LDSGator

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    LDSGator reacted to mordorbund in Disney wokeness   
    Bear from Song of the South holds Magic Kingdom hostage after being “erased from Disney history”
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    LDSGator reacted to mordorbund in Disney wokeness   
    Winnie-the-Pooh getting a shakedown for not paying for his honey habit
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    LDSGator reacted to mordorbund in Disney wokeness   
    Ugh! What does the bear’s race have to do with anything?
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    LDSGator got a reaction from askandanswer in What a lucky forum member!!!   
    We have standards here. Not many of them though. 
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    LDSGator got a reaction from askandanswer in What a lucky forum member!!!   
    Same, but my expectations are low this time. 
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    LDSGator reacted to Backroads in Backroads ponders media troubles again   
    I'm a millennial. When I was in jr. high my parents talked about not dating other races because "we just don't!". Within in a few years they couldn't care less.
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    LDSGator reacted to NeuroTypical in Backroads ponders media troubles again   
    I can see the logic here, @JohnsonJones. 
    Do you also see similar logic at play in our withdrawal from Afghanistan?  Following your line of logic, I sort of do:
    The goal of the US in Afghanistan was not to destroy the country or the Taliban.  It was to dissuade further 9/11 attacks by projecting strength and proving to the middle-east that the US was not the "paper tiger" Bin Laden claimed we were.  By the time we left Afghanistan, a good percentage of the population had lost a friend, a brother, a cousin, a parent, a son to the war.  The unspoken message to our current and future enemies was "we're pulling out now, but if you still have any relatives or friends, feel free to grab a few more of our planes, and we'll be back for them next."
     
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    LDSGator got a reaction from NeuroTypical in Backroads ponders media troubles again   
    Or blind with hate. 
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    LDSGator got a reaction from NeuroTypical in Backroads ponders media troubles again   
    That, and to be honest, not everyone from the Greatest Generation/Silent Generation thought that way on race. Was it the majority? Sure. But my Memere (who never lived outside of NH until she was over 85) had no issue with interracial dating back in the early 60’s! 
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    LDSGator got a reaction from JohnsonJones in Thought: BYU-TV and Disney   
    It’s obvious that people in the LDS community want clean entertainment, and BYUTV could easily provide that. Or at least try. Having said that, it’s hard to provide entertainment (and especially comedy like the show you mentioned)  that won’t offend someone. 
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    LDSGator got a reaction from pam in What a lucky forum member!!!   
    I should have let you drown. 
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    LDSGator reacted to Just_A_Guy in Thought: BYU-TV and Disney   
    You can please all of the people some of the time, or some of the people all of the time.  But with a little extra effort you can offend all of the people all of the time!
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    LDSGator reacted to zil2 in Thought: BYU-TV and Disney   
    But with a little effort, you can make shows that will offend everyone!
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    LDSGator got a reaction from Backroads in Backroads ponders media troubles again   
    That, and to be honest, not everyone from the Greatest Generation/Silent Generation thought that way on race. Was it the majority? Sure. But my Memere (who never lived outside of NH until she was over 85) had no issue with interracial dating back in the early 60’s! 
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    LDSGator got a reaction from Just_A_Guy in Thought: BYU-TV and Disney   
    It’s obvious that people in the LDS community want clean entertainment, and BYUTV could easily provide that. Or at least try. Having said that, it’s hard to provide entertainment (and especially comedy like the show you mentioned)  that won’t offend someone. 
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    LDSGator got a reaction from zil2 in What a lucky forum member!!!   
    I should have let you drown. 
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    LDSGator reacted to pam in What a lucky forum member!!!   
    He looked like a drowned rat when they pulled him from the lake.  

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    LDSGator got a reaction from pam in What a lucky forum member!!!   
    And I saved you from being eaten by a real alligator. 
     
    Ms. @pam jumped in the lake and wanted to feed the alligator. I heroically jumped in and rescued her while the crowd cheered. Afterwards they lifted me on their shoulders and carried me around Myrtle Beach for hours. 

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    LDSGator got a reaction from zil2 in What a lucky forum member!!!   
    And I saved you from being eaten by a real alligator. 
     
    Ms. @pam jumped in the lake and wanted to feed the alligator. I heroically jumped in and rescued her while the crowd cheered. Afterwards they lifted me on their shoulders and carried me around Myrtle Beach for hours. 

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    LDSGator reacted to zil2 in What a lucky forum member!!!   
    Careful, @Carborendum - you may end up in the river!
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    LDSGator reacted to Vort in What a lucky forum member!!!   
    What a kind gesture.
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    LDSGator reacted to pam in What a lucky forum member!!!   
    I threw him in the river.
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    LDSGator reacted to NeuroTypical in Backroads ponders media troubles again   
    I really recognize the mom and dad in that movie.  I was born into a culture that thought and talked that way about mingling races.  But the notions mostly died out once all the moms and dads encountered their grandchildren in the offending color, and they all grew up with none of the scary birth defects and mental challenges and everything else people were scared about.  It used to be folks were ignorant and scared, and there wasn't data.  Now, you have to be willfully blind to all the data to remain scared.
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    LDSGator got a reaction from NeuroTypical in Backroads ponders media troubles again   
    Now it’s so widespread that even if you are against it, no one cares or will listen to you. When the races live together it’s bound to happen. 
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    LDSGator reacted to NeuroTypical in Backroads ponders media troubles again   
    Now that Elemental hit Disney+, I finally got around to seeing it.
    The nonbinary character was water dude's youngest sibling.  "That's my little sib Lake, and her girlfriend Ghibli."  Had like one line in the entire movie.  I didn't really notice anything to signal the status.  I guess the movie gets to have the final say.  Cut just 5 seconds of the scene, and the movie could sell in China or wherever.  Easy enough to believe so the scene could be virtue-signaled to the alphabet and alphabet-adjacent crowd.  Easy enough to deny or overlook, the movie still appeals to the more conservative crowd.  These years, "Disney magic" means successfully pandering to different cultural and global elements without ticking off others. (shrug)

     
    It's a fine 'love conquers all' movie.  It even conquers the laws of physics and biology, but I guess if you're gonna create a world with sentient elements, you get to create your own laws of physics and biology too.
    If this movie had been made 35 years ago, people would have understood it as an "it's ok to date another race" movie.   Anyone old enough to remember how worried we all were about that?