tfw news outlets and media are way more outraged by a celebrity in a cecil the lion costume than they ever were/will be about racist halloween costumes fetishizing and sexualizing people of color and their cultures. so many celebrities have done blackface for halloween and news outlets weren’t /this/ upset. i hate everything
I’m going to buy 10 of those costumes.
fuck Cecil
I’m DEAD!! She’s dressed up as a fucking lion 😂😂😂😂 they really don’t care about human beings that aren’t white. This a true exposé
Go back in time to save turkeys from being a popular meal; but doesn’t go back in time to stop the white settlers from committing genocide against Native Americans.
Genocide seems like a good subject for a kids movie.
There are children who experience genocide, who’s people experience genocide, who’s people have experienced genocide. there are children who can’t not know about genocide.
there are appropriate ways to discuss genocide without scarring or harming a child. and for those who live with or live with the knowledge of genocide do they not deserve representation? who is really being protected by not discussion genocide? the oppressive group, not the oppressed.
there are children’s movies that hint at or depict genocide, in a less traumatizing way; films such as Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron, Pocahontas I & II (though vague and incorrect) and more. Disney films have depicted murder, death, loss, etc in a way that doesn’t harm most children. it is possible to discuss rough subjects with children. I am an educator, and I know that in California we start discussing genocide of indigenous peoples in fourth grade, when children are around 8 years old.
Back to this movie. Out of all the ideas and valid options there are for making movies about saving animals, they chose to have a setting that presents native americans and they chose to go with saving turkeys. this film set the stage and chose turkey over native americans.
Because its a fucking children’s cartoon, not a historical documentary. Its there for fucking entertainment.
it’s. setting. made. native americans. relevant. all peoples involved in this film made a choice. they chose to prioritize turkey over native americans.
they didn’t have to go back in time at all. similar to the movie Happy Feet, about a penguin who got media attention for dancing, which sparks public interest in preserving their (the penguins) lives. the film could have been like that. a turkey who is so cute or whatever that people start caring about their lives. it could have easily gone that way or a number of ways. they chose to have the setting be with native peoples who encounter white settlers. they set the stage. and they prioritized. white vegans often prioritize animal lives over poc.
Go back in time to save turkeys from being a popular meal; but doesn’t go back in time to stop the white settlers from committing genocide against Native Americans.
i think a lot of white vegans forget that they have had many privileges for hundreds of years. If they were put into a survive-or-die situation with nothing to wear and eat they might just understand that being vegan is a privilege.
