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"Ender's Game" movie faces a boycott
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#12I wonder if the people signing this would also boycott anything run or owned by Middle Eastern royalty where laws that Card promotes both exist and are enforced.
You've never gotten one of these emails?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/saudigas.asp
People boycott in America for political reasons all the time. I don't particularly care about this boycott, but I'm not going to ridicule them for exercising their right to free association. If they don't want their money going to a bigot, that's their prerogative. If a person wants to boycott Chick Filet because of their stance on gay marriage, Heinz Ketchup because John Kerry's wife owns it, or any other good or service where someone their money will go to political views they do not support, then that is their Constitutional right.
It's also your right to ridicule them, but maybe you should try and come up with some concrete examples instead of just flinging random, unsupported assumptions about moral inconsistencies you think they exhibit.
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#13I really loved the book, and I would really love to see the movie adaption, especially since OSC waited so long to personally pick a director he though would portray it well. It's interesting because I remember in a later book in the series (Xenocide?), there were many off-planet colonies, and on those homosexuality was the norm and heterosexuals were seen as "weird". I don't recall any aggressive stance against gays…
"I remember in a later book in the series (Xenocide?), there were many off-planet colonies, and on those homosexuality was the norm and heterosexuals were seen as "weird"."
I don't have a copy of Xenocide at the moment to check but are sure you're not thinking of 'The Forever War' by Joe Haldeman?
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#14I wonder if the people signing this would also boycott anything run or owned by Middle Eastern royalty where laws that Card promotes both exist and are enforced.
You can't self-righteously BitTorrent oil, so I would say probably not. (On the other hand, American natural gas and Canadian tar sands may break us free from dependence on the Saudis and their deplorable political and social system.)
I just finished a rather excellent (if slightly depressing) book on the links between the US government and Saudi Arabia that suggests those links are rather deeper than you might suspect:
http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Devil-Washington-Saudi-Crude/...
[NB: From what I can tell the author, Bob Baer, is fairly credible - he is a former CIA field officer with a lot of experience in the Middle East.]
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#15I cannot recall the last time I refused to see any movie because of the off screen views of anyone involved? To be honest, I am more inclined to watch movies when others start screaming boycott. However some groups are more prone to take offense than others because they have found it an effective means to quiet opposition to their point of view, regardless if they are right or wrong. I would prefer that instead of at…
Well you see. If anyone screams boycott, I am inclined to investigate. And then my findings are used to decide, what I am going to do.
And after investigating, I have to say, that I would not watch the movie.
The same for me is, if someone staring/directing was a know member of say scientology. As someone promoting an organization, that clearly goes against every value I honor should not earn money from me, that would then help said organization.
So I would not want my money to help someone that intolerant.
If people I know would go there, I would ask them, if they knew, that with going, they support someone that intolerant, someone being that derogative to gays.
But this would then be their decision to make.
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#16It seems like a terrible thing to do to the hundreds of potentially nice people that worked hard on this movie.
People will boycott this because of peer pressure, and to follow the crowd. People don't boycott the countless movies based on Roald Dahl books, even though it's very common knowledge that he held strong anti-semitic views.
Yes, I think his views are terrible, but that's not going to stop me enjoying his work. His literary output has nothing to do with his views. Enders Game is a fantastic book and I have high hopes for this movie; not just that it'll be a good port to the big screen, but that it'll help the careers of a number of young actors.
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#17I haven't been to a movie theater in years. I think I will go this time just to tell the religious assholes "go fuck yourself".
Sorry for the language.
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#18What do you do when you don't like someone's use of freedom of speech? Try recruiting a mob to bully them.
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#19So conflicted. I love Ender's Game yet I hate its bigoted author. :(
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#20I wonder if the people signing this would also boycott anything run or owned by Middle Eastern royalty where laws that Card promotes both exist and are enforced.
Ah, the old "why aren't they doing this instead" argument against activism. There should be an internet law for that one.