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"Despite covering perspectives relevant to the political environment preceding the 2020 United States presidential election, the documentary was largely ignored by major outlets demonstrated by the lack of reviews within the first six weeks of its release."
I believe the above paragraph alone, from the article itself, makes an excellent case for why this article has no reason to exist. The non-existence of reliable secondary sources (and indeed, the general lack of sourcing, which primarily features archived primary sources and unreliable outlets like Newsweek), leads me to suspect that this article was created to promote the film. 46.97.170.112 ( talk) 10:32, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
I reverted these changes and argued why in the comment, but Binksternet finds it appropriate to revert them all with a revert edit ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Uncle_Tom_(film)&diff=1044880776&oldid=1044874596) with the comment "American topic gets American mdy date format. Again, removing excessive quotes as political and promotional. The reader is not helped by Elder's misrepresentation of statistics."
The first quote explains the criticism of the war on poverty legislation the film focuses on, and gives the reader insight into what the movie is about.
"And what the welfare state has done, in my opinion, is incentivize Black women to marry the government, and allow men to abandon their financial and moral responsibilities to their families. We’ve gone from 25% of Black kids born outside wedlock in 1965, to nearly 70% now. You cannot attribute that to Jim Crow and racism. It has to do with bad government policy."
"An Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out by embracing the white man, by becoming a Republican, by rejecting the idea that you’re a victim, by supporting things like hard work, accountability, and low taxes, by refusing to think of yourself as a black person first as opposed to as an American who is black."
First he argues the quotes are promotional, and now they are excessive, political and promotional. How are the quotes excessive and promotional? It's difficult to avoid any political message about a very political movie. Shouldn't the article explain what the movie is about and the message it is trying to convey? I don't find Binksternet arguments for removing the quotes as valid. @ Binksternet: Bro4 ( talk) 05:04, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
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"Despite covering perspectives relevant to the political environment preceding the 2020 United States presidential election, the documentary was largely ignored by major outlets demonstrated by the lack of reviews within the first six weeks of its release."
I believe the above paragraph alone, from the article itself, makes an excellent case for why this article has no reason to exist. The non-existence of reliable secondary sources (and indeed, the general lack of sourcing, which primarily features archived primary sources and unreliable outlets like Newsweek), leads me to suspect that this article was created to promote the film. 46.97.170.112 ( talk) 10:32, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
I reverted these changes and argued why in the comment, but Binksternet finds it appropriate to revert them all with a revert edit ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Uncle_Tom_(film)&diff=1044880776&oldid=1044874596) with the comment "American topic gets American mdy date format. Again, removing excessive quotes as political and promotional. The reader is not helped by Elder's misrepresentation of statistics."
The first quote explains the criticism of the war on poverty legislation the film focuses on, and gives the reader insight into what the movie is about.
"And what the welfare state has done, in my opinion, is incentivize Black women to marry the government, and allow men to abandon their financial and moral responsibilities to their families. We’ve gone from 25% of Black kids born outside wedlock in 1965, to nearly 70% now. You cannot attribute that to Jim Crow and racism. It has to do with bad government policy."
"An Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out by embracing the white man, by becoming a Republican, by rejecting the idea that you’re a victim, by supporting things like hard work, accountability, and low taxes, by refusing to think of yourself as a black person first as opposed to as an American who is black."
First he argues the quotes are promotional, and now they are excessive, political and promotional. How are the quotes excessive and promotional? It's difficult to avoid any political message about a very political movie. Shouldn't the article explain what the movie is about and the message it is trying to convey? I don't find Binksternet arguments for removing the quotes as valid. @ Binksternet: Bro4 ( talk) 05:04, 18 September 2021 (UTC)