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   Leyonhjelm :ek2_ribbon: (leyonhjelm@social.lovingexpressions.net)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 12:17:13 JST Leyonhjelm :ek2_ribbon:

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   Nobody does. They depend on us being too polite to say it, and if you point out flaws in their fiction they deflect and say you're using a racist dog whistle. I'm older than I used to be and I don't have the energy to keep my mouth shut. I'll get punched in the face eventually but I won't regret it.
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     Leyonhjelm :ek2_ribbon: (leyonhjelm@social.lovingexpressions.net)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 12:17:14 JST Leyonhjelm :ek2_ribbon:

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     @Moon I have a more positive view of fictional black people made in 1936 than I do of fictional black people made now, as the few fictional black people they didn't write out of filming back then were at least good people at heart.
     
     Now they want to make everyone an antihero and pretend they were a regular hero, a role model even
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 12:17:14 JST Sexy Moon

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     @Leyonhjelm i didn't want to say it out loud
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 12:17:15 JST Sexy Moon

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     i am not black so i can't comment on it from the perspective of a significant portion of people though who obviously deserve to have extra weight to their opinion on it.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 12:17:15 JST Sexy Moon

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     i think what made the movie harmful in context was that it was part of a dominant view of black people by white people. in 2023 the world and the media landscape is so different that if you watched it and somehow formed a harmful view of black people from it you're probably mentally retarded.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 12:17:16 JST Sexy Moon

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     however it presents african american folklore as creative and valuable and the characters are kind and sympathetic.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 12:17:16 JST Sexy Moon

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     we are in an awkward situation where an archaic racist movie is more beautiful and human than many new ones that take care to not be harmful
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2023 12:17:17 JST Sexy Moon
     thoughts about song of the south are complex. obviously it has inscribed in it archetypal caricatures of black people compared to white characters that are presented as "normal"