For years, Steve Freitag and his San Francisco Virgin America gate crew coworkers have been having a bit of fun with the messages on the gate signs. [x]
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If you didn’t get the hint, I really, really hate MCU. I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, but what Marvel has done is way too personal for me to be quiet. The one thing I will force upon you with all my heart, is my pure hatred of the Doctor Strange movie. I’m begging you, please boycott Doctor Strange.
What Marvel is doing with this film is inexcusable. I’m Tibetan, and I grew up in America as a child of refugees. My father was a fan of Marvel comics as a child, and one of his favorite stories was Doctor Strange’s, because of his connection to our homeland, Tibet. The Ancient One was a high Tibetan lama who taught Doctor Strange the art of magic. You might think Marvel’s only crime is whitewashing him, but its a lot worse then that. tl;dr Marvel blatantly turned the Ancient One into a white woman, as well as changed Doctor Strange’s original setting of Tibet to Nepal, in order to avoid any involvement with Tibet’s current politics (aka oppression) with Communist China.
The reason my parents are refugees is because of the Chinese genocide of Tibetans. Tibet is a country occupied by China, and is one of the most oppressed countries in the world. You probably don’t know much about it because China’s position as a global superpower as well as the government’s complete control of media and news. There is no freedom of speech in all of China, therefore national censorship is extremely common and no one who isn’t involved really knows anything. China pretends that all Tibetans are happy and they really do not like anyone even mentioning the Tibet situation, especially outsiders.
Marvel knows this, one of their main markets is their viewers in China. China has banned a lot of foreign films for long periods of time because of even slight implications of Tibetan oppression (ex: the Avatar the Last Airbender movie). Doctor Strange could get banned if they included Tibet, meaning millions lost. Why bother risking loosing money from China when you can just whitewash everything to cover it up? This is Marvel’s direct statement that they care more about money then human rights, and I’m honestly not surprised. This has always happened, and it will happen again. Literally no one gives a fuck about Tibetans, I’ve seen it happen all my life. Westerners and the Chinese government alike want to hide our oppression, hide our culture until it makes them money, and hide our millions of deaths and losses. If you do happen to be one of the few who do care, please, please, do not support this film and boycott Doctor Strange.
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when dr. strange flops:
Why do y’all want dr strange to flop? What I miss?
it’s racist! more at 11
Hold up, how??? I really need to know because I want to go see this movie but I’m not spending my money to go see it if it’s racist. Can someone explain?
1) b*nedict c*mberbatch
2) it’s a story heavily influenced by asian culture and there ain’t a damn asian in this shitshow but they are being used as part of the backdrop
3) the costumes are racist, like shyamalan’s the last airbender level racist
4) an explicitly tibetan character being played by a white english actress
For @ztrek808:
- Another Day, Another White Guy at Marvel: Benedict Cumberbatch to play Dr. Strange
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Another Day, Another Whitewash: Tilda Swinton in Talks with Marvel to Play Asian Character in Dr. Strange
- Not Your Asian Ninja: How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Keeps Failing Asian-Americans
- Hollywood’s Strange Erasure of Asian Characters
These help sum up some of Marvel’s overall problems with Asian characters and help outline how Dr. Strange contributes to racist stereotypes about East Asian peoples, cultural appropriation, and whitewashing. So far, in MCU the only decent Asian representation is on Agents of SHIELD where Daisy Johnson (a major character in the comics) isn’t acknowledged in the larger universe. Other than her and Melinda, Marvel’s Asian representation is truly reprehensible.
Do not pay money to see this. Do not.
in honor of the shitterific trailer being released today, let’s bring back the receipts :)
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women just keep on ruining science fiction
Those shoes look sensible, even if they have a heel.
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The past is rarely as we imagine it.
As a medieval scholar I can confirm this us 100% accurate and 1000% adorable
“Back in the day” frequently doesn’t mean what the people who say “back in the day” would like it to mean…
This is a great explanation of all that AND done with SUCH A DARN CUTE LITTLE FRIAR. look at his little expressions! it’s the cutest!!!
Paul had a lot of weird hangups.
Paul was a Roman. ‘Nuff said!
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Due to a statute of limitations, former GOP Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert won’t face sex abuse charges for allegedly molesting students while he was a high school wrestling coach.
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vox day, eric raymond, and the lambda conference blacklist | Crime and the Blog of Evil
vox day, eric raymond, and the lambda conference blacklist | Crime and the Blog of Evil
Neofascist Vox Day, software developer Eric Raymond, the white supremacist on the Horror Writers Association awards panel, the Lambda Conference blacklist, and what this clusterfuck of horrible people all have to do with each other.
Okay, I just had someone in comments elsewhere tell me that they didn’t think Moldbug/Yarvin was a white supremacist? So here he is endorsing the genetic superiority of Western Europeans over Africans, and endorsing race slavery. If that’s not fucking White Supremacy, I don’t even know how to talk to you.
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Bomani Jones wore a shirt mocking the Cleveland Indians live on ESPN
On Thursday morning, Bomani filled in for Mike Golic on Mike & Mike wearing a T-shirt that imitated the highly contentious Cleveland Indians mascot — but with a white figure and the word “Caucasians.” The white outrage rolled in, with Bomani taking the time to expertly shut down one troll.
As someone who grew up in Cleveland, where Chief Wahoo was normalized, I approve of Bomani’s t-shirt. It’s about time.
I think the shirt is great!
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In the years before…
…when the internet was young[1] I used to collect the odd video. You’d find some bizarre things out there. They’d be uploaded in all their 320×240 glory, usually in mpeg or flv format… It’s not a massive collection, and mainly these things can now be streamed on youtube in vastly higher quality. But I have discovered since resurrecting my media server that something is f’ked up in the flv player on our media player. The speed is hideously variable. It actually makes me feel quite nauseous to listen to any of them. I’ve also got some videos that were sent to me by a nice person who worked at a record label – when they were being sold / closed.
Ugh.
In other related news, as you might gather the server is up and working. The files are mainly where they belong. Some stuff seems to have disappeared and will need to be reripped :(
I want to add some stuff for privacy purposes… I’m gradually trying to move towards behaving like the privacy aware citizen I am, but having installed a VPN I found I couldn’t get either Plex or Subsonic working. Trying to persuade port-forwarding to work with a VPN is quite challenging. I’m aware this would reduce the security of the connection, but… I am trying to hit a nice point between security and insanity.
[1] well, ish.
