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Post by endorbr on Nov 8, 2017 19:14:31 GMT
I continue to be concerned about this movie. It is my FERVENT hope that it will at least be as optional as GoG 2. After watching a trailer for this pre-Thor Ragnarok I'm concerned too. I want to see it but I'm also worried that this is going to turn into some symbolic piece for "blackness" instead of just being a movie with interesting characters and setting as it should be. This movie isn't supposed to be a statement of anything. It's just supposed to be about a reluctant king who has to man up and take his place as both the ruler for his people and their representative superhero. The idea of Wakanda is already ridiculous in the extreme and its not the right kind of ideology that we need to be putting into the public consciousness right now in my opinion; the thought that if white people had just left Africa alone they would have turned the continent into a modern Atlantis (even more advanced than the rest of the world)... you know... if it just weren't for that damn whitey's interference.
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Nov 8, 2017 19:22:41 GMT
I continue to be concerned about this movie. It is my FERVENT hope that it will at least be as optional as GoG 2. After watching a trailer for this pre-Thor Ragnarok I'm concerned too. I want to see it but I'm also worried that this is going to turn into some symbolic piece for "blackness" instead of just being a movie with interesting characters and setting as it should be. This movie isn't supposed to be a statement of anything. It's just supposed to be about a reluctant king who has to man up and take his place as both the ruler for his people and their representative superhero. The idea of Wakanda is already ridiculous in the extreme and its not the right kind of ideology that we need to be putting into the public consciousness right now in my opinion; the thought that if white people had just left Africa alone they would have turned the continent into a modern Atlantis (even more advanced than the rest of the world)... you know... if it just weren't for that damn whitey's interference. I get his point about the accent, and that's sort of benign, but isn't the guy playing his big enemy... doesn't he just have a standard black american accent? I feel like Wakanda itself was a giveaway by Stan Lee back in the day; a tactic to both encourage young black men to buy comics and reward the ones who already did. And I don't really have a problem with Wakanda being portrayed as technologically advanced and self-sufficient but that move has some Star Trek shit in it and let's face it: tech like that could benefit the whole world or AT LEAST the surrounding African countries. Also how does Wakanda get so rich if they don't SELL the invaluable mineral that allegedly made it rich? If most of the world doesn't believe Wakanda exists then why do people even know who he is?
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Post by endorbr on Nov 8, 2017 19:32:14 GMT
After watching a trailer for this pre-Thor Ragnarok I'm concerned too. I want to see it but I'm also worried that this is going to turn into some symbolic piece for "blackness" instead of just being a movie with interesting characters and setting as it should be. This movie isn't supposed to be a statement of anything. It's just supposed to be about a reluctant king who has to man up and take his place as both the ruler for his people and their representative superhero. The idea of Wakanda is already ridiculous in the extreme and its not the right kind of ideology that we need to be putting into the public consciousness right now in my opinion; the thought that if white people had just left Africa alone they would have turned the continent into a modern Atlantis (even more advanced than the rest of the world)... you know... if it just weren't for that damn whitey's interference. I get his point about the accent, and that's sort of benign, but isn't the guy playing his big enemy... doesn't he just have a standard black american accent? I feel like Wakanda itself was a giveaway by Stan Lee back in the day; a tactic to both encourage young black men to buy comics and reward the ones who already did. And I don't really have a problem with Wakanda being portrayed as technologically advanced and self-sufficient but that movie has some Star Trek shit in it and let's face it: tech like that could benefit the whole world or AT LEAST the surrounding African countries. Also how does Wakanda get so rich if they don't SELL the invaluable mineral that allegedly made it rich? If most of the world doesn't believe Wakanda exists then why do people even know who he is? All valid points that sort of destroy the narrative if you think too much about it. How selfish and ridiculous of them to lock themselves away and not help the world. And how did they get to that point if they're not sharing the only resource they have that makes them special?
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Nov 8, 2017 19:37:06 GMT
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Post by endorbr on Nov 8, 2017 19:45:18 GMT
OMG... is this how stupid things have really become? So long as the criticism isn't attacking them for being Jews then it's NOT anti-semitism. Idiots.
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Post by endorbr on Nov 9, 2017 2:16:20 GMT
Women racked up victories across the country Tuesday. It may be only the beginning. "Love" the slant here. Seriously oh the women "won." Okay... but did we the people? That seems to be what they're implying. That America will be better because women... RArrAarrrRrRRR!!! No real talk or consideration in this piece as to whether or not those elected were qualified candidates. No talk about whether or not they actually have any real platform. No talk about whether or not they offered any practical solutions or new ideas to relevant problems. No talk about whether or not they honestly represent the demographics of their voting bloc. Only that it's a victory because they're women, some of them minorities and some LGBT because DIVERSITAY!!! But mainly this says it's a "win" because they aren't white men and because they hate Donald Trump. When did we as a country stop caring about getting the right person for the job? When did it become more important to play diversity politics? When did it become okay in the American consciousness to just blame "old white men" for everything? Any other demographic and this would be considered ageist, sexist and racist.
