robinoberg@feddit.uk to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 9 days agoAvatar is about capitalismfeddit.ukimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1592arrow-down114
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minus-squareVespair@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up27·8 days agoYeah man, we all understood that the first time around when it was called Fern Gully. Like Avatar if you want but like… it is not a deep piece of media with hard-to-discern messaging. Shit is pretty clear.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down2·8 days agoFucking Tarzan was fighting evil white exploiters of pristine Africa in books back in the early 1900s. A good white saviour from the evil white people, because the indigenous can’t do it for themselves. Just like in Ferngully and Avatar.
minus-squareVespair@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 days agoI can’t decide if I should post the “wait, it’s all the failures of capitalism?” or “wait, it’s all systemic racism?” meme, cuz it’s wait it’s all both (always has been).
Yeah man, we all understood that the first time around when it was called Fern Gully.
Like Avatar if you want but like… it is not a deep piece of media with hard-to-discern messaging. Shit is pretty clear.
Fucking Tarzan was fighting evil white exploiters of pristine Africa in books back in the early 1900s.
A good white saviour from the evil white people, because the indigenous can’t do it for themselves. Just like in Ferngully and Avatar.
I can’t decide if I should post the “wait, it’s all the failures of capitalism?” or “wait, it’s all systemic racism?” meme, cuz it’s wait it’s all both (always has been).