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Here’s How ‘Ghost in the Shell’ Tries (and Fails) to Atone for Its Whitewashing

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The plot of this manga remake seems purposely designed to amplify its outdated whitewashing.

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Eighty-eight years after Boris Karloff uttered the line “Kill the white man and take his women” as a villainous Chinese caricature in The Mask of Fu Manchu, whitewashing and tone-deaf depictions of Asian culture still thrive in Hollywood.

Ghost in the Shell, director Rupert Sanders’s glitzy live-action adaptation of the beloved...

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