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‘The White Lotus’ Is A Lesson In The Futility of Battling White Privilege

‘The White Lotus’ Is A Lesson In The Futility of Battling White Privilege

In The Current Climate, It’s Probably Best To Just Manipulate It To Your Advantage

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Jul 09, 2022
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Andrew Sullivan’s piece on Mike White’s HBO satirical comedy-drama The White Lotus, describing it as an attack on “woke” culture, steered me away from watching it for months. Sullivan wrote that the show showed “cracks” in woke culture, and I really wasn’t interested in watching a TV show that tried to sell us on the idea of white victimh…

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