• Vespair@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    Yeah man, we all understood that the first time around when it was called Fern Gully.

    Like Avatar if you want but like… it is not a deep piece of media with hard-to-discern messaging. Shit is pretty clear.

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      One time I unmatched someone from a dating app because the second avatar movie was coming out and they said that it was weird of me to say that the alien people were supposed to represent Native Americans because “they’re just blue aliens why would you compare them to real life?”

      Apparently media literacy makes you a weirdo?

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      4 hours ago

      Fucking Tarzan was fighting evil white exploiters of pristine Africa in books back in the early 1900s.

      A good white saviour from the evil white people, because the indigenous can’t do it for themselves. Just like in Ferngully and Avatar.

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        I can’t decide if I should post the “wait, it’s all the failures of capitalism?” or “wait, it’s all systemic racism?” meme, cuz it’s wait it’s all both (always has been).