Anon watches Black Panther
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Leftists think they're Prince T'Challa; they're actually Killmonger
kinda frightening how a movie that was CLEARLY about people taking responsibility for their own people spawned so many sincere “I was rooting for Killmonger” takes at the time
This unironically
I'm not so sure.
I think that they'd probably argue that Killmonger was a good guy.
Even if the movie intended Killmonger to be the bad guy, it sure did everything it could to make you feel sorry for him, going so far as to give him a dignified death where T'Challa shows him the utmost respect. Even though he was racial supremacist who wanted to turn Wakanda into an imperial superpower and subjugate all non-black races...in other words, a fascist in the same line as Hitler and Mussolini, aka EVERYTHING THE LEFT SAYS IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD AND DEHUMANIZES AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY!
Might as well add abusive patriarchal misogynist to his rap sheet, considering he murdered his girlfriend as well.
The movie unquestionably presents itself in racialist overtones (and frankly, the whole concept does too), because what you have between T'Challa and Killmonger is a conflict between an (Ethno-) National Royalist and a National Socialist.
Neither of them being challenged on ethno-nationalism, though.
People still do.
imagine their faces when they realise their side of politics was the reason European monarchy's were destroyed