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Rangz of the Kangz Shills Claim Very Concept of Lore and Canon is Pure Cisheterofascism

Esquire:

It’s the best of times and the worst of times to be a fan. For devotees of mega-franchises like Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there’s never been a more massive glut of new content. We’re living through a golden age of interconnected storytelling, as sequels and prequels explode across film, television, and literature faster than many of us can keep up. Yet at the same time, these mega-franchises are tormented by their most strident fans, melting down into paroxysms of toxicity through petitions, review bombing, and targeted harassment campaigns, among other odious tactics. Toxic fandom is a complex beast, but at the root of its many convulsions, there’s often one sore spot: the sticky concept of canon.

ClownWorld being ever present it’s easy to simply skip over them proclaiming their own biggest fans as their greatest enemies. But shouldn’t allow them to do this, because it’s still insane. Imagine this being true in any other context? Would I ever say that my number one most hated group of people are my biggest fans? Of course not.

This is a problem unique to people who make garbage product, but own the infrastructure of movie distribution. Their ideal consoomer would be someone with an IQ of around 80. Just barely capable of clapping like seals at the snarky asides, and totally unable or unwilling to think logically about what’s happening on the magic screen in front of them, let alone how this fits in with other works in the same universe. 

Canon is scripture; canon is king; canon can do no wrong. Its definition is simple—the term refers to a fictional body of work and its established facts—but that’s where the simplicity ends. In this age of massive cultural production, of sequels and prequels and cinematic universes, where does canon start and stop? Do novelizations, video games, or other ancillaries count—and who gets to decide? When new entries to the canon subvert or “retcon” the established universe, what’s to be done with those unruly fictions? After all, when storytellers dare to expand canon, whether by disrupting the narrative or simply shining a flashlight into its underexplored corners, there can be hell to pay. Increasingly, fans have become canon’s militant enforcers; when those seeking to enlarge canon stray across its perceived guardrails, like J.J. Abrams or Rian Johnson, backlash is swift and vociferous. In one memorable dust-up, Star Wars fans petitioned for Disney to erase The Last Jedi from the franchise’s canon altogether. Somehow, canon is at once a collective orthodoxy and a personal totem, inflected with each viewer’s own biases and desires—even their own bigotry, too.

Noooo. Not bigoted fascists who don’t want Aviendha to be cast as an ugly negress.

I can count on one hand the Marvel movies I’ve watched after turning 18 in 2010 and becoming an adult. Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2, the original Avengers, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and the first Captain American. If you’re following along, yes, I have six fingers.

Well maybe I can’t count them all on one hand, and I also saw the original Iron Man back in the day and thought it was pretty good. If we’re counting movies I’ve seen a glimpse of then we can add plenty more. Someone put on Doctor Strange, and I had to stop watching about 20 minutes in when all the monks show up and I found it so theatrical and stupid that it was impossible for me to watch. I saw a bit of another Captain America movie, which sucked. And finally I saw part of the original Thor movie.

I never strongly liked or disliked any of the movies I saw in full, with the exception of the first Iron Man, which was great. Guardians of the Galaxy also had some great moments, but comic book stuff just annoys me. I don’t care that the entire universe is at stake because the evil guy has a thingy. I don’t want to watch melodrama about how some weird alien like dude had his wife die or something. But I also accepted that these movies were made for children, so I gave them a pass.

Children and also this guy.

I haven’t watched anything from Marvel since Guardians of the Galaxy 2, back in 2017, but according to everyone who keeps up with this stuff, even the soyboys who loved the earlier Marvel movies find the modern stuff to be unwatchable. 

I never read comic books even as a child, but those who are fans of the Marvel comic books say that in addition to the typical Globo Homo Schlomo induced nepotism problems they’re having another problem. They’ve blown through fourty years of comic books in ten years of movies. As a result, they don’t have any good material – good from the perspective of a comic book fan – to churn through. 

There’s probably some truth to that, but it would be a more compelling argument if Hollywood didn’t have a recent track record of mutilating the source material for The Witcher, The Wheel of Time, The Lord of the Rings, and many others. It’s such a prevalent problem that we’re getting pieces attacking the fans who are angry that untalented hacks are substituting their bad fan-fiction for original story. Hence we return to the Esquire piece.

