(I swear didn't watch it I just scrubbed through it please don't take me to the gulag)

EDIT: Link, in case you have an hour and forty minutes and hate yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7aWz8q_IM4

        • zukai12_ [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Was what she said racist ?

          Like , loads of people had made the same comparison

            • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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              4 years ago

              Extremely online Twitter people taking the worst possible interpretation of something and demanding you apologise for saying something you didn't say.

              Yeah, no.

              And "made by Asian people" is a bit of a stretch when at most the screenplay was done by them. Theres likes 7 story writers attached and it was directed by a Mexican and a white guy. Seriously, go actually look at who made this.

              It's good, of course, that Asian people actually get some representation in these movies but this is still a corporate Disney product at the end of the day. It's good it's not just white guys making these movies using these cultures they don't really understand but framing it that way feels disingenuous.

              And it wasn't a point at the look or the cultures but more the very obvious use of the "there are X people and now the world is bad and they aren't at peace any more and only this one person/dragon can unite them".

              Unless you think her point was her being like "uhh, Asian people again? I've seen this before with Avatar".

              • joseph [he/him, they/them]
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                4 years ago

                Also, let's not forget that this drama appears to have started with the recent uptick in anti-Asian (particularly sinophobic) violence. Reacting to that by going after a lib for tweets instead of the US government manufacturing support for war in Asia seems like a poor use of time.

            • camaron28 [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Oh no, did someone "attack" the corporate product where less than half of the producers, no directors and 1 voice actor were asian? Oh no.

        • RowPin [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          The video has her quote Raya's screenwriter & numerous sources around the film who say they know their film will be compared to ATLA and don't mind the comparison.

        • StLangoustine [any]
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          4 years ago

          I mean, making two hour videos is how she makes money. This one will probably get more views than the rest. People love drama.

    • Christ_Lover [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Also watched Raya and the Last Dragon and I think we need to come up with a name for this genre that is basically Avatar: the Last Airbender reduxes. It’s like half of all YA fantasy published in the last few years anyway

      "This thing is thematically like this thing"

      is totally, 100% equals to

      "This thing is thematically like this thing because it takes place in Asian themed world"

      • Christ_Lover [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        By extension, Twitter contorts it into:

        "I see Asian people in one piece of media and in another piece of media, which means that those things are equal. As a cultural critic that focuses on media criticism, I see similarities only based on race and on nothing else. Raya and Avatar are the same because they contain Asian people."

        Which is absurd