{"id":48088,"date":"2021-08-28T10:11:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48088"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:11:23","slug":"this-just-makes-me-want-to-see-it-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48088","title":{"rendered":"This just makes me want to see it more"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Funny how things work out<\/a>: segment of internet looking-for-things-to-get-mad-about-people decide to get mad over Awkwafina\u2019s \u201cblaccent,\u201d citing cultural appropriation, racism, hypocrisy or all of the above; and declare a boycott to Marvel Studios\u2019 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve actually never heard of the property Shang-Chi ever, until news of an actual Marvel film featuring Asian people began to emerge.\u00a0 I have zero clue to the property, whether it features mutants, or supers based on myth, magic or cosmic, or if Shang-Chi ever crossed paths with any X-property, the Avengers, or even had a run-in with Juggernaut since it seems like at some point, everyone has a run in with Juggernaut.<\/span><\/p>\n

That being said, I kind of wasn\u2019t really that interested in seeing it, because in spite of the equity that the Marvel Studio sand the MCU had built, it was beginning to feel a little bit like a checkbox situation where kind of like how Black Panther<\/em> lit a fire under the black community, and based on how Crazy Rich Asians<\/em> performed at the box office, Disney and Marvel decided to take a stab at tapping into the Asian community with a Marvel film, with an Asian-based story.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t interested in seeing what I thought was going to be the affirmative action of the MCU, even if it had the legendary Tony Leung in it, making me wonder just how many times if at all, showed up in American film.<\/span><\/p>\n

But as is often the case, when news like this hits, and I see people on the internet acting like buffoons, all it really serves is to make me want to defy them and see their stupid efforts fail, and therefore go see Shang-Chi.\u00a0 Not quite to the point where I want to risk my health and go out into a theater, but I definitely have some intention to watch this now, for sure.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean seriously, people getting upset over the way Awkwafina speaks?\u00a0 Because she occasionally uses a black affect when speaking, as if the terms wiggers and chiggers haven\u2019t been a thing for the last 25 years, but is only taboo when a celebrity does it?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Would Eminem have a career at all, if he showed up in this generation?\u00a0 He\u2019s white and therefore should not be rapping, because that might be considered cultural appropriation since apparently only black people are allowed to rap and speak in a certain manner.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, my favorite part of the article was when they cited that this isn\u2019t the first time people had wanted to boycott Awkwafina:<\/span><\/p>\n

It is worth noting that similar accusations of culture appropriate were lobbied against the Asian American actress when she voiced the dragon Raya in Raya and the Last Dragon<\/em>, currently available on Disney+ and made 122.7 million USD at the Box Office\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the SJWs didn\u2019t learn their lesson from Raya and they think they\u2019ll fare much better with Shang-Chi?\u00a0 Yeah, I look forward to seeing just how much money Shang-Chi is going to bulldoze in when it drops, and see just how effective these so called boycotts are actually going to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not even discuss the thousands of people out in the world that aren\u2019t Asian, but have some sort of Asian text tattooed onto themselves.\u00a0 I\u2019d wager there\u2019s a substantial overlap of non-Asians with Asian characters tattooed on themselves with those who are pretending to be outraged and claim they\u2019re going to boycott.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s okay though.\u00a0 The internet doesn\u2019t need to find out when these peoples\u2019 friends talk about how decent of a film it might actually be, and whether it\u2019s peer pressure, hypocrisy, or just being full of shit, they\u2019ll still watch it anyway, all the same.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Funny how things work out: segment of internet looking-for-things-to-get-mad-about-people decide to get mad over Awkwafina\u2019s \u201cblaccent,\u201d citing cultural appropriation, racism, hypocrisy or all of the above; and declare a boycott to Marvel Studios\u2019 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. I\u2019ve actually never heard of the property Shang-Chi ever, until news of an actual … Continue reading This just makes me want to see it more<\/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":[79,140,45,90,41,52,89],"class_list":["post-48088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-comics","tag-fail","tag-hypocrisy","tag-movies","tag-owned","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48090,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48088\/revisions\/48090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}