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I sincerely think you need to step out of your political circle, whatever it may be, and try to understand the "mob" you think would cancel this movie. Whoever

I sincerely think you need to step out of your political circle, whatever it may be, and try to understand the "mob" you think would cancel this movie. Whoever you are consuming this take from is lying to you about the motivations of their opponents. You MIGHT find some isolated instance where someone objects to this movie. However, they'll be in an extreme minority. When you take a bit of time to understand when and why someone wants to cancel something, it's generally not the story you've consumed from sensationalist media. More often than not, it's a company self censoring and not some mob demanding cancellation. You may still disagree with the "mob", however, at least you'd not have such a cartoonishly wrong take on the motivations of those you disagree with.

zozbot234 3y ago
> You MIGHT find some isolated instance where someone objects to this movie. However, they'll be in an extreme minority. Really? Take a look at the reception of recent movies that are arguably comparable - The Dictator (Larry Charles, 2012), The Interview, Jojo Rabbit. All of which, to a greater or lesser extent, have been overshadowed by controversy about their portrayal of these topics, often including claims that the movie is either promoting hateful attitudes or "trivializing" and implicitly minimizing past atrocities by the vey act of portraying them via satire and ridicule. The contrast with how The Great Dictator was received historically could hardly be any clearer!
- cogman10 3y ago
  I honestly don't remember any controversy from those films, certainly not a cancellation. Even doing some google searches for controversy surrounding those films reveals like 1 or 2 op eds talking about "should we really be laughing at this?". Nothing terribly extreme. The only place I found any sort of mention of controversy was The Interview. But, by and large it looks like it was just a bad film that rogan decided it was reviewed poorly because of controversy (and not that it was unfunny). I've not seen the film though so can't really comment. Can you point to some online mob around these films? Like a reddit witch hunt or otherwise?

zozbot234 3y ago

> You MIGHT find some isolated instance where someone objects to this movie. However, they'll be in an extreme minority. Really? Take a look at the reception of recent movies that are arguably comparable - The Dictator (Larry Charles, 2012), The Interview, Jojo Rabbit. All of which, to a greater or lesser extent, have been overshadowed by controversy about their portrayal of these topics, often including claims that the movie is either promoting hateful attitudes or "trivializing" and implicitly minimizing past atrocities by the vey act of portraying them via satire and ridicule. The contrast with how The Great Dictator was received historically could hardly be any clearer!

cogman10 3y ago
I honestly don't remember any controversy from those films, certainly not a cancellation. Even doing some google searches for controversy surrounding those films reveals like 1 or 2 op eds talking about "should we really be laughing at this?". Nothing terribly extreme. The only place I found any sort of mention of controversy was The Interview. But, by and large it looks like it was just a bad film that rogan decided it was reviewed poorly because of controversy (and not that it was unfunny). I've not seen the film though so can't really comment. Can you point to some online mob around these films? Like a reddit witch hunt or otherwise?