the deranged hysteria over that "cuties" movie is exactly the kind of puritanical moralism the anti-"woke" liberal crowd was rage-whining about just recently, but since it's mostly emanating from the right and their favs like tulsi they're happily silent about it now. pathetic

to be clear, netflix's decision to advertise it as some kind of soft erotica was grotesque, and likely informed by their desire for rage-clicks. but to describe that film as "child porn", as tulsi has, is fucking deranged. here's a good review https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/cuties-movie-review-1056197/

the irony is the film is a critique of hyper-sexualizing young girls, and also the strict, conservative atmosphere of some religious households. given my background it hit close to home. it's a very real tension, and the film argues for a healthy resolution of it

but given netflix's grossly irresponsible advertising for it, and the way it was turned into a deranged moral crusade by right-wingers and others happy to join the bandwagon like tulsi, they ruined that filmmaker's life. but "cancel culture", am I right?

ted cruz, who has been rage-whining about the evils of "sjw cancel culture", is literally trying to get the film banned through government action. yet not a peep from taibbi, lee fang, jilani, glenn greenwald, ryan grim. who cares, it's just a senator trying to outlaw a movie

and where are the harper's magazine freaks? where is bari weiss, thomas chatterton williams, yascha mounk, jeet heer, name the scumbags who were desperately to larp as brave free speech warriors. not a word from any of them either. why? because this involves taking actual risks

btw this movie has less explicit sexualizing of young girls than leon the professional (a film I like, though those parts were needless and gross), yet the venn diagram of those calling this film child porn while having leon on their favorite movies list is a circle

incidentally luc besson, who is a sexual predator, wanted to add more explicitly sexualizing scenes, but portman's family and jean reno put a stop to it. it would have ruined the movie, and have made it actual child porn https://twitter.com/red_fiesta/status/1253702435169845250

"I hate cancel culture but I love my fav anti-cancelling senator banning movies over a deranged moral panic"

what's the calculus that makes a rando 14 year old anime avi saying some asinine shit the greatest threat to western civilization that must be endlessly debated, but makes senators trying to ban a movie over a BS contrived moral panic not even worth a moment's thought? explain it

that's rhetorical. I know the answer: you're all part of a narcissistic and increasingly deranged professional media class whose social function it is to manufacture consent for the ruling class. there are no principles involved. just narcissism and in-group derived resentment

a rare case of ben shapiro actually bothering to look into the background of something before commenting on it https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1304850264973811714