activist Bree Newsome said “it’s dangerous to present alternative histories when people are still not clear on the facts.
” She was commenting not on the show but its premise of portraying a United States in which the Civil War ended in stalemate and slavery remained legal. Her opinion was based on a widely criticized press release announcing the series. The rush to judgement well before any film could roll was’s Lane Filler as “a dangerous campaign” against the show.
The current rise of “dangerous” as a pejorative has coincided with social media’s rise and the imperative of performative wokeness. This, I think, illustrates that the word “dangerous” has so many meanings and so many implications depending on which side of whatever debate or divide you are on, that it means nothing. It wasn’t always that way. The current rise of “dangerous” as a pejorative has coincided with social media’s rise and the imperative of performative wokeness on the internet.
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