Anon watches Black Panther
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What I can't understand is how the moral of Black Panther got so horribly misinterpreted. The whole point of the movie was how past injustices create present violence, and the dangers of succumbing hatred. The villian is a literal standin for BLM for crying out loud! While the protagonist learns to combat systemic injustice by lifting his "brothers" up, not tearing his "enemies" down.
Yet the take away seems to have been "We Wuz Kangs!"
Reminds me of how Zootopia's anti-racism message gets muddled by what actually happens in the movie.
What's up with Zootopia? I'm not a furry, pedo, or parent, so I haven't seen it.
"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.