• TimeTraveler@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Is it a pattern for right-wing people to attack films, series and animations with protagonists from minority groups? Or is this an exaggeration?

    Fixed it for you

    The answer is “yes, no exaggeration!” To both

    If they aren’t white, straight man, then it’s a DEI hire

    If it’s the person is a white, straight man, then it’s that they have to work with people that aren’t

    We’re going back to Shakespearean times when only men could be on stage

    • dukeofdummies@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      In their defense, there are no stupid questions in this community.

      …Although yeah that is hella repetitive. If I’m looking at their history right they haven’t talked about a single other thing for the last 3 months. Not even comments or a random

      You uh, you doing a study or something Hickak? There an answer you’re looking for specifically?

  • TheFogan@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    The only “grain of truth” I would say to the “woke movies” claims etc… Is that sometimes, studios will use minority casting, as a substitute for coming up with a good story or doing anything actually original in the plot. IE a shit movie with a diverse cast is still a shit movie.

    I would suppose it also ties down to the fact that, actually trying to represent more people as a push, also started around the time that, movie costs scaled up so much that investors aren’t willing to go in on a movie that isn’t a sequel or remake of something that everyone has already seen. Movies now are more diverse, and 90% of them are crap, but the correlation isn’t causation, and that’s demonstrable by the fact that movies that have all straight white characters, are as bland and unoriginal as the ones that the right blames DEI for why they suck.

    But yes… in short DEI, affirmative action, and whatever they called it before has always been the scapegoat for why everything gets worse.

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    5 months ago

    Yes to both. Yes, RWNJs do carry on about it all the time. But there is also a lot of fake outrage about things that either did not happen or were only brought up by a few people.

    Pretty much every social media and news post where somebody “slams” something or someone has a high chance of either being completely made up or came from a 4chan thread.