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Publishing, cinema, series... The new cultural diktats

2023-05-19T05:20:12.567Z

Highlights: Wokism and cancel culture are becoming increasingly important in literature, film and television. The phenomenon is mostly American, but French readers and spectators are also suffering the effects. During a recent interview with Bret Easton Ellis, star of American letters, author, among others, of American Psycho, a journalist asked him what he thought of the presence of blacks, gays or Hispanics in new creations in Hollywood. "What should matter is hiring the best actors. I don't care if so-and-so is gay or another black person," he said.


Wokism and cancel culture are becoming increasingly important in literature, film and television. The phenomenon is mostly American, but French readers and spectators are also suffering the effects...


The Germans and Russians had already understood it in the 1930s: societal upheavals pass through culture, more precisely through its control. The totalitarianisms of the twentieth century have all but disappeared. Another has been emerging in the United States for a few decades. Less brutal, but more sneaky. The most delusional ideas are born in universities, then spread worldwide via new and very powerful propaganda weapons, multiplied by the Internet: TV series and cinema, in which all "minorities" must be present. During a recent interview with Bret Easton Ellis, star of American letters, author, among others, of American Psycho, a journalist asked him what he thought of the presence of blacks, gays (Ellis is gay) or Hispanics in new creations in Hollywood. "What should matter is hiring the best actors. I don't care if so-and-so is gay or another black person," he said.

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Source: lefigaro

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