Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 8 minutes ago, Tydirium said: Yep. If anything is homophobic, it could be argued that it's the assumption that gay men are the only people afflicted with a lisp... QFT Falstaft, you've been caught! Tydirium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Arpy 4,145 Posted January 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2020 Not Mr. Big, Will and Tydirium 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post _deleted_ 203 Posted January 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2020 There are more pressing issues than Star Wars music is racist and here's why John Williams sucks Like how my city is under attack by my own country because CHINA GOOD and FREEDOM BAD. I'm grateful to have encountered John Williams' music at a young age, or else I would've ended up becoming yet another brainless slave. Would I love to see a Hongkonger become a Hollywood composer? Yes! Am I an aspiring composer/student? Yes and I'd love to work for Hollywood even tho It's quite impossible given my financial situation. Another can of tear gas fired. Yippee. In AOTC, there is an entire chase scored with music infused with Asian influences. Asian music employed to convey a sense of heroism in an exciting Hollywood chase scene! Is that racist? No! SW is about the fight against tyranny and injustice. Nothing in Star Wars is as bad as the bigotry on display in my country. Another can of tear gas fired. Yippee. So Guy Who Writes Click-Baity Articles For The Washington Post, stop selling your death sticks, go home and rethink your life. SteveMc, Remco, Jurassic Shark and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nils 35 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 6 hours ago, Þekþiþm said: No, it's an effective way to identify viewpoints that are fundamentally more censorious than your own. Sometimes, yes, like in the case of the article at hand, which I wouldn't hesitate to call "politically correct" myself. But way too often, it's being used only to invalidate an opposing opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,317 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 8 hours ago, Þekþiþm said: I had a friend recently accuse me of being racist just because I named my cat Gomez. I was bewildered by this ignorant assumption. When I pressed her on what the hell she meant by that, like how does my naming of my cat indicate that I harbour hatred towards I presume a latin ethnic group, she fumbled for an answer but made no sense. I mean is she only satisfied if I name my pets safe and approved English names or stereotypically cat names like Fluffy or Mittens? Gomez is just a nice name and I felt it suited him. My friend is a fucking idiot. For all she knows, you could just be a big fan of The Addams Family. Sheesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,505 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Quite a part of the outrage in this thread is especially in comparison to Falstaft's professionalism in another article. If someone considers this thread to be actually against Falstaft, I call Soviet gaslighting, where black is white, and white black. Tydirium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 13 hours ago, Larry O said: God this is such a weird thing to even have to broach on a place like JWFan... "Woke" simply means aware. That's it. "Stay Woke" is basically a call to pay attention to what's out there and looking to hurt you and yours. Over time it came to mean something more like "pay attention to political happenings and cultural movements seeking to make life worse for you or your friends," and through that usage, the term became first overused (as any popular bit of slang will) and eventually rendered meaningless by its transformation into a meme. At that point, it became demonized on top of losing its meaning, by people not just upset at the obnoxious overuse of the term, but also by the notion other people might actually believe in progressive ideas and movements, and whose cynical nature leaves them inclined to regard such statements or discussions as purely performative and "fake" for the sake of earning internet points from fellow "virtue signalers." At this point, the only people who still even use the term "Woke" are people who more or less the reject the entire concept of "Social Justice" (another term with a long history in America that has only recently become demonized and rendered useless by people made uncomfortable by its modern usage) and are mockingly/ironically deploying the term to diminish and demean the people who might have once earnestly used the descriptor. I'm honestly really surprised how often this sort of ugly, antisocial, and dismissive discourse tends to pop up here, of all places, a site dedicated to enjoying the music of John Williams, but hopefully this might help a few people out? I don't know. But there are lots of ways - more constructive ways, as more than a few posters here have shown - to engage with how poorly thought-out and badly written this thinkpiece at the Post is than to indulge in... whatever all the rest of this ugly stuff is. Welcome to my ignore list for lack of logical reasoning, excess word-salad, and laughable label thinking. Fabulin and Tydirium 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,449 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Yes folks, from Disney/Amblin'! A digitally reconstructed and de-aged David Ogden Stiers is John Williams! Cheer, as Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee, kicks some serious ass! Go "aaw" as The Maestro opens up a shop selling turtlenecks from ethically sourced, halal cotton! Rage as a fat, black, disabled dyke says she doesn't think much of Star Wars! Marvel as George Lucas' chin gets bigger and bigger! Groan as Steven Spielberg gets whiter and whiter! All this, and more in the most sensational, revisionist biopic of the decade: I PASSED FOR WOKE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 I can’t believe John Williams gave Sayuri such a western theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 30 minutes ago, Blumenkohl said: I can’t believe John Williams gave Sayuri such a western theme. Tho offenthive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,621 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 8 hours ago, Arpy said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jay 37,042 Posted January 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2020 Well that escalated quickly. This is why we can't have nice things. Disco Stu, Will, That_Bloke and 4 others 3 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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