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Smear-Gel said:
Azuren said:

The difference is your argument predicates persecution against over-represented identities under the hard left assumption that you can't persecute white straight cis males. Mine is "all persecution is bad". So you can think you're right all you'd like: you're still the one advocating for persecution. I bet you also think Affirmative Action is a good thing.

 

Were people upset, or weren't they? Was the movie good because they made Domino black? Would it have been worse if they had an equally talented white woman play the white character? Do you feel somehow justified that leftist sites liked the blackwashing just as much as the movie itself? 

Didnt I say we arent gonna convince each other? But sure, let's do this I guess. The difference is I think I'm right and you think you're right. A wise man once said "Don't pretend it's more complicated than that."

I'd love to live in a post-discrimination society that allows me to agree with you, beleive me. The Affirmative Action point (I really did guess corectly it would be brought up eventually) just makes me wanna do this even less. In a society in which racial discrimination has never happened, it would be bad. In reality, it isnt. Because minorites not getting equal standing in education is not organic, or natural. And here I am just reiterating my original point that you're looking at this with zero context and history, and looking at any social issue that way is pretty much completely meaningless. Anyways, I'm gonna skip the waste that explaining further would lead to since I dont wanna and just post this.

 

Shifting points in that last part there, but you arent gonna get me that easily, my point was that the biggest problem with ghostbusters was it was poorly made, not the gender change. I countered that by showing a film where the change wasnt universally panned because people liked it. I dont need to start defending points I didnt make here. And like I said, people are going to stop making a big deal about racially diverse media once we are in that idealistic post-discrimination society.

You did. And then you kept asserting that discrimination based on things people can't change is okay, which is bigotry. So how am I supposed to walk away from bigotry claiming to be in the right?

 

We live in about as much of a post-discrimination society as it's going to get. Lines are never going to vanish, because that's just how some people are. But to blanket entire communities and ethnicities with general statements won't help. Assuming that every black man is ironically the short person in your visual aid is soft bigotry, and assuming every white man is the tall one is also a form of bigotry. Everyone has different places they come from. A black kid in Orange county is not worse off than a white kid in Cincinnati. You wanna talk to me about context and history, and then you imply that all black people need help while white people deserve persecution for the color of their skin? So please: continue with the bigoted comments. Maybe post a few more pictures that explain this flawed world view. But maybe one day you'll open your eyes and realize that "holy shit, blaming and persecuting the ancestors of persecutors only perpetuates persecution."

 

And yeah, you kind of walked yourself into a minefield. I already said that the shit comedy played a role in the Ghostbusters movie sucking. Then you proceeded to walk your ideology off of a cliff without realizing. So please, pick a question to answer. Doesn't have to be all of them, I'd just like to see leftist rhetoric collapse under the weight of its own bullshit.

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collint0101 said:
Azuren said:

People are mad for different reasons. Personally, I strongly dislike altering existing and established characters (such as Domino in Deadpool 2, or Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four). It's not always bad, but more often than not it's shameless pandering (a good example of it working would be Nick Fury, though he is based on Ultimate Nick Fury from the Ultimate Marvel line, so he's got precedence).

Johnny storm was like 13 when he first went into space but I haven't heard anyone complain about that. I don't take comic book fans seriously because they only seem to care whenever a change involves race. Changing literally everything about civil war except for captain america punching iron Man is fine and dandy but Valkyrie is played by a brown chick and all hell breaks loose. If that doesn't scream double standard then I don't know what does.

And there wouldn't be a double standard in your case if they made Falcon white, right?

 

Changing age isn't a big deal, since most instance of FF take place during Johnny being an adult, meaning making the movie with a kid would have thrown off the general population who know adult Johnny from the cartoon and comics. Civil War changed in its entirety because Fox owned the mutants, who were a HUGE point of contention and practically the point of Civil War.

 

But do you have any instances of this double standard that aren't super easily debunked?



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Well it looks like things are going your way...

 

Major Studios Released a Historically Low Amount of LGBTQ-Inclusive Films in 2017 — Report

Just 14 titles included identifiably lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer characters, tied for the lowest total since GLAAD began tracking the stats in 2012.

http://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/studios-lgbtq-films-2017-report-glaad-1201967430/

 

 

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DonFerrari said:
PortisheadBiscuit said:
Oh boo hoo, not everything is hetero/white male centric anymore. Who cares? Entertainment is entertainment. If you allow the race, sex, creed, age etc; affect your perception of said entertainment, sounds like a YOU problem

Seems like you didn't read the topic... and also if no one cares then why is it being made? And personal attacks for what reason? Are you going to accuse me of being advocate?

Personal attack? Definitely a stretch

"Who cares" can be used as an idiom, I OBVIOUSLY wasn't using it in a literal sense. 

 



Azuren said:
collint0101 said:

Johnny storm was like 13 when he first went into space but I haven't heard anyone complain about that. I don't take comic book fans seriously because they only seem to care whenever a change involves race. Changing literally everything about civil war except for captain america punching iron Man is fine and dandy but Valkyrie is played by a brown chick and all hell breaks loose. If that doesn't scream double standard then I don't know what does.

