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       Re: Media decolonization
       By: rp Date: January 11, 2023, 11:15 pm
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       Has anybody watched this movie, RRR, yet? I just did. It is an
       anti-colonialist film that has gained international recognition.
       I found the action sequences to be overexaggerated, and wish
       more effort would have been put into story/character
       development, which I found lackluster. Perhaps this is why
       Westerners liked it so much. After all, serious anti-colonialism
       would never be appreciated by them.
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgBoMJy386M
       Regardless, I commend the director for at least trying, and
       there are a few scenes that are really good IMO. I also like how
       it draws on religious mythology such as the Ramayana, in
       contrast to most Bollywood movies which shy away from drawing on
       religious themes for inspiration.
       It also seems to exalt firearm ownership and ahimsa, instead of
       pacifist Eurocentrist tools like Gandhi.
       #Post#: 17695--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Psychological decolonization
       By: rp Date: January 27, 2023, 10:45 pm
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       [quote author=acc9 link=topic=536.msg14066#msg14066
       date=1655198021]
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HWzNnOTaFY
       Commercial currently being shown on Hong Kong television -
       typical Eurocentric physical attributes that Dolce & Gabbana
       employs to capture the non-white admirers of the white male.....
       [/quote]
       That guy is David Gandy, the guy literally worshipped on incel
       forums!
       #Post#: 17924--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Media decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 14, 2023, 5:34 pm
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  HTML https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230213-france-slams-marvel-s-black-panther-over-depiction-of-its-army-in-africa
       [quote]Paris' defence minister on Sunday condemned the latest
       instalment of Marvel's Black Panther franchise, which depicts
       French troops caught trying to steal resources belonging to the
       fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.
       "I strongly condemn this false and deceptive representation of
       our armed forces," Sébastien Lecornu wrote on Twitter,
       responding to a clip from the November movie posted by a
       journalist.[/quote]
       False and deceptive?
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/french-colonialism-in-algiers/msg4837/#msg4837
       Related:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/when-it-comes-to-palestine-france-can't-shake-off-its-colonial-past/
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       Re: Media decolonization
       By: rp Date: February 25, 2023, 4:04 pm
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       Nutcracker Tea - "Chinese" Dance
  HTML https://youtu.be/iiyx1m44nMM
       Just look at this blatant Orientalism and cultural appropriation
       Cancel Nutcracker!
       No, cancel ballet!
       #Post#: 18139--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Media decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 25, 2023, 4:59 pm
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  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariinsky_Ballet
       [quote]The Mariinsky Ballet was founded in the 1740s, following
       the formation of the first Russian dance school in 1738.
       The Imperial Theatre School, as it was originally known, was
       established on 4 May 1738, at the Winter Palace in Saint
       Petersburg. It would become the predecessor of today's Vaganova
       Academy of Russian Ballet. The school's founder director was the
       French ballet master and teacher Jean-Baptiste Landé and the
       purpose of creating the school was to train young dancers to
       form the first Russian ballet company.
       As the Imperial Russian Ballet, the company premiered numerous
       ballets by choreographer Marius Petipa. A number of his ballets
       now form the basis of the traditional classical ballet
       repertoire, performed by ballet companies around the world, and
       often retaining much of Petipa's choreography. These ballets
       include the original productions of The Nutcracker, The Sleeping
       Beauty, Don Quixote, La Bayadère, and Raymonda; and popular
       revivals of older ballets, including Coppélia, Giselle, and Le
       Corsaire.
       ...
       The Director of the Mariinsky Ballet is Yuri Fateyev.[/quote]
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Gergiev
       [quote]Gergiev has been, according to Alex Ross in The New
       Yorker, "a prominent supporter of the current Russian regime" of
       Vladimir Putin.
       ...
       In March 2014 he joined a host of other Russian arts and
       cultural figures in signing an open letter in support of the
       Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.[/quote]
       #Post#: 18291--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Media decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 7, 2023, 5:32 pm
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       Support Yen!
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/over-50-000-petition-bar-165909540.html
       [quote]Over 50,000 people have signed a petition demanding the
       Academy Awards Committee to withdraw its invitation to Donnie
       Yen to present an Oscar due to his support for the Chinese
       government.
       ...
       They cited the “John Wick: Chapter 4” actor’s comments on the
       Hong Kong pro-democracy protests of 2019, which he called a
       “riot” in an interview with GQ last month.
       ...
       The petition has amassed 52,256 signatures as of press time. One
       top comment reads, “He doesn’t stand up for freedom and
       democracy, which could violate the values of Oscar
       prizes.”[/quote]
       Yen deserves the invitation for this woke scene alone (he even
       got the bullies' face shapes correct!):
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdlJnfFq0jo
       #Post#: 18298--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Media decolonization
       By: HikariDude Date: March 7, 2023, 9:38 pm
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       "he even got the bullies' face shapes correct!"
       Not only did they get the face shapes, but they even got the
       clothing too.