Canon has a big problem, and the call is coming from inside the house. It’s not hard to see how this obsession with canonical fealty has hamstrung Marvel and Lucasfilm, two franchise juggernauts whose every innovation is punished by a fan meltdown. When storytellers are held hostage by their own audiences, it undermines their ability to do what artists do best: explore, revise, play. This is the problem with storytelling in the age of the mega-franchise—all too often, the impulses of abiding canon conflict with the impulses of making art. As Ron Moore, a longtime Star Trek writer who later rebooted Battlestar Galactica, put it, “It’s frustrating to be in the writers room and tossing out stories, then having to stop yourself and go, ‘Does this work? Does this violate continuity?’ And having to call people and check encyclopedias and look up information. You want to have it all in your head and just play. The Trek universe has got to the point where you can’t play anymore.”

There’s this crazy solution to this problem called making your own original work.

The sheer level of entitlement here is beyond belief. These hacks want to simultaneously enjoy the name recognition from using an existing IP. They also want the creative ease of not having to do your own worldbuilding. They’d like the established characters and setting. But they’d also like to totally disregard and ignore them when it’s minorly inconvenient to do otherwise.

Over on Prime Video, Rings of Powerfollows a similar model: where J.R.R. Tolkien’s source material is narratively thin, consisting largely of battles and successions, Rings of Power’s showrunners have grafted connective tissue onto this sparse scaffolding, shading in the thoughts, feelings, and choices that propel familiar characters to each predetermined plot point. We know where these characters are going, but if there’s one thing Tolkienites understand, it’s that it’s the journey that shapes and changes us, not the destination. Where Tolkien gave us only the destination, Rings of Power backfills the journey. Take Lord Elrond, for example. How did he become such a legendary statesman, able to build consensus between mortal and immortal races? Rings of Power imagines his years as a rookie diplomat, building out a formative and often touching friendship with the dwarven Prince Durin IV. As Strange New Worlds accomplishes with Spock, suddenly, Elrond’s canonical future makes more sense.

Yeah, and how did Sauron trick everyone into making a bunch of rings of power?

By hanging out on a raft in the middle of the ocean for no reason and then doing a lot of other things for no reason and then ???? and then winning. And speaking of winning, how did the Numenoreans destroy Sauron anyway? 

By being a bunch of fags who have an army that consists of five teenagers who all spar with real swords and get beat up by an elf. And speaking of that elf, what happened to her husband, Celeborn?

I guess we’re just filling in those gaps that Tolkein left by never having Galadriel not have a husband. Or maybe having one and never mentioning him, and also being a warrior now and not having a sword. Thank god we’re finally answering the tough questions.

When we love stories, we want them to make sense, to have consistent internal logic, to meet the sky-high expectations that our devotion has placed upon them. But canon isn’t purely good by definition, and sometimes, it restricts good storytelling. For a story to endure and expand decade after decade, as all of these mega-franchises have, it must be adaptive and reactive—that’s the very soul of adaptation. As Tolkien himself said of his own legendarium, it must leave room for “other minds and hands.” Isn’t it exciting to consider that we still don’t know everything about these characters and their worlds, all this time later? These fictional sandboxes are endlessly generative—it’s part of why we can’t get enough of them.

I couldn’t agree more with the writer here. After all, in the original Wheel of Time, Perrin isn’t Black. 

Nor does he have a wife that he stabs during the Trolloc attack on an Emond’s Field population with the demographics of Manhattan.

It’s not canon for Perrin to have a wife and then kill her, but without breaking the canon we couldn’t have told an extremely tedious and poorly written fan fic about him having a wife, killing her, and then spending all the rest of the season not growing as a character because instead of being a young man on an adventure he’s a wife murderer now. This is really compelling stuff, so move over canon, it’s wife killing time.

If you look closely, you can actually see the entire show being murdered here.

