If there wasn't a double standard in Hollywood right now they'd have no standards at all.
We're told stories like Moana off limits to cultural tampering while western myths like The Odyssey are just fiction and representation shouldn't matter it all.
"It's just a myth chuds."
"It never happened."
"The myth is so universal you can cast whoever you want it doesn't change the story."
Moana never existed so why does representation matter? Maui is a folk hero therefore he could be any color. The island of Motunui is entirely made up so why not shoot it off the coast of Croatia?
The same people who foam at the mouth about legitimate concerns with The Odyssey's casting will either ignore this double standard or praise it.
The double standard is that Hollywood treating non-Western folklore with a hyperfixated reverence for cultural accuracy, while treating Western classical text like an open-source sandbox anyone can play in. History and regional identity can be entirely erased because "it's fiction, chud." As long as it's a western myth it can be bent, pillaged, subverted, and sacrificed for the sake of progressive inclusivity.
You don't get to argue that lineage is sacred for one culture's myths and completely irrelevant for another's just because it fits a corporate marketing narrative and makes you feel like a good person.
Crazy how representation matters in a fictional story set within Polynesian culture but if you ask for the same treatment with The Odyssey & Greeks they lose their goddamn minds
An American team has completed repairs to one of the runways at the Simon Bolivar Caracas International Airport, and it is operational, senior State Department official tells reporters. Says C-17s are landing now, and hopefully mobile hospitals will arrive today.
Also says Miami county and city search and rescue teams arriving at 12pm. #Venezuela
No musicalicen los videos de los testimonios que están recogiendo del terremoto en Venezuela. Es de muy mal gusto, poco profesional y falto de ética.
La tragedia habla por sí misma.
Todo lo que creen saber sobre marcadeo digital y apelaciones a la emoción está MAL.
Señores por favor, estamos ante un tragedia, eviten publicar pendejeadas, el balance en vidas será alto, si Ud se asusto mucho, dele gracias a Dios por la vida y trate con respeto y prudencia el momento
Coñodelamadre, vale. Que alguien pare a Nelson Bocaranda. Ese trimardito en lugar de INFORMAR para que las personas puedan saber sobre la situación y tomar las mejores desiciones después del terremoto, lo que hace es postear videos por puro engagement. Y les dicen periodistas.
Muslim countries that support today's U.S strike on Iran: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, UAE, Bahrain
Muslim countries that DO NOT support today's U.S. strike on Iran: France, United Kingdom
Think of just how improbable it is for this many global companies to select Indians as CEOs by pure merit
For this to happen, Indians would have to be so much more competent than Whites, Asians, Jews, etc that they dominate all measures of performance
Instead:
- Highest rank at ICPC international programming contest: 59 out of 144
- Highest performance on PISA international school testing: 73 out of 74
- Number of notable Indian game studios: 0
- Number of globally recognizable megacorps originating in India: 0
- Number of academic Nobel Prizes won by Indians in India in the last 25 years: 0
Now repeat this test for Whites or Asians and you get the exact pattern you would expect
Indians simply took over these companies through nepotistic fraud, on a scale few are able to comprehend