Awe look, it's another take on history from a white person's point of view. Don't yall have enough of that already? Gosh.
Edit: Removed Curse
Well... the interview isn't about woke or PC in general. It's about Tarantino and his work in particular. He is white. So sure. What other perspective should he have? This is also an excerpt from a longer interview. I'm sure they also talked about other stuff as well.
I'm not seeing Tarantino as a hero of the downtrodden. It's more like he spearheaded an inevitable reaction to the 80'ies woke movement. But if it hadn't been him, it'd been somebody else. A lot of people were so sick of PC back then. Me included. I didn't understand I was. But my values I had then, was a result of that. PC culture was suffocating. It killed every ability to show an authentic feeling. So we didn't even try. We instead tried being as fake as possible. Pushed PC beyond a point where it became a surrealist joke.
That said, one of my teenage heroes, Spike Lee. He's super politically correct and super woke. Has been all the time. His rise to fame was because of the PC culture of the 80'ies. The PC culture, in all it's suffocating fakery, served him well. The 80'ies gave him a voice and a platform he wouldn't otherwise have had.
This just shows structural racism in action. To put it simply, if you are black and you want to rise in Hollywood, you have to play the PC/woke game or you won't stand a chance. While non-woke directors are effectively blocked from any platform.
PC/Woke blacks are safe and harmless. Because we know what they will say. They will say the current acceptable inflammatory PC things against the current approved targets. White people pretend to care. We get to feel good about ourselves. Nothing changes.
Do we have famous non-woke directors?
If the blacks we allow to speak are in a neutered PC prison, we have done them no favours. The world is just a racist. Until blacks can say and do things that make progressive white people squirm uncomfortably in their seats and the blacks get to keep their jobs, we have have had little progress.
We have put Spike Lee in a Catch-22 position. He's successful and famous because he's PC. If he wasn't PC he wouldn't have gotten anywhere. He's not free to voice any opinion. Woke is fake freedom and superficial black empowerment. I still think Spike Lee is awesome. But we will only let him speak if he keeps to the party line.
I would love to hear black voices speaking freely on this. But I don't think our culture (not just USA) would allow them.
Or to put it another way, no way in hell a black director could have done Reservoir Dogs in 1991. Because of structural racism.
That's what I think.