It& #39;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">https://twitter.com/Variety/s...

I mean yeah, this is really about theme park patrons being shitty to theme park employees -- nothing new.

But there& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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.