The craziest part of the article is that I somewhat agree with what they’re saying, at least in principle. Star Trek and Star Wars canon are messes. Even ignoring the extended Star Wars universe, plenty of dumb stuff exists in George Lucas’ original trilogy. Remember when he decided that Princess Leia and Luke were siblings? Boy that sure won’t make them kissing in the first film incredibly awkward and gross.

Star Trek lore is also stupid, as is any universe that has time travel and multiple universes. There are plenty of existing plot holes in the original work, which would be pretentious trash masquerading as high class even if it didn’t have formerly male cats giving birth. And yet, despite this, these untalented hacks keep contradicting the established lore for no real reason other than to tell bad fanfic that no one likes. It’s like seeing the writing process work in reverse. Instead of things getting better with another pass over the material, we keep all the dumb stuff and add some more.

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International Pervertism

Chad Saudis Demand Lesbo Scenes be Cut out of Disney’s Doctor Strange 2

Irish Mirror:

Saudi Arabia has asked Disney to cut an LGBTQ scene from Doctor Strange 2 before it can be screened in the Middle Eastern country.

Nawaf Alsabhan, Saudi Arabia’s general supervisor of cinema classification, said: “It’s just her talking about her moms, because she has two moms. Being in the Middle East, it’s very tough to pass something like this.”

Boy how the mighty have fallen. We’ve covered Disney before here, and their neverending rampage against childhood innocence. The Saudis now are putting their foot down and doing what Republicans are there to not do.

He added: “We sent it to the distributor, and the distributor sent it to Disney, and Disney has told us they are not willing.”

Although Saudi officials are not happy, Alsabhan said the movie had not been banned outright.

He told news agency Agence France-Presse: “It will never be banned. There’s no reason to ban the film. It’s a simple edit… so far they have refused. But we haven’t closed the door. We’re still trying.”

Get ready for little Benny Shapiro to swoop in and do his little “get woke go broke,” routine. Of course Disney is a media empire precisely because they exist in a winner take all field. And beyond that, I’m sure Republicans will be outraged, just outraged that Saudi Arabia is censoring pervert garbage in films now.

In 2017 Saudi Arabia lifted a ban on cinemas, which had been in place since the early 1980s.

It was part of a series of social reforms spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to shake up the deeply conservative kingdom.

Right, this guy. Didn’t he order some Turkish journalist to be killed or something?

Dohain Institute:

After eighteen days of denial and misinformation, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has finally admitted that Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in its Istanbul Consulate. Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate on 2 October to access regular consular services without ever coming back out. According to Turkish sources, Khashoggi was lured into the consulate where he was met with a team of 15 Saudi agents, who had travelled from Riyadh in the aim of killing the journalist. His dismembered body is yet to be located. 

Current evidence suggests that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may be directly implicated in the assassination of Khashoggi, a US permanent resident and columnist for The Washington Post.

Weird, isn’t it, how the psychopath is also all about “liberalizing,” Saudi Arabia. I’m sure the removal of this pervert garbage is a relic of old institutional power that he’ll eventually be getting rid of.

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Canadian Military’s White Fragility AMA Part 5, “My Black Son”

Boy has it ever been a long time since I worked on this piece. Over a month in fact, and the AMA itself happened on December 15th, almost two months ago. It got lost in the kerfuffle with me getting booted from The Site That Must Not be Named, but we’re back now.

When we last left off, the effeminate Rob Chambers had just finished speaking, and it was finally time for Ryan Trudeau, no relation to PM Justin Trudeau, to speak.

Rob Chambers, Canadian Military Dipshit.

Here’s the rest of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIkCeZbxous

Ryan Trudeau grabs that mic and immediately launches into the anti-White cult language.

Thank you for that amazing introduction Rob. I don’t even know how I could have set the table better. And to kinda go along with some of the other great informations that were shared by Samantha, by Faduno, you know, kind of maybe starting with some of my layers.

We are going to need more eye rolling memes. These people are truly insufferable.

Starting with the obvious. You know, when you look at me I am of the majority group in this country. I am of European origin.

You’re also a failed actor Ryan, as we covered in the first part of this series.

