Democrats are protecting democracy by subverting democracy…again.
Iran can’t seem to behave.
And when are these actors going to learn not to bash their own movies before those movies come out.
News
Here is some news:
- Graham Platner is out as a Democratic senatorial candidate for Maine.
- Democrats will choose another candidate (here we go again).
- The pervert and Nazi has been accused of rape.
- He left a message. Of course none of this was his fault.
- We have started bombing the crap out of Iran again.
- And today is day 4 of the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing.
- He’s the guy who shot Charlie Kirk.
- The prosecution has introduced an entire timeline with video.
- The guy is screwed. It’s not going to trial.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/graham-platner-has-a-price-for-dropping-out-report
Dumbass of the Day
What do these movies have in common:
- The live action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
- The Alcolyte.
- Captain America.
- Supergirl.
These are films that were undermined by their stars before they came out and the movies bombed.
Women in “The Odyssey”:
- Penelope
- Helenm
- Clyemnestra
- Nausicaa
- Arete
- Athena
- Hera
- Persephone
- Calypso
- Circe
- Eurycleia
- The Sirens
- Skylla
- Charybdis
- Tyro
- Antipoe
- Alcmene
- Jocasta
- Chloris
- Leda
- Phaedra
- Procris
- Ariadne
- Maera
- Clymene
This movie is already getting a lot of hate simply from the previews (remember, no one has seen this movie yet).
- Lupita Nyong’o being cast as Helen of Troy. Helen as having “white arms” implies a white Greek woman and that Nolan has prioritized diversity over historical or textual fidelity.
- Elliot Page’s casting as Sinon, a warrior and cousin of Odysseus, has also become a flashpoint, with detractors framing this and the inclusion of rapper Travis Scott in an unknown role as evidence of “culture-war” or “identity politics” casting rather than story-driven choices.
- Fans of classical history and “historical epics” have criticized the armor, helmets, ships, and general production design as anachronistic or more “comic book” than Bronze Age Greece.
- Another recurring complaint is Nolan’s decision to use contemporary-sounding language in the dialogue instead of archaic or elevated speech that would mirror traditional translations of Homer.
- The film is very dark.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/odyssey-actress-imagines-schooling-homer-on-his-treatment-of-women
So They Shouldn’t Know How to Speak
According to the New York Post:
Activists are pushing for Black English to be legitimized in preschool as a way to build children’s literacy skills in California.
The Black Californians United for Early Care & Education (BlackECE) is part of a movement to challenge “harmful language hierarchies and affirm Black English as a legitimate, rule-governed language rooted in Black history, culture, and community.”
The movement also seeks to “address how language bias shows up in early learning spaces–and how it can be dismantled.”
“I don’t want my son to walk into any room and feel like his voice is not valued or his perspective can’t be heard because he’s not saying it one way or the other,” the co-founder of BlackECE Ashley Williams told PBS.
She also remembered how speaking Black English is full of slangs and grammatical errors so it came with a lot of embarrassment.
BlackECE is a nonprofit organization centered around a 10-point policy plan that seeks to gain reparations and help Black children, families, and workers.
California released a plan promoting early dual language learning and calling on the state’s education system to support bilingual children in their development in 2020, but the advocacy group believes that Black vernacular should be included.
“We talk about multilinguals, but we don’t include Black children who may be African-American English speakers,” the Director of the Children’s Equity Project Xigrid Soto-Boykin said.
Williams also recalled her experiences in having to “talk white” and talking in her comfortable English and feeling insecure.