Holes is a problematic movie

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    The magic g*psy getting cast as a black lady because “magic black woman” is a more legible racist stereotype to Americans really was something.

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      I looked up the plot on Wikipedia for shits and giggles and apparently in the OG book she wasn’t Roma, but an Egyptian woman, who somehow ended up in Latvia? Still made her a magical fortune teller lady tho.