The writing has long been on the wall.
I agree more nuance is needed, but I'd like people to just be more aware that those conflicts are, and have been going on, in the first place. Again, not to disgree, with any of your points. /2
Good post. I agree on the nuance past, as you well know. That said, sometimes I'm just a bit shocked when the conflicts in Africa (and some other parts of the world) are mentioned at all. They are so rarely reported and so often forgotten by news agencies, and thus, by the occupants of the US. 1/
that one of the reasons Andor was so good is that the characters' inevitable death in Rogue One freed the writer's from trying to make the show endlessly open-ended. They left room for more but not to the same extent as other shows/films. /3
franchises leave casual fans to be filled by friends, doing Google bldeep dives, finding time to watch what they missed, or just saying "fuck it!" Disney is also trying to entice people to the next thing rather than focusing on the story in front of them. I suspect 2/
Ahsoka and Sabine are my two favorite Star Wars characters, but the series highlight what, for me, seems a major failing of current Star Wars (and Marvel) shows and films. The series ends with several deep cuts that require knowledge of at least two other shows to fully understand. These 1/
The inclusion of links to the Haitian Revolution in Castlevaina is cool. It's a criminally undertaught facet of history. The Revolution terrified US slave owners who feared it might be repeated here. So, little wonder that, like today, it's an event some would rather erase.
Some human beings disgust me in ways I can't put into words www.cnn.com/travel/sycam...
Hey @openai.bsky.social I made longer post over on the platform formerly known as Twitter asking why your algorithm erases African American history and flags it as content that violates your policies? We were the ones violated and you're contributing to that through erasure.
