Current Events > 'Fantastic Beasts 3' Gay Dialogue Removed in China

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Start World War III to force LGBTQ acceptance on them?

let me guess said dialog is super minor

like dumbledore goes "wow that guy has a nice hat"

and then rowling pats her self on the back thinking she is super hyper progressive for that

No, there's a scene where there's a boxset of Sex in the City on Dumbledore's shelf.

Looking more like escalating involvement in Russia and Ukraine will do that

It's shitty, but what are we going to do? Boycott China? Start World War III to force LGBTQ acceptance on them? Hell, we're struggling with that in parts of the US right now.

In the late 1930s, Hitler said he didn't want Jewish actors in Hollywood movies and pretty much everyone except the Warner Bros. complied or had their actors hide their Jewish identity. The Warners refused to market their films in Germany at a 33% loss of profits. Character like that is seldom seen when profits are involved.

Do you ever get tired of saying the dumbest shit

I mean what can you do he's got a point? Fail to see how this is dumb.

We can't force China to do anything

Warner Bros edited the movie at China's request.

I mean otherwise the movie just wouldn't have been released, do you think they're going to forgo making money for morals?

That is precisely the point...? Why are you missing that?

But do we really need to do this every time? It's so obvious and common sense. Furthermore, it's not like NOT doing the edit and NOT releasing the film in China helps gay people either. Chinese people aren't going to reconsider their bigotry because a Hollywood movie wasn't released in their country. It's shitty, but there's nothing to discuss.

A series written by a transphobic author edited to remove references to gay people for a homophobic market? Pikachu has never been more surprised.

Yes, a massive studio refusing to do a homophobic edit to a movie of one of the most popular franchises of all time for a country would have no impact, of course. Nothing at all.

It's funny to see Americans sharing videos of Russians speweing government propaganda while justifying shit like this because it means money for American corporations.

Do you actually think Chinese people are even remotely receptive to an American Company trying to preach morals about diversity at them? It is stunning that you would imply that I am myopic because I'm American when you have not even bothered to consider the basic perspective of a Chinese person viewing Western media, especially things that could easily be perceived as punitive towards the Chinese people due to their values (Withholding movie releases because they're bigoted).

So ignorant. Not to mention that people will probably just bootleg the movie with a homemade edit and distribute it locally anyways, with implicit support from the CCP to do so.

i mean this should surprise nobody

https://twitter.com/MarkHamill/status/1501323467353833474?s=20&t=sf7DKogIBH4LtOf5YRjBeg

Hollywood is full of liars and hypocrites, who would have thought it.

The almighty dollar means infinitely more than their supposed ethics.

It is pretty surprising, really. Rowling may be a lot of awful things, but at least she's always been strongly in favour of gay rights.

China is just gonna be China. I remember seeing a video where a bunch of US basketball players went over there to play an exhibition game and the crowd was just yelling nonstop n-words at them >___>