. “Top Dog,” “Black Threat,” and “Japanese Cats”: The
Impact of the White-Black Binary on Asian-American Identity. Radical
Philosophy Review 1(2): 98-125.

“There is no such thing as an Asian-American man in post-World War II U.S. popular culture.”

“… [East] Asian male figures must be coded as foreign, acting as a solvent that dissolves differences between white and black so that the pair might forge a tighter bond.”

“Rising Sun’s narrative cannot admit of any sort of masculine figure that is both Asian and American.”

COMMENTARY: Due to a large section of Communist propaganda about the poor treatment of Afropeans, the US government was forced to implement positive social policies in an attempt to preserve its worldwide exceptionalism narrative of a freedom promoting democracy. Afropean-European brotherhood (as shown in buddy films e.g. Lethal Weapon, Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3, Lethal Weapon 4, The Defiant Ones, Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills Cop II, Casablanca, Silver Streak, Stir Crazy, 48 Hrs, Another 48 Hrs, Running Scared, Blazing Saddles, Trading Places, White Nights, Firewalker, Silverado, Enemy Mine, Cop Out, Training Day, Men in Black, Men in Black II, Die Hard, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Miami Vice, Cop and a Half, The Last Boy Scout, In the Heat of the Night, Silver Streak, The Shawshank Redemption, The Money Train, Rocky series, Nighthawks, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, White Nights, Cry Freedom, Grand Canyon, White Men Can’t Jump, An Officer and a Gentleman, Green Book) is then seen as the primary constituents of US national identity. This is a re-working to the earlier subservient sidekick propaganda used to control indigenous Americans (Tonto), Afropeans (Stepin Fetchit, Eddie Anderson, Tom caricature, Mammy caricature) and East Asians (Hop Sing, Kato, houseboy/manservant). The indigenous American is dismissed from the US national narrative as a primitive isolationist and the East Asian is used to cement the Afro-Euro(pean) bond of unity and stability as Afropeans represent the largest, anti-European antagonistic group i.e. the most dangerous to a stable prosperous Euro-US nation.

The US Afropean’s destiny is now mystically chained to the US European’s destiny so that the Afropean is best served by working with the European in nation building. To aid this, a common enemy is conveniently provided in the East Asian and further exploited by media fear-mongering of an imminent foreign economic Japan and China peril. In other words, the problem is not domestic racism but foreign economic aggression which Locke argues is embodied “as [East] Asian, male and foreign” as depicted in the movie Rising Sun (1993). To this end, East Asian males represent the social glue that binds US Afro-Euro(peans) in a common purpose and necessitates an ‘othering’ narrative. This media ‘othering’ narrative is perpetuated through Euro-Semitic ‘disgust theology’ such as culinary stereotypes (eating rats, cats, dogs, MSG scare), physical stereotypes (short stature, yellow skinned, skinny, buck-teeth, small genitalia, low testosterone, hairless body, slant eyes), cultural stereotypes (dirty, hard working, scheming, automatons, patriarchal, intelligent, hive-minded), and functional stereotypes (bad drivers, repulsive lovers, poor sportsmen, non-complainers, non-confrontational, good servicemen [technologists, engineers, scientists, doctors]).

In Rising Sun (1993), the Japanese stand-in for all East Asians are:

1. A sexual threat to European females
2. An economic threat to Afropeans
3. A national threat to US Afro-Euro(peans)

Locke argues that the film presents the logic that “… those who are hurt most by the Japanese corporation’s dirty dealings are America’s black citizens.”

Recent and present day US anti-Chinese hysteria is part and parcel of US state demonization of East Asian masculinity to remedy its home-grown Afropean slavery-Jim Crow issues. This temporary ‘remedy’ will result in increased Afro-Euro(pean) hatred of East Asian masculinity and US East Asian males will continue their cycle of extreme self-hate with simultaneous model-minority over-achievement. Affirmative action against East Asians in tertiary education access and media representation to primarily favour Afro-Euro(peans) is yet another example of ethno-pacification just as internment was used to pacify Europeans who could not compete with superior Japanese agricultural prowess and the Chinese Exclusion Act pacified Europeans who could not compete with a superior Chinese work ethic.

