Pirate Radar posted:

Only if it's chatting with extreme prejudice

Cease to Hope posted:

zootopia does that weird thing genre flicks do when they tell race allegories by making the metaphoric equivalent of a hated and feared minority literally dangerous

Furnaceface posted:

Of course the crappy Disney movie won best animated film and not Kubo and the Two Strings.

Cease to Hope posted:

zootopia does that weird thing genre flicks do when they tell race allegories by making the metaphoric equivalent of a hated and feared minority literally dangerous

Cease to Hope posted:

zootopia does that weird thing genre flicks do when they tell race allegories by making the metaphoric equivalent of a hated and feared minority literally dangerous

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Scientific racism is wrong, not because it is impolite or even discriminatory and oppressive. It is wrong because it is scientifically invalid. There is no biological basis for human racial classifications, in spite of continued efforts on behalf of scientists to find it (seriously, dozens of studies are published every year). Racial categories are instead, to use a popular term, social constructs, meaning that they are products of human history, specifically, a history of violent oppression that erected a caste system of racialized populations that continues to be reproduced institutionally and ideologically to this day. Race is real, but not at the level of biological essence, therefore racism can be abolished along with specious racial categories through human endeavor. The social constructionist answer to why racism is wrong is not simply that it is immoral, although it obviously is. It’s that racial categories are ultimately arbitrary, created and recreated by exploitative systems, without any basis in genetics or any other biological ontology. The old nostrum that, deep down, we’re all the same, is, in this sense, absolutely true, and a powerful weapon against racist ideology.

However, in Zootopia this is not the case. As even the children who are ostensibly the film’s target market could tell you, there absolutely is a biological difference in the various animal species, and so the racialized categories the film imposes on them works in a very different way. These racial categories are backed up by biology, even if Zootopia’s liberal society has obviated these racial distinctions (though physical size still seems to matter, there are zero interracial couples, and there is a racialized division of labor — sloths at the DMV). If someone were to say, as people have and continue to do, that there is a “biological component” to criminal activity committed by black people, they would be wrong, because there is no biological component to blackness. However, in Zootopia, relying upon biological explanations has an element of plausibility, because at one point predatory species did kill and consume other animals, as is their nature. As a youth, Judy performs this primal scene in a play.

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

except the predators tended to dominate the power structure of the city? the story seemed written in such a way to purposely prevent a simple one to one metaphor

exmarx posted:

'racism is over, because we had a lion president'

Bueno Papi posted:

The Lion King is Shakespearean.

mandatory lesbian posted:

it's hamlet right?

Bueno Papi posted:

I assume so. It literally just hit me when I read exmarx's post. It's probably already been a known factor since forever but my dumb rear end never read about it.

Pirate Radar posted:

Are Timon and Pumba there to represent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, then?

Rodatose posted:

yeah, and lion king one and a half was a riff off rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

lion king two was romeo and juliet i think

Rodatose posted:

yeah, and lion king one and a half was a riff off rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

lion king two was romeo and juliet i think

Avshalom posted:

i'm a lion king lear

Majorian posted:

I want them to do one that's secretly all three parts of "Henry VI." Just a total bummer.

Pirate Radar posted:

Next year's Oscars will be swept by your visionary film The Lion King and I, a gripping story about you and Ariel

mandatory lesbian posted:

my first name is the most common name for american boys born in 1991

Absurd Alhazred posted:

"Ya" is never "oo". You might not be able to distinguish between "ya" and "waw", but that's a whole other issue.

My name is actually very uncommon even in Hebrew, and is extremely difficult for English-speakers to pronounce.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Pull me under, I'm not afraid.

exmarx posted:

my mac book pro with touch bar arrived 🤡

exmarx posted:

my mac book pro with touch bar arrived 🤡

Avshalom posted:

Avshalom posted:

cinci zoo sniper posted:

https://twitter.com/colincampbell/status/835981327853830145

cinci zoo sniper posted:

https://twitter.com/colincampbell/status/835981327853830145

Volkerball posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxX2IkwrCLg

Cease to Hope posted:

zootopia does that weird thing genre flicks do when they tell race allegories by making the metaphoric equivalent of a hated and feared minority literally dangerous

Avshalom posted:

i'm a lion king lear

Randler posted:

We need an Uber for guillotines, imo

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/27/silicon-aa-cost-of-living-crisis-has-americas-highest-paid-feeling-poor