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Pony Corral / Re: Question for the Collectors/ Read First before Polling!!!!
« on: October 14, 2021, 04:33:38 PM »
I saw the nonsense around this article a couple weeks ago and just sighed that some people want to get up in arms at what is essentially a basic non-confrontational message of "why don't we just get along" and unity.
I don't know if I'd even describe it as anti-racist commentary on the US specifically because the current situation regarding racism in the US is very different from what we see in the G5 movie. Outward segregation and xenophobia like what we see in the movie is very different from an integrated society where discrimination and inequities still exist due to historic and present racism built into government systems and structures.
Though when G4 was ending and the last episode has a single line implying AJ and Dash are in a romantic relationship now I seem to remember some people like this also being up in arms about "MLP goes woke!!!!" but I notice they've forgotten all about that. I can't get mad at it. It's just very silly and any people actually up in arms about this will forget about it in about two weeks.
I'm most concerned for the young children of the kinds of people who take these articles seriously the wheel of progress is turning without them and suddenly every little thing that has even the most non-confrontational message of unity is now Banned from their household for being "woke". If the parents of these children want to shelter them from things like that then what *are* they going to be allowed to watch or enjoy or play or read?
I don't know if I'd even describe it as anti-racist commentary on the US specifically because the current situation regarding racism in the US is very different from what we see in the G5 movie. Outward segregation and xenophobia like what we see in the movie is very different from an integrated society where discrimination and inequities still exist due to historic and present racism built into government systems and structures.
Though when G4 was ending and the last episode has a single line implying AJ and Dash are in a romantic relationship now I seem to remember some people like this also being up in arms about "MLP goes woke!!!!" but I notice they've forgotten all about that. I can't get mad at it. It's just very silly and any people actually up in arms about this will forget about it in about two weeks.
I'm most concerned for the young children of the kinds of people who take these articles seriously the wheel of progress is turning without them and suddenly every little thing that has even the most non-confrontational message of unity is now Banned from their household for being "woke". If the parents of these children want to shelter them from things like that then what *are* they going to be allowed to watch or enjoy or play or read?