Our elite power brokers have chosen the CCP over us.
The Editors
09.08.2020
If you’re willing to shell out 30 bucks at the behest of your kids, you can stream Disney’s remake of Mulan,
its military fantasy based on a Chinese folk legend. But don’t make the
mistake of thinking that it might offer a few hours of entertainment in
which you can avoid dwelling on America’s current political crisis.
These days, even Disney movies reveal the deepening divide between
Americans that threatens to tear our country apart.
Disney has spent years affixing content warnings to old material, revising and remaking it to conform with contemporary racial and gender standards. Mulan seems
like a perfect fit for this project—the headstrong young heroine who
defies “traditional gender roles” to fight for her country (while
wearing a binder, no less).
Except that the new version of the film, if you follow its logic, is
so nakedly imperialist it would have made Napoleon blush. The behemoth
military complex of the Chinese state is leveraged en masse to
defeat an uprising of nomadic tribes whose territory was stolen a
generation ago by the current emperor, now an old warlord who demands
tribute in blood and treasure from the several diverse regions of his
sprawling fiefdom. The independent nomadic powers are crushed and broken
forever, but this time, their oppressor is a girlboss! Hooray!...........To Read More...
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