God I hate this attitude. It’s so obviously wrong and yet people fall for this trap again and again. Stop doing this please, think about it and you’ll realize it’s stupid.

Bro casted familicide

I have no significant private data on my disks. They can be wiped whether encrypted or not if they’re stolen. And I like that in theory if my pc explodes I can recover the data with only the drive.

Hmm, yeah makes sense.

Oh. Yeah I agree that people can tank box office performance by calling a movie woke. My point was that not all criticisms of such a movie are based on its wokeness. I thought that was clearer than I may have made it. Sorry for being a dick about it.

It didn’t matter in the end whether Captaim Marvel was good or bad- I will note that I have looked it up now and both user opinions and professional reviews I am looking up seem to agree in general that it was good and its sequel much less so from everywhere from the IMDB to Rotten Tomatoes- because it was doomed before a screenplay was written.

It surprises me that professional reviews rank them in that order.

His shirt being red referencing the PRC is actually a great non-racist visual connection. And of course they wouldn’t suddenly switch to another caricature; the meme is Pooh, so that’s what they’re going to use.

after admitting I only hoped that was what they meant

Ironically, this was kind of a lie too. I was being nice; I was very sure what they meant (and explained in great detail why my interpretation was the only one that made sense) but I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt until they clarified it since I didn’t feel like drilling that point any more than I already had. There was no hoping or guessing or lying about knowing; I knew.

Edit: It occurs to me that you may not have seen this part of the thread, where they confirm my interpretation, before you made your comment replying to them elsewhere: https://lemmy.world/comment/14530165

If you didn’t mean your comment as an insult, then I apologize for getting hostile. What was the simple concept you were trying to explain to me?

No. Like I said, I think your explanation could also make sense. It’s just not the assumption that I made.

Ok

I’ve said all I need to about the movie thing; if you have any relevant rebuttals I’d be glad to hear them, but I haven’t seen any.

First of all, do I not know or or am I insisting on misinterpreting it? Make up your mind.

It could be both! Who am I to know?

Secondly, I was corrected by you, who wasn’t the one who said it. Did they elect you to speak on their behalf?

Didn’t need to, I correctly identified the only coherent reading of their argument.

Edit: Now they cleared it up. And without being a dick about it. Maybe try learning from them.

I was pretty civil until you said:

I am not sure why you are not getting this simple concept

The reason I was confused is because you didn’t seem to be answering my points, and I was expecting you to.

REAL

I don’t agree that racism is the simplest explanation. I could be wrong, but it isn’t how I’ve seen the image be used.

Once the movie comes out, it’s a different issue, actually.

a movie they have not seen because it hasn’t been made yet.

How can it be both not made yet and have come out already?

I am not sure why you are not getting this simple concept

This coming from the person who doesn’t know that “performance” can mean “profit” and insists on misinterpreting it as the actor-related meaning elsewhere in the thread even after being corrected twice lmao

Asian people don’t actually visually look yellow, that’s just racist charicature. If the comparisons are purely visual then it would be about his weight, especially around his face.

And the comparisons aren’t necessarily only visual. Winnie the Pooh has a well-known personality and behaviors, and as a meme there isn’t necessarily a re-comparison being made every time it’s reposted. Note that Pooh images are more popular than any other comparisons, because it’s an existing meme.

How is that relevant to evaluating someone’s criticisms of the movie?

Thought so, glad we agree

Ok sure. To repeat, though:

Anyways, it’s not like this issue goes away after the movie comes out. People still have opinions and other people still judge if they’re based on anti-woke sentiment or not.

Both are true. What’s your point?

Movie trailers reveal far more than a book cover does.

Anyways, it’s not like this issue goes away after the movie comes out. People still have opinions and other people still judge if they’re based on anti-woke sentiment or not.

You don’t think that it’s insulting to be compared to a goofy character with very low intelligence?