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Someone on Clubs made a good point. Survivor 41 was filmed, then Survivor 42 was filmed without knowledge of how 41 played out. And then, after both were filmed, BB23 was played. In all three seasons (which were the first three seasons following CBS' diversity initiative), there have been legitimate discussions of how race has an impact on black people in society, and black people in competitive reality television. This isn't just some cascade effect, where the Cookout existed, so then the Campout was created, and then Drea and Maryanne had their epiphany tonight; these are three groups of independent individuals who all came to the same conclusion about their place in society (which Survivor is a microcosm of).

These are legitimate concerns, and they may annoy a vastly white audience, but they're still important to listen to without immediately getting defensive and calling the season bullshit, or the mindset bullshit. Like I said at the end of the last topic, Chanelle and Rocksroy were targeted for game reasons on a surface level, but who's to know if there weren't subconscious biases that went into why Chanelle was viewed as super shady and worthy of a vendetta from Mike, or why Rocksroy was viewed as unreasonable and immovable, while everyone needed to make sure Mike was willing to flip? And then Jonathan's immediate plan going into this tribal council was to target Drea as a threat with an idol, and tell Drea to target Maryanne (despite Lindsay trying to explain why that was a bad idea). So both Drea and Maryanne went into tribal council thinking they'd be voting out the other black woman on the tribe...even though NO ONE trusted Tori and she should've been the biggest slam dunk elimination imaginable.

I just don't get why people are so upset about "woke" discussion, like Survivor hasn't always been billed as a social experiment.