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It's almost like creating an environment where a large group of people are seen as less than human makes it really easy for privileged folk to abuse without guilt. https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1248317007822454787
I mean yeah, this is really about theme park patrons being shitty to theme park employees -- nothing new.
But there's something so allegorical about how easy it is for people to abuse another human being just because they buy into them being "less-than," ie. a zombie.
But there's something so allegorical about how easy it is for people to abuse another human being just because they buy into them being "less-than," ie. a zombie.
And how that extrapolates into the world with racism, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia resulting in increased real world violence.
It's also the exact same commentary Romero made in the very first zombie film -- that there was an inherent cruelty people would have no problems inflicting on zombies as a lower class, and likening it to racism.
It's also my big problem with Walking Dead as a whole. Where Romero used this to make social commentary, Walking Dead was more interested in fetishizing this divide, or at least it was when I finally stopped watching it.
