This Wednesday, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos will be presented with firm asks/demands from Netflix employees that we will also be sharing with members of the press & rally attendees. Cross-cultural solidarity is an indomitable force that moves all of us forward. Come and join us. pic.twitter.com/cZbZFLBEfG
— Ashlee Marie Preston (@AshleeMPreston) October 18, 2021
Nobody walked out at Netflix when they premiered what amounted to soft-core child porn about a dance team of early pubescent French girls.
In fact, those of us who criticized that were called ignorant and racist knuckle-draggers.
And you wonder why so many people believe that the world is run by an elite group of pedophiles?
Well … Bye.
Of course he won’t do that, but one could wish.
Anyone cross referencing the Walkout roster and the production, acquisition, and publicity team for Cuties?
So they’re calling for artistic censorship of a person of color?
“And you wonder why so many people believe that the world is run by an elite group of pedophiles?”
Well, actually, no. I don’t wonder at all, and I’m almost convinced it’s true.
If it walks like a pedophile, talks like a pedophile, acts like a pedophile, it must be a…. duck. Right.
Yes, from all evidence the world is run by an elite and not-so-elite group of pedophiles. Whole nations are full of them now. Don’t even get me started on the UN.
Making a popular. profitable movie for the world market is quite a trick. Since the main protagonist(ess) is a Muslim girl rebelling against a very strict, conservative Mulim family to join a dance group, the chances of avoiding a backlarsh are slim to none. Many Muslims accept child marriage so the rebellion is understandable (from a Western point of view) but that has the director operating in a dangerous area. The addition of lots of dancing nubile girls is enough to activate social Conservatives worldwide and to give Progressive “fellow travelers” of Islam an excuse to be offended.
Even if the video has a “good story” at its core, that story seems to have gotten lost in needless controversy. I am impressed that a single film could arouse opposition from both the Texas Christian Conservatives as well as Conservative Muslims and the Leftist, Progressive fellow travelers of Islam. That is quite an acomplishment, if not the one the Director had in mind. The movie may reflect reality in Senegal and France but was unlikely to “sell” in a world market. Approval by the population at “SunDance” does not translate into wide popular appeal.
If Netflix has profit in mind, they might better stick to movies that focus on one front of a war at a time.