CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑
Again, was it supposed to be a historical recreation or a celebration?
Rather, so much of these character’s point of difference was keyed into a cultural and ethnic context that yes, have visual race-based markers.
Why? We're not going to duplicate Joan anyway, but rather the ideals (admittedly questionable) that embodied her spirit. If this helps people of different racial and cultural backgrounds assimilate and be more French, how is that a bad thing? Leaving aside the relative merits of being French in the first place...
I certainly understand why race plays an important part in the regressive left. It is the bedrock of their ideology, cannot be questioned, and falls apart under scrutiny. What I fail to understand is why anybody else would care much about race at all.
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑
Again, was it supposed to be a historical recreation or a celebration?
Rather, so much of these character’s point of difference was keyed into a cultural and ethnic context that yes, have visual race-based markers.
Why? We're not going to duplicate Joan anyway, but rather the ideals (admittedly questionable) that embodied her spirit. If this helps people of different racial and cultural backgrounds assimilate and be more French, how is that a bad thing? Leaving aside the relative merits of being French in the first place...
I certainly understand why race plays an important part in the regressive left. It is the bedrock of their ideology, cannot be questioned, and falls apart under scrutiny. What I fail to understand is why anybody else would care much about race at all.
Historical recreation or a celebration? I think both, the former embedded in the latter. It like when Light Horse troopers in WW1 attire lead the Anzac Marches.
The issue is not at heart racial - it’s a broader issue. Further the Joan thing is a data point. If this was it, it would be a awkward blip.
But there is a concerted effort in the West to dismantle the ethnic/cultural uniqueness of traditional institutions in favour of homogenised ‘universal civic values’. Once you initiate economically inspired mass, culturally uncontrolled, immigration you don’t really have a choice.
So contemporary multi-culti norms become “typical Roman families” (BBC),
Joan of Arc is whatever you want her to be (so long as she is catholic)
World War One becomes a fight for 21C SJ “universal values” (Macron)
Sydney Uni looses its shit when given money for a “Western Civilisation” course
The War Memorial literally rewrites history to make past experience ‘inclusive’
Our own right-party :lol: proudly prints literature declaring Australia is “not bound by common culture” ..
Demonstrated by my inability to read an increasing number of CBD signs as we Balkanise and consider limited sharia
Our schools are dropping European languages in favour of courses funded by China
Traditional organised school Saturday sports are also declining as young Asian kids have coaching to attend over rugby
Freedom of speech is literally policed away in favour of new cultural blocks who didn’t get the civic national memo
An army of leftie SJWs are attacking everything they can which define society - from gender norms, marriage, religion ...
We will go republic soon on PC principle, not because there is a functionally better alternative
A million laws are enacted to stop anyone pointing out the naked emperor via a publicly expressed POV
Critics are branded racist, identitarian or Nazi
Now I get it. Kirb, and possibly yourself,
want a largely homogenised society. For reasons. And I also get that American civic nationalism is way different from Euro based forms.
But I don’t want this economic-social experiment to play out in current form. And for all their manifest failings, neither do the alt-lite.
So yeah. If we don’t point out data points, even at the risk of being accused of overreacting, the trees will be replaced by the forrest.