• Laticauda@lemmy.world
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      It doesn’t say anywhere in that article that leftists are trying to censor that scene, John just mentions other actors he knows personally who suggested that he cut it out of worry that it would be viewed as offensive. Not because people on the left actually called it offensive or called for it to be censored. So according to that article, nobody tried to censor it, just suggested that Cleese cut it, and their reasoning wasn’t because it’s offensive, but because they were worried that it might be considered offensive. It also mentions in that article how religious groups were the ones actually trying to censor the movie in the past. Cleese didn’t want to cut that scene, so he didn’t. It wasn’t at risk of being censored considering he’d never had any intention of cutting it and the choice was always his to make.

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        This discussion actually made me think, so who pushed to get the dark elf scene removed from Community? I don’t know if it was the left or right, but whoever it was, is a moron.

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          I don’t know about the reasoning behind that one specifically, but most leftists I know generally don’t have an issue with that scene because the butt of the joke is the guy inadvertently looking like he’s doing blackface, not black people. If I had to guess, in a lot of cases like those, it’s a corporate decision made by higher ups who don’t understand the nuance of the topic and just want to avoid controversy or try to shallowly virtue signal regardless of how offensive the scene actually was or whether the people they’re virtue signalling to actually wanted them to do it or not.

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            Just some suit who works for the Mouse and has never heard of a Drow but definitely knows blackface and the controversy it causes. Ironically, probably in large part due to Walt’s prolific racism and the actual blackface scenes they’ve put out over the years.