STEVE SAILER: Matthew Weiner Explains “Mad Men” Is About “White Power”. Weiner says, “These men don’t take no for an answer, they build these big businesses, these empires, but really it’s all based on failure, insecurity, and an identity modeled on some abstract ideal of white power. I’ve always said this is a show about becoming white. That’s the definition of success in America—becoming a WASP. A WASP male.”
See also Sailer’s earlier post, “Matthew Weiner on How ‘Mad Men’ Is Driven by His Resentment of WASP Country Clubs.”
What is suggested by the fact that Weiner can so openly declare his show to be an expression of animus toward a particular group of people characterized largely by race? Note that Weiner is not attacking “his own,” so to speak, but rather people he regards as outsiders — white gentiles — and apparently this is totally unremarkable to people. Is it unremarkable because it is to be expected? And if it is to be expected, then wouldn’t it be normal to see the phenomenon elsewhere?
Take, for example, the observation that the author of the Rolling Stone gang-rape sex fantasy, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, is a Jew who has built a career on trashing white gentiles: A Left-Wing Jew With A History Of Christian-Bashing Wrote That Bogus Rolling Stone Article About Rape At UVA.
(See also, for a less prominent example, “A letter to an organizer of the White Privilege Conference.”)
Better yet, why not look to an even more prominent form of pop culture, say, the movies? See “Anti-White themes in Hollywood movies” (paragraph breaks added for readability):
A recent, perhaps trivial, example of this type of intellectual ethnic warfare is the popular movie Addams Family Values (released in November 1993), produced by Scott Rudin, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and written by Paul Rudnick.
The bad guys in the movie are virtually anyone with blond hair (the exception being an overweight child), and the good guys include two Jewish children wearing yarmulkes. (Indeed, having blond hair is viewed as a pathology, so that when the dark-haired Addams baby temporarily becomes blond, there is a family crisis.) The featured Jewish child has dark hair, wears glasses, and is physically frail and nonathletic. He often makes precociously intelligent comments, and he is severely punished by the blond-haired counselors for reading a highly intellectual book. The evil gentile children are the opposite: blond, athletic, and unintellectual.
Together with other assorted dark-haired children from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and white gentile children rejected by their peers (for being overweight, etc.), the Jewish boy and the Addams family children lead a very violent movement that succeeds in destroying the blond enemy.
This can appear at first glance to be a crackpot theory, but the frankness of Weiner’s remarks regarding “Mad Men,” and the ease with which those remarks have been received, make it a lot more plausible.
Is this interpretation antisemitic? That accusation assumes that using entertainment as a vehicle for anti-white bigotry is a bad thing to do (because if it were not, then supposing that someone did it couldn’t even begin to be interpreted as hateful). But isn’t that what Weiner has basically admitted to doing? But there is no prominent backlash against him. So, if what he did is unremarkable, then this interpretation of “Addams Family Values” is unremarkable.