Anon watches Black Panther
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"Predators" vs "Prey" dynamic. Predators were violent savages in the past, but learned to be civilized. Many Prey discriminate against them because they still believe that predators are inherently violent.
The carnivores were presented as 'historically savage', and the prey presented as "historically civilized". And the underlying assumption made by all the characters is that it's 'it's in their nature', clearly a reference to social darwinism. At one point it turns out that the mayor of the city is running a concentration camp/experiment lab that kidnaps predators, and runs experiments on them to figure out why they're violent.
And the city depicted in the movie appears to idealize a literal segregated society, in the Jim Crow sense. Sure, no group is put at an obvious disadvantage, but each group/culture lives in its own neighborhood, works a specific set of jobs, etc, and overall everyone seems to casually accept (and be very happy with) self-segregation.
The message is supposed to be "predators are normal people and shouldn't be treated differently from prey" and "all cultures should be respected", but the way it's presented is "we should do that by ignoring the biological traits and historical interactions of the groups" which is unintentionally really racist.
One part you left out is that it turns out the predators going savage was a conspiracy engineered by the sheep.
The sheep were poisoning random predators with a blow dart and drugs that would revert them to animal instincts, then making sure the resulting rampage made the news. This was all to create racial tensions between predators and prey.
My takeaway from the movie was media hype. The racist issues in the movie would not have happened if their media didn't blindly report on the savage predators without doing real journalism.
That too. The press conference scene where they kept misinterpreting people's words was spot on.
Yes, forcing Judy in front of the cameras was a huge mistake. She's not a PR person, and had absolutely no business talking to the press, for one thing. Police forces usually have a guy who handles that shit (and it should have been Clawhauser.)
Oy Vey
I'm no stormfag, but I saw this parallel as well
Yeah I dunno how anyone watches that movie and misses that the prey were right, and the predators still have a suppressed, violent nature. I also thought it was odd that predators made up exactly 13% of the population but committed 50% of the crimes.
They reveal later in the movie that prey could go savage just like predators, and that the predators going savage was not due to innate biological traits.
Admittedly I was losing consciousness by that point in the movie.