What the next Star Wars movie REALLY needs is Lando Calrissian.
IDK what he’d be doing. Maybe he’s got another city that the new trio land at. Maybe he’s running a secret cantina. Maybe his child joins the Resistance and proceeds to charm everyone or Lando arrives for Han’s funeral.
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday (or a good Friday if you don’t celebrate). The best presents are love and acceptance from family and friends. And family not making fun of your pajamas
Anyone making fun of those pajamas has no place in your life. Or mine.
“I’ve spent most of my life watching movies and TV shows about white people.
I’ve seen plenty of white sci-fi thrillers, a dozen white romantic comedies, a handful of white sitcoms, one too many white reality TV shows, and a library of white kids cartoons.
In between these white shows I saw even more white people: in white toy commercials, white McDonald’s ads, white breaking news updates, and late-night, all-white QVC infomercials.
I’ve done this for OVER 25 years and yet… white people are upset that I want some diversity? White people aren’t willing to watch ONE Star Wars movie because it has a Black actor?
NO, ASSHOLE. YOU are the oversensitive one, not me.”
“You faced a lot of criticism online from Star Wars fans when you got announced. A big part of that comes down to you being black. How did that make you feel?”
there is something supernatural taking place here that we are not understanding.
Tricksters sit with others in peace because they know there’s no point trying to outsmart a trickster.
Nah, they’ve just chosen a team in the trickster prank war. There’s a coyote, two spiders, and a rabbit in the next clearing over who are about to get wrecked
In the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the researchers describe three experiments that provide evidence backing up this assertion. The first two featured 94 and 91 white Americans, respectively, who were recruited online via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
“Participants completed two ostensibly unrelated surveys, the first regarding beliefs about inequality in America, and the second about childhood memories,” the researchers write. In the first, they were asked the degree to which they believe white people have “certain advantages minorities do not have in this society.”
Half addressed this touchy question cold, while the others did so after reading a paragraph describing the reality of white privilege in such realms as academics, housing, and health care.
The “personal memory” questionnaire included five items addressing hardships, including the assertion “I have had many difficulties in life that I could not overcome.” Participants expressed their level of agreement with each on a one-to-seven scale.
“In both experiments, we found that whites exposed to evidence of white privilege claimed more hardships than those not exposed to evidence of privilege,” the researchers report. In other words, evidence that their race was an advantage prompted white people to move toward a victimhood mindset.
The final experiment, featuring 234 white Americans from a national online pool, found “people claim more life hardships in response to evidence of in-group privilege because such information is threatening to their sense of self.” What’s more, “these denials of personal privilege were in turn associated with diminished support for affirmative action policies—policies that could help alleviate racial inequity.”
Altogether, the results suggest “[white] people may accept that in-group privilege exists, but change their perceptions of their own lives in order to deny the role of systemic advantages in their success,” Phillips and Lowery conclude.
In other words, to deny the affects of white privilege in their lives, white people will immediately drum up stories of hardships they’ve gone through as if to say that they themselves made it through hard work NOT because of any systematic advantages for whiteness or systematic disadvantages for non-whiteness. It’s the lie of meritocracy that America has been telling the world for centuries and whites have a personal stake in believing it because without it they would have to admit that the bulk of their entire person is based on lies. Again, truth is not really America’s (or white America’s) thing. The threat to their core belief (which is based on lies) is what white people feel when confronted with evidence of white privilege. It’s that cognitive dissonance that Frantz Fanon talked about in “White Masks”
Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.
What I find “humorous” is that white people always accuse Black people of “playing the victim” but yet they are the one who play victim the moment they can use it to deny the truth of white privilege. To deny truth, they quickly play the victim. Black people don’t play victim. We are being targeted and victimized for the benefit of whiteness and yet still we stand, fight, produce, live, love, laugh, smile, create, contribute and more. We simply speak the truth about how we are sinned against (to quote Ida B. Wells). Truth doesn’t create victims but for whites, they roll out that victim card to protect and perpetuate lies. That’s despicable but that’s white fragility for you tho.
What’s sad is when Black people (and other non-whites) join in with and back that bullshit. They’ve been so brainwashed into thinking “white is right” and they are so desparate for white approval that they can even see when bullshit is being fed to them and they just repeat it like trained dogs. That saddens me most of all.
