Lack of Racial Diversity in 'The Breakfast Club' w/ Hari Kondabolu | Can We Talk About This?

[@MrKrk221988]

"Can we talk about this?" Yes, it's literally all you ever talk about. It's all that's on your mind 24/7.

[@The_God_Hand_883]

Who gave permission to talk about this?

[@ScottWaa]

Nice ratio.

[@conorwarren2665]

Oh my God, did any of the people complaining about this actually watch the video? Hari Kondabolu is nuanced and smart as always and Jordan Carlos is a great facilitator. I wish this conversation was much longer.

[@MCAndyT]

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[@MCAndyT]

I would watch 20 minutes worth of this content!

[@DafyddBrooks]

i have and this was stupid

[@brianfleming1954]

“Lacks diversity” ≠ racist…

[@ChiefVizier]

try watching the video first

[@brianfleming1954]

@@ChiefVizier yeah. Watched the video. That’s my point. They never called the movie racist.

[@MCAndyT]

@@brianfleming1954 Wait, I don't get it, are you responding to the "Lacks Racial Diversity" mentioned in the title or are you responding to other people's comments? Hari's opening joke is about how there are no Black people in the movie & that they're all white. So, they did not explicitly say the movie was racist, but they did call it homophobic, sexist, and described the noose on the locker as "a hate crime". For clarification on my position: I love both The Breakfast Club & Hari Kondabolu, and agree with all of the criticism that they brought to the film.

[@DafyddBrooks]

@@MCAndyT I totaly disagree, there is no reason to talk about racial diversity in this more.

[@Roe777]

What's next, lack of racial diversity in Bollywood or Chinese cinema? Make your own content and stop trying to control other people.

[@MCAndyT]

Actually, kinda yeah. Like a LOT of Bollywood films are super colorist and feature paler skinned northerners rather than darker skinned actors from other regions. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Shah Rukh Khan, but the blockbuster films highlight a certain "look" that does not showcase the immense diversity within India...

[@DafyddBrooks]

they wont get veiws if they stop talking about this

[@coltonallgire1135]

I haven't scrolled down to read the comments yet, But I'm certain that everyone's going to be calm and respectful and they aren't going to be pissing and shitting all over themselves

[@0112358thirteen]

Thanks for this smart and endearing review

[@blaze14ZX]

I forgot the jock was Emilio Estevez

[@Drew-fu8fc]

Uploaded a billion woke videos in one day = I unsubscribe

[@EvryDamnDay]

Can We Talk About This is Skoochs trademarked show and yall say it just like him

[@Austin_2015]

Let's talk about BET. It is all black and super racist. Can we talk about this?

[@rhondaatkins1776]

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[@BrandonHex]

Welcome to the '80s.

[@525Lines]

Nerds turn into beautiful people with a makeover.

[@TheMoneypresident]

Everyone should report these types of videos for being hateful.

[@YellowJello57]

Lack of demographic honesty in every woke modern movie/TV commercial. Can We Talk About That

[@DLZ2000]

Demographic honesty can only be graded in the context of all the rest of the media that's been made. So, one commercial with an interracial couple isn't going to be dishonest because we only see two people on screen. Guess what, when you take a look at the rest of commercials made over the past 80 years, the ratio is still woefully unrepresentative. Even if you narrow it to the past year or two, a couple of BIPOC in commercials, movies, or TV shows isn't going to make a dent, especially if those BIPOC are just like there to say, "Would you like fries with that?" and aren't actual characters with personality traits, backstories, and arcs.

[@YellowJello57]

@@DLZ2000 Ridiculous that you think the last 80 years have to be taken into account. If that were tenable, every piece of media in largely white America would need to be artificially contrived to contain only POC to redress the supposed imbalance. Much as the left would like this to happen, the public has no appetite for this kind of BS. If you make an ad or a movie today, it should reasonably contain a POC or mixed race couple with the approximate frequency that these things occur in society today otherwise it's nothing but woke pandering. Of course, the critical-theorists will not be happy until the US is destroyed so there's essentially no point in arguing/engaging with them on these issues.

[@DLZ2000]

@@YellowJello57 the past few centuries artificially inflated white representation, so I don't think a few scant decades of balancing things out would destroy anything.

[@scientifico]

(for a brief 2 semesters, I went to a suburban HS in the suburbs, one of a handful of kids with melanin. Imagining a bunch of white kids in a space with no person of color wasn't far fetched but I also never saw myself as any of the characters. It was John hughes silliness and not that good actually. Better teen movies of the period: Visionquest, Stand by Me, My Bodyguard.

[@BolnoyBratchny]

Whites have pheomelanin

[@workernori]

This NEEDS to be TAKEN DOWN. there's enough Book Burners out there, we don't need all this criticism about racial matter and sexism because the script wasn't written for a punjab actor. There's plenty of those crappy movies on Netflix.

[@DLZ2000]

The video literally says "Enjoy the movie" at the end. No one's burning any books or celluloid.

[@workernori]

DLZ did you watch and listen to the reviewers? There judging these films as racist and sexist and the next thing you know these types of films from the past will be pulled off of shelves. Be mindful people, we’re ALL losing our freedom of Speech and Thought!!

[@DLZ2000]

@@workernori LOL. Engaging critically with favorite films is not censorship. They like the movie, but they're acknowledging the flaws in it. If anything, you're the one censoring, by dictating how fans talk about a film.

[@MCAndyT]

@@workernori Yeah, you need to calm down, they both talked about what they liked about the movie and that they still enjoy to this day even though parts are "cringey"

[@DafyddBrooks]

@@DLZ2000 they are bringing in a topic thats irrelvant to the movie. its dumb

[@DafyddBrooks]

Lack of Diversity in this movie is extremely irrelevant. Grow up , theres nothing to talk about

[@notmoosn5742]

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[@joseneitor-eg4iy]

yeah new york, SOOOO DIVERSE