N-word

Is there any connection between these two years in a row of #OscarSoWhite,“ the hundred or so repetitions of the ”N-word” in Tarantino’s latest N-word opus magnum, and republican right wing thinly-veiled politics of exclusion, fear, and racism? Any connection at all? Maybe so. Maybe not. One thing’s for certain though—the Oscars are an American institution.

Classic Tarantino: yakkety-yakking murderers and slapstick gore. Tarantino’s style has always been a kind of fetish-ized 1970s cinema; part grindhouse, part blaxploitation, and in order to “justify” the N-word spew-age, he tends to eventually let black men do bad things to white men.