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reportedly features a song about white supremacy along with lyrics about the exclusion of “Jewish, Asian, brown or Black, single woman or gay, on the wrong side of they.”TV show takes place four years before the original film and essentially pushes every woke theme that the cultural left has popularized in recent years, from LGBTQ sexuality to obnoxious identity politics.
“Queerness, gender nonconformity and transness throughout time hasn’t always been exactly the same,” Notartomaso said. “All of us are a product of the culture that we live in, but it is really special to be able to tell that story of what it may have been like in the 1950s.” The third episode in the series tackles racial themes of white supremacy as it reportedly grapples with “discrimination within the Rydell High community.”
“Revolving around the stories of a shy black girl named Hazel and Davila’s Latina character Jane, the episode will include a musical number called ‘In The Club’ in which rich white country club founders are animated out of an oil painting to sing about white supremacy,” noted theThe song includes the following lyrics: “When you’re in the club, we’ve got each other’s backs. As long as you’re not Jewish, Asian, brown or Black, single woman or gay, on the wrong side of they.
Themes of sexual orientation will also be explored through the “queer character Cynthia” while other themes such as “50s patriarchy” get a mention.
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