Honestly, every time I've asked someone to explain how the metaphor in Zootopia supposedly doesn't work it ends with me...
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Replying to @SecretGamerGrrl @arthur_affect
just shaking my head at someone who doesn't see schools teaching that predators were hostile savage brutes before enlightened
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Replying to @SecretGamerGrrl @arthur_affect
herbivores helped civilize them as part of the overall metaphor. Or rather, they don't get that the main character passing on
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Replying to @SecretGamerGrrl @arthur_affect
But in the movie the "predators" are literally predators who ea other mammals
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Replying to @wrarebit @arthur_affect
Point out a scene where this is actually depicted?
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Replying to @SecretGamerGrrl @arthur_affect
According to the lore Predators used to be the "dominant" which is in no way analogous to colonized peoples
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Replying to @wrarebit @arthur_affect
"The lore" in this case being the word of the main character, in a movie whose whole big twist is she's a racist...
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and "ancestors of any non-white/herbivore people were murderous cannibal savages" TOTALLY has real-world precedent.
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Replying to @SecretGamerGrrl @wrarebit
my point is that the predators don't become an oppressed class overall until the events of the movie
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if the metaphor is "Judy and her family are white" then "Hey she's the first white cop in history" makes no sense
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you're supposed to see it the opposite way for the first half, that the rabbits are the marginalized minority
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she gets disrespected constantly bc she's an affirmative action case, etc
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and you're supposed to feel animal stereotypes are part of why the Mayor got elected, bc lions are cool etc
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