Barbie realpolitik

Case 99B76870-E38A-444D-B799-432DC48C260D

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  • Verdicts

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 85 %
    Supporting Text:
    Ted Cruz makes an assertion without providing concrete evidence other than his and interpretation of the Barbie map.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 85 %
    Supporting Text:
    Ted Cruz makes an assertion without providing concrete evidence other than his and interpretation of the Barbie map.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 75 %
    Supporting Text:
    If Hollywood is trying to pander to Chinese censors, they are doing a very poor job. The only "nine dash line" I can see in the photo of the map is far away from the blue land mass labelled "Asia". The Vietnamese censors must be hyper-sensitive, or just seeing what they fear and condemn.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 95 %
    Supporting Text:
    I dislike supporting anything Cruz says, but there's a slight possibility that the nine-dash line was intentionally ambiguous, so as to assure access to the Chinese market. Pretty much nothing in a major Hollywood film is accidental.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 95 %
    Supporting Text:
    I dislike supporting anything Cruz says, but there's a slight possibility that the nine-dash line was intentionally ambiguous, so as to assure access to the Chinese market. Pretty much nothing in a major Hollywood film is accidental.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 95 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Missing from this assertion is the long standing conservative viewpoint that Hollywood is controlled largely be liberals who slant the narratives of movies to promote their liberal agendas and Jewish businesspeople who will do anything to make money.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Missing from this assertion is the long standing conservative viewpoint that Hollywood is controlled largely be liberals who slant the narratives of movies to promote their liberal agendas and Jewish businesspeople who will do anything to make money.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 75 %
    Supporting Text:
    It is plausible based on past experience that Hollywood will strenuously avoid any material that would offend the controllers of their major markets (e.g. Tibetan dissidents, gay people, etc.). But to insert the symbol of a highly sensitive geopolitical claim would be a step too far, and a cost-benefit poor one overall. I can't see that they did it, and if they did it there is no evidence that they did it purposely rather than accidentally.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 65 %
    Supporting Text:
    As an industry known for it's ruthlessness, and given it's past practices, there may be a kernel of truth here. But Cruz's intentions are to slam liberals in general. and have little to do with Barbie's geopolitics.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 65 %
    Supporting Text:
    As an industry known for it's ruthlessness, and given it's past practices, there may be a kernel of truth here. But Cruz's intentions are to slam liberals in general. and have little to do with Barbie's geopolitics.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Missing from this assertion is the long standing conservative viewpoint that Hollywood is controlled largely be liberals who slant the narratives of movies to promote their liberal agendas and Jewish businesspeople who will do anything to make money.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
    Supporting Text:
    The idea that China is censoring US made movies is a fallacy. Some filmmakers may structure their scripts, casts, locations, etc., to gain the favor of the CCP but this is not censorship by China; it is pandering by the filmmakers. Audience pandering is something that is practiced both by liberal and conservative content creators.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
    Supporting Text:
    The idea that China is censoring US made movies is a fallacy. Some filmmakers may structure their scripts, casts, locations, etc., to gain the favor of the CCP but this is not censorship by China; it is pandering by the filmmakers. Audience pandering is something that is practiced both by liberal and conservative content creators.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 70 %
    Supporting Text:
    Again, no evidence that the nine-dash-line was placed in the South China Sea area off of Asia, and if so, purposely rather than accidentally.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    I think the claim of 'Chinese censorship' is way overstated. But I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the nine-dash line on the movie's map was discussed in high-level Hollywood meetings at which no notes were taken.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    I think the claim of 'Chinese censorship' is way overstated. But I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the nine-dash line on the movie's map was discussed in high-level Hollywood meetings at which no notes were taken.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
    Supporting Text:
    The idea that China is censoring US made movies is a fallacy. Some filmmakers may structure their scripts, casts, locations, etc., to gain the favor of the CCP but this is not censorship by China; it is pandering by the filmmakers. Audience pandering is something that is practiced both by liberal and conservative content creators.

    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is factually true.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    It is an opinion rather than a verifiable fact. If evidence surfaced to support them l this claim then my opinion about it could change.

    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is factually true.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    It is an opinion rather than a verifiable fact. If evidence surfaced to support them l this claim then my opinion about it could change.

