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Disney’s efforts to promote tolerance of the LGBTQ community sparked a governmental response in Florida. But this agenda in Hollywood is not unique to one studio; it has been used since the late 1940s to promote racial tolerance, albeit unevenly.
That raises a larger question: Before we ask what is the best government policy, shouldn’t we ask if there should even be a government policy?
In a review of films since around 2005, I found several storylines promoted the idea of the noble murder- suicide: a hero who kills many, but dies in the process, all in the name of a cause. Such films include “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Rogue One,” and “No Time to Die.”
Maybe a better way to handle this is to lobby the Motion Picture Association of America to put something into its rating system as a disclosure to parents, such as “NT” = Non-Traditional.
Lloyd Lim
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