Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoTenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•🦃Happy TreksgivingEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I have a friend who is about 7 years older than me and she grew up with a lot of the same pop culture stuff I grew up with. She’s a teacher, university educated and close to retirement … bright lady who has been in the education system for elementary schools for decades.

    But in the all the time I’ve known her for the past almost 30 years … she still confuses Star Wars and Star Trek. I have a feeling it’s just to push my buttons because she’ll confuse something about it all and then laugh it off as it none of it really matters to anyone.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catomovies@piefed.social•James Cameron Says if Avatar: Fire and Ash Doesn't Make Enough Money to Justify Avatar 4 and 5, He's Ready to Walk Away and Write a Book to Resolve the One Thread It Leaves Open - IGNEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    It reinforces the idea that the only way we can understand meeting any new culture or group is through conflict … that one or the other has to overpower one another and win … that everything is automatically a contest of winners and losers.

    We can’t imagine a world where we actually cooperate with one another and live in some kind of harmony. Partly because we as a species have seldom been like that and the other being that we find that story kind of boring. We prefer a world of constant conflict and fighting.

    We also enjoy cheering for the underdog and listening to fanciful stories of them winning over the oppressor … the classic David and Goliath story … where the little guy gets to win. Only problem is, all throughout our actual human history, the big guy, the strongest and most wealthy always wins and destroys the little guy. It’s a fantasy we like to perpetuate to make ourselves feel good about the terrible reality we actually we live in.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catomovies@piefed.social•James Cameron Says if Avatar: Fire and Ash Doesn't Make Enough Money to Justify Avatar 4 and 5, He's Ready to Walk Away and Write a Book to Resolve the One Thread It Leaves Open - IGNEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    As an Indigenous Canadian, I think the whole Avatar series is sickening

    An invading colonizing force of foreign people invading a native people … but the natives are incapable of helping themselves so they need a white saviour to lead them in the fight against their oppressors

    It’s basically cultural appropriation masked as a space opera

    The worst part of it is how wealthy European people are still able in the most imaginative ways possible are able to monetize the misery and memory of oppressed people. Not only did they destroy entire cultures, they spend a good part of their time making money off of that memory and history.

    The only thing I enjoy about the films is the AI, CGI and special effects … beyond that, the writing is just another continuation of white people fantasizing about what it would be like to be a heroic Indigenous person who wins over colonizers … a fantasy that has never been allowed to exist in reality.