On the one hand, yes, I like this, I respect Bernie for taking sides with Hillary, especially considering stuff going on right now. On the other hand... Trump now has the one politician we've been relying on to raise the tone this year talking about going to the bathroom. I didn't really want a metaphor for Trump's effect on the national dialog, but I guess I got it for Christmas, anyway.
i love how the old jedi order spent three whole movies saying that once someone has embraced the dark side there’s no chance they can be redeemed, but luke skywalker looked at the man who chopped off his hand, participated in the torture of his twin sister and best friend, and pursued him and his friends across the galaxy with the intent to kill them and said “yeah i can fix this” and then he fucking did
Everyone likes to talk about how staid and archetypal Star Wars is. And it is. Sort of. It lives in those archetypes and understands them but them allows its characters to ignore them when it suits them or when its interesting to do so. The wise and noble Jedi are fallible and cowardly. The slick, suave cowboy is really more of an awkward screwball, the damsel in distress/love interest is also a major leadership figure in the rebellion who knows her way around a blaster and doesn’t take shit. The prophecy was either complete bullshit or totally correct … from two different certain points of view. It goes on like that. And I’d say that you can do that with most stories, and you can, except that it seems to be so consistent and intentional in Star Wars. It’s a film that’s designed to look like the perfect hero narrative from a distance and in retrospect … but that’s much more alive while you’re watching it. That comes alive in little ways.
It’s not a timeless universal archetypal relic … that’s just it’s chosen aesthetic.
this is straight up one of the best things that’s ever been added to this post
Holy shit, this experiment is so exploitative of low-income children.
But ultimately this is hardly a positive lesson, tearjerker though it may be, nor is it some grand insight into children’s decision making processes. It’s an advertisement with a very pointed, clear message. As Becca Day-Preston wrote at The Debrief, where she called the video “Christmas poverty clickbait,” it’s cruel to impart such a choice on children in the name of exploiting their supposed kindheartedness. As Day-Preston put it, “…it doesn’t matter that the kids got to keep both gifts in the end. In the second that they thought they wouldn’t, when they were made to make a Santa’s Choice, they would have felt a combination of emotions I wouldn’t wish on anyone. All for the sake of going viral with a heartwarming tale of Christmas spirit.
It becomes clear how fucked up this is when you realize it would never work with rich kids. A wealthier kid would know that, whichever choice they made, either they or their family members would probably get what they wanted at some point. This only works by exploiting the anxiety poorer people feel when they are forced to make choices with limited means. Also just think about how much power the people giving the kids gifts have compared to how much power the kids have. The people doing these ads have the resources to give these kids meals and gifts year round in all probability. So now they are just using these kids for a few minutes like guinea pigs for a social experiment. It’s just nasty. Why not ask rich kids to give up gifts they got for Christmas to poorer kids they meet? And try to teach THEM a lesson in gratitude and Christmas giving?
Sometimes when I’m down, I remember that scene at a convention when Leonard Nimoy and De Kelley are reading fanfiction to the audience, and they pause at a scene to remember the destroyed Enterprise and place their hands over their hearts
and De does a double-take, skips over to Nimoy, and fixes his hand so it’s on his lower ribcage, where the vulcan heart actually is, and then goes back to his spot and remarks something like “I should know I’m his doctor” and continues on.
We were watching this episode the other night, and I just. Parker’s love of Christmas is just so spot on. Like I could see people thinking it was OOC because she doesn’t people well, and Christmas is such a people holiday. But like this is a girl who grew up in the system. She bounced around foster and group homes, so it is quite possible that she never had what the rest of the crew sees as a ‘normal’ Christmas. So as an adult, and building this weird little family, she is of course going to be SO into Christmas.
Writer-director Marc Abraham has created a compelling, historically accurate narrative of Hank’s career that examines his tormented creative genius and the turbulent domestic life that inspired him to write some of his best-known songs. By literally going back in time, you see Hank as he was, living his life on his terms, battling his demons and ultimately creating music for the ages.
The film opens on March 25, 2016 with limited releases around the United States.
This is so important. White skin should not be assumed to be the default colour of any character. YA should promote diversity and inclusion wether it’s in the form of a book, a movie or a play, whatever. This casting decision makes me so happy.
