#boycottmulan

you know, as a muslim hearing this news makes me angry and saddened by how the world treats us just because of the religion we choose. mulan was filmed in one of the cities where they held muslims captive in concentration camp where they get forced to eat pork, tortured, r@ped, killed, and do many haram things. as if the actress that plays mulan who supports police brutality in hong kong isn’t enough to boycott this movie, then this is just the icing on the cake.

if you are islamophobic then you can just unfollow me right now, and if you even dare to defend this movie to me then i will block you and go off on you.

it’s such a shame really, as a kid mulan was one of my favorite disney princessess who showed up that girls CAN be warriors yet this is how disney and their team potrays her to be now, as in people who support police brutality and support concentration camps on muslims.

fuck you disney. fuck you mulan live action movie. fuck you islamophobes. fuck you liu yifei. BOYCOTT MULAN.

specifically in turpan, where they have several concentration camps dedicated to exterminating my culture inside of our own homeland

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So for those who haven't heard yet, it has been revealed that Mulan was filmed at least partially in Xinjiang, the region where genocide is being comitted against ethnic minorites, specifically Uyghurs. In the ending credits of the movie, Disney thanks propaganda departments and the Turpan Police Security Bureau, which is tasked with running some of the internment camps where Uyghurs are being imprisoned in.

This discovery is horrifying but also not surprising; we've been seeing a common trend over the years where large US film companies are willing to compromise themselves in order to make money off of China's movie market. As soon as this movie was announced I took a deep sigh and waited for shit to hit the fan, because I knew— I knew that at best, this movie would be boring as hell, and at worst, involve Disney bowing to the Chinese Government and ignoring the human rights abuses they've been committing in order to get their go ahead.

Like I've been saying since last year, Disney the corporation is the entity people should be directing their anger to, not Liu Yifei, the individual actress. Calls for change directed at corporations, institutions, policies, and systems are significantly more effective than those directed at individual people. Also Liu Yifei's main career is in China, meaning any outrage or boycotting coming from outside of China doesn't touch her, or even affect her monetarily speaking. Disney, however, is an American corporation; our outrage can impact them.

Don't watch Mulan and make it clear to Disney why you won't.

i had a ramble on Twitter and thought i'd just copy-and-paste(-and-edit) it here because why not.

sorta bouncing off of my previous tweet.. i feel like we should ask for some Disney Princess stories rooted in reality, you know? like the closest things we had to real life situations was Pocahontas & Mulan. somehow Mulan was the more real scenario bc though Pocahontas was real, the movie wrongly depicted her story to make something enjoyable for white audiences, aging her up and built that relationship between her and John.

i think a Disney Princess film where fantasy is not an element would be very cool. because, you know, cool things happen when there's no talking dragon or you get turned into a frog along with a future husband.

i think that a tale where a girl or woman of royalty isn't needed to go on a quest to save her people but chooses to go on a mission that she believes would satisfy her and/or others is a marvelous idea. to explore characters facing real-world issues in real-world settings.

maybe this could be a good prompt for somebody to go write this story, a prompt that spawns ventures in film that otherwise wouldn't happen because it strips you of elements that for a long time, seem to have always been there as part of the crafting of the story. Walt Disney Pictures is indeed, very good with, and very big on the theme of fantasy. but it has proven to also be good at producing media that is realistic fiction as well as nonfiction. i think it could also help destroy the idea that Disney only does fantasy or is only good for that.

so if Walt Disney Studios or just Walt Disney Animation Studios could ever have my attention, i want them to know that though live-action adaptations are nice ways of drawing in old audiences to get a little financial boost and tell stories again differently (i am a HUGE fan of Cinderella (2015)), that maybe instead of adapting old motion pictures, there's a whole array of new ones that you can craft just by stripping the writing of an element that many of the films have relied on to produce the stories in the past.

anyways, how's about we call Disney to raise awareness on the human rights violation going on at the Xinjiang internment camps. some of the live-action adaptation of Mulan was filmed in Xinjiang. surely if kids under 12 can view it with their parents and see the special thanks given to several government entities in Xinjiang at the end of the credits, Disney should have no problem talking about such a huge and hugely wrong thing going on there before its consumers, no?

it would be more of a surprise to me that Disney's corporate policy doesn't appear to care about Muslims if Aladdin (1993) hadn't been made. here's a neat video on that if you don't get it.

what a shame, that so many Arabs and Muslims grow up consuming stuff from the Walt Disney Company, finding identification, solace or positive ideas in its media, but by the same company to this day have been so alienated, so disrespected. we have been victims of erasure and whitewashing from them. now fellow humans practising Islam, are being held in concentration camps, and the company that allowed for Aladdin, filled with orientalism, to be made isn't standing up to China. very on-brand.

Why should we boycott Mulan

Disney is releasing the Mulan movie on its platform (and cinemas in some countries). The artress Liu Lifei posted on social media last year said she supports Hong Kong police, who have been accused of violence and sexual assault towards pro-democracy protesters. Hongkongers and people around the world called to boycott Mulan since then. (BBC news)

Mulan should not be supporting police brutality. Mulan should be a heroine who fight for her family and country, like Agnes Chow, 23, a Hong Kong activist who has been arrested earlier under a controversial new security law imposed by Beijing. She was charged of "colluding with foreign forces" - if convicted, she could face up to life in jail. Under the new law, inciting hatred of China's central government and Hong Kong's regional government is illegal. (BBC News)

It means you cannot criticize the government or speak I'll of it. What kind of regime would be scared of its people? A dictatorship.

This summer, Chinese Communist Party announced Mandarin Chinese will replace Mongolian as the medium of instruction in schools for minority groups across the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, home to 4.2 million ethnic Mongolians. "When the Mongolian language dies, our Mongolian ethnicity will also disappear," said a Mongolian father of an 8 yo son. (CNN News)

It is ironic that the real Mulan in the history was not a Han ethnicity (which make up >90% of nowadays China population). She was Xianbei ethnicity, an ancient nomadic people that once resided in the eastern Eurasian steppes in what is today Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Northeastern China.

If the real Mulan knew what the CCP is doing to the Mongolia culture, she would fight them. She would never support the dictatorial CCP government.

If you support freedom and human rights, boycott Mulan. Tell Disney that kowtowing to Beijing is not looking good on them.

By Bayani

"I support the Hong Kong police. You can all attack me now. What a shame for Hong Kong," she posted on Weibo, a Twitter-like Chinese social media platform.

Immediately, people began posting #BoycottMulan on Twitter -- which is banned in China. Hours later, the hashtag was trending in Hong Kong and the United States with 37,700 tweets posted at time of writing. Twitter users accused the actress of supporting police brutality, and called out the fact that she's an American citizen.