But in terms of looking at those layers as well I’m a father, I’m a son. I’m a brother. I’m a husband but I’m also straight. I’m cisgendered. I’m able bodied. And I was born and raised in this country.

I grew up in a middle class family that had loads of privileges. I’m from a small town. Very homogenous. Kind of had a lot of people who looked like me.

When I think about some of my colleagues who are marginalized and I think about myself and I pretty much have none. And to go along with what you said before Rob about bringing your whole self to work, I’ve been able to bring my whole self to work and I don’t even have to think about it.

For those who didn’t read the previous pieces, these people are super anti-White. They also talk like kindergarteners, and are unable to go 5 minutes without calling themselves courageous, or else they may in fact explode.

Before we get started I want to acknowledge that the land on which I join is a traditional unceded territory of the Mohawk people as I’m on the *inaudible shore of Montreal. And there remains a very strong and engaged Indigenous presence in this area. And I feel very grateful for the opportunity to live and work on this land. And I acknowledge that my privilege and position here as a White Settler, and I am committed to listening and learning from Indigenous communities across Turtle Island.

I really can’t do a transcript of this entire 1+ hour video. I’m only going to note the highlights from here on out. As our first example, after some generic boilerplate he gets into the point of his lecture.

Let’s get right to the elephant in the room, White Fragility.

Weirdly, I notice that he capitalized White. Probably only because of the Fragility afterwards.

The title is meant to be provocative. It serves to demand attention, and even perhaps, spur a little bit of defensiveness. Which is exactly what it’s meant to do folx.

Maybe even when you read the title of this and you maybe even felt a little defensive yourself. I ask you to sit in that emotion. I ask you to sit and be present in that, and just to listen as much as you can with an open mind, and an open heart, as we move forward.

I think everyone reading this already gets it, but it needs to be stated. White Fragility is anti-White hate propaganda. It serves to attack White People who stand up against anti-White hate propaganda. To respond to the claim with anything other than “that’s anti-White hate propaganda,” is to give the attack far more credit than it deserves.

But consider it from the anti-White cult perspective. They are essentially telling the cultists “you’re going to feel really attacked, but only dumb people are going to act on that emotion.” This is basically what the TRS guys are talking about when they talk about “midwitism.”

Anyway, he goes on to use the terms “racial comfort,” “racial insulation,” “racial stress,” “racial divides,” “dominant discourse,” and so on.

Think of it as like a racism awareness muscle. And if you don’t use it, you lose it.

(((Robin DeAngelo)))

Robin DeAngelo explains the behaviours that White People experiencing White Fragility will undergo.

These moves include the outward display of emotions like anger, fear, guilt, or behaviours like argumentation, silence, or even leaving the stress inducing situation.

Argumentation and silence you say? I’m sorry, this is starting to sound less like a scientific theory and more like anti-White hate propaganda, which it is. I myself was wondering why this guy was pushing this anti-White hate propaganda. I mean obviously it’s his job, but any normal White Man would have quit said job, so what else does he get out of it. What’s this guys deal?

Oh I see. Mr. Trudeau has a fetish for the jungle pussy.

I also want to explicitly dissasociate myself with any concept or connection to the term White Saviour. This is to be avoided at all costs.

That means calling these people White Saviours who have White Saviour Complex is good. You should do it more often.

Anyway he bloviates about his privilege for a bit. There’s some bit about “marginalized people,” that explicitly excludes White People.

He then takes us on his “personal journey.” You see he learned this acronym called ADKAR when he was working as a “Change Management Engineer.”

He explains that even though he had a fetish for the jungle pussy, he wasn’t taking enough tangible action. He even had this awful thing that happened to his wife’s son. And yes, it involves Marvel movies.

And my son in particular, very in tune with the whole Marvel Universe. Specifically because Marvel has been doing some great work in recent years. And in particular, as you can see on the shirt, they’ve released this new spin off of Spiderman, who happens to be this black kid from Brooklyn named Myles Morales.

Just for no reason they made Spiderman black. I’m sure they’ll be making Black Panther White soon enough.

