Racism & Sexism (etc) discussion

Serving as an alternate universe origin story for Mystery Inc., the series marks the first time in the history of the franchise to not feature the Scooby-Doo character.

I think I found the main problem. The sad thing is, that’s a great cast on paper. Sam Richardson and Glenn Howerton are both really funny. I like Mindy Kaling on The Mindy Project even if it doesn’t hold up in retrospect.

Also, I need to post this clip:

https://twitter.com/jiulr/status/1613602772045135872?s=20&t=5_pTeo8xzbYKf4zIehSdTA

It reminds me of something Robot Chicken would make or TV Funhouse

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I blame social media, “fandom” twitter and woke/leftist hollywood writers

I actually don’t mind a diverse reinterpretation of the characters, the issue is really the writing is pure trash, like really bad. You’ve essentially written a whole show for target audience of dumb bitches who dress up as slutty Velma for Halloween.

We’re to the point now with alot of these shows its becoming an absurd parody how desperate these writers are to inject their faux virtuous woke ideals into media at the expense of good story telling and their utter lack of self awareness in doing so. It’s killing art

I’ll never forgive Netflix for eviscerating the Witcher IP on screen live action

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Those Velma jokes remind me of some of those God-awful ones from Goodness Gracious Me.

That seems suspiciously specific. Is there something you feel you need to share? Maybe a past heartbreak?

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Christ this was an infuriatingly unfunny watch.

The whole thing is basically a cottage industry at this point, trolls put stupid comments under the safety of a fake profile. Then she does a 5 min video making them look stupid and gets 14m views, with a fuck tonne more comments, and the cycle continues.

As for the Velma cartoon, thought it was a pisstake. Ironic how such a discriminatory concept with attacks on white males (Fred in this case) passed the checks. Is that the deal now? Punish/criticise the white guy til everyone feels they got their fair share and everything will be equal after? :sweat_smile:

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That was pretty hacky. You could see someone doing better material with the concept. Trevor Noah does stuff like this (or did, I think he retired from the Daily Show) all the time. Amber Ruffin would do guest spots on Seth Meyers which were along these lines. Maybe she’s just not that funny? Idk. I watched some of her show when it was on and it was pretty bad.

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Who hosts it now? I stopped watching once Jon Stewart left.

Trevor Noah was hosting it. He’s pretty funny imo. He’s a South African comedian so it’s a lot of “hey your country is fucked up and I’m not American lol” stuff initially. I don’t have time to watch a whole show anymore so for a while I was just catching clips and he’s pretty funny imo. He announced he was stepping down though.

Not sure who they brought in to replace him but I’m fairly confident it won’t be Lily Singh.

Trevor is so much less funny than Jon was. I watched a couple of episodes but really lost interest rather quickly.

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Agreed, Trevor isn’t great I never felt like he lived up to Jon’s presence or wit and can’t believe he’s lasted this many years on the show.

Nobody could really follow Jon. Bit like following Wenger.

It’s just banter! :face_vomiting:

Edit: Interesting that the college backed down immediately. I foresee a healthy settlement in this professor’s future.

He’s a cunt who’s clearly racist to Asians.

Fuck John Yems. He is :100: a racist dinosaur. I have no idea how the FA can be taken seriously.

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This is what Sturgeon had to say about people who opposed her changes to gender self identity laws;

The first minister has also accused some opponents of the gender reforms of being transphobic and “deeply misogynist, often homophobic, possibly some of them racist as well”.

Racist :joy::joy: and plenty of people who oppose her reforms aren’t “transphobic” or “deeply misogynistic” and for that matter aren’t homophobic too.

Is this what it is? If someone doesn’t agree with your position it must automatically make you a bigot lol

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Does she know what any of those words actually means? :joy:

Perhaps she thinks she’s making Scotland relevant by trying to make it the first to pass such a ridiculous law. Alas, that would be impossible.