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My superb Zulu satire on these genuine "Guardians of History"


Sorry, I see some fresh triggering has happened with regards to this juvenile production, and just spent ages trying to find the thread containing my seminal post regarding the "definitely not racists" and their absolutely genuine concerns re seeing what they don't like in light comedy works of fiction.

I thought I'd place it in it's own thread for future posterity / ease of finding...

This is what these good, honest, guardians of history / definitely not racists need to understand.

Just wait until the inevitable remake of Zulu comes along and Michael Caine and all the rest of his heroic Imperialist British Empire Officer buddies have been replaced by Michael B Jordan, John David Washington, etc.

When we are all cheering them on as they blast down hordes of white spear wielding savages, they will be spraying out their coffee, proclaiming "No, no, stop the film! This is an affront to historic accuracy! These chaps would have been the blacks and the officers gunning them down would have been white, this is ALL WRONG! For historical accuracy's sake we simply MUST see whites gunning down blacks!!!" but by then it will be too late.

No one will even listen to their genuine argument of the merits of racial segregation of actors for the sacred good of historical accuracy as they will long since have been discredited by any remotely moderate thinking person as racists for moping over the casting in fantasy productions such as this.

One which has the girl from Stranger Things playing the later day fabricated teenage sister of the world's most famous Detective; adapted from a children's novel which itself rips off fictional works from over a century ago.

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... not really conducive to anything constructive.

Unfortunately a bit like your reply then, which was itself unfortunately quite ironically presumptive despite the fact that I was pretty clear in the purpose of making the OP...

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