Sasha Stone’s recent Sinners pronouncement, to wit: “Wokeness isn’t about black movies. It’s about white people using minority groups to elevate themselves through virtue signalling.” Friendo retort: “Elite progressive whiteys haven’t praised Sinners with this motive in mind? Of course not. No wokeness to see here!”
Bottom line: “Sasha has taken Sinners, a movie that’s front-and-center about race and white oppression, and said that it’s NOT a movie about race and white oppression. PLUS she’s taken One Battle After Another, a movie that’s front-and-center about political fascism (something not bound by race), and turned it into a movie that’s ENTIRELY about race and white oppression.”
Last thing: “Sasha is laboring under the delusion that Sinners did better at the box office than OBAA because it’s ‘not woke.’ Uhm, sorry, wait…Sinners did better at the box office because it’s A FUCKING VAMPIRE MOVIE!!”
HE 3.7 sideview riff: There is irony in Sasha Stone, who is as anti-woke as they come (takes one to know one), pimping Sinners as God’s gift to cinema while excoriating the woke degradation of Hollywood movies that began eight or nine years ago.
The irony is that Sasha doesn’t seem to realize that Sinners — the movie itself, the critical acclaim for it, the apparent likelihood of it winning the Best Picture Oscar a week from today (Sunday, 3.15.26) — Sinners is the very quintessence of the malignancy that she’s been deploring since ’18 or ’19 or certainly since the Great Awokening of ’20.
Sasha replied a few hours later: “What you’re saying applies to One Battle After Another. Sinners is not about wokeness. Its success is not about wokeness. Absolutely not true. Sinners made more money, and has earned better reviews, both from critics and audiences, than any other film in the Best Picture lineup. One Battle After Another is a box-office failure with an asinine, simpleton plot. Wokeness isn’t about black movies. It’s about white people using minority groups to elevate themselves through virtue signalling.”
A couple of hours later Sasha posted a lengthier response on awardsdaily.com. Here it is.