       At 0:30, you'll see the girl on the right has a pleated skirt, a
       collared shirt, a visible necktie, earrings and for the hair, it
       looks pretty...graphic and even has a bow. The girl on the left
       has plain jeans, a basic shirt, hair that looks straight and
       unembellished and no earings.
       At 1:16, you'll see the same girl with the teal cardigan next to
       a boy wearing a shirt with another visible collar and a sexually
       dimorphic haircut (still comparable with the girl on the left).
       At 2:55 (which is the thumbnail), the man doing the pinching has
       a plain black outfit and hair where each strand is in harmony,
       while the one being pinched has a hair where the strands are all
       over the place.
       At 3:18, the hair of the girl on the left is still as superior
       as it was before it was cut, and just like the man's hair, the
       strands of the girl's hair is simple and in uniformity. Not to
       mention their tops are also simple.
       Just to be sure, does hair length matter? Because even though
       you mentioned how superior long hair was here:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg10479/#msg10479
       Wouldn't you mind short hair if it coincides with everyone else,
       if it's low in maintenance and if it's cut for more temporary
       reasons (e.g. emulating individuals, cutting split ends without
       changing its current length)?
       #Post#: 18316--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Media decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 8, 2023, 7:30 pm
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       "Not only did they get the face shapes, but they even got the
       clothing too."
       Sure, but I consider getting the face shapes more important, as
       the bullies' inferior clothes could be attributed (as False
       Leftists are prone to do) to what they learned from society,
       whereas their inferior face shapes can only be attributed to
       their blood. So long as society continues to delusionally think
       of bullying as learned behaviour rather than simply the normal
       behaviour of bully bloodlines, we will never end bullying. The
       only way to end bullying is to eliminate the bloodlines that
       produce bullies.
       "even though you mentioned how superior long hair was here"
       I did no such thing:
       [quote]I hardly need to remind everyone that in pre-colonial
       times, long hair (including mullets!) was the American standard
       for males as well as females:[/quote]
       My point is that a society which considers long hair acceptable
       for males as well as for females is superior to a society which
       considers long hair acceptable for females but not for males.
       To be clear, a society that considers long hair acceptable for
       both males and females is not superior to a society that
       considers long hair unacceptable for either males or females.
       High sexual dimorphism is inferior. Low sexual dimorphism is
       superior. How the low sexual dimorphism is achieved is for
       different societies to decide (probably based on practical
       considerations such as humidity etc.).
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg4533/#msg4533
       [quote]I naively assumed that female soldiers had always been
       allowed to have buzz cuts. If buzz cuts are considered the most
       practical hairstyle for male soldiers, why not for female
       soldiers also?[/quote]
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg5858/#msg5858
       [quote]Ever since I was a child, I did not understand why
       women's clothes did not have pockets while men's clothes did.
       Either pockets are a good idea, in which case they should be
       used by everyone, or they are a bad idea, in which case they
       should be used by no one.[/quote]
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg7599/#msg7599
       [quote]Either bikini bottoms are more efficient, in which case
       men should also wear them, or else shorts are more efficient, in
       which case women should also wear them.[/quote]
       "Wouldn't you mind short hair"
       Of course not! I myself have promoted short hair in the past:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/msg13653/?topicseen#msg13653
       [quote][img]
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tenka1.com%2Fgazodata%2F2018%2F07%2F17%2F270978.jpg&hash=b2d3dc9f2593bd7804bd4c562886ddef188155ab[/img][/quote]
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ijibjshJhA
       #Post#: 18331--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Media decolonization
       By: HikariDude Date: March 9, 2023, 10:04 am
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       "Not only did they get the face shapes, but they even got the
       clothing too."
       "society continues to delusionally think of bullying as learned
       behaviour rather than simply the normal behaviour of bully
       bloodlines"
       Does the same apply for hate?
       "High sexual dimorphism is inferior. Low sexual dimorphism is
       superior. How the low sexual dimorphism is achieved is for
       different societies to decide (probably based on practical
       considerations such as humidity etc.)."
       Could that logic also apply for makeup? Because it seems like
       the issue is not only sexual dimorphism:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/re-sexual-dimorphism-preferences/msg4434/#msg4434
       [quote]While I would disagree with someone who likes makeup on
       both males and females, I would not consider such a person
       aesthetically inferior as they at least have no gender-based
       double-standard. (I would consider still them
       ecologically/economically inferior, but that is a separate
       discussion.)[/quote]
       But looking at the NS Uniforms, uniformity seems just as
       important as the simplicity of dress. Maybe even more. And even
       with the western elements like collars and neckties, the
       uniforms still make up with its all black/brown/feldgrau theme.
       Agriculture fields are also just as superior.
       Thanks for making it more clear. I apologize for asking so many
       questions, but I've been reading Aryanism and True Left since
       late 2010s that I have a lot of questions to ask.
       *EDIT-This post was accidentally in quotations, so I edited it.
       #Post#: 18332--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Media decolonization
       By: HikariDude Date: March 9, 2023, 10:05 am
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       Ignore my accidental quotation
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