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dontmindme2600 · 2 years ago

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Bro all this discourse about the casting in the new Lilo and Stitch remake is. Something. Listen I know people all have different stages of media literacy and subtext doesn’t come easy to a lot of people, but I literally understood more about how Nani’s identity as a native Hawaiian impacts the plot as a 7 year old than some people do AS GROWN ASS ADULTS

#the ones that are verified and mad about people saying that nani should be native like…#these people are journalists… these people are very educated and have graduated…#HOW do you not catch that??? it’s actually insane #was the movie just ‘weird Disney alien movie’ to you???#I literally understood more than them when I didn’t even have a full idea of what race and indigenous Hawaiians WERE #keep in mind that this is a children’s movie too #so the ‘subtext’ isn’t even that hidden #anyone who knows the bare minimum about how colonization impacted Hawaii can understand it #we need to do a study on how being a reactionary on twitter impacts people brains #because nobody can be THIS ignorant of the themes of a movie #while claiming to have watched and analyzed it multiple times #god it’s just. I’m never gonna let people live this down lmao #I have not. watched this movie in YEARS #AND ITS THEMES OF RACISM IS ONE OF THE FEW THINGS I REMEMBER 😭#I’m rambling here #but it hurts my heart seeing native Hawaiians just responding to people #with actual scenes that were in the movie that could NOT be more obvious #and people still being like ‘well that doesn’t prove anything 🤨’#like even the casting discourse aside how has how we look at media gotten so BAD #do they have to say it out loud explicitly for people to understand #but oh wait #there’s scenes #both deleted and in the actual movie #WHERE THEY ACTUALLY DID

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