did it take anyone else nearly a decade to realize that ‘300’ is racist trash?

I saw 300 before college and it was obviously this really brutal masculine power fantasy but it was fun and had all this awesome battle strategy and I really enjoyed it, and then I re-watched it as an adult and some stuff became so fucking clear.



Everyone fighting on the ‘good’ side is white and manly and theoretically democratic and 'free’ whereas everyone fighting on the 'evil’ side is brown or effeminate or 'magic-using’ or disabled or Orientalist or finely decorated or slave-owning or sexually deviant or black or ugly or implied gay/lesbian or female or crazy or got their powers through supernatural trickery, and it is suddenly, completely infuriating now.



IT IS SO RACIST. IT IS BASICALLY RACIST WESTERN NATIONALIST PROPAGANDA. WHY DID NO ONE EVER TALK ABOUT THAT WHY WERE WE OKAY WITH THAT



PS: SPARTA HISTORICALLY HAD SLAVES AND FUCKED ADOLESCENT BOYS AND FRANK MILLER IS ISLAMOPHOBIC BYE

