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06-22-2021, 07:01 PM | #241 |
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I'm not saying Larry Hama was racist. I was saying the decision to make Snake Eyes a white dude originally may have been a symptom of systemic racism. Ugh. I'll stop. Apparently the education I was giving was glossed over, I had hoped for better honestly, but thats fine. Systemic racism exists whether people want to believe it does or not. There's either accepting that as fact or there isn't. And racism can only exist when you are actively oppression another person. So it's physically impossible for me to be racist by saying systemic racism existed in the decisions that were made, in the past, or now. I was waxing philosophically as well as psychologically as on this topic and hoping to encourage people to seriously consider why it really mattered to them whether Snake Eyes was causasian or not. I would explain further but see there's no need.
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06-22-2021, 07:02 PM | #242 |
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06-22-2021, 07:19 PM | #243 |
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06-22-2021, 07:20 PM | #244 |
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I'm not saying Larry Hama was racist. I was saying the decision to make Snake Eyes a white dude originally may have been a symptom of systemic racism. Ugh. I'll stop. Apparently the education I was giving was glossed over, I had hoped for better honestly, but thats fine. Systemic racism exists whether people want to believe it does or not. There's either accepting that as fact or there isn't. And racism can only exist when you are actively oppression another person. So it's physically impossible for me to be racist by saying systemic racism existed in the decisions that were made, in the past, or now. I was waxing philosophically as well as psychologically as on this topic and hoping to encourage people to seriously consider why it really mattered to them whether Snake Eyes was causasian or not. I would explain further but see there's no need.
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06-22-2021, 07:38 PM | #245 |
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I am late to the party on this, but did we all notice how they PCed the US trailer by calling Cobra a "shadow organization", and in the international they called it a "terrorist organization"?
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06-22-2021, 07:45 PM | #246 |
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I wonder if there will be alternate scenes in the international version since it seems the Cobra briefing has almost totally different lines in the two trailers. What's weird is that I thought we started dropping references like this to appeal to global audiences and it's the international version that is preserving them.
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Not surprising (the change in definition, not your being late to the party). I still like how Renegades modeled Cobra after Amazon/Wal*mart, but it's hard to tone down the villainy of Cobra given some of their nicknames, schemes, and outfits.
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06-22-2021, 07:50 PM | #249 |
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It's because other countries don't give a crap about American PC nonsense.
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06-22-2021, 07:58 PM | #250 |
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Look, it's not that we here don't believe systematic racism exists. Of course it exists. It's all over the place. It was then. It is now. We get it. We have no proof that systematic racism was a contributing factor in any decisions that Hasbro made and we can't go on assuming that racism played a role in any decisions Hasbro made, toywise, comic wise, or cartoon wise. Because then you are perpetrating the exact same racist attitude that you speak out against by assuming that just because white characters had more exposure than other races because Hasbro was being controlled by the "white man". So can we please put this issue to rest while we are talking about make believe shit. That topic is just going to conjure up alot of unnecessary arguments.
I'm not taking anything anyone said personally and hope no one does either. I'm not calling out specific people but talking generally speaking. These are uncomfortable topics as they should be and its important to have them otherwise we continue to let issues slide we should no longer tolerate as a society. People can dismiss what I'm saying however they want. It's not my job to manage other people's feelings or reactions to the words I'm saying. And if someone wants to put me on ignore thats ok too. I won't lose any sleep over it. |
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