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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

ゴーストバスターズ、これはあなたのためです。

From Fast Company [fastcompany.com]:

Wakanda is under attack.

The fictitious African country is, of course, the setting of Black Panther, a phenomenally successful film that is currently being dismissed, misconstrued, and re-contextualized by far-right misfits hell-bent on parade-raining.

The color-reverse is coming.

Perhaps most insidious of all, however, the alt-right is also embracing Black Panther, framing the film’s debate about isolationism as a photo-negative version of their push for a white ethnostate. They’ve appropriated the character, putting him in posters wearing a “Make Wakanda Great Again” hat. Rather than distance themselves from Black Panther, they’re imprinting their own ideology on it, and touting the film as a cynical calculated recruitment tool. It’s like the old adage, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”–except in their deluded logic, joining ’em counts as beating ’em.

Interesting. Last word?

The alt-right wages campaigns against other films because they are jealous that hate-fueled cinema tends not to get funding and they’re not creative enough to make movies on their own. (They’re also very bad at rapping.) These guys are sore losers, but losers they are. Black Panther has made well over a billion dollars worldwide, and (hopefully!) paved the way for many more large-scale productions with majority-nonwhite casts and crews. The alt-right’s campaign to take it down has failed. If they somehow manage to recruit more white nationalists to the great cause of hate by twisting Black Panther into a Trumpian hood ornament, well, those people were probably going to flip anyway. Black Panther 2 doesn’t need them.

'Nuf said.

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