We didn’t grow up in the same environment that exists in America with regard to skin color. We grew up in Israel, where being a Black person is like being any kind of color. It’s not something we talked about all the time. It wasn’t a big issue.”
I have a followup question…
What possible question could there be? He’s just a smol bean Israeli, he knows nothing about racism. In fact he didn’t even know there were other kinds of people besides Israelis and Terrorists until last week.
Oliver says in the documentary that “none of us [were] thinking stereotypes” when these casting decisions were originally made, which is why the show ran for two seasons with “the Black character the Black Ranger and the Asian character the Yellow Ranger.” It wasn’t until “my assistant pointed it out in a meeting one day” that Oliver realized these castings were upholding stereotypes. Oliver added: “It was such a mistake.”
That’s how you know you’re White. Even my young child ass immediately noticed how racist that shit was without any education on the subject.
Not just white. White™
What do you mean?
I assume it means being so divorced from the material conditions and struggles of religious, ethnic, and racial minorities that they are invisible because being white (and wealthy, insulated) means they are in a privileged and sheltered position where those problems are invisible, ghosts, and relics of a bygone era.
Or just a fucking liar when they say they didn’t know it was racist
Yeah right? when i watched the show as a child (rather made fun of my slightly younger friends for watching it) i noticed that shit immediately.
Pink - girl
Black - black dude
Yellow - asian
And when the green ranger became the white power ranger…boy howdy did i give my friends shit about that.
I just didn’t see it
A child did… A blind man could, stfu loser
I don’t know if it’s my own prejudice, if you can call it that, but I feel like even nerdy guy (glasses=nerd) being the Blue ranger and the jock bro being the leader and Red ranger also felt like typical assignments for the colors.
Yeah, that’s kinda what I meant. It’s like the ‘I didn’t know I couldn’t do that’ excuse, they knew because it was obvious to absolutely everyone but they can still hide behind the excuse because other White people will accept it and cover for them. That’s part of Whiteness.
Even I, a privileged white guy, thought it was pretty outrageous
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Being black is no big issue in israel which is why you were about the only country to support apartheid SA when everyone else turned on them
Power Rangers was made by Israelis? wtf.
Created by Haim Saban, Shuki Levy and Shotaro Ishinomori (aka king of manga) built around a live-action superhero television series, based on Super Sentai.
Haim Saban is a massive Zionist. It wasn’t his decision alone. Also major
briber.Have fun reading that wiki.
Israelis saying that being Black has no social stigma in Israel. So is everyone sterilized there?
I remember about some Ethiopian (or other Africa nation) jews being denied their “right” to the motherland, or something like that. Anyone else knows what I’m talking about or I’m misrepresenting something?
Tangentially related, but I was at the Phoenix Comicon when a guy snuck in with a bunch of guns and dressed as the punisher to try to assassinate the green power ranger. If I’m remembering correctly he had a calendar event in his phone to kill him lmao.
https://ew.com/power-rangers-stuntman-recalls-speech-to-execs-that-got-thuy-trang-fired-11710981
Despite being the faces of the show, Trang, St. John, Jones, and their costars Amy Jo Johnson, David Yost, and Jason David Frank saw virtually none of that money. "One of the things Saban said was, ‘Look, I’m giving them the chance to become stars.’
“We were broke,” St. John bluntly explained, detailing extremely low pay on the non-union production and salaries that left them in need of second jobs, despite an exceedingly demanding shooting schedule. The trio were fired from the show after Trang’s speech, a decision that wasn’t ever directly communicated to the rest of the cast and crew.
Hollywood Demons
Apt name
Reboot/Beast Wars superiority continues for 30 years
