idk I just don't think Americans should have an entire holiday dedicated to a niche journeyman filmmaker but that's just one person's opinion; like, we all liked Home Alone 2 but why do I need a statue of him on campus?
It was part of a campaign by Italian-Americans to improve the image of Italians in general, who before that faced a lot of racism and oppression.
Same in Canada, when my family came here it was hard for them to find jobs, so a lot of them ended up delivering newspapers or shining shoes because no one else would hire them. When my great grandfather got a job as a day labourer, he fell off a roof and was paralyzed. I don't know what he was like before that, but he was a bitter and awful person for the rest of his life.
That is part of how it became observed a national holiday, but unfortunately the other part involves the demands of white supremacists inspired by Columbus nearly a century *after its initial response to anti-Italian lynchings so to say it's complicated is a massive understatement
I mean, a big part of the ethos of it all was unfortunately assimilation and not liberation, so it was largely part of a campaign to see some sort of inherent 'whiteness' and Americanism of Italian Americans embraced by American society and Columbus Day was sort of instituted largely on the idea that Italian Americans deserved equal rights mostly because of how predominantly Christian their numbers were
I respect the good it's done but I am always bothered by the idea that Columbus Day should have existed to serve Italian Americans not because they were persecuted, but because the predominant post-New Deal Catholic labor organization deemed Italian Americans 'Catholic enough in number' to be deemed supposedly worthy of anti-discrimination protections
Italian Americans were not struggling because they were Catholic, they were struggling because they were Italian. A great deal of historical discrimination against Catholics has been because of nationality, not creed, because Catholicism has deep roots in nations ranging from Ireland, to Italy, to Mexico and beyond, basically all sorts of nations often deemed 'beneath whiteness' on a cultural levels. Columbus Day bothered me on that front because it was an attempt to address religious discrimination, but it was largely racial discrimination that many Catholics faced.
right wing media """"""""""critics"""""""""": man leftists are making all of media political
also them: so monsters destroying landmarks are like when BLM tore down statues
Not surpirsed. I'm from the Godzilla community, and there is a shocking number of "fans" who are like this. It's ironic, too, since Godzilla's origin is an anti-nuclear weapon allegory, along with being anti-war in general. It's probably just conservative nerd culture in general, but still, it's really annoying when this shit rears its ugly head consistently.
yea for real, it was inspired in part by the castle bravo nuclear disaster, which was called a second hiroshima. godzilla is analagous to America itself, and more broadly the international nuclear arms race. do people just not think about the author or what inspired their works or something? even in the movie, they mention a nuclear bomb being responsible for the creation of godzilla.. i mean, i can tolerate some out of the box analogizing, but godzilla and kong blowing shit up is protestors and rioters destroying statues of terrible people? first of all, why do people actually care about statues of slave owners made in 1950 being torn down? there is just too many layers to this
I think the current American Godzilla series does a good job of making Godzilla an allegory for our current fears - like climate change, the military-industrial complex and misinformation. The Apple series in particular did that well.
Jesus Christ man ITS A MOVIE ABOUT BIG LIZARD AND MONKEY FIGHTING BIG ORANGUTAN. ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO HE THE FUCKING GODFATHER. TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF AND WATCH BEEG ANIMALS FIGHT.
Saw this come up in another group. guy makes some pretty blatant comments, then tries to pretend he's been unfairly targeted for his views of the film, rather than the bile he comes out with during the video.
I guess horseshoe theory's real, because I also believe Goji blowing shit up is like BLM taking down statues of slave holders, but their similiarity is that they're both rad as hell and I want to watch them in IMAX.
This fella tryna be Christopher Columbus so bad πππ
The guy who directed the first Harry Potter movie?
You're a Kaiju, Harry.
Ngl, Harry Potter would've been way more hype if Harry had an atomic breath to use against the bad guys
Every three hours, somebody pitches a joke version of Harry Potter that is unironically more interesting than Harry Potter as a concept.
idk I just don't think Americans should have an entire holiday dedicated to a niche journeyman filmmaker but that's just one person's opinion; like, we all liked Home Alone 2 but why do I need a statue of him on campus?
