If, say, a gay woman of color from Brooklyn said she didn’t connect with American Sniper because the white, Texan military culture it valorizes felt alien to her, you might feel sorry for her, but it’d be pretty silly to call her a racist. Yet an equivalent dynamic is playing out in the latest online fainting fit over a review of Turning Red, the (delightful) new Pixar movie I reviewed last week whose lead character is a pubescent Chinese-Canadian girl growing up in Toronto.
“Racism” cried the online mob, and a review on Cinemablend was actually deleted — this almost never happens, and I can’t remember the last time it did — because of these dumb but harmless remarks by critic Sean O’Connell:
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