Re:Vietnam bans 'Barbie' movie over South China Sea map
by josephcsible on Monday July 03, 2023 @12:36PM
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For them to add that line to a map with an otherwise extremely low level of detail and realism seems like it must have been intentional. I have just as little sympathy for the studio as I would if they had snuck in a swastika.
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Re:Vietnam bans 'Barbie' movie over South China Sea map
by ceejayoz on Monday July 03, 2023 @12:47PM
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The line is coming out of northern Russia in the Arctic on the map (you can see the Kamchatka Peninsula), there's another line in the Atlantic, and it doesn't have the right amount of dashes.
Hanlon's Razor seems to apply.
Re:Vietnam bans 'Barbie' movie over South China Sea map
by returnInfinity on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:03PM
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swastika is pretty common holy symbol in India, since thousands of years, a few decades of nazi use is not going to change that.
My mom never heard of Germany or Nazi or World War 2. She will happily draw swastikas during festivals.
Re:Vietnam bans 'Barbie' movie over South China Sea map
by danaris on Monday July 03, 2023 @05:08PM
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Really? You look at that, and think, "Ah, yes; they are obviously correct that this random wavy dashed line on this completely garbled map coming off of a part of "Asia" that might be China (or might be Russia, or might be nowhere in particular) is clearly representing this very specific political delineator China uses, that is U-shaped and has a specific number of dashes that the line on the map does not appear to have."
It seems to me that a map like this is a Rorschach test—you'll see in it whatever you expect to find.