Ghost Dad (1990) | How Woke Is It?

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Ghost Dad1990

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Ghost Dad is about as non-woke as you can get, a harmless, old-school family comedy with no hidden lectures or identity politics. It’s a relic from a time before every movie needed a social lesson.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Ghost Dad keeps its focus on family-centered humor and supernatural hijinks, with character identities and diversity not being shoehorned into the plot. The story is more concerned with fatherhood and redemption than with modern-day themes of forced representation or identity politics.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The film, if anything, upholds values of family, responsibility, and traditional parental roles. Masculinity isn't mocked or diminished, and there’s no effort to revise cultural or religious history to score ideological points. It's about as non-woke as a slapstick ghost movie can get.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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Alternative worldviews aren’t mocked or villainized; the focus is on universal themes like love and redemption. It feels comfortably pluralist (for its time), showing a typical American family without turning tradition into a punchline.

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