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Post by endorbr on Nov 9, 2017 4:46:02 GMT
A black student wrote those racist messages that shook the Air Force Academy, school says Well well well. Seems the number of fake racist incidents is growing. So desperate to create a narrative of racism that they're going to make one whether it's really there or not. Its a WaPo article so of course they have to make an effort to discredit the idea that more than a handful of these types of incidents are a hoax. Although they say experts plural and site only one source who I wouldn't believe based on his obvious bias. The guy is the director for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University. Which means he's a professor, he's obviously left leaning and he likely gets grant money to "study" hate crime so it's in his best interest to say it's prevalent. Then they try to site Buzzfeed LOL saying that there were 154 reported incidents of hate speech across 120 campuses yet authorities only caught 5 percent of the perpetrators. Trying to use that to imply that most of these incidents are real. Logic fail. There's no evidence to support either way so you can't just say because we can't prove otherwise they must be real. I can't prove ghosts do or don't exist that doesn't mean they're real. Regardless the people caught in the obvious hoaxes distract from real issues. They waste public resources. They drum up tensions. They make people believe things are real that aren't necessarily true representations. And they muddy the waters for every incident like this that occurs because now no matter what there will always be that thought of what if it's fake...
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Post by endorbr on Nov 9, 2017 15:19:14 GMT
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Post by endorbr on Nov 10, 2017 17:27:12 GMT
Here's an interesting thing to try. Google search "American Inventors" and look at the images that appear across the top of the page. See what you notice.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Nov 10, 2017 18:28:54 GMT
Here's an interesting thing to try. Google search "American Inventors" and look at the images that appear across the top of the page. See what you notice. Most of them are black. As someone said ''Presumably, Google must get a lot of requests for “African American inventors” and assumes that’s what you really meant when you ask for 'American inventors.' After all, what kind of sick Nazi do you have to be to be interested in your fellow Americans irrespective of race? That’s racist! ''
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Post by endorbr on Nov 10, 2017 18:50:53 GMT
Here's an interesting thing to try. Google search "American Inventors" and look at the images that appear across the top of the page. See what you notice. Most of them are black. As someone said ''Presumably, Google must get a lot of requests for “African American inventors” and assumes that’s what you really meant when you ask for 'American inventors.' After all, what kind of sick Nazi do you have to be to be interested in your fellow Americans irrespective of race? That’s racist! '' If you look into the respective backgrounds of the search data it gets even more interesting. Some of those that it pulls aren't even inventors. And the disparity in importance of their inventions and achievements is ridiculous based on how they're presented. You've got guys like Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford, Eli Whitney... guys who helped create inventions like the cotton gin, automation, light bulbs, telephones and other key technological advancements of the last 100+ years and yet they're grouped in much lesser contributions like one of those others you mentioned is the guy who invented the mechanical ice cream scoop. You know, one of these: Google is clearly trying to narrative build with their search engine results.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Nov 11, 2017 4:19:07 GMT
Most of them are black. As someone said ''Presumably, Google must get a lot of requests for “African American inventors” and assumes that’s what you really meant when you ask for 'American inventors.' After all, what kind of sick Nazi do you have to be to be interested in your fellow Americans irrespective of race? That’s racist! '' If you look into the respective backgrounds of the search data it gets even more interesting. Some of those that it pulls aren't even inventors. And the disparity in importance of their inventions and achievements is ridiculous based on how they're presented. You've got guys like Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford, Eli Whitney... guys who helped create inventions like the cotton gin, automation, light bulbs, telephones and other key technological advancements of the last 100+ years and yet they're grouped in much lesser contributions like one of those others you mentioned is the guy who invented the mechanical ice cream scoop. You know, one of these: Google is clearly trying to narrative build with their search engine results. Yep,there's definitely an agenda behind Google's search results. The Wright brothers are listed very low as well,but black people who've invented things that haven't had anywhere near the impact on the world that the inventions of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford,and the Wright brothers have are listed very high.
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Nov 12, 2017 8:24:57 GMT
“The events he describes back in the 1980s simply did not occur,” George Takei wrote, “and I do not know why he has claimed them now. I have wracked [sic] my brain to ask if I remember Mr Brunton, and I cannot say I do.”
So this narrative is accepted if you're a gay activist? Why is this courtesy not afforded anyone else?
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Nov 12, 2017 9:56:07 GMT
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Post by endorbr on Nov 12, 2017 18:10:27 GMT
Shit like this is WHY I quit reading all the Kotaku affiliated sites. It's just pure race baiting they're trying to conceal as intelligent dialogue.
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