As an almost immediate followup to the immediately preceding post, I offer this:

Why a Latina-Led ‘Charmed’ Reboot Makes Perfect Sense

Yet another reboot, this time of a TV series I never watched in the first place. So on the one  hand I’m torn between absolute apathy born of not caring in the slightest about the original show and a general disdain for reboots. But the author of the piece thinks the reboot is an absolutely fantastic idea for two reasons:

1: “When a reboot is done right, it can provide marginalized groups — women, people of color, the LGBTQ community — an opportunity to get a foot in the door with an established fandom. When there’s a built-in fan base, it’s more likely a project will have longevity. By reusing a familiar idea that a network or production studio knows has worked before, creators allow underrepresented communities to integrate their own vision into an established universe and make their own space.”

And…

2: Hispanics (or “Latinx” as the author calls them for some reason) are all a bunch of superstitious boobs incapable of facing the real world without a satchel full of magical trinkets and practices, and boy howdy that makes them the perfect sources for stories about witches.

Point number one shows the cynical politicization that has corrupted so much of our cultural heritage… the easiest way to get your identity politics into the public view is to hijack (“culturally appropriate”) some other property. Why go to the bother of creating your own unique stories and characters, when you can hijack someone elses *and* claim that any opposition is racism or misogyny? Point number two would seem to be a little bit insulting to anyone of Latin ethnicity and who isn’t a gullible fool. It also points out the cognitive dissonance of many on the left who claim that their side is all about the science and that those on the right are all religious nutjobs. There is no important difference in rationality between faith healing based on prayer, and faith healing based on magic.