    Answer:
    Seizing upon a disagreement between two socialist / communist states to condemn US entertainment companies for pandering to one of those communist states.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer:
    I'm not sure if there is a deceit.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Cruz was no doubt trying to make political points by bashing liberal Hollywood. But this may be a case of the truth being a lie.

    Answer:
    I'm not sure if there is a deceit.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Cruz was no doubt trying to make political points by bashing liberal Hollywood. But this may be a case of the truth being a lie.

    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is factually true.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    It is an opinion rather than a verifiable fact. If evidence surfaced to support them l this claim then my opinion about it could change.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 70 %
    Supporting Text:
    The claims about the Barbie map are intended to reinforce strongly held beliefs about the liberal and anti-American intentions of Hollywood filmmakers.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    The claims about the Barbie map are intended to reinforce strongly held beliefs about the liberal and anti-American intentions of Hollywood filmmakers.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 70 %
    Supporting Text:
    The claims about the Barbie map are intended to reinforce strongly held beliefs about the liberal and anti-American intentions of Hollywood filmmakers.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    By speaking a plausible truth, Cruz is dog-whistling right wing beliefs about the liberal and anti-American intentions of Hollywood filmmakers

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    By speaking a plausible truth, Cruz is dog-whistling right wing beliefs about the liberal and anti-American intentions of Hollywood filmmakers

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 70 %
    Supporting Text:
    The claims about the Barbie map are intended to reinforce strongly held beliefs about the liberal and anti-American intentions of Hollywood filmmakers.

    Answer:
    The motivation is to persuade you to hate something or someone.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer:
    The motivation is to persuade you to hate something or someone.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    How dare they accuse Barbie of intentionally sucking up to China.

    Answer:
    The motivation is to persuade you to hate something or someone.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer:
    The motivation is to reinforce the right's view that Hollywood is liberal and anti-American.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    This is a clever doublespeak by Cruz. It's slightly possible that this statement is true. From a purely capitalistic viewpoint, it's good business to not offend the sensibilities of a multi-billion dollar market. Remember -- capital knows no borders.

    Answer:
    The motivation is to reinforce the right's view that Hollywood is liberal and anti-American.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    This is a clever doublespeak by Cruz. It's slightly possible that this statement is true. From a purely capitalistic viewpoint, it's good business to not offend the sensibilities of a multi-billion dollar market. Remember -- capital knows no borders.

    Answer:
    The motivation is to persuade you to hate something or someone.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
    Supporting Text:
    The fact of Vietnam's movie censorship of the Barbie movie, because of their political sensitivities, could be stated without presuming the motivations of the filmmakers, especially when previously there have been numerous documented cases of exactly such pandering.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 20 %
    Supporting Text:
    Not terrible but bad. The fact of Vietnam's movie censorship of the Barbie movie, because of their political sensitivities, could be stated without presuming the motivations of the filmmakers, especially when previously there have been numerous documented cases of exactly such pandering.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
    Supporting Text:
    The fact of Vietnam's movie censorship of the Barbie movie, because of their political sensitivities, could be stated without presuming the motivations of the filmmakers, especially when previously there have been numerous documented cases of exactly such pandering.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Cruz's statement plays on many unacceptable stereotypes, and may be using a possible truth to uphold a false narrative.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Cruz's statement plays on many unacceptable stereotypes, and may be using a possible truth to uphold a false narrative.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
    Supporting Text:
    The fact of Vietnam's movie censorship of the Barbie movie, because of their political sensitivities, could be stated without presuming the motivations of the filmmakers, especially when previously there have been numerous documented cases of exactly such pandering.

    Answer:
    Barbie movie map riles up conservative passions about Hollywood liberal bias.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer:
    Barbie movie map riles up conservative passions about Hollywood liberal bias.
    Answer Confidence: 70 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer:
    Investigate how many people interpret the Barbie map as containing a nine-dash-line around much of the South China Sea. If at large proportion see that, investgate the decision-making behind the map.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer:
    This is a politically motivated statement that may not be as clear cut as the speaker makes it out to be.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Cruz is taking advantage of well-worn stereotypes to further his right-wing agenda.

    Answer:
    This is a politically motivated statement that may not be as clear cut as the speaker makes it out to be.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Cruz is taking advantage of well-worn stereotypes to further his right-wing agenda.

    Answer:
    This is true, but misleading.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text: