Reached for comment, Krusty the Clown was heard to remark: This, I don’t need.

While most of the controversy is obviously coming from bad faith white racists crying “but, but, Black people had slaves too!” bullshit, there isn’t a shortage of Black academics and writers that have issues with the movie and its depiction of the Dahomey kingdom. Particularly those whose ties to the region are quite…

That “I survived” tweet sure aged like spoiled milk.

How is it Twitter’s been around for nearly two decades at this point and people still don’t realise that gaining any sort of notoriety when using it will probably get you fired.

Right. There are plenty of efforts to present, say, Robert E. Lee positively. But even the boldest efforts to rehabilitate the man don’t suggest he was waging a war to end slavery against the dastardly northerners who wanted to preserve it.

300 was very controversial. It was labelled thinly veiled racist/Islamophobic Bush era propaganda (especially given Frank Miller’s racist uncle rants at the time), the depiction of Xerxes was criticized as homophobic and engaging in the Depraved Homosexual/Bisexual trope, and many of the films critics pointed out that…

Tennon continued by describing the movie as “edu-tainment,” insisting that the production has “to entertain people” because otherwise, “that would be a documentary.” If the movie didn’t entertain, then “people wouldn’t be in the theaters doing the same thing we saw this weekend. We didn’t want to shy away from the…

it can be two things

Are you seeing a lot of recent films about the American Founding Fathers that I’m just missing? We had John Adams on HBO, but that was (a) 14 years ago; and (b) about one of the most anti-slavery Founding Fathers.

I’m not sure that’s quite right. Yes, every historical takes some liberties. But the Dahomey weren’t merely a nation that has some cultural elements we now find problematic. Slavery was central to who they were, in a way that put them at odds with other African and even European nations.

As I recall, many people said “boo”, particularly about the film’s depiction of the Persians.

Many said it was racist, problematic, inaccurate, insulting, fascist, ableist to name a few “boos”. And also there was a call for boycott.

That’s what TV Tropes calls “narm” (It’s a reference to the show Six Feet Under where a character undergoing a brain hemorrhage is trying to explain his arm is numb but says “narm” over and over before collapsing). In the larger sense it is any scene or visual that is trying to evoke a serious emotional response but…

White internet mobs are gonna white people and racistly review bomb anything Black, so I could care less what they have to say. Black critics and academics have ranged from mixed to extremely negative on the whole concept of the film now that it’s known that Dahomey, Ghezo and the Agojie somehow come out as…

It really pains me to agree with triggered white dudes on the internet but (and admittedly I haven’t seen the film but am basing this on summaries and trailers so I could be off base) this film seems to have the same problem that 300 does - people whose very existence depends on slavery making high minded speeches…

I feel like other places (maybe here) have already hit the head on the nail on this.

I think it was on so much that Alda actually sued because his cut wasn’t proportionate to the syndication revenue

For those who didn’t live through that era, the show was everywhere in syndication. At one time in the early 80s, on channel 5 in DC, it was shown 24 times per week: four times per weekday (late morning, 7-8 pm, 11 pm), and two times on Sat and Sun (11-12 pm).

Most people don’t know East coast/New England people’s spoke in a Mid-Atlantic accent all the way up to WWII. Sadly, because most of the teachers who taught that way of speech died in WWII, Mid-Atlantic speech declined thereafter.

My favourite Charles Winchester scene. Such good writing. I also like how everyone had a good day and even if the others didn’t know how Charles had a good day, they still knew he had one.