CrankyJay™
Member
Because they’re fucking it up even more.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Because they’re fucking it up even more.
ClanOfNone
Member
Our committee found that "Conflicts" is still triggering to some members of our valued fandom. "Star Stories" will be the franchise name going forward.
Ulysses 31
Member
The stories write themselves thanks to dismal Disney.Performance outrage YouTubers right now:
DeepBreath87
Banned
Now the word slave is offensive? The ahistorical stupidity of our culture is insane. As though slaves weren’t a historical reality among all cultures and races for most of history. Slave isn’t a race specific term. Christ we are pathetic to surrender even little shit like this to literally the whiniest bitches in our society. Sometimes it’s not wrong to tell the “diversity and inclusion department” to fuck off. They’re literally paid whiners.
At any rate, Star Wars has been dead for some time, so this isn’t of any real consequence to me personally. It’s just more a commentary on where we are as a society.
At any rate, Star Wars has been dead for some time, so this isn’t of any real consequence to me personally. It’s just more a commentary on where we are as a society.
Last edited:
captainraincoat
Banned
If these idiots ever figure out how to make a time machine I will take great pleasure in watching them erase themselves
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
It's all to do with young people of a certain political persuasion. They're all about the sin of the fathers here.It's strange that American's seem to associate Slavery to one race, when every single race has been enslaved at some point
strange headache
Banned
INC
Member
ManaByte
Gold Member
Idiocracy was a prophetic documentary.
DeepBreath87
Banned
I just want to know when we get to decide whether all these diversity and inclusion departments within companies are actually making things any better. Because right now, it seems like they ran out of real problems a long time ago and they now they need to create new problems just to justify their positions.
Last edited:
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
They still haven't released the series on DVD or BluRay in the US, so I doubt it matters. Great series though. The finale was one of the best I have ever seen (at least that's how I remember it.) --no spoilers
DeepBreath87
Banned
Like what if I wanted to do a WW2 story where some of the German characters were actually real people instead of evil cartoons? Is that allowed or do we have to pretend everyone who wasn’t an Ally wasn’t a human being? Could you even make a western today without it at least acknowledging the Native American displacement?
I’m not necessarily the most creative guy. But I’m trying to imagine what it must be like when you’re making a story and building a world when at the end, some asshole from the DEI department comes and tells you that you that calling that spaceship you made up “Slave 1” is racist. How do you make art in that kind of environment?
Last edited:
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Dude Disney changed the name of a ship in a scifi series that is primarily aimed at a younger audience.
It's not the death of expression.
Last edited:
Azurro
Banned
What's your point? If Disney and other massive companies were not fucking up their entertainment IP, the audience of the grifters wouldn't exist.
infinitys_7th
Member
Our magistrate of inclusion and diversity found that "stories" is too close to "history", which as we know excludes "herstory". "Star Folxstories" will be the franchise name going forward.
MachRc
Member
I only realized yesterday through my wife's "trash TV" shows(that what she calls it), that we no longer sleep in master bedrooms.Next up:
But Primary bedrooms.
This took me by surprise.
Last edited:
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
Literally Disney and how they put out content.
Last edited:
GeekyDad
Member
And yet, when you think about it in that context, which I'm sure is the context it was originally created for, it's a pretty wild eye-opener.
Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
During Black Lives Matter protests, a movement grows to update terms used with hard drives, camera flashes and databases.
www.cnet.com
dr_octagon
Banned
pri-mary is gendered. secon-dary is yoghurt based. tertiary is adjunct of unixmatrix zero one.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Expected really.
Today, the word 'slave' brings up images of the transatlantic slave trade and the horrific treatment of African slaves in the US. It's little wonder Disney pulled the plug on it.
Using dolphins is silly, but oddly I like that overall idea. Would certainly cause less conflict. There was an anime I saw once where countries were renamed into numbered regions. That would also be pretty cool if it was real!
Today, the word 'slave' brings up images of the transatlantic slave trade and the horrific treatment of African slaves in the US. It's little wonder Disney pulled the plug on it.
