I found this guy after anti-woke video. But he is pro AES?
His day job is working at Shanghai Daily, a Chinese state-owned English language newspaper. Reports on China is his side project.
I don’t really see how him commenting on China’s lukewarm reception of live-action Snow White counts as anti-woke or whatever (BTW the term ‘woke’ or ‘anti-woke’ sounds so fucking stupid, meaningless, and lacking analysis). China has no history of using Africans as slaves, so it has literally no stakes in American interracial conflicts. I also don’t think Chinese people have any obligation to watch Disney slop, and would much prefer their ticket money funds Chinese culture and films than Disney.
It’s just kind of funny how a character named Snow White for their white skin can somehow be cast as a non-white character. It’s sort of fundamental. Ultimately, Disney’s live-action princess remakes are just cheap, low-effort moves to try to use non-white faces to capture a broader audience and appear falsely progressive with no actual regard to the art, culture, or fighting actual racism.
This remake has the same issues that casting a black person for Ariel did. Instead of writing or adapting a new story for a Latin American princess, or an African princess, from the original culture, they instead decide to shove them into a white European story as if non-white cultures have nothing of worth to write about.
Also remember that a lot of people, including Chinese, are boycotting this movie because of actress Gal Gadot’s pro-Zionist views. That is definitely a good thing.
Also remember that a lot of people, including Chinese, are boycotting this movie because of actress Gal Gadot’s pro-Zionist views. That is definitely a good thing.
If I have any criticism to level at Andy’s video, it’s that he didn’t mention this. The rest of his piece I feel in agreement with.
Also the woke word is in quotation in the thumbnail, so probably he didn’t mean it literally
It’s just to get more views and clicks. Notice how many more views the video got compared to his usual reporting.
I don’t think he really cares either way other than to discuss its performance in China.
Also remember that a lot of people, including Chinese, are boycotting this movie because of actress Gal Gadot’s pro-Zionist views.
This is a very important point to make. For me that was by far the bigger reason why i decided i have zero interest in ever watching this, rather than it simply being another faux-progressive corporate cashgrab remake. It’s one thing to be unoriginal and cynically appropriate social justice causes for corporate profits, that’s just par for the course by now. But it’s another level of disgusting entirely to have literal IOF baby killers in your movie.
He’s actually pro-china, but I’m sure he has his own reactionary takes
A lot of weird right wingers who support China because the media tries to villify them by acting like they are anti-LGBTQ and CHUDs think they are great because of that.
Anti-woke? Do people like the Snow White remake here?
I agree with everyone else in China regarding that movie (and I’m pretty sure the Black Panthers would have agreed): it’s performative virtue-signalling and blatantly insincere about it. It’s not real progress, and it’s clearly not reflecting real progress because the West is currently regressing. It exists for two reasons: to ease the Western left’s crippling levels of guilt from the centuries of horrific abuse they inflicted on Africans and their New World descendants, and to stir up the culture war bread and circuses.
It just smells extremely liberal to be attacking Andy Boreham (someone who’s made a career of defending China’s reputation from liberal hatemongering) for calling liberal culture war bait exactly what it is.
Agree. I assume Disney pushed this through simply because they already put money into it, and they saw that they still managed to make money off of live-action Ariel.
In theory, casting non-white actors helps to sell their movies to a more global audience, thus making more money. In practice, I think global audiences prefer companies to put more effort into actually telling their stories rather than just shoving them into white stories.
Agreed.
Probably socially conservative/reactionary but is pro China and Russia, plenty of that exists out there, especially in the global south.
Yes, the “ebil Chinese” are attacking you on line! Every single “line”, every single piece of networking hardware is Chinese or Made In China
He hosted Jackson Hinkle, if that says anything
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The channel is pro-china. I watched some of it’s videos some years ago. He used to make videos debunking anti-china propaganda. Didn’t know he’s someone who is pro-china because “china defeats woke”
