I got a friend who’s MAGA and I’ve been talking to her about her politics for a bit and she’s willing to hear me out on my concerns. It’s also black history month, and she knows nothing about black history.
I wanna watch a movie with her or a documentary that dives into modern-day racism without explicitly putting down MAGA/conservatives. My goal is not to insult her or make her feel bad, it’s to educate her, hence why I’m asking.
(Please let me know if something I’ve said is problematic or offensive in some kinda way? Sometimes I word things badly or I will ask things that arent okay and I dont realize it until I hit post, lemme know so I can correct myself for the future thankyuuuu ;w;)
I would highly recommend Blue Bayou, it’s about a Korean-American man in Louisiana raised by adoptive parents, but never got the proper paperwork to be considered a citizen. Amazing film, had me tearing up.
unlikely if you cant target the root of the problems, they would just call things woke. your basically saying changing thier mind without offending them, they are easily offended.
if shes willing to look at MLK, m. and the civil rights movement.
Make sure she is actually interested in watching or learning more. It can come off as very preachy and grandiose what you’re doing.
The Perfect Neighbor on Netflix had me in tears. About a black mother who was killed in Florida by someone trying to claim Stand Your Ground laws
“Jesus Camp” is just a dive into evangelical child indoctrination camps, in the George W Bush era. One scene has this prayer circle of children praying to a cardboard cutout of W.
It’s arguably not constructive, but I’d say it’s more a mirror to reflect towards a MAGA viewer “Look - this is you now.”
The preacher in that doc, screaming about the gays? Got caught smoking meth in a cheap motel room with a couple of gay prostitutes.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
I wouldn’t condone meth use or hypocrisy. But the rest is fine.
That looks like a good one too
Related: Marjoe, is a 1970s Oscar winner for best documentary about a child preacher, Baptist preaching, the money involved in the preaching/god industry, and to a degree clearly exposed the raw core of manipulation inherent. It’s a documentary so doesn’t come straight out and say it, so it could be interpreted differently perhaps by a strong religious conservative. It’s a fantastic exposé.
Honestly some of the Michael moore movies; Roger and me might hit different for some of those folks now that they’re suffering the continued effects of wealth concentration that is so flagrantly and unashamedly happening. Sicko will probaby hit many folks across the aisle as the issue is universal. Bowling for Columbine might be interesting depending on if they are a gun nut.
The atomic cafe is in my top 5 movies of any genre. It’s not just about arms proliferation, it pulls together a ton of cultural pieces and shows how naive, propagandized, and horrible a nascent fascist nation began post WWII.
Before you try to educate someone else, I suggest you educate yourself first (because this is a really hairy terrain to navigate).
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2022/06/27/yanss-236-how-minds-change/
Oooo yummy links
That one on Youtube about the dad. I can’t think of the name. Racism will only if they have a personal connection with a minority (intimacy, blood relations, friends, community, etc.).
The Brainwashing Of My Dad?
Yeah, that’s a good one.
The problem is the recipient has to be receptive to their bias and intolerance. And most either aren’t or actively revel in it.
OP mentioned his friend is willing to be receptive so that’s why I mentioned that one. And thanks for the name.
Her, and im also black so im like, the perfect candidate for this 🥴
LoL. Yes you are. Good luck. From an old black dude to a black youngin’.
Good point. Hopefully it works for his friend.
I was talking in more general terms. Most of the time people don’t want to open their mind to a different perspective. That’s awesome that OP’s friend is bucking that trend!
Oh yea she’s super cool when not spewing stuff about the border. Ive got her to change her opinion on Book bannings and LGBT books being in schools.
She’s very receptive to hearing me out and so is her family it seems. They’re all conservative.
American History X might be a good movie.
The War Game, Punishment Park, (the longuets) La commune (Paris, 1871)
They are each a documentary with a but.
The War Game talk about atomic bomb and use real citations but nothing in the movie is real. Punishment Parc take a hypothetical
facistsituation where the US government build a open prison into the Mojave desert and let loose convict in a kind of capture the flag run against police trainees, the fun part is that he take left leaning actor to play right wing voice and vice versa. In La Commune he take a theatre troupe and made them play the event of the Commune de Paris but there’s a « TV Crew » that are citing journal headline of the time.Not trying to dissuade you, but have you considered talking to her about class politics and the economy?
I believe I have and she’s brought up some conspiracy theories to try and dissuade my points. Im gonna prolly educate her tonight on the psychology if Conspiracy theories and see what she thinks after that
Will you keep us posted?
Have you ever heard of the Socratic method?
I have not actually, and yeah ima keep yall posted ^^
Hell ya, best of luck.
The Socratic involves (but if not limited to), asking the person youre conversing with a lot of follow up questions. Continuing to drill down until you get to the root of the issue. Then, you can work backwards to change their thinking to be more grounded in reality.
This is a really bad explanation but it works wonders for Consevatives. Ill give you a real-world example i had with my parents:
Them: “we dont like immigrants”
Me: why?
Them: they take our jobs
Me: how do they do that?
Them: by working for subpar wages
Me: ya, it sucks because it does take jobs away from people in this country. I wish employers were willing to pay fair wages
(Cut short for brevity)
I cannot imagine having a maga friend at this point. I could not look at them without thinking how insane they are.
Not a movie but a youtube playlist: The Alt-Right Playbook
This is not the answer you’re looking for, but I remember watching Green Mile as a child and that movie struck with me for life, and likely attributed early on to me being one of the few non-racist folks around here somewhere in East Europe
The villain on that movie is particularly scary to me because of how many people would do the same thing.
I feel like this is the perfect video for this as the guy himself used to be alt right : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OygHnodf0XM&t=1
Maybe not one as direct as that one if ya catch my drift. She gets defensive and dismissive if im too direct about it. but ima keep that vid in mind
I think you should start with Nixon. Start with the war on the drugs. Some people like to believe that racism “stopped” after the civil rights movement, but we just changed the way we described the targeting.
is there a good movie for that?