Using dolphins is silly, but oddly I like that overall idea. Would certainly cause less conflict. There was an anime I saw once where countries were renamed into numbered regions. That would also be pretty cool if it was real!
SafeOrAlone
Banned
Nah, we're still calling it that.
Gouty
Bloodborne is shit
Still better than ep 9
OrtizTwelve
Member
Let’s make a big deal about fixing something in the name of political correctness and social justice that absolutely nobody has cared about for the last several decades nor most even knew about.
Furlong
Banned
The 20+ million people in slavery today are pretty fucked then.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
We don't call them Master bedrooms anymore? Really? Good lord talk about having it good. We are looking for shit to have a problem with. By we I mean not any sensible person. Young people.
ShinraMiddleMananger
Banned
I see the mental illness has been cranked up a notch
CGiRanger
Banned
What sucks is none of this bullshit makes one bit of difference in the world to actual issues with "slavery" or whatever they feel, that this somehow makes the world a "better place"
I mean, just try to think through the logic of this. The people behind this literally believe that people seeing the words "Master" and "Slave" are therefore ok or agreeing to, or normalizing slavery, or something stupid like that. It's deranged insanity to the extreme, and it's being codified in our every walk of life, from the government to "DEI" Ministries of Truth in corporations.
Yet again, they'll turn a blind eye towards documented slavery all across the globe (especially in one particular country), because it's not the right skin color.
I mean, just try to think through the logic of this. The people behind this literally believe that people seeing the words "Master" and "Slave" are therefore ok or agreeing to, or normalizing slavery, or something stupid like that. It's deranged insanity to the extreme, and it's being codified in our every walk of life, from the government to "DEI" Ministries of Truth in corporations.
Yet again, they'll turn a blind eye towards documented slavery all across the globe (especially in one particular country), because it's not the right skin color.
Last edited:
Mistake
Member
Looking for problems is an unhealthy mindset for sure. Some think it’s a joke, but I have found people irl who were for canceling aunt jemima. Life is going to surprise those with a stick up their ass, when someone else comes along and shoves it up further…
GeekyDad
Member
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
They just can't pretend away things - it's actually disrespectful. For example, there is still slavery in the world. In parts of Peru and the Middle East there's de facto indentured servitude. The Chinese government enslaves their Muslim minority group. There is a thriving global sex slave trade. And more. Are these people no longer valid, is it not slavery, because the world "slave" upsets some tiny minority of the world?
Some words should probably never be used outside of some kind of historical or informative context because they now have no meaning beyond hatred. Like the n-word. I get that. But this is just silly.
Some words should probably never be used outside of some kind of historical or informative context because they now have no meaning beyond hatred. Like the n-word. I get that. But this is just silly.
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
TOP O' THE SLAVE SHIP.
Oh...
Oh...
clem84
Gold Member
Maybe the ship Slave 1 will still exist in the Star Wars universe, but going forward the character will use a different ship.This literally just came out.
So who knows.
DeepBreath87
Banned
Yeah. Fuck those actual slaves. I need to make slavery about me, a comparatively comfortable westerner who has never known a slave, much less experienced slavery. We need to pretend that something we learned in history class is more traumatizing then actually experiencing something in real life.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
They can't keep getting away with it
Even the purely slapstick bride-auction in the pirate ride was nuked for some generic sassy character.
Even the purely slapstick bride-auction in the pirate ride was nuked for some generic sassy character.
Cyberpunkd
Member
As someone who has team members wanting to lead ‘inclusionary projects’ instead of doing the job they were hired for I can tell this - real problems still exist, people just decided they do not want to solve them anymore.
epicnemesis
Member
Meanwhile in Libya…
Oh wait, we don’t care about actual black slavery, much like we don’t care about actual black lives.
(we being the woke mob)
Oh wait, we don’t care about actual black slavery, much like we don’t care about actual black lives.
(we being the woke mob)
ArtemisClydeFrog
Banned
What would you like Disney to do about slavery? They're changing the name of a ship.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
I'm not sure what Disney should/can do about that?
I'm just pointing out that today, the word 'slave' is strongly associated with the transatlantic slave trade, so it's really not a shock that Disney would change it.