And there wouldn't be a double standard in your case if they made Falcon white, right?

 

Changing age isn't a big deal, since most instance of FF take place during Johnny being an adult, meaning making the movie with a kid would have thrown off the general population who know adult Johnny from the cartoon and comics. Civil War changed in its entirety because Fox owned the mutants, who were a HUGE point of contention and practically the point of Civil War.

 

But do you have any instances of this double standard that aren't super easily debunked?

Spiderman wasn't 15 during civil war, planet hulk didn't feature Thor, captain America was supposed to die at the end of civil war ect but I'm sure you're going to twist yourselve in knots trying to justify why all of those changes are fine but making a minor characters like Ben Urich black is the end of the world. 



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When diversity is forced in already established games yeah its annoying. But if brand new games have it from the start it's fine.



Azuren said:

You did. And then you kept asserting that discrimination based on things people can't change is okay, which is bigotry. So how am I supposed to walk away from bigotry claiming to be in the right?

 

We live in about as much of a post-discrimination society as it's going to get. Lines are never going to vanish, because that's just how some people are. But to blanket entire communities and ethnicities with general statements won't help. Assuming that every black man is ironically the short person in your visual aid is soft bigotry, and assuming every white man is the tall one is also a form of bigotry. Everyone has different places they come from. A black kid in Orange county is not worse off than a white kid in Cincinnati. You wanna talk to me about context and history, and then you imply that all black people need help while white people deserve persecution for the color of their skin? So please: continue with the bigoted comments. Maybe post a few more pictures that explain this flawed world view. But maybe one day you'll open your eyes and realize that "holy shit, blaming and persecuting the ancestors of persecutors only perpetuates persecution."

 

And yeah, you kind of walked yourself into a minefield. I already said that the shit comedy played a role in the Ghostbusters movie sucking. Then you proceeded to walk your ideology off of a cliff without realizing. So please, pick a question to answer. Doesn't have to be all of them, I'd just like to see leftist rhetoric collapse under the weight of its own bullshit.

You're losing me here. On all points. This is slowly getting more and more shifted into a conversation I'm not having, that I assume you're more comfortable with. Ive been ignoring your leftist vs right meme because I dont care about that at all, every country has thier own views of what is left or right anyways. I'll probably check out for real now because while discussions are nice, three way discussions with two people are not. You are free to chalk this up as an epik win vs a DESTROYED leftist. I'm trying to be as neutral as possible here but it's pointless when you're veering off into whatever this is.

My perspectives come from the fact that I live in the caribbean, where Ive had to learn about the relationships between countries and races all my life. I certainly disagree that this is as good as it gets. And while you're right in looking at those very specific, individual people, there are still systematic things that affect a group that cant be ignored. Even if literally not every single person is personally affected. And that image is as simple as it gets, so there really is no point going further after that. Also I see you're trying to appeal to emotion by saying stuff like bigotry, discrimination, and the like in the hopes that those names will make me feel bad and come on your side, but that's not happening.

I mean it's pretty easy to walk, I'm walking away from your incorrect points without much harm to my day. Unless you think this thread is more important than I do. Or that I'm exausting my points because I have nothing else to say. Like, you're approaching this from the mindset you are objectively right, which really isnt helpful. Even if I think I'm right, in a conversation like this, asserting this so hard really wont help.

On that last point I have no idea what you're talking about, ive been very clear on what I sad relating to ghostbusters and you keep adding other shit. The biggest reason the movie sucked was the humour. I'm not invested enough to get baited into complaining about other things or latching on to any other points you wanna debate today, find someone else for that.

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collint0101 said:
Azuren said:

And there wouldn't be a double standard in your case if they made Falcon white, right?

 

Changing age isn't a big deal, since most instance of FF take place during Johnny being an adult, meaning making the movie with a kid would have thrown off the general population who know adult Johnny from the cartoon and comics. Civil War changed in its entirety because Fox owned the mutants, who were a HUGE point of contention and practically the point of Civil War.

 

But do you have any instances of this double standard that aren't super easily debunked?

Spiderman wasn't 15 during civil war, planet hulk didn't feature Thor, captain America was supposed to die at the end of civil war ect but I'm sure you're going to twist yourselve in knots trying to justify why all of those changes are fine but making a minor characters like Ben Urich black is the end of the world. 

You keep bringing up age like it's a big deal, but it isn't.

 

Planet Hulk was either not going to happen at all because of Universal, or it was going to be a cameo arc. I'd rather have some than none.

 

You know, you keep circling back around to Civil War, but literally everything wrong with it has to do with the fact that X-Men isn't there. Not having mutants in it changes the entire story from the ground up, which is *gasp* another studio issue. 

 

And I'm sure you'll twist yourself in knots trying to come up with more examples. Maybe you'll start vetting them a bit more, but I'm sure I'll get to repeat the lines about Civil War a few more times. And people don't generally complain about minor characters (unless you consider major characters like Johnny Storm and Domino to actually be minor).



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Azuren said:
collint0101 said:

Spiderman wasn't 15 during civil war, planet hulk didn't feature Thor, captain America was supposed to die at the end of civil war ect but I'm sure you're going to twist yourselve in knots trying to justify why all of those changes are fine but making a minor characters like Ben Urich black is the end of the world. 

