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I don't know if the article mentions this, but she said she didn't even watch it.
Which makes it funny that she thinks they were only making fun of her looks, because they were overwhelmingly making fun of her for killing puppies.
this is practically any conservatives calling thigns woke, never watch trek, or stargate, star wars call it woke, boyz/genV, doctor who too. they only need to hear an characther was gender or raceswapped and they get thier panties in a wad.
Ive got problems with gender/raceswapping for pure pandering reasons. If its at least brought up in the plot (doctor who can be who s/he likes, Miles Morales is a different spiderman etc) its fine.
I mean I usually don't actually care, but the concept does get a strong eye roll.
For many characters the race does not matter - luckily - because they experience stuff everyone can experience. I think it is logical to change "unimportant" aspects of a character, if it helps production.
Depends how realistic and "this is happening in our dimension of reality at this specific time" it is i guess. Maybe there wouldn't be any reason to question why the founding fathers of America in a realistic gritty drama would be black women.
Depends on how invested people are. There are fans of everything. In How to train your dragon their vikings and astride is blonde in the books. Now did they handle it well in the live action yep I think they did. They through a scene in their saying we are not just vikings but people from other kingdoms gathered to fight the dragons paraphrasing obviously. But I thought that was a good node to the fans saying yes it's your story but we tweaked it. And fiction compared to reality I mean BBC casted a black women as one of their queens.
I'd say one problem is also that the characters being "race swapped" are typically the less-important sidekicks or something. "Sure, we can put more color in there - but they can't be too important as characters" seems somehow almost more racist than just following the original stories. Why not swap the main characters if they're going to change things? I don't usually mind, if they put in any effort sometimes the changes improve the story and even the characters themselves.
(And that was a rhetorical question, I know they won't because...... racism usually)
Same, I was really happy when in the newer Spider-Man movies they revealed MJ didn't stand for Mary Jane and she was in fact a different character.
My "problem" with race swapping is it is always said they fit the part the best or something like that, then how come it's always a white character to usually a POC? Like there is never a white person who fit the POC role. But maybe it's because history of white washing in Hollywood. I don't now, but if the shows good who cares.
I think a problem ive got is that it seems like something to hide behind. Make a sequel/remake that definitely doesnt hold a candle to the original and if anybody complains its because theyre racist.
Just seems like a trap.
Oh, I thought she HAD watched it and just was completely okay with the puppy killing, just not the looks
And her stance on arresting people for how they look. Don't forget: if they're brown, they go down.
Oh wow, South Park again just cutting right to the bone 🙄
Because the puppy thing is the worst thing she's done recently.
I mean, she's shown deporting people the whole episode - ICE raids a performance of Dora the Explorer Live.
But the entire credit sequence is her walking into a pet shop and shooting every dog in there.
This new season of South Park seems to be less about roasting authority and more about reaching out to the masses enabling that authority.
In the newest episode, Clyde has a podcast where he spews racism, sexism, and homophobia. Which he explains to Mr. Mackey as an easy way to pay the bills. Mackey gets fired, and joins ICE to do the same. The conclusion they come to after they get invited to Mar-A-Lago is that they need to get out of that shit, and it wasn't a good idea in the first place.
Insults and satire are really just trimmings to South Park's very direct messaging.