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1. of nothing (apropos@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 02:12:14 JST of nothing
   The centrist take on race swapping (black little mermaid, black doctor who) is that it's distinctly white supremacist
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   • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 02:12:14 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite

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     @apropos In a sense it is, because it reflects a belief that blacks can't create their own equally iconic characters and have to steal from white people.
   • of nothing (apropos@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 02:38:58 JST of nothing

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     • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite
     @ArdainianRight I don't think he's wrong. Or that "Dems are the real racists", or that if you "imagine if the roles were reversed!" you wouldn't more clearly see a problem at hand.
     
     His problem is rhetorical and not logical. The arguments are fine. Hollywood really *isn't* giving me anybody else's stories. Not even Jewish stories, apart from the Holocaust. Maybe Jackie Chan or Ice-T barely counts. But
     1. Sargon isn't one of these nonwhite people and he doesn't have any responsibility or role in telling their stories, so it's absurd that this is what he cares about.
     2. Race-swapping isn't honest. They're not accidentally failing to tell black stories. It's just an attack on white people, it comes from malice. Telling a malicious party how achieve some non-goals more effectively isn't going to change their behavior.
     3. If the conversation is "Hollywood: whites should be removed for representation" vs. "Sargon: you should better tell stories about non-white people", the biggest impression on the audience is that it's bad to tell stories with white people. The two sides share the same problem of stories being told about white people, and they only have different solutions to that problem.
     
     To be fair this is just a tweet, and it's something you can remember and deploy when it seems to be actually useful, rather than let take over the discussion. And I think the best example is the live action Aladdin remake: because Disney bastardized a western product, Aladdin was *not* a Bollywood movie, but in the end credits you get a Bollywood-style dance number that shows what the crew would've actually liked to have done. Why not let them make a Bollywood movie? It can even still be a retelling of Aladdin, it should just be an honest retelling.
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