You keep bringing up age like it's a big deal, but it isn't.

 

Planet Hulk was either not going to happen at all because of Universal, or it was going to be a cameo arc. I'd rather have some than none.

 

You know, you keep circling back around to Civil War, but literally everything wrong with it has to do with the fact that X-Men isn't there. Not having mutants in it changes the entire story from the ground up, which is *gasp* another studio issue. 

 

And I'm sure you'll twist yourself in knots trying to come up with more examples. Maybe you'll start vetting them a bit more, but I'm sure I'll get to repeat the lines about Civil War a few more times. And people don't generally complain about minor characters (unless you consider major characters like Johnny Storm and Domino to actually be minor).

Ok you want some non civil war examples. Days of future past was about kitty pryde not wolverine, captain marvel didn't show up 20 years before characters like spiderman and iron Man, ant man and wasp were on the original avengers team, Ultron actually managed to stick around for more than a few days and I can easily go on. I honestly can't think of a single super hero movie that accurately follows the comics even in situations where there's no legal reason for them change things but like I said no one cares until they change someone's race. If the internet existed 20 years ago people like you probably would have complained about ultimate Nick fury being a black guy but wouldn't say a word about the dozens of other differences between the ultimate and 616 universe



Smear-Gel said:
Azuren said:

You did. And then you kept asserting that discrimination based on things people can't change is okay, which is bigotry. So how am I supposed to walk away from bigotry claiming to be in the right?

 

We live in about as much of a post-discrimination society as it's going to get. Lines are never going to vanish, because that's just how some people are. But to blanket entire communities and ethnicities with general statements won't help. Assuming that every black man is ironically the short person in your visual aid is soft bigotry, and assuming every white man is the tall one is also a form of bigotry. Everyone has different places they come from. A black kid in Orange county is not worse off than a white kid in Cincinnati. You wanna talk to me about context and history, and then you imply that all black people need help while white people deserve persecution for the color of their skin? So please: continue with the bigoted comments. Maybe post a few more pictures that explain this flawed world view. But maybe one day you'll open your eyes and realize that "holy shit, blaming and persecuting the ancestors of persecutors only perpetuates persecution."

 

And yeah, you kind of walked yourself into a minefield. I already said that the shit comedy played a role in the Ghostbusters movie sucking. Then you proceeded to walk your ideology off of a cliff without realizing. So please, pick a question to answer. Doesn't have to be all of them, I'd just like to see leftist rhetoric collapse under the weight of its own bullshit.

You're losing me here. On all points. This is slowly getting more and more shifted into a conversation I'm not having, that I assume you're more comfortable with. Ive been ignoring your leftist vs right meme because I dont care about that at all, every country has thier own views of what is left or right anyways. I'll probably check out for real now because while discussions are nice, three way discussions with two people are not. You are free to chalk this up as an epik win vs a DESTROYED leftist. I'm trying to be as neutral as possible here but it's pointless when you're veering off into whatever this is.

My perspectives come from the fact that I live in the caribbean, where Ive had to learn about the relationships between countries and races all my life. I certainly disagree that this is as good as it gets. And while you're right in looking at those very specific, individual people, there are still systematic things that affect a group that cant be ignored. Even if literally not every single person is personally affected. And that image is as simple as it gets, so there really is no point going further after that. Also I see you're trying to appeal to emotion by saying stuff like bigotry, discrimination, and the like in the hopes that those names will make me feel bad and come on your side, but that's not happening.

I mean it's pretty easy to walk, I'm walking away from your incorrect points without much harm to my day. Unless you think this thread is more important than I do. Or that I'm exausting my points because I have nothing else to say. Like, you're approaching this from the mindset you are objectively right, which really isnt helpful. Even if I think I'm right, in a conversation like this, asserting this so hard really wont help.

On that last point I have no idea what you're talking about, ive been very clear on what I sad relating to ghostbusters and you keep adding other shit. The biggest reason the movie sucked was the humour. I'm not invested enough to get baited into complaining about other things or latching on to any other points you wanna debate today, find someone else for that.

If you don't want to be a "DESTROYED LEFTIST", then start making arguments that aren't steeped in racial or gender bigotry. Because if you come at me with that bullshit, I'm gonna slap it down every time for the bigotry that it is.

 

Also, I think you mean systemic, since that would refer to things like racism that exist in clear opposition to the law. Systemically, there's only one group of people with laws specifically passed against their favor (in America, at least), and that's men. And I'm not using terms like bigot and racist to sway you; that's just what things that you're defending are. If you're going to say it's okay for a black person to play a white character but not the other way around, then congratulations: that's racism. Argue it all you want, that's what it is.

 

And yeah, I suppose it would be easy for someone who knows he's wrong deep down to walk away. I mean, if I felt somewhere in my heart that "Maybe that's not racist", I would gradually move away from the conversation. But no, instead there's someone insisting on something that matches the definition of racism to a tee isn't actually racism, but is only fair.

 

Yeah, and then I asked very simple questions that, upon answering one truthfully, would see your entire ideology collapse on top of you.



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