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The Oscars in 2018 and Beyond

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Is This the Greatest Anti-Racism Film Ever Made?

"I don't think it's the greatest anti-racist film ever made I think that's probably overstating but me," says director Jordan Peele. "It wouldn't work without this yeah but they're too racist you know like there are two I shouldn't say two races they're too overtly racist like like and I know in certain ways they're not because they come across a certain way", he adds. 'The inability to see that when we make a violent biologically different creature and we try to have the sympathetic story about it is just as bad for racists' said Friedlander.

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