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Maga in a nutshell. Doesn't care about democracy or the constitution but is in an uproar about snow white.

There should not be pride flags on city property.

People don’t dislike Snow White remake because of a race swap. They dislike it because it’s a crap movie.

Wicked was a good movie with a race swap, and despite the anti-woke hate campaign did well with critics and box offices.

And even if they did dislike it because of race swap, fine? It's a gd movie. Go see it or don't. Nobody owes you a white snow white, but if they put don't one in there and you don't like it, don't watch the movie. How in the hell can you possibly have a burr in your panties about it?

Hamburger help me

They are definitely angry about a lot of things. I wouldn't use the word "uproar". I think they are just more disgusted with the direction this world is going in. There are certain characters who should not be played by a person of a different color just for woke purposes. Any adaptation that goes this rout is doing it on purpose. It's unnecessary. They are just causing trouble in the name of woke. Imagine if a director decided to remake the movie "Friday" with an all white cast how much "uproar" there would be.

How about just leave things alone. Must you culturally appropriate everything in the name of woke?

I wasn't commenting on the movie failing because of old white dudes.

My comment was about the subsection of old white guy on twitter who campaigned against it like some "wokie" cancel culture **** because they don't like inclusion

My comment wasn't even considering that Inso0 might find it offensive. It certainly wasn't targeted at him, unless he did rant about cultural appropriate on twitter, in which case lol at him.

God forbid suicide bombers being stigmatized.

Do a hundred little things and people notice but don't really make a big stink because it's not worth the fight. On the 101st time, someone decides they've had enough and speaks up, but in a tone that you could easily argue doesn't fit this specific instance.

I work with someone like this and frequently find myself in a mediation role as loud arguments break out because of his constant needling and someone else finally has an outburst after biting their tongue for however long. The offending guy is always like, "Jeez, why are you making such a big deal about this?"

It's not this one specific thing. It's the pattern.

I agree that those making a large effort to cancel this movie is silly. I get the anger though. There are plenty of ways to include all races in movies and other things. This isn't about inclusion, it's about a woke agenda. If they are making Snow fricking White not white what else are they going to try in the future?

I'm sorry that the straw that broke the camels back was me saying old white guys have lost the plot by having incredibly strong opinions about Snow White

He also likes to play the, "I'm sorry you're offended" card.

Your name isn't Chris, by chance, is it?

For the record, I personally don't care about a movie I'll never see. I only latched on to your post because it shifted the blame for the movie flop to "50 year old dudes" instead of where it actually belonged, which was with the people that somehow ****ed up a literal remake of a timeless classic.

Edit: See, now this insinuates I'm not seeing the movie because of the brown Snow White. In reality, I'm not seeing the movie because I haven't seen any live-action Disney remakes, as they've all been universally panned. I do like Disney animated films, as a collective work. Edit2: and all the live action ones with Dick Van Dyke, obviously. Who doesn't love Dick Van Dyke?

this is a major feature of abusive relationships - the abuser never quite goes over the line on any one individual thing so whenever the abusee finally reacts the abuser is coming from a position of power with the "why are you making a big deal out of this - i'm just asking that you spend tonight with me instead of seeing your friends"

it's mamdani yes. The father though, the marxist professor. It says we cannot claim cultures where they have suicide bombers are inferior objectively (=savages), while we obviously can and should define cultures like that as horrific.

He also justifies targeting civilians with no military goals as "enemies" (bombers often did that, with no military goals, no attempt to kill specific targets and so on) which is pure apology of terrorism.

We aren't losing that proxy war. We made a country which would otherwise have been annihilated very quickly basically break even for 2 years against an infinitely superior opponent. With no blood spilled of our own and at a fairly low cost. While the russian enemy had to retool his entire economy to not even be able to win that war lol. And is incurring permanent damage in it's demographics because of this war (immigration dried up, and working age men are being butchered and disabled in droves).

It's a splendid victory for us for now. And it already gave results: syria imploded because Russia was unable to support it's old ally. Iran got spanked with Russia doing nothing about it.

as for all city property, it should be the duly elected government of that city to decide and no one else.

I wonder what you would say if a movie about white Floyd, member of a neonazi organization, being killed by black cops while in custody, then sanctified by society chanting "white live matters" was made.

Just a movie bro, and i suppose you would heavily criticize protests against it right?

Point out on the comment where I "blame(d) the flop". You realize this was in context to a comment where right wingers are complaining about Superman being woke, right?

Are you trying to imply that I'm in an abusive relationship with Inso0?

Nobody said it was without purpose, nor did Lucio's quoted text. How is having a purpose make it less savage and not barbaric? Stoning women to death has a purpose. Isn't stoning women to death barbaric? You can apply that text to anything, substitute suicide bombing for Hamas, the Holocaust, Rwandan genocide, Argentine dirty war etc etc. Every example is still barbarism.

The firebombing of Tokyo, Hiroshima/Nagasaki was pretty barbaric. Wouldn't you agree?
The quoted text seems to be apologia, a kind of veiled justification for suicide bombing to me.

Also there are rules to warfare. Wilful targeting of civilians via suicide bombings don't fall under those rules, even if the perpetrators consider themselves at war.

Jews run hollywood, we would never let that happen.

It's a story written in a collection of northern european folk tales from centuries ago. It's deeply rooted in german culture specifically.

You think people with german ancestors have lost the plot if they have strong opinions about the worldwide defiling of their culture by a major company, with an entire political tribe having worked toward that goal?

It's like you make a movie about who invented pizza and you make up a black pizzaiolo in Naples as the inventor.

I understand that as an american leftist you have no intrinsic history and culture with significant roots other than very recent events. But other americans to find meaning and purpose in their own ethnic heritage and you would understand that for non whites, why don't you understand that for whites? you think indian-americans would be ok with a movie by a major company on the mahabarata made using finnish actors?

Ofc Ukraine is in an horrible spot. Doesn't mean we are losing. We never tried for a second to make Ukraine be in a good spot. We have tried and succeeded in creating a Vietnam for Russia.

I'm about as German as it gets Luciom. There is a town in Germany that shares my last name

She was probably told by Disney to say what she said and she was 22, you tend to shoot from the hip more at that age. I don't have a problem with race swapping in principal when it's not relevant- Denzel kicked ass as the Equaliser, Morgan Freeman was great in Shawshank and Michael Clarke Duncan wasn't bad as Kingpin in that Daredevil flick- but that said I would agree re forced diversity, as it would take you outa the film. I really wouldn't like to see Ryan Reynolds or Gosling as Blade for example and think having a black actress playing some middle ages English queen was ridiculous. I think the dwarves thing was over Peter Dinklage speaking out against the concept, much to the chagrin of other dwarf actors, who didn't feel Dinklage represented the dwarf acting community.