I submit The Post (2017), which is all about a fabulously wealthy, heroic girlboss newspaper executive taking on a crooked president threatening our democracy (take THAT drumpf)

  • Tittyskittles [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    WW84 is peak liberalism. Gal Gadot is the liberal female Uber mensch. She’s Israeli(so POC without being too dark ), is an archeologist at a prestigious museum(total girl boss in a totally relatable job), and most importantly delivers a message of “don’t wish for better things because something worse might happen” . That last part is going to be the reoccurring theme in all mainstream culture for the next four years.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      She’s Israeli(so POC

      I don't fucking understand how Americans come up with these categories. Apparently POC contains everyone who isn't a bleach white WASP with a red face? I really can't figure it out, I have no idea how Jewish people are POC and I can never figure out if someone is jewish just by looking at them. Then again we're talking about the same people that used to think Italians aren't white and still think latino is a race. It's so confusing.

      EDIT: I also recently found out that Varoufakis was spokesperson for the Black Students Union of LSE which is fucking hilarious and shows that it's not just Americans who have incredible race brainworms.

      • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        There are different definitions of Judaism, none of which is “racial.” I would categorize them as:

        1. Self- identity
        2. Observing Jewish practices, and
        3. Familial

        Jewish populations end up containing an admixture of local and middle eastern genetics, depending on location.

      • MarxistHedonism [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I’m Jewish and I’ve never heard of us being called POC. Like we’re a minority but it’s separate from race.

        I do know there are some people who put their race as Other on forms, but I’ve always put white.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah idk these terms have become so weird and confused and all the debates about them make my little brain hurt :(

          • read_freire [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            Apparently POC contains everyone who isn’t a bleach white WASP with a red face?

            depends

            if there were no other visibly different people, white supremacist saxons would see angles as inherently inferior, or something like that

            today on turtle island being ambiguously beige is enough to qualify, but those folks can pass as white too (including wonder woman)

            which makes her the perfect lib idpol poc superhero

      • Wogre [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It's because she and isrealis in general are olive skinned, and depending on who you ask that's not white. I'm a pasty-white jew and you can easily tell the difference between me and the israelis I know.

    • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      gagh that movie sucked

      imagine having a plot that gets started by an oil man not having oil but placing it in 84, it's not like that's a real life thing that happened a decade before that or anything