"More troubling is how Joker distorts its real-life references. Arthur’s shooting spree is a nod to Bernhard Goetz, a white vigilante gunman who, in 1984, shot four young men who were panhandling on the New York subway. Like Arthur, Goetz was hailed as a hero. The crack epidemic and an economic crisis contributed to tripling the city’s crime rates over the previous two decades, and Goetz was lauded by his frustrated and frightened fellow citizens for taking justice into his own hands. Unlike Arthur, though, whose targets were greed-is-good Gordon Gekko-types, Goetz’s were Black teenagers. And the support for Goetz was, in part, driven by stereotypes and a racist fear that all Black men pose a threat. These same fears were in play a few years later when five young Black and Latino men were falsely arrested and imprisoned for the rape of a jogger in Central Park. Donald Trump, then a real estate greed-is-good Gordon-Gekko–type, took out a full-page newspaper adcalling for the innocent teenagers to be executed. He has yet to apologize."
Is ‘Joker’ about angry white men or for them? It’s still unclear - https://www.dailyxtra.com/is-joker-about-angry-white-men-or-for-them-its-still-unclear-163084?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=smad&utm_campaign=fbad&utm_content=Traffic%3A+Joker&fbclid=IwAR1wV1COXQqI_JVioTdBku_kx-K_24IYfUQMwpqsKdnOiR4ZSIyBIh5EdDs
Is ‘Joker’ about angry white men or for them? It’s still unclear - https://www.dailyxtra.com/is-joker-about-angry-white-men-or-for-them-its-still-unclear-163084?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=smad&utm_campaign=fbad&utm_content=Traffic%3A+Joker&fbclid=IwAR1wV1COXQqI_JVioTdBku_kx-K_24IYfUQMwpqsKdnOiR4ZSIyBIh5EdDs