Locke argues that Rising Sun (1993) presents the Afropean ghetto as “the last line of defense against the Japanese.” This can be taken to mean that Afropeans are primarily tasked with defending the US nation against aggressive foreigners (i.e. East Asian males). Given that wealth is coded as “white” and poverty as “black”, East Asians are portrayed as not ‘black’ but as the only type of ‘white’ towards which US Afropeans can validly vent repressed ethnic rage, leaving the European unscathed. Furthermore, Latinos are coded as ‘black’ due to their poverty and loose ‘alliance’ with Afropeans so that East Asian males are the ‘pacifying glue’ to securely bond Afro-Euro-Latino(peans) in US nation building. Locke gives examples of assimilated East Asian female media characters but East Asian males are depicted as those for which assimilation is impossible.

PREDICTION: An increase of anti-East Asian sentiment mainly from US Afro-Latino(peans) with reactionary push-back inclusive of racism and legal action as well as increasing mental health issues affecting US East Asian males and rampant US East Asian female miscegenation. Societies with similar US-oriented cultures (Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Western Europe) will most likely follow this pattern adapted to their local context.

Hollywood Roundup LIII

New Amsterdam (2018) S01E01: European male heterosexualization (pregnant European wife), affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors [x3], affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x7], European female doctor wants to sex Afropean male doctor, South Asian male medical doctor, East Asian female medical doctor [x2], S01E02: Affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors [x3], affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x3], S01E03: Affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x10], affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors [x3], token East Asian male medical doctors [x2], female Latina doctor [x1], S01E04: European male heterosexualization (upper chest nudity), affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x7], affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors [x1], token East Asian male medical doctors [x1], Latino medical doctor, token female East Asian medical doctor, S01E05: Affirmative action male medical doctors [x9], Afro/Latino SJW episode, S01E06: Affirmative action male medical doctors [x3], token Japanese male billionaire, pro-LGBT SJW episode, S01E07: Afropean male heterosexualization (dating Afropean female), affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x6], affirmative action Afropean female medical doctor [x1], token East Asian male medical doctor, S01E08: European male heterosexualization (upper chest nudity, Afropean female looks at European males as sperm donors), male protagonist may have Hebrew ancestry, affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x5], Chinese mother refuses to accept that her daughter is a depressive suicidal, affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors [x3], token East male medical doctors [x2], token East Asian female medical doctor, Hebrewpean rabbi peddling positive story of child sacrifice,

S01E09: Affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x5], affirmative action Afropean female medical doctor [x1], heterosexualized South Asian male medical doctor (invites Afropean female on a date), token East Asian male medical doctor.

The Resident S02E01: European male and female kissing in shower, Afropean male says that a “half-Asian girl” has a “thing for him”, affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x3], affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors [x4], European male and female have sex, S01E02: Token East Asian female medical doctor, affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors [x4], affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x4], token East Asian male medical doctor, S02E03: Affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x4], S02E04: Affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors [x3], affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x4], European male heterosexualization (billionaire “most eligible bachelor”), S02E05: Affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors [x4], affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x6], S02E06: Affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors, affirmative action Afropean female medical doctor, European male heterosexualization (upper chest nudity dressed as Tarzan, instantly attracts European female, kissing European female, sexing European female, in bed with European female), Afropean male heterosexualization (upper chest nudity, kissing European female),

S02E07: Token East Asian female medical doctor, Afropean male with Korean wife and kids, affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x3], affirmative action Afropean female medical doctor, South Asian male kisses European female, S02E08: Afropean male heterosexualization (upper chest nudity, in bed with Afropean female, attracted to Afropean female), defective imported Chinese products, affirmative action Afropean male medical doctors [x5], affirmative action Afropean female medical doctors [x4], S02E09: Affirmative action Afropean male medical doctor, token Eurasian male medical doctor.