Unpopular opinion time (super alpha no pony edition)

Don’t start an anti-romance argument y’all.
 
You can dislike shipping all you want but let’s not make me jump the gun.

@Lawrence Alpaca  

 
Exactly! I don’t hate any ships or hate people who ship things, because life is too short to worry about stuff like that.
 
The only ships I even dislike are ones that feel forced, or like they come out of nowhere. The best ships are ones that feel realistic and have time to grow and develop, at least IMO.

@Hollowfox Jaeger  
You do know what they’re talking about, right?

@Meanlucario  
Even so, shipping is a very touchy subject nowadays.
 
And sometimes shipping and romance are the same because of how two characters in a ship have romantic relationships but YMMV

@Hollowfox Jaeger  
I feel like you only come here to vent about the act of shipping/romance rather than the ship itself nowadays.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Better yet, blast some Whole Lotta Love while riding on an airship. 😏

Americans have went full retard with their outrage over cultural appropriation

@Broken Adam  
You say that as if there was a point in history in which we weren’t full retard.

It’s very strange that everyone supports the Epstein didn’t kill himself theory  
I feel as if it’s being pushed for nefarious purposes but I can’t put my finger on it other than elites wanting to gaslight people

@Commune  
Is it because it’s something both left and right wingers agree on that makes it fishy?

@Broken Adam  
How so?

@WyrmSpawN  
The “Drake is ripping off Jamaican culture” accusations

@Broken Adam  
Ah, the usual bullshit, then.

@Broken Adam  
I love how everyone acted like Coco was racist, then Mexico was generally enthralled and loved the movie.

@Broken Adam  
Agreed.

@Lawrence Alpaca  
Let those people tell it, acknowledging other cultures’ existence is racist.

@WyrmSpawN  
I can’t lie though- the phenomenon of “People trying to call out others for cultural appropriation, only to accidentally expose themselves as racist” is pretty funny.

@Silent_Witness  
Its hilarious how these people are demanding the media to whitewash minorities implying that non western cultures are “inferior” therefore characters like Apu is offensive
 
Do they realise they are outting themselves as Racist pieces of shit?

@Broken Adam  
No, since they likely don’t realize it’s racist.

@Silent_Witness  
Yep that’s exactly it. People are naturally a bit adverse to other cultures, and they’ll cry racism to avoid other cultures, when they are the ones being racist.

@Lawrence Alpaca  
And people thought/said SJWs who demand diversity were bad.

@Hollowfox Jaeger  
We do, because they are.
 
These people are on the other end of extremes.
 
Possibly.

It’s a treacherous tightrope to walk. Many will say “They should hire the right person for the job”, which sounds all well and good. But in a fictional world where a character is whatever they’re written to be, what does “the right person” mean exactly? If it means whoever the director thinks best represents a character, well, how much of their decision making process going to be influenced by subconscious biases? How many people COULD have played a role really well, but who got passed over because of some gut feeling

I find that its quite hypocritical that many tumblr and facebook SJWs who complain about whitewashing black and Native American, and East Asian characters either remain totally silent or make up bullshit excuses for when a character who is known to be White/Caucasian gets rebooted and/or revamped as another race (example: The more recent “Annie” movie literally blackwashes Annie, who was originally a blonde white girl from the 1930s to the 1980s in all official iterations; now she’s a young black girl).

@Absol95
 
The big reasoning I tend to hear is “Cultural appropriation is far worse when a colonial power does it.” When a race that was historically subjugated does it, it’s simply not the same.
 
When a role normally given to a white person is given to a minority, that’s seen as readressing a balance, while the inverse happening is just adding to the problem.