Two white guys making a show where black slavery features prominently. This is profoundly tone deaf.
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Replying to @MMads2 @Loganchance and
The point isn't endorsing, it's understanding and respecting. I'm not confident they will understand and respect black POV on confed.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @MMads2 and
The better analogy would be like... if you're making a Holocaust film, I wanna know where the Jews are on the creative team, you know?
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Replying to @csilverandgold @MMads2 and
3) But isn't literature filled with examples of ppl writing about tragedies that didn't touch them or their communiites?
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Replying to @Darinstrauss @csilverandgold and
*psst* yes and they shouldn't have written them
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Logan, I don't agree. That's knock out 1/2 of Shakespeare and a lot of Tolstoy, for one.
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I don't totally agree with your point re: arts but I understand and respect it. That said, look at the diff between...
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Darinstrauss and
How Shakespeare treats tragedies set in Italy and Rome vs how he treats British histories. British histories are treated with great respect
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Darinstrauss and
And awareness of how that history relates to present power structures and sensitivities. I would be less angry about this show...
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If I thought it would be treated like a history. But I think it'll be more like how Shakespeare did his Roman tragedies, if that makes sense
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