via YoungCons —
The left throws a lot of wacky stuff our way, but this? COME ON. Don’t mess with the Peanuts!
You see, “The Peanuts Movie” is coming out Nov. 6, but critics are already taking issue with it. Why? Because it “lacks diversity.”
Chief International Film Critic Peter Debruge wrote a review of the movie published in Variety, and while he didn’t completely slam the film, he dropped this little nugget. Emphasis mine:
Like most classic jokes, “Peanuts” isn’t so much funny as mildly amusing, which is evidently one of the many aspects of Schulz’s legacy that his son Craig and grandson Bryan fought to protect as screenwriters and producers on the film (presumably trumping their genuinely hilarious collaborator, Paul Feig, also credited as a producer alongside co-writer Cornelius Uliano). But a little modernization wouldn’t have hurt, especially in the diversity department. While Franklin remains Charlie Brown’s only brown friend, a non-white love interest would have been as progressive as Schulz’s tomboyish depiction of Peppermint Patty was back in the day.
I can hear it already. “Charlie Brown is raaaaaacist because he doesn’t ever have a crush on a black/Hispanic/Indian/insert whatever race you want here girl!”
DownTrend offers a pretty insightful synopsis:
Peanuts is a well-known entity and it is what is. Charles M. Schultz created the comic strip in 1950 and it ran nationally for 50 years. It’s not like the producers of The Peanuts Movie extracted existing black characters and replaced them with whiter ones. This is a representation of a beloved comic and nothing more.
It’s bad enough when liberals complain about the lack of diversity in an artistic work of fiction, but downright ridiculous to suggest that a long-running franchise has to re-invent itself with more characters of color. There is no racism in staying true to the source material, especially since that material is not in the least bit racist.
Charlie Brown is a classic. It doesn’t need to be “modernized.” There’s nothing racist about it. But I can hear it now. “Charlie Brown is a shining example of white privilege!”
It’s only a matter of time.
Good freaking grief.
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I hate the left. What a bunch of bitter, evil, hateful, pompous idiots. The world the libs inhabit is the antithesis to the one Charles Schulz created for his beloved characters.
AND his last name is spelled ‘Schulz’- there isn’t a ‘T’ in it. *sigh*
So did Straight Out of Compton. I’ll stick with Peanuts.
and in the sequel to this someone will complain that Charlie did not try the homosexual lifestyle and have a conversation with a preop transgender dude. You summed it up GOOD GRIEF
So the greatest comic strip of all time has to be recreated to conform to progressivism? Do these imbeciles even recognize that every thing that was ever recreated as progressive was a total and complete failure? Do they have a clue as to what Detroit was like before it was progressive?
The sequel will feature Charlene Brown, who underwent some surgery between the film coming out and the sequel. Lucy will charge 5 cents to harangue white males about sexism instead of offering psychiatric advice, Pig Pen will turn out to have a previously unknown condition which prohibits him from being clean, and Linus will end up at a liberal college where he spends all of his time playing piano in a safe room. Franklin will be killed in a shootout with police after which rioters will burn down Detroit in the name of justice.
This will be a film eagerly anticipated by dozens, if not a few hundred progs.
It has a Black(Franklin ) a Transgender (Marcie) and a straight out Dyke (Peppermint Patty).
What the hell else do they want?
Not diverse enough??
-You got Franklin, the token black kid.
-You got a lesbian. Peppermint Patty.
-You got a bitchy feminist. Lucy
-You got a wimpy little kid who still has his woobie.
-You got a dirty white boy. Pig Pen.
-A dog and his bestie, a bird. Snoopy and Woodstock.
That sounds like plenty of fucking diversity me.
Are they pissed because there is no muzzie, or transgendered characters??
And that’s sposed to be a bad thing?
Fuck the PC cocksuckers.
With a Louisville Slugger.
With nails driven into it.
Leftists speak, but all I hear is, ” Wanh, wanh, wanh,wuh-wahn…”
Oh I don’t know, I’m kind of getting sick and tired of Charlie Brown.
“Charlie Brown …
He’s a clown …”
https://youtu.be/ss2hULhXf04
Excellent!
One of the leading characters is a dog, and to dyslectic muzzies that spells God.
Damn right it lacks diversity. A crazed cracker like Charlie Brown should appear at least once cocked and loaded.
“…a non-white love interest would have been as progressive as Schulz’s tomboyish depiction of Peppermint Patty was back in the day.”
HEY! This movie isn’t pushing race mixing AT ALL! WTF? Get on that!
Please, please, please don’t fuck up Peanuts with PC like they did the re-release of Rocky and Bullwinkle!
Not enough diversity?
So stick a cat in there and STFU!!
The NBA lacks diversity, too.
I always thought of Peppermint Patty as a transgender lesbian that wants to be a muzzie.