Lego Masters: Woke for the wrong reasons

 Lego Masters is "woke" because black people simply can't win, and they're overcompensating to stay on the air.

When it comes down to it, wealthy whites represent the largest portion of people who can afford to buy thousands of Lego sets and have time to get good at sculpting with them. 

You can clearly see that the producers of Lego Masters attempted to diversify the contestants, but the non whites just weren't very skilled. It all boils down to economic factors.

Visually, you can tell who made a great build and who didn't, so the hosts knew they couldn't show preferential treatment to non whites or be accused of discrimination in reverse.

To overcompensate, they have attempted various "woke" things. While 90 percent of it is so subtle that I couldn't quite tell (other than the types of contestants selected) , the MCU themed episode was as obvious as a sledgehammer to the head.

The builds for the episode had one thing in common: Ethnic diversity.

I could tell something was up because each so called "unforgettable moment" from each movie was actually rather obscure and not something most fans would think of in connection to the films.  

At first glance, I didn't think much about it, but then my mind keeps going back to how much Amy stressed the name America Chavez, like it's her favorite superhero in the world.

I honestly doubt anyone's favorite is America Chavez. I think Miss Marvel is a better woke choice because she's not a damsel in distress/human plot device like America, and she's Pakistani.

America Chavez. Frankly, I haven't even thought about that minor side character until Amy brought it up.

Also telling of the show's unsubtle attempt to be woke, although Amy acted like America was her all time favorite, they didn't show any pictures of the character at all.

I like seeing the amazing builds, but this again reinforces why I sometimes don't care when the sound on my TV isn't working.

Avatar

As Avatar 2:  The Way of Water comes out in theaters, promising huge box office returns, I am once again reminded of how God prevented me from publishing a novel that could have potentially embarrassed the hell out of me in front of millions of people.
Long before the original Avatar got release in theaters, I wrote a similar story:  Guy gets cryogenically frozen and taken to an alien jungle planet full of "half human cat people" who ride flying creatures.  
The difference:  Mine was a combination science fiction and inspirational Christian romance...not some half baked Vietnam protest/save-the-environment story.
Also, awkward because I'm obsessed with The Neverending Story, and I thought writing a story about being shy around women would help me to face my fears.  By a similar token...pretend girlfriend.
In my defense, women write romance novels with lots of pretend boyfriends in them, and nobody thinks it's strange, but I'm a guy and this is embarrassing and probably not something I want the whole world to know about anyway.
That being said, I put a whole lot of work into the novel, edited it numerous times, and you're probably curious about how it may or may not resemble Avatar at all, so here's a site where you can read it for free:

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3365464/1/The-Quaceb

And here's a site where you can buy it in paperback to save yourself some eyestrain:

Book Link

By the way, I made changes to the plot after Avatar came out, mostly out of frustration about how many similarities I thought I saw.  But honestly, not getting recognized for this embarrassing piece of fluff is probably the best thing to ever happen to me.