Thanks for the recommendation. I read the first book in that series a long time ago and was aware of the show, but never looked in to it because I assumed it would be garbage, being made within the last ten years and all.
I love that twitter discussion that went around between one of the devs and an SJW. It's not like these devs are white nationalists or hate black people, they were just trying to make a historical game and didn't care about American zog bullshit.
The sjw was crying about "representation" and the dev asked "How is it my responsibility to represent them? There's an entire continent of them, are they not capable of representing themselves?"
The sjw tried to report him to his boss saying "Um, one of your team members is implying that black people are incompetent and can't create media for themselves, are you gonna stand for this?" (which of course he never did, he was asking if that's what she thought of them), and it turns out he was the boss, she reported him to himself.
It sounds ridiculous now, but back in the day the discussion around the Witcher 3 is really what got me into researching.... the situation we find ourselves in. I mean I was always generally anti-pc, but not seriously, just in that kid-who-likes-South-Park way.
I was having a conversation about the lack of black characters, and they were so passionate about it, and their argument was so illogical, and I knew that they wouldn't ever make it if the game was set anywhere other than a white setting, that it legitimately made me do some soul searching and realize, maybe things are actually way worse than I thought.
Oh my goodness, it uses a hate-symbol as an O? That would be like using a swastika as an X, smh how could the producers over look this-, oh, that symbol literally is an O in our ancient writing system? Huh. You'd think a medievalist would know that.
There was a point in movie writing where it stopped feeling like there were artists behind it, and it started to feel like the generation of millennials that got writing degrees finally graduated. None of them had any talent, but hey, they had the degree so now it was "their turn".
Now everything sounds like a god damn twitter conversation. "Is that just because that's what women are supposed to want?" Please.
I knew for sure it would be without even seeing the trailer. There was zero chance that a reboot of a 23 year old movie that actually had a little bit of interesting philosophy behind it, from which the term "red pill" came, would not be a special target for subversion.
It's no joke. My sister grew up in the same liberal feminist household I did, all her life she was adamant she didn't want kids, and everyone around her encouraged that. Our bitter twice divorced mom, our bitter forever single wine aunts.
Well guess what? She got married, still maintaining she didn't want kids, but a few years later was nesting. A year after that she had a daughter, and she's never been happier.
If there was any "programing", it should have been in the opposite direction. But as soon as she had a partner and a stable life, her mind mysteriously changed.
People have somehow become allergic to simple solutions
We do have some kind of scepticism of simple things, don't we? A somewhat related concept, I remember once my dad was moving houses and he didn't want to drag some perfectly good furniture with him, so he posted it for free on craigslist. Nobody would take it. So he posted it for $10, and it sold in a day. They just assumed something free must automatically be bad.
Like ok, I'm not gonna freak out over the word cracker, but you know one thing that annoys me about it? It means whip cracker right, in other words they're calling you a slave owner. Well my ancestors came to America after the civil war, and their ancestors were likely serfs in the Russian empire. (I don't know that for sure but I know they've always been poor farmers, they weren't part of the aristocracy that's for sure.)
But I'm a slave owner because I have the same skin color as the jews who owned slaves a hundred years before my family got here, fuck off.
Niggers, coloreds, negroes, blacks, African-Americans, POC, BIPOC, it'll be something else soon enough.
I suspect 80960KA's assessment of the reason why is right on the money as well, you can see it happen with other words that shouldn't have any negative connotation, such as "Mexican".
See also "retarded", used to be a medical term, then it was the common vernacular, now it's a "slur". "Special" sorta became a slur too, even though they literally made it to be sensitive. It turns out being retarded is the thing that's bad, not the word itself.
cropped the drawing of her to remove her real birth name.
Jesus Christ lol.
I like how the death and legacy section mentions a "Jemima weed" named after her. Someone who never read the old page would have no idea why, there's zero mention of the name of the page other than that. (well, apparently they can't censor the sources yet)
Looks like the latest verision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Universal_Friend at least has (Born as Jemima Wilkinson) after her new uh... title? Still has the Stalin-esque cropped portrait.
Could you even imagine? A female society?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKBtMLOC2oU