Banks' gaffe here is textbook Callout Gone Wrong. Her core point is salvageable and valid if she'd just put some thought into ithttps://twitter.com/johnlkenney/status/875376234942930944 …
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This is an Internet trope now, "Beware the Lazy Callout", where you just shoot from the hip at a tempting target
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And find out you accidentally hit a bunch of hot button issues you weren't aiming at
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Like you actually still can critique Spielberg for this -- about how in his body of work The Color Purple is an exception in centering BW
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One that he made when he was specifically seeking to prove his credibility as an artist taking on "tough challenges"
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And that most of the time the easier thing for him to default to is making movies around white male leads
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The existence of TCP adds to that point, it doesn't detract from it -- but that doesn't fit as neatly into a blurb
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You could bring that up -- that TCP is a "heavy" movie about "issues", and the "fun" movies are all about white ppl
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You know, that he made a movie abt BW experiencing poverty and sexual assault but didn't think of having BW fight dinosaurs or aliens ever
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