Одна из лучших фантастических вселенных это Звёздные Войны. В ней одни из самых знаковых персонажей это джедаи. А среди джедаев один из самых интересных — Оби Ван Кеноби. Надо же было сольный высокобюджетный сериал про него сделать таким пресным... Все моменты, ради которых стоит смотреть 6 часовых эпизодов, можно уложить в трёхминутный ролик на Ютубе. И 90% хронометража там будет занимать пафосный синтетический голос Дарта Вейдера.
Ну да ладно, уже весь интернет прошёлся и по нелогичности сюжета, и по слабой мотивации героев, и по многократным нарушениям канона.
Куда интереснее лично мне ситуация вокруг актрисы Мозез Ингрэм, которая играла инквизиторшу. После трейлера и первых серий заявлялось, что на неё повалился поток расистских оскорблений: дескать, важный персонаж афроамериканка, и фанатам это не понравилось.
Но это меня удивляет, и есть подозрение, что дело не в расизме. Актриса совсем неубедительно играет, а её персонаж написан плохо и вшит в повествование белыми нитками. Я могу легко допустить, что люди ругались именно на это, и цвет кожи здесь был вообще не при делах. Трудно представить, чтобы фанаты Звёздных Войн написали Сэму Джексону оскорбления из-за того, что его персонаж Мейс Винду — чернокожий. Вероятнее всего, Мозез Ингрэм просто не слишком хорошая актриса. Но современная американская повестка позволяет на любые претензии кидать клич "Это потому что я черная, а вы расисты". Если чернокожий врач плохо лечит пациентов, то они расисты. Если чернокожий программист пишет кривой код, тоже наверняка пользователи расисты, раз у них программа не работает. Так и живут.
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The Kennedy Center Would Limit Voting to Trump-Appointed Trustees
The Kennedy Center reportedly adopted bylaws earlier this year that would limit voting to Trump-appointed trustees – a controversial move that appears to reveal the long-held plan to install Trump’s name to the center.
The bylaws, in a possible breach of the institution’s charter, were revised in May and specified that board members appointed by Congress, known as ex-officio members, could not vote or count towards a quorum, according to the Washington Post.
The new rule was in force when the board voted unanimously on 18 December to add Trump’s name to the center, rebranding the building as the Trump and the JFK Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.
The name change has since triggered a wave of protests. Artists have cancelled bookings and members of Congress have vowed to overturn the name change.
Joyce Beatty, a Democrat from Ohio, is even suing to reverse it on the grounds that changing the center’s name requires an act of Congress.
Trump took over as chair of the board in February, quickly purging sitting members, while installing his supporters – including his longtime foreign policy adviser Ric Grenell, whom he appointed as president of the center.
Grenell had been a vocal tribune of Trump’s “America First” ideology, and was not afraid to ruffle feathers during past spells as ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence (he was the first openly gay person to lead the intelligence community).
Just prior to his Kennedy Center appointment, Grenell served as the president’s envoy for special missions, and was involved in securing the release of Americans detained in Venezuela.
The center lists 34 presidentially appointed board members and 23 ex-officio members, who by law must include the mayor of Washington DC, head of the library of Congress, and the majority and minority leaders of the Senate.
The federal law underpinning the center’s establishment identified ex-officio members as among the venue’s trustees, charged with maintaining it as a memorial to John F Kennedy, the Post reported.
Roma Daravi, the center’s vice-president for public relations, told the Post that the rules had been changed in line with longstanding convention that ex-officio members did not vote:
“The bylaws were revised to reflect this longstanding precedent and everyone received the technical changes both before the meeting and after revisions.”
Daravi continued: “Some members attended in person, others by phone, and no concerns were voiced, no one objected, and the bylaws passed unanimously.”
Ellen Aprill, a legal scholar at UCLA, told the paper that such voting right limits breached the center’s charter.
“Clearly the intent of the charter provisions was to entrust Kennedy Center guidance to a broad group, not just those appointed by the president,” she said.
The disclosure comes as new figures showed a sharp fall in television ratings for this year’s Kennedy Center honors awards.
A record low audience of 3.01m watched this year’s broadcast of the annual honors awards – hosted by Trump himself – when it was screened by CBS, marking a stark 25% downturn from last year.
The event included appearances from some of Trump’s favorite artists, including Gloria Gaynor, Kiss and George Strait.
As artists cancel bookings, Trump on social media on Tuesday posted a string of statements from supporters criticizing the Kennedy family’s supposed lack of support for the center.
His posts on his Truth Social network started mere hours after the Kennedy family announced the death of Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK’s granddaughter, who died aged 35, from leukemia.
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