And for my son, representation is everything. When he sees this, he sees a spiderman that looks like him. And it makes him believe that he can also be a superhero, which is super important and it’s very touching.

No, trust me goy, it really does not get any better than this. And if you’ve got some nice points you want to put forth right now we’ll get to the Q&A in the next installment. Spoiler: Despite being an “Ask me Anything,” they didn’t let any of our questions get through the moderation team.

Anyway, his mulatto son went to school wearing the shirt. He was noticeably put off when he picks him up after school and his kid explains that the other children were laughing at his retarded shirt.

Until finally he opens up and he explodes on me.

“All my friends were laughing at me because they told me my t-shirt is stupid. Spiderman is not supposed to be black he’s supposed to be White, and that I should never wear this shirt again.” – His son.

And then he tells me he’s never going to wear that shirt again, and he storms off to his room.

Everytime I tell this part of a story it chokes me up. As a seven year old I saw a portion of his innocence just gone, vanish, never to be there again.

Systemic racism is real. It’s real and it’s in my house right now and it’s touching my kid.

If there’s any of you on this call who doubt the existence of systemic racism I invite you to have a conversation with my son after what you just heard.

And I made the decision right then and there that I was going to make a change. I made a promise to myself, to my son, to everyone that I know that I was going to dismantle systemic racism with every breath I breathe as I was alive. 

And I decided to be the change that I wanted to see. At that moment I liberated myself from my comfort zone, from my own fragility, and I decided that I was going to take action.

And I instantly moved myself from awareness to desire, because I heard the ultimate piece of information that I needed to hear to get myself to that step. 

Holy shit what a drama queen. His wife’s black son (okay it’s his as well to be fair) wore some stupid black spiderman t-shirt to school and the other kids laughed at his retarded shirt. Like dude, just get your son a Black Panther shirt or whatever, if him having people who “look like him,” is so important.

It’s at this moment that the more astute amongst you will have noticed something. I hope we didn’t skip over the assumption that black kids should demand fictional characters look like them. Make no mistake, if a White kid said “I want a character who looks like me,” these anti-Whites would send that school to the principals office.

I asked a very similar question in the Q&A for the event. As mentioned earlier, they didn’t let any of our questions through. I wonder why?

Contradictory Beliefs of the Anti-White Cult. 

  1. White People having any sort of racial identity is an atrocity. We are all one race, the human race. 
  2. Coloured People should be constantly whining that there aren’t enough people of their race in x position. Appeals to “colourblindness,” are just excuses for well disguised Aryan Supremacy.

It shouldn’t matter to his little shit that Spiderman is White. He should simply accept that and enjoy the universal human values imparted by Product. So sad that we see such bigotry endemic amongst black people. It really shows that we have more work to do.

He then goes on to talk about Ibram X. Kendi as some sort of serious scholar.

And there’s more bloviating.

What I came to understand was that even as someone married to a black wife with mixed children I was still capable at any point of engaging in racist behaviours and that anyone is capable of doing it. This was an aha moment for me. It opened up my eyes to understand what micro-aggressions were. How my unconscious bias were affecting other people. And how this comfort zone otherwise known as my fragility was keeping me from stress inducing racially charged situations, and challenging the status quo.

Nothing says challenging the status quo quite like a cushy military bureaucratic sinecure where you get paid to be a professional anti-White activist.

He then goes on this tedious bit about “being a White Ally.” Sounds a lot like White Saviour Complex to me. This part lasts about 10 minutes, and it’s basically what you’d expect. 

I was called in, and I like to use that term instead of called out, by a colleague and educated.

Dude you’re a fucking weirdo.

The very last two points actually do need to be acknowledged. He implies that you should give better referrals to non-White people. And he explicitly states that you should network with non-White preferentially. 

Now I know that you all got this, but this is literally the systemic oppression of White People. Which is ultimately the goal of all this anti-White hate propaganda. That they couch “privilege non-Whites,” through a complicated language of bullshitese does not significantly change that fact. 

With that he’s done his spiel and kicks it back to the rest of the group. I’ll have that written up by this time tomorrow and we can talk about it then.