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Conservapedia reviews Dirty Dancing

posted 4 years ago by EleazarHisSon (750)
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Dirty Dancing is a movie that shows liberals at their best. Set in 1963, before the Kennedy Assassination the Beatles and moon launches, the film shows "Baby", a girl who wants to join the Peace movement. She is on vacation with her family in the Catskills before starting at Mt. Holyoke College. She becomes interested in the low-paid staff and their social center Johnny, a highly skilled dance instructor. Raised to be a do-gooder by her doctor father, Baby helps a friend of Johnny's who was made pregnant (and dumped) by her Ivy League boyfriend.

Baby gets money from her father, without telling him what it is for, to pay for the gray-market abortion. When the girl is injured during the procedure, she wakes her father in the middle of the night to provide emergency care. (If the hotel manager were to discover her pregnancy or abortion, she'd probably be fired - along with Johnny and most of his friends.)

Baby also agrees to substitute for Johnny's friend in a dance recital, even though she's hardly ever done any ballroom dancing. Johnny coaches her intensively, and she develops a crush on him. Eventually, they fall in love and sleep together. She conceals this from her father until a crucial moment when Johnny is suspected of stealing a wallet at night, and Baby provides an alibi for him by revealing that he was with her all night.

The do-gooding background of the story is the social concern over black civil rights (although there are no black characters in the movie at all, not even extras). The manager hires only Ivy League men as waiters, and one Ivy Leaguer boasts that he and two friends are going to do a Freedom Ride in Mississippi. Baby is planning a stint in the Peace Corps after majoring in economics of third-world countries.

The irony here is that for all their do-gooding intentions, the upper-class whites don't really care about the "poor" people they are helping. They just drop in, make a small sacrifice, and continue on with their lives of privilege and opulence. Their idealism is also crass and limited: Baby cashes in a lifetime of honesty and purity to blackmail her sister with first-ever lie, and she gives her virginity to a man she's not married to (Johnny) simply because she has become infatuated him due to all the attention and close contact during the dance coaching.

This movie is aimed at teenagers, being a girl's coming-of-age fantasy of reaching sensual and spiritual perfection in a one-week encounter with an Adonis; but it should be seen only by college graduates.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Dirty_Dancing

[–] moviechatterer (15583) 4 years ago

so , do conservatives just go around bitching and complaining about people who are nice to other people instead of screwing them out of their money?

he upper-class whites don't really care about the "poor" people they are helping. They just drop in, make a small sacrifice, and continue on with their lives
Translations:
normal person: "So you made a donation to help the poor and needy - well done you"

conservative : "So you made a donation to help the poor and needy, and guess what , you didnt solve world hunger! well that was fucking pointless wasnt it , you shoulda dun like me and keep all my money for myself, fuck everyone else"

[–] strntz (12224) 4 years ago

I never heard of the site conservapedia.com, but I doubt they speak for many conservatives. There are over-reactionaries on both sides of the political center.

Another possibility is that the site is a satire site run from the left.

[–] EleazarHisSon (750) 4 years ago

Conservapedia's opposite is RationalWiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RationalWiki

[–] trevorh321 (5495) 4 years ago

You consider that 'bitching and complaining'? When liberals literally destroy buildings?

[–] moviechatterer (15583) 4 years ago

so , if you're not destroying buildings you're a conservative?

[–] trevorh321 (5495) 4 years ago

Yes, if you are not destroying buildings, you are most likely a conservative. Conservatives are exponentially more peaceful than liberals.

But liberals are diverse in their violence. Diversity is our strength! Liberals also assault people, stop them in their cars and force them to raise their fists in support of BLM or else not them by, block traffic, they tear down statues, they harass people at restaurants, they shout down any speakers they don't like, they assault the police and even shoot them dead, either sniper-style or walking up to a cop and putting a bullet in the back of his head.

Remember that BLM member who knocked an elderly white woman to the sidewalk? Another proud moment we cherish during Black History Month. By the way, it's now called 'Black History Always'. We can't relegate so much proud history to just one month. Such fierce pride and dignity!

[–] liscarkat (18367) 4 years ago

There is no bitching or complaining in the review. It just provides a brief and accurate synopsis of the film and some reasonable commentary. It does not call for banning the film, but suggests that it is more suitable for adults than for teenagers. As for the criticism of "limousine liberals", it's a valid point, but one that conservatives are equally guilty of. Although conservatives in general give more to charity than liberals do, their devotion is also limited. However, with liberals "do-gooding" is limited because it is largely for virtue-signaling. Conservatives believe that those they help must take some responsibility for their circumstances and self-improvement, rather than sitting idly while others support them.

[–] Freword (339) 3 years ago

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[–] Freword (339) 3 years ago

Not really

[–] davebuffalo (3442) 3 years ago

there are no black characters in the movie at all, not even extras.

I think you need to go back and re-watch the ending talent show. Kellerman has a lengthy conversation with Tito. Other blacks are seen on the dance floor.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17735) 3 years ago

Yup sounds like RWNJers whining alrght.