At least when it comes to racial diversity they somewhat acknowledge that it is a net positive that films like Black Panther exist but I know from viewing Mike and Jay are definitely to the right of me on this and most likely most issues of any importance.
Really, I just saw a lot of negativity towards something I enjoy and wanted to voice something positive about it. HitB has been something I have watched for over 6 years now and is something I like quite a lot and look forward to. I don't have anything more meaningful to say about it beyond that but wanted to say so. Not every response has to delve into an extended argument.
In RLM's review of Black Panther, they go on to criticise anything in the film that isn't Eurocentric democracy by saying Wakanda is too primitive but their technology is too "outlandish, too overdone":
Jay: "if they're this advanced why are they sticking to these primitive traditional things?"
Mike: "yeah, super primitive!...I get it they would include African culture stuff but I thought that was going to be in just the look of the film...I thought Wakanda would be more of an advanced society that had sort of like African flair...I wanted Wakanda to be above that"
Then Mike realises Wakanda being isolationist and wanting to preserve their culture, explains why the nation is like that. Like, they put all these uninformed points forward, and then at the end, they start thinking why such and such is so and so and finally get to the point that their relatively informed viewers already know. It's redundant and pointless.
Finally at 17min of the 26 minute review do they acknowledge that representation is good because they're "rational people", but with a cynical caveat.
Jay: "Black Panther is a good movie but people need to look at the bigger picture a little bit here...produced by the Disney corporation to sell action figures"
Mike: "Representation is good as long as you don't think too hard about it because this is a movie about how magic space rocks made a society, it's not going to change the world"
Then finally they come back down to reality from their captain obvious cynical clouds (20:10):
Mike: "It will change the movie industry where we have more representation, directors actors, writers, the whole business. It will change that."
You wanting to just do a drive-by positive post about RLM (there's a RLM OT just for that where you can consume the content without being questioned!), gives me a feeling that you've formed a parasocial relationship with RLM as a big fan and somehow feel bad that your source of enjoyment is being criticised so because of this relationship you have with them. So you feel the need to defend them as if they're reading this thread and would appreciate it. However, many people do this in bad faith or to troll in threads where the content creator has done bad stuff, but because there are fans who can ignore all the problematic stuff because they don't want to care or thinks nothing is wrong and might share the same views so they just post "I like them! They're great!" so you'll be lumped in with them.
