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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I was hearing that most of the hate on Kevin Costner’s accent in Prince of Thieves was dog whistle racism against Morgan Freeman because an actual Olde English would’ve been unintelligible. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mel would want to satirize a toxic fandom.