This Is Why I Watched Barbie 💖

this is why i watched barbie 💖

A lot of people talking about Oppenheimer are saying things like "just watched a bunch of white men talking for three hours" or "watching a white man build a bomb"

this is a movie where the main character and a significant number of side characters are Jews that takes place in the late 1930s-40s. Jews were absolutely not considered white at that time. In the US, they would've been racialized as Hebrews and faced a lot of discrimination for it

The movie didn't do a great job of showing that, but it's true. Oppenheimer isn't some white man who built a bomb because he was not racialized as white during the Manhatten Project.

This doesn't affect the morality of his actions at all and there's absolutely no reason not to shit on him for what he did, but don't erase his Jewishness when you do so. Especially because him being a Jew during the Holocaust times and wanting to stop the Nazis was a big part of his motivation to build the bomb.