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Stallone in Rambo: First Blood

Rambo in army jacket denied service at diner, sherif drives him out to edge of town and says "we don't want your kind here, if we let you stay here soon enough there will be a bunch more like you" and is then arrested for loitering

Narrative grafted from sundown town to Washington State, invoking civil rights movement while whitewashing & diminishing real history

Talking about vietnam era rock music by white artists (eg: Springsteen, CCR) displacing rock's roots in Queer, Black, and Latino art acenes by focusing on small town life and working class life (but from a white perspective)

"Conservatives may have led the backlash against affirmative action, but liberals contributed to it by treating white men as a different kind, beginning with the Vietnam vet, who "deserved" his affirmative action"

Reading shit Kay Ivey would be mad at me about