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Nero@sopuli.xyz to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 years ago

Fictional alien time travellers can’t be black, insist morons

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Fictional alien time travellers can’t be black, insist morons

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Nero@sopuli.xyz to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 years ago
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Travelling through space and time in a police box requires white skin, according to several Internet morons today. As Ncuti Gatwa began his stint as the new Doctor, lots of angry idiots have spent …
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    The character is great. The acting is mostly great. The stories are stupid as fuck.

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      Yeah it’s a kids show dude

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        First off, that’s an incredibly reductive description, especially considering Moffat ran it for a few years. Second, The Owl House is 100% a kids show and had much better stories than the last time I watched Dr Who

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        The kids that watch Doctor Who have a larger vocabulary than you. Get over it.

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      They always have been. Next step is realising that even though they’re stupid as fuck they’re still pretty enjoyable.

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        Dunning and Kruger have a paper about why you can’t tell the difference.

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