The old man spoke up for the red-necked rightists and the white fat men. Weeping blood. Movies are smart and moving. I'm so upset about Jewell. I can see the traditional prejudice against red neck whites in this society. I have to admit that I personally have this kind of prejudice, and it is more serious. Especially in the two years that Trump has been in power, he thinks that they are of low quality, uneducated, stupid and ignorant, stubborn and conservative, racist, and so on. If I didn't stop, I could probably say an entire chapter. If you complain with Asian or liberal friends, it probably takes a meal and a drink. Before watching this movie, I knew that I had a prejudice, but it was a vague prejudice that I didn't want to face. Trump's series of almost paranoid policies towards international students and migrant workers before 2020, as well as the anti-intellectual image of the red-necked, white-fat man that he typically advertises, including himself and his supporters, make me feel almost Gritting disgust. Red-necked, those peasants I sincerely think are ignorant groups blindfolded: Trump’s countless anti-intellectual remarks, chewing those words of China Virus without limit in twitter; countless news reports about them in the new crown During the party during the epidemic, I rode a Harley-Davidson motorcycle without a mask (it can be said to be the red neck among the red necks). I think I'm right, and even now I don't think there's anything wrong with my ideas, because I support women's right to have a free abortion, and I support racial equality, love, and peace.
Detective Shawn in the movie is probably the same, at least nominally on the side of the so-called justice and progress. He represents the FBI, the federal government. The federal government under the Democrats must have been liberal and radical when Clinton was in office in 1996. The Democratic Party has a false name, but nominally it is still on the side of progressive ideas. Georgia, where the bombing occurred, is a very typical southern state. Although it has turned blue after 20 years in the 2020 election (but it is also almost the same as blue and red), it was still a very conservative state in 1996. the southern states. And the male lead, our Richard Jewell, who, as the lawyer says, fits the stereotype of all our red necks. Lots of guns, love to shoot, being fat, living with my mother… blah blah blah, even fiction might be too fake to write like that, but it’s the truth, it’s so dramatic. Only we, as bystanders, who have seen all the incidents from all angles, know that Richard and his mother are just a kind and simple ordinary family. They have nothing to do with racism, pedophilia, etc. (In the movie Dongmu used homosexuality to express a negative stereotype, I think this is also a prejudice of Dongmu's old rightists). The overwhelming attacks by FBI detectives and reporters do not know how much harm they have brought to the innocent, heroic Jewell family. Put yourself in his shoes, how chilling Richard should be. He believes in justice and order from beginning to end, and dreams of returning to the industry of Law enforcement to maintain social order and justice. He also worked hard and scored 98 points in marksmanship. He insisted that he had found the bomb, but in the end he was slandered as a bomber, and even died at the age of 44. His mother also believed that the society's stigmatization of him had put too much pressure on him and let him die. As bystanders, watching this movie, we are angry, we are resentful, we clench our fists, we want to speak out for the misunderstood conservative group, we rage against the hypocrisy of the Liberal Democrats.
That's what Toki probably wanted. He made a movie and he basically told the story as it was, telling us that conservatives were demonized and they were actually kind and down-to-earth people. In New York, where liberals reign in LA, there is hypocrisy and pomp. These people standing in high places, such as police detectives, wear high-end suits, talk beautifully, look sleek and handsome, but in fact their hearts are dirty, and they are vulnerable to all kinds of temptations.
But, but, should we stop fighting against old-fashioned ideas? Should America allow legal gun ownership? Just because there is such a Richard who likes order and peace, should we ignore so many school massacres in the United States because we can carry guns? Should the United States continue to condone conservatives who oppose female abortion, and allow so many racially discriminatory white conservatives to guard their own white culture and think that black culture and Asian culture are foreign cultural invasions? It is true that there are good people like Richard among conservatives, but this does not mean that our ignorant and old-fashioned impression of the white red neck group is groundless. No one was wearing a mask at Trump's rally, and holding MAGA aloft was the effect of clearly appearing under the camera. Those old-fashioned white people whose lack of cultural knowledge makes them mistakenly believe that their interests are being violated by foreign immigrants, which led to the construction of a wall on the US-Mexico border, the deportation of refugees, and the separation of many Mexican refugee children from their parents are all of these. Those conservative whites, things that stand for as a group. Many, some, most of them are not Richard, but what we've seen in America's crazy 2020. Shawn's prejudice against Richard is also because there have been two or three similar bombings before, and the perpetrator is the one who found the bomb.
Therefore, what we should condemn is to measure him with an inherent prejudice against a certain person, an individual, especially before the law. But our condemnation is not against those old-fashioned, outdated ideas. In Richard Jewell's case, it was the FBI and the police who were at fault. As public investigators, they made unfounded guesses about the parties in the absence of evidence because of their inherent impression. Obviously, they already have the same iron evidence. Richard can't rush to the phone booth to make a call within 1 minute. They have not abandoned their prejudice against Richard and racked their brains to prove that Richard is the bomber. It is the media that is at fault, they ignore the facts, fan the flames, and cause irreparable harm to the Richard family. These are what we are going to see. Before the law, we must be fair and without prejudice, and we must do our best to ensure the freedom and interests of everyone.
Richard was not persecuted as a rightist. He was persecuted by society's inherent prejudice against fat white men who liked to play with guns. We can't condemn the impression that Richard looks like a bomber when he sees him. What we want to condemn is that reason is dominated by this stereotype, because of this stereotype, it is impossible to really know Richard and recognize the arrogance of his kind nature.
Even the concept of stereotype itself is to some extent beneficial to the development of our species. If in real life, people with appearances like Richard are a little wary at first to protect themselves. Most people, or some people with his characteristics, are more or less dangerous. These are derived from our social experience, not something brainwashed into. In America sometimes some white homeless on the street does go crazy and it's kind of scary. Some shootings have also cropped up. But in the process of interacting with such people from the shallower to the deeper, we cannot let these prejudices become barriers in our hearts. More, we should use reason to judge what kind of person the other person is, instead of using prejudice and stereotypes to make a one-size-fits-all approach. For a group with an inherent impression, we can only say that we try to understand them as much as possible. Most of the white and red-necked groups are also kind. I can understand that they think their interests are being violated, they only see foreign labor finding jobs in the United States, and their wages are gradually decreasing, but what they cannot see is that their previous repetitive work and high wages are based on the absolute global hegemony of the United States and financial hegemony over other countries. Those people are just ignorant, not evil. Butts decide heads, and we understand them doesn't mean we want to support them. As an individual, we still have to do our best to safeguard our own interests, or to safeguard what we think is right, such as protecting the environment, such as fighting global warming. After all, other groups are doing their best to protect their own interests. We cannot get rid of our personal limitations, and the limitations of our personal vision determine that each of us must be biased. Only when each of us actively thinks, introspects, and insists on what we think is correct, can we have a dynamic balance in the overall situation, let the world develop in a healthy direction, and let the real progress and correct things win the final victory.
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