Pixar doing white centred stories = Racist

Pixar doing black centred stories = Racist

Tina Fey's voice = Extremely Racist

In short, doesn't really matter what Pixar do. There will always be someone throwing an accusation at them. This doesn't mean I liked the film, it's got some narrative problems and thematically doesn't really pay off in the way previous Pixar offerings have.

But there's a difference between providing a critique of the storytelling and this case where the author has just thrown a shit tonne of identity politics at the wall to see what sticks. With enough interpretetation and psychological abstraction you can make anything racist, homophobic or anti-whatever-you-like. Doesn't make your critique valid or anything less like nonsense.

The fact that this is trending on Medium makes me despair. It reads like a manifesto of self imposed victimhood. There are very valid problems with racism that need to be addressed, there are battlegrounds where equality needs to be fought for. A kids film with Jamie Foxx in the lead is not one of them - and its insertion into the discussion makes a mockery of the push for equality and has the opposite effect to the one the author has probably intended.

Medium is so determined to push the continuation of clickbait identity politics, that it's in danger of erasing the line between social justice and satire. This one is on the border.