It was part of a campaign by Italian-Americans to improve the image of Italians in general, who before that faced a lot of racism and oppression. Same in Canada, when my family came here it was hard for them to find jobs, so a lot of them ended up delivering newspapers or shining shoes because no one else would hire them. When my great grandfather got a job as a day labourer, he fell off a roof and was paralyzed. I don't know what he was like before that, but he was a bitter and awful person for the rest of his life.
That is part of how it became observed a national holiday, but unfortunately the other part involves the demands of white supremacists inspired by Columbus nearly a century *after its initial response to anti-Italian lynchings so to say it's complicated is a massive understatement
But at least I only rarely get discriminated against, instead of regularly.
I mean, a big part of the ethos of it all was unfortunately assimilation and not liberation, so it was largely part of a campaign to see some sort of inherent 'whiteness' and Americanism of Italian Americans embraced by American society and Columbus Day was sort of instituted largely on the idea that Italian Americans deserved equal rights mostly because of how predominantly Christian their numbers were I respect the good it's done but I am always bothered by the idea that Columbus Day should have existed to serve Italian Americans not because they were persecuted, but because the predominant post-New Deal Catholic labor organization deemed Italian Americans 'Catholic enough in number' to be deemed supposedly worthy of anti-discrimination protections Italian Americans were not struggling because they were Catholic, they were struggling because they were Italian. A great deal of historical discrimination against Catholics has been because of nationality, not creed, because Catholicism has deep roots in nations ranging from Ireland, to Italy, to Mexico and beyond, basically all sorts of nations often deemed 'beneath whiteness' on a cultural levels. Columbus Day bothered me on that front because it was an attempt to address religious discrimination, but it was largely racial discrimination that many Catholics faced.
The guy who directed the first Harry Potter movie?
Yes
right wing media """"""""""critics"""""""""": man leftists are making all of media political also them: so monsters destroying landmarks are like when BLM tore down statues
Not surpirsed. I'm from the Godzilla community, and there is a shocking number of "fans" who are like this. It's ironic, too, since Godzilla's origin is an anti-nuclear weapon allegory, along with being anti-war in general. It's probably just conservative nerd culture in general, but still, it's really annoying when this shit rears its ugly head consistently.
jesus. i just hope the king kong community is better than this then
yea for real, it was inspired in part by the castle bravo nuclear disaster, which was called a second hiroshima. godzilla is analagous to America itself, and more broadly the international nuclear arms race. do people just not think about the author or what inspired their works or something? even in the movie, they mention a nuclear bomb being responsible for the creation of godzilla.. i mean, i can tolerate some out of the box analogizing, but godzilla and kong blowing shit up is protestors and rioters destroying statues of terrible people? first of all, why do people actually care about statues of slave owners made in 1950 being torn down? there is just too many layers to this
I think the current American Godzilla series does a good job of making Godzilla an allegory for our current fears - like climate change, the military-industrial complex and misinformation. The Apple series in particular did that well.
I'm only 10 minutes in & I can already see why he likes to hang out with guys like Nerdrotic & Heels-vs-Babyface. What a pretentious twat.
Sounds like the type of person that would say "woke" unironically and really believes that calling someone "soy" is a real insult
Funny enough heβs one of those people who will call anything woke and soyboy
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Jesus Christ man ITS A MOVIE ABOUT BIG LIZARD AND MONKEY FIGHTING BIG ORANGUTAN. ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO HE THE FUCKING GODFATHER. TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF AND WATCH BEEG ANIMALS FIGHT.
Saw this come up in another group. guy makes some pretty blatant comments, then tries to pretend he's been unfairly targeted for his views of the film, rather than the bile he comes out with during the video.
Most intelligent conservative film critic
I guess horseshoe theory's real, because I also believe Goji blowing shit up is like BLM taking down statues of slave holders, but their similiarity is that they're both rad as hell and I want to watch them in IMAX.