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Why base it on an alternate history


...as opposed to telling the truth?

I'm fully aware that white historical movies can and have taken liberties and/or historical inaccuracies...But this movie seems to be one big lie (and no-one seems willing to call them out on such)

Haven't blacks achieved anything throughout history (that doesn't need to be sanitized?)

The fact that it's studio (and more worryingly, it's defenders) cite "Oh well, it's meant to be set in a alternate history" is such a cop-out

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This attention she is looking fpr, these demonic hollywood trends, so effing sick.

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They had to make it an alternate history, because the only historically verified nation to use an all-woman army was Dahomey, but in actual history, Dahomey had a problematic history of slave-trading and the Dahomey Amazons were an incredibly pathetic and weak fighting force. The truth just would not do for a modern Woke Empowerment fest. Hence, the story becomes superheroines battling the slave trade. All of Leftist doctrine is based on fantasy, so any historical movie Leftists come up with has to be fantasy, too.

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Maria Bello is a producer. So she determined she would have a better chance to get funding for a movie if it was about black history(this woke shit thats trending nowadays). Since she dind't find a story that she deemed more bankable than this one, she went with it and sanitized it along the way.
It's the way a lot of movies have been made throughout history. We just don't know about most of them because they have been completely forgotten throughout the years, as will be this movie.

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Writing a fictional story or historical fiction, like this one, is easier than sticking to the facts.

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Blonde is totally fictional too. Who gives a shit as long as the movie is good. These aren't documentaries.

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It isn't about telling the truth. As the Critical Drinker on YouTube would say, "It's all about THE MESSAGE."

The message basically saying:

- Black people a poor, innocent, good people who have been wronged by white people throughout history.

- Black people did nothing to deserve such treatment.

- Black people are the only ones who were ever slaves, and white people are the only ones guilty of ever enslaving anyone.

- White people are evil and should always be punished.

- Pay no attention to the "evil white" liberals running everything behind the curtain.

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