Gina Carano getting fired is symptomatic of a changing cultural environment The charge that BLM protests have "getting celebrities fired" as a primary goal is a ridiculous strawman
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I really hate this confected narrative about how activists today only care about silly superficial social issues that those serious grownup activists of the past wisely ignored It's garbage on both counts
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The people BLM activists largely want fired are police officers who've shot unarmed Black people For the same reason the 70s Civil Rights Movement wanted such people fired - as a prelude to large-scale policy change
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Getting rid of racist celebrities is a side effect that happens along the way No one I know thinks of it as some kind of primary organizing goal or spends more time on it individually than writing a snarky tweet Doesn't make it a BAD THING
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Yes, actually, if you look at history, "cancel culture" was not somehow invented in 2015 People have always gotten pissed off at some bigot attaining fame and fortune as a slap in the face to their community Sometimes their complaints even get heard, usually they don't
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I once went researching the history of The Diary of Anne Frank and found a surprisingly "modern-feeling" controversy about the 1959 film adaptation The ADL "tried to cancel" Austrian actress Gusti Huber, who'd portrayed Mrs Frank on Broadway and reprised the role in the film
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Because she did, in fact, have close ties to members of the Nazi regime and had gladly appeared in Nazi propaganda films in the 30s and 40s, before whitewashing her past and reinventing herself as an anti-Nazi resister after the war
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They had a petition and they picketed the shoot and everything Ultimately didn't come to much, the movie was still a huge hit and now it's like one paragraph on Huber's Wikipedia page
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You could argue it's not a big deal - Huber never killed anyone herself, everyone is long dead now, the movie "stands on its own", etc But I dunno, I'm still fucking pissed that some Nazi actress played Anne Frank's mom
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More importantly, I'm not gonna go back in time and tell the actual Holocaust survivors who were there in 1958 they were wrong to be upset, that you've got to separate art from the artist, that these cultural issues are downstream of real politics What kind of an asshole would
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Jfc You try to invoke MLK to make your point and turn him into this caricature of a class-forster, like he'd scoff at "cultural issues" mattering But at the same time he was radicalizing re: economic issues he was ALSO radicalizing on "cultural issues"
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His SCLC speech in 1967, "Where Do We Go From Here?" which is almost as much of a Rorschach blot in the hands of later commentators as "I Have A Dream", nevertheless makes it VERY clear he sees Black liberation as a cultural/personal/spiritual quest as much as a matter of policy
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Conservatives mocked the "Black Is Beautiful" slogan of the later Black Power movement and Jesse Jackson's "I Am Somebody" but they both come from this same big capstone speech from MLK himselfpic.twitter.com/yji6evqVm7
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