Russell Moore is Beyond Parody

It's snowing here this uh this late afternoon and Man, I just sit in here laughing at myself, man I you know, I can make myself laugh and you know, you might be thinking to yourself. That doesn't sound too difficult, but You know, sometimes I need a little pick-me-up.

I'll watch one of my less winsome videos from the past and I'll just laugh, you know. You know, it's actually not hard to be prophetic these days like the people that I choose to criticize me. You might say I'm going after the low-hanging fruit and there might be some truth to that.

No question. You know, like there are some more ERLC types gospel coalition types and they're very easy to parody but they're almost beyond parody like you can't do a parody on them because They just they embrace it.

Russell Moore and the Problem of Parody

It's just ridiculous like this video I did. I did to mock Parody satirical type things where I'm pretending to audition for the gospel coalition the first one is what the church can learn from daytime judge shows daytime judge shows and Then how to talk to your children about Willy Wonka and I was listening to this clip.

I'm gonna play this clip in a minute but but there is there is almost no difference between my video of what the church can learn about from daytime judge shows and Dr. Russell Moore's article about what the church can learn from Sesame Street, and I was just making stuff up and it sounds identical.

Just watch it. I want you to watch this. But here's a clip from the Willy Wonka portion. I hope you enjoy it. Guys this is bad enough. But there is a trope and this is a well-known media trope called the magical Negro the magical Negro and What this trope tells you is that that that that darker skinned people and many times it's black people.

You can see this in the Green Mile. Okay, this John Coffey is a is a trope. He's a he's a character. That's in many movies the magical Negro often times that this person is either disabled or disadvantaged in some way again.

There's a another good example of legend of bagger Vance. And so I'm making up the lessons, but this is a true trope. This really does happen and What he's what his role in the movie is just to help the white people to learn a valuable lesson or to win an award?

Or something like that. This is the trope of the magical Negro and the Willy Wonka movie does this as well? What are the Oompa Loompas do when you think about it? What do they do? What are they there for?

Well, they're there to make the white man's chocolate. They're there to make white people's chocolate and to teach them lessons to help them to help them not be greedy to help them. To learn how to be kind and to love and this is so damaging.

Brothers and sisters my white brothers and sisters in Christ black people and and minorities are not there to help you learn. Hey that the truth. They're not there to help you learn a valuable lesson, they're not there for your service.

They're full image bearers of the Lord and we need to teach our kids that this Willy Wonka stuff is Unacceptable, it's not an innocent movie. It's not a harmless movie. It reinforces common tropes that center whiteness and other Black people you got you guys if you haven't seen this video watch this video.

And if you need to pick me up watch it again. It's it's a funny video there's a lot going on here, I don't want to say that I'm like this genius, but This is one of my this is some of my best work. To say this is some of my best work.

I hope you have a good Thursday night. See you tomorrow. We're doing patreon Q &A and We'll see what else the day brings.