{"id":44439,"date":"2017-03-14T22:43:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T02:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44439"},"modified":"2020-07-30T22:43:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T02:43:12","slug":"hashtag-white-washing-lol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44439","title":{"rendered":"Hashtag white-washing lol"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Impetus<\/a>: Ghost in the Shell<\/em> starring Japan\u2019s own Scarlett Johansson attempts to create promotional meme; blows up in their face like Japan\u2019s own bukkake<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, I thought too much time had passed for me to bother talking about the white-washing of GITS.\u00a0 Sure, I\u2019ve got lots of opinions about whitey taking over yet another story conceived and taking place in \u2018ze Orient, but none of them would really be any different than the litany of white guilt white knights that are all over the internet crying over the injustice of it already.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean there was a movie about the Great Wall; of China<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>starring fucking Matt Damon of all the people on the face of the planet, so it shouldn\u2019t be the least bit surprising that GITS would star a woman as Japanese as Scarlett Johansson as the lead character.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think we\u2019re that far off with a remake of Roots<\/em>, starring Topher Grace as Kunta Kinte, or perhaps a rendition of Frida<\/em> starring Blake Lively as the titular Frida Kahlo, and neither would be a surprise if such were to occur.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So there\u2019s really nothing left for me to say anything about GITS, honestly.\u00a0 Disappointing, yes, surprising, not the least bit.\u00a0 I\u2019m probably not going to see it, not out of protest or racial injustice, but that I probably won\u2019t have the time, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll probably be remotely adequate.\u00a0 There are far more movies I\u2019d rather see over GITS, that knowing me, I\u2019ll not see because I don\u2019t get out to the movies as much as I\u2019d like to.<\/span><\/p>\n

But good on the internet for taking the initiative and butchering yet another attempt at a forced meme and ultimately turning it into an ironic real meme, with the \u201cI AM MAJOR\u201d bullshit they\u2019re trying.\u00a0 I love that GITS is basically trying to capitalize on the Straight Outta Compton<\/em> meme, and hoping to be as effective at spreading the awareness, only for it to blow up in their faces like this.\u00a0 At least with Compton, it was successful in two ways, spoofing the general look and identity of the parental advisory stamp that everyone and their mother is innately familiar with, and the fact that it was ultimately marketing a movie about black people that actually starred black people; there wasn\u2019t really that much fuel for white guilt white knights to fight back with not to mention that black people are off-limits towards criticism in today\u2019s society.<\/span><\/p>\n

GITS though?\u00a0 Not even close.\u00a0 There\u2019s no part of me that believes the talking heads who concepted I Am Major will believe the \u201cno such thing as bad publicity\u201d when they see so many people using their own platform to hurl criticism back at them like rocks, regardless of how they\u2019ll try and spin it.\u00a0 It\u2019s undeniable that the property was white-washed, because Hollywood is racist and almost seems like the more people complain the more they\u2019ll go to lengths to defy them, but much like every instance of human behavior, complaining on the internet, as entertaining and valid it may or may not be, almost never actually succeeds at getting anything to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, I look forward to what the meme factory has to produce when a movie about Rosa Parks starring Angelina Jolie as Rosa Parks produced by a Jew and directed by Ang Lee is announced.\u00a0 Should be entertaining!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Impetus: Ghost in the Shell starring Japan\u2019s own Scarlett Johansson attempts to create promotional meme; blows up in their face like Japan\u2019s own bukkake Honestly, I thought too much time had passed for me to bother talking about the white-washing of GITS.\u00a0 Sure, I\u2019ve got lots of opinions about whitey taking over yet another story … Continue reading Hashtag white-washing lol<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,41,89],"class_list":["post-44439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-memes","tag-movies","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44441,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44439\/revisions\/44441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}