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Selective rage (lemmy.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13588273

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[–] 80 points 1 year ago* (23 children)

Oh it’s even worse than that: they hate live action Ariel because she's “ugly”

sex+race racism is horrifically nasty, yet more common and more “accepted” in my experience.

Also, I will leave this here:

Fortunately, it’s just hypothetical, that live action doesn’t actually exist…

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    I'm sure I'm missing something super obvious, but can you explain the image?

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

    The big panel is a bit clearer:

    Basically the original heroes were vaguely Tibetan (Aang) or dark-skinned Inuit, but for the movie (that doesn't exist) they quite consistently color coded the good guys as white and the bad guys as darker skinned; the total opposite.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I got that part. The part that was confusing me was Aang's "hero" font being a different color than the other two. I think I'm reading too much into it, maybe

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Though the director is South Asian himself, so I guess in a way he did that to increase representation, messed-up as that sounds.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You'll be surprised how many Indians hate other Indians. Not saying M Night does though. I mean just look at how many Indians are in the Trump admin. They get successful and then abandon their roots. Btw I'm Indian.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I don't think it's an Indian hating Indian thing. I think some (often better off) Indians and their families have a propensity to lick the boots of certain evil white people because its what worked out for them during the colonial era.

    There's always going to be people that side with the bad guys and in India's case, for the past few centuries, people that sided with the bad guys often attained wealth and luxury beyond what other Indians had. Even if those bad guys were committing a few genocides along the way.

    It sucks. Its a very "fuck you, got mine" attitude but I can't think anything more American / Western than that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    do you remember the original animated "Lion King"?

    all the voice actors for the Hyenas were black stereotypes...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I’ll give you that for Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), but that’s a big stretch for Banzai (Cheech Marin) and Ed (Jim Cummings). I don’t think Marin can play anything other than a mexican stereotype, and Ed was just a moron.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm sorry but if you think that Zuko is not a hero, you must have sopped watching Avatar after the third episode.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think this is comparing it directly to the movie that doesn't exist where he's 100% not a hero

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