That's how it should be. Too many people start posting on forums without any respect for the norms of the place. That worsens the experience for everyone.
Those whose criteria include "their commitment to free speech" usually have an ax to grind about something, which would explains if they've been banned from other places before.
> That's how it should be. Too many people start posting on forums without any respect for the norms of the place. That worsens the experience for everyone.
Not really in Metafilter's case. It's norms changed under the feet of a significant fraction of its long time community members. I also wasn't talking so much about norms than a rather narrow range of orthodox opinion.
To put it in HN terms: think of it as a forum where it's orthodox to love Ayn Rand, think in Objectivist terms, and a transgression to voice anything but the most indirect critical perspective of her or her ideas. You might not realize it because there are tons of great threads about other things, but God help you if you venture the opinion that the government should increase mandatory taxes to fund assistance programs for the poor.
Honestly, as an Asian American, I actually prefer the villain characters as opposed to the new “sidekick/background” character trope.
Hollywood writers and producers still know how to marginalize these new Chinese characters and unfortunately, it seems the Chinese audience is still naive to it.
At least the villains had agency. These new Chinese sidekicks only purpose is to serve the “American” hero.
As a British person, I'm mildly annoyed that British villains (and there are many in films) are generally characterized as incompetent or effete idiots. At least the evil Russians and Chinese in films get to be evil masterminds!
Same here, there is systematic and institutionalized racism in Hollywood, I'm glad China is making their moves in Hollywood, maybe we will see more Korean and Chinese celebrities appearing in these films.
Interesting since the first Japanese male actor was a sensation amongst white women of the early 1900s silent film era, and thus Asian Americans were erased from mainstream films.
The more I study American history, the Japanese interment camps, the racist treatment of Asian Americans, the genocide against 50+ million Native Americans, Opium war, Boxer rebellion, vietnam war, hiroshima, the more I'm convinced that Nazi's escaped and helped build the Reich that they could've had in a far away new land.
> since the first Japanese male actor was a sensation amongst white women ... Asian Americans were erased from mainstream films
Where r/conspiracy and r/redpill meet... Presumably you're talking about Sessue Hayakawa, and the same nonsense appears on his Wikipedia page, supported by citations that don't actually support the assertions.
> The more I study American history, the Japanese interment camps, the racist treatment of Asian Americans, the genocide against 50+ million Native Americans, Opium war, Boxer rebellion, vietnam war, hiroshima
I would recommend studying some Chinese or Japanese history too if you think American historical behaviour is in any way particularly notable, other than an unusual willingness for Americans to want to atone to it, compared to most other countries.
> I'm convinced that Nazi's escaped and helped build the Reich that they could've had
You appear to believe the Nazis were time-travelers, or simply have a particularly weak understanding of the chronology of the items you've listed.
