and "ancestors of any non-white/herbivore people were murderous cannibal savages" TOTALLY has real-world precedent.
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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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part of the issue here is it's not a one-dimensional thing - Nick's life is shit bc he's a fox, not a predator
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that's part of the point, he and Judy share a Moment early on bc in their life contexts they're both marginalized
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"Never let them see it get to you" etc
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it's as big a deal for Nick to try to be a cop as it was for Judy bc he's stereotyped as a criminal
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the stereotype in Judy's way was "big animals vs small ones" not "prey vs predators"
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but she gets caught up in the sheep lady's creepy obsession w that particular divide
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I don't wanna go so far as to say the movie is abt intersectionality but it at least points that direction
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