Hate influencer Chaya Raichik – who goes by “Libs of TikTok” online – is trying to take her show on the road, and it doesn’t appear to be going well.

Raichik gave a speech yesterday at the Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, alongside Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN).

During her speech, she ranted about “pornographic” books in schools and moved on to her hatred of everything “woke.”

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Some students started laughing.

“Um, do you have a question? Is something funny?” she asked, apparently not expecting people to find her over-the-top concerns funny.

“How do you define wokeness?” someone in the back asked.

Raichik tried to respond: “Wokeness is the destruction of normalicy [sic] and… And… Um… Uh…” More students started laughing.

“… of our lives,” she said, apparently thinking she was finishing a sentence.

  • Grandwolf319
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    9 months ago

    Does that mean your opinion is that a black actor in the lead role reduces the quality of the art of the Little Mermaid?

    Based on this response, I don’t think you understood my previous responses. I’ll explain again but most likely won’t respond beyond this point cause we are going in circles.

    A good portion of fans value staying true to the character they watched and fell in love with. So given this fact, doing a race swap that doesn’t add to the story isn’t good. If your goal is social good, the backslash kind of defeats that purpose. If you do a good original story or use one that already has those races, like miles morales. You would achieve your representation goal better (cause no backslash).

    Race swaps are essentially rainbow capitalism.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      A good portion of fans value staying true to the character they watched and fell in love with. So given this fact, doing a race swap that doesn’t add to the story isn’t good.

      The little original Disney Mermaid came out in 1989, 35 years ago. The huge majority of the audience for the new live action remake is kids under 10 years old. They don’t care that the live action actor is black. The only reason the kids would have a problem with it is if their parents told them they should. I don’t see a reason to keep consistency for a now aging GenX population who isn’t even the target audience.

      I’ll explain again but most likely won’t respond beyond this point cause we are going in circles.

      That’s your choice of course. I’m interested in continuing, but your selective omissions are making it difficult for me to gather a more complete understanding of framing of your position.

      Based on this response, I don’t think you understood my previous responses.

      You’re right I’m not. I ask questions to trying and clarify your position so I understand, but they go unanswered. It would be VERY helpful for me to understand your position if you answer the question I’ve asked now for the third time:

      Did it upset you when the Broadway actor Leslie Odom Jr. played the part of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical Hamilton?