I feel like most of the people mad at her assume that Raya has mostly Asian American creative behind it. I've seen takes on Twitter saying that shes denigrating the accomplishments of asian Americans in Hollywood or something.
Literally all of the directors and producers for Raya are non asian and like 5/7 writers are non Asian too.
That's a real conversation that people should be having. Disney these days is producing these movies inspired by various poc cultures, and they bring on like, 1 or 2 people from that culture to be like tokens. Literally go and look at the IMDb for Moana, Soul or Coco. Look at writers, directors, producers. Mostly whites, 1 or 2 people from the culture depicted
I feel like most of the people mad at her assume that Raya has mostly Asian American creative behind it. I've seen takes on Twitter saying that shes denigrating the accomplishments of asian Americans in Hollywood or something.
Literally all of the directors and producers for Raya are non asian and like 5/7 writers are non Asian too.
That's a real conversation that people should be having. Disney these days is producing these movies inspired by various poc cultures, and they bring on like, 1 or 2 people from that culture to be like tokens. Literally go and look at the IMDb for Moana, Soul or Coco. Look at writers, directors, producers. Mostly whites, 1 or 2 people from the culture depicted