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Why the (true) history of 'Dunkirk' matters
Washington Examiner ^
| 19 July 2017
| Tom Rogan
Posted on 07/20/2017 6:29:23 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:29:23 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Noting the idiocies of Leftist critics, I'm guessing this is a pretty good movie, right?
Should I go see it?
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:37:28 AM PDT
by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective...)
To: Rummyfan
By all means, let’s rewrite history to make it more palatable to PC tastes. Maybe we can make Churchill black. And Montgomery can be recast as a homo. And all the citizens who lent their boats and labor to the rescue were muslime refugees.
To hell with Truth ...
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:39:43 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Rummyfan
Well it was OK to replace white historical figures in “Hamilton” with people of color so anything is fair game at this point. But did they complain about the movie “Downfall” about Hitler’s last days being too white?
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:43:28 AM PDT
by
GMMC0987
To: Rummyfan
They’ll probably do a remake with a lesbian female Eskimo as the lead and the battle being fought with rocks and spears to appease Mothers against everything.
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:44:35 AM PDT
by
mbynack
(Retired USAF SMSgt)
To: Rummyfan
Of course the left wants to re-write history. The truth is that the BEF, RAF and RN were composed almost exclusively of white heterosexual males, because they were defending the most advanced and prosperous civilization the world has ever known, which was built almost exclusively by white heterosexual males. The irony is that they were defending that civilization from a mutated branch of that civilization that was also composed almost exclusively by white heterosexual males.
If the left wants to see a war movie featuring a number of “people of color” I suggest they watch “Zulu.”
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:44:43 AM PDT
by
henkster
(Ask your favorite liberal to take the "Snowflake Challenge.")
To: IronJack
And Montgomery can be recast as a homo. There were rumors that recasting was not necessary.
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:45:42 AM PDT
by
henkster
(Ask your favorite liberal to take the "Snowflake Challenge.")
To: IronJack
By all means, lets rewrite history to make it more palatable to PC tastes. This isn't about rewriting movies to make them PC. As far as the Left is concerned, if a film can't glorify the achievements of people of color, LGBT, women, and other marginalized groups, then it shouldn't be made at all.
It's isn't the lack of minorities in Dunkirk that upsets reviewers. It's that this film about the heroics of white men was made in the first place.
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:45:47 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Rummyfan
At USA Today, Brian Truitt laments "the fact that there are only a couple of women and no lead actors of color." This, Truitt explains, "may rub some the wrong way." Good God...
What amazes is how these cretins still fancy themselves as the "bright" ones.
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:46:47 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
( Liberals, go find another country.)
To: henkster
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:48:33 AM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: RightGeek
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:50:17 AM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: henkster
> The truth is that the BEF, RAF and RN were composed almost exclusively of white heterosexual males,
They were Brits. I’d soft-pedal the “heterosexual” part.
To: henkster
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:52:57 AM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: henkster
If the left wants to see a war movie featuring a number of people of color I suggest they watch Zulu.One of my favorites.....
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:54:24 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: RightGeek
One of my favorite “feel good” movies, right up there with Black Hawk Down.
To: Rummyfan
I admit to watching the movie
Boys in the Hood" when it came out. I never
expected to see many/any Whites in the film. It was a movie attempting to document a specific experience.
Liberal/progressive types demand that all of history be overlaid with their own biased world view no matter how it alters history. In fact, that is exactly the goal: going forward with a different history.
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:58:05 AM PDT
by
MarDav
To: Drew68
Which is why it must be polluted with PC revisions and po-mo garbage: to diminish the real-world heroics of a disfavored class.
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posted on
07/20/2017 6:59:54 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Rummyfan
These are "people" (libs) who have a 1 in 7 chance of FINDING Dunkirk on a map, given three tries. They don't know sh!t, they can't do sh!t, they can't write sh!t. They couldn't pass the Turing Test.
If it were anyone else, I'd be embarrassed for them. However, it's THEM. I just sneer and turn the page. Want to see the movie, if it wouldn't actually serve to encourage these leeches.
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posted on
07/20/2017 7:01:32 AM PDT
by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
To: IronJack
“lets rewrite history to make it more palatable to PC tastes”
Howard Zinn, fake history creator supreme, was among a whole crowd that have flushed historical fact down the drain of political manipulation.
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posted on
07/20/2017 7:03:10 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: Rummyfan
If Hollywood wants to produce a war movie with a lot of non-white roles, let's see them do a movie based on the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. Mind you, I'm not sure if they want see a movie where black Muslims were wiped out by the then-new Maxim machine gun and wiped out by infantrymen using rifles firing the then-new hollow-point bullet (aka. Dum Dum bullet).
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posted on
07/20/2017 7:06:01 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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