I think that's very different from saying he just waited until he he believed a narrow majority of the public had his back; he was actually gently pulling a crucial segment of the public forward after having smoothed the way for them.
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Mark Harris
U.S. RepresentativeRepublicanNorth Carolina District 8
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For me, and for many of his gay supporters, it was clear from the time of his first election that he supported same-sex marriage; what he did during his first term was build a narrative so that, at the right moment, he could get as many Americans as possible to cross that bridge with him.>
I think that what Obama did regarding marriage equality between 2009 and 2012 was actually much more complicated than this. As early as 2010, he said publicly that his position was "evolving"; he basically used himself as a model for other people who needed to be shown a way to rethink the issue.>
Over the three hours, it takes on a real vibe of "I'm not staying."
Weird Oscar thing I learned today: Supporting Actor nominee Jacob Elordi has more screen time in Frankenstein (59 mins.) than Actor nominee Leonardo DiCaprio has in One Battle After Another (55 mins.) screentimecentral.com
I completely agree with your larger point, but I do want to note that I looked at Telecharge and found tickets for $58, $99, and $114 as well.
I hate telling NYCers to pay Broadway prices for anything. But Ragtime? You won't regret it. Here's Joshua Henry singing the powerful anthem "Make Them Hear You." Listen to that earthshaking 20-second final note. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXwx...
One part of Jesse Jackson's legacy I feel able to talk about is that he absolutely helped to pull the Democratic Party forward on gay rights. He did so out of both moral conviction-- because it was right--and a shrewd belief in coalition politics. That's one of many lessons we can learn from him.
He sort of made one! (Well, two hours.) Check out MODEL if you can.
I can do a lot in a post, but I cannot begin to do justice to Jesse Jackson, what he meant to this country, and what he did for it. I'm looking forward to reading the work of writers who can give him the farewell he deserves.
Worth watching every minute of this--and check out the followup post as well.
To be clear, I'm describing the argument of the participants in the doc, not of the filmmakers. But there are some good lessons here for anyone who writes or thinks about cultural history, mainly that knowing what things were like at any given moment is an essential, and hard, part of the job.
Another example: The documentary talks about an incident in which the ANTM crew filmed a young contestant who was severely impaired by alcohol having sex with a stranger in a bathroom. To wipe that away with "In retrospect, knowing what we know now about consent..." is wild gaslighting. >
To offer one example: America's Next Top Model used blackface (and brownface and yellowface) in competitions in 2005, 2009, and 2011. To be clear, 2005-11 was not some Olden Times period when that was considered okay. Amazingly, there are actually adults who were alive then and can attest to this. >
I really dislike it when culture from past decades is talked about and judged through a lens of present-day "If I had been there" smugness. But it's also possible to go too far in the other direction and excuse things that were in fact not excusable at the time.
It's telling how hard this America's Next Top Model doc leans on "Standards were different back then" as if awareness of eating disorders, body shaming, etc. were simply never discussed in the early 2000s. They were discussed! >
I thought hard all day about what to watch tonight in tribute to Robert Duvall and Frederick Wiseman, and I will continue to consider it carefully during this episode of Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model.
I do want to point out that Wiseman's movies are streamable via Kanopy (which is great if you live in a place where Kanopy is accessible; I don't) and also available for purchase on DVD at his Zipporah Films website.
Yes, I think all of NYC is locked out.
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551 total votes
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| 2025-01-03 | — | Call by States | PRESENT | — | — | Passed |
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