A friend of mine saw a friend who does not speak Spanish circulating these two memes, trying to be helpful. Here’s the problem - the advice in Spanish DOES NOT MATCH the English AT ALL. In Spanish, the people are advised to invite ICE in, be honest and calm, and to instruct all family members to tell the truth. At the end, they are told their cooperation is appreciated. They are not advised of their rights, to request a warrant. The advice amounts to giving themselves up.
If you look closely at the bottom, you’ll see that the English version is from the ACLU. The Spanish version says “ALCU”.
Be aware of the information you share - it may not be helpful!
THAT SAID, the help I request is this:
I do not speak enough Spanish to translate the above into Spanish. I would like to give her the Spanish translation of this message to add to her post. (And this one.)
Help?
Translation:
If ICE agents come to your door:
Open the door to talk to the agents. Stay calm.
Ask why they’re there and be cooperative.
If they ask to come in, invite them in. Be hospitable.
Answer all questions honestly.
Encourage(?) everybody in the house to answer their questions honestly.
If they ask about family, friends, or coworkers, answer their questions honestly.
If they ask you to sign something, read the document critically before signing.
Your cooperation is appreciated!
ALCU Only be honest
Can you please translate the top text that’s in English into Spanish too, please? I’d like to give it to K to put on Facebook so that people can share a fully useful post with Spanish “this is fake, here’s what people are trying to do” because without an explanation of how the images are different, if a Spanish only speaker sees it then K is just accidentally sharing bad information, if that makes sense?
I appreciate your help so much.
(Also, seriously, whaaaaaaaaat the fuck.)
Traducción al español:
Muchas personas de habla inglesa estuvieron compartiendo estas imágenes, tratando de ayudar. Pero no se dieron cuenta de que la version en inglés y la versión en español son muy distintas. La imagen en inglés da consejos verdaderos mientras que la imagen en español te instruye a cooperar con ICE.
Esto es lo que dice la imagen en inglés, lo que realmente deberías hacer:
SI AGENTES DE ICE ESTÁN EN TU ENTRADA:
-No habrás la puerta, mantente calmado. Tienes derechos.
-Pregunta por qué están ahí, qué quieren. Pide un intérprete si lo necesitas.
-Si piden entrar, pregunta si tienen una orden de registro firmada por un juez*. Si es así, pide verla (que la pasen por una ventana o por abajo de la puerta)
-Si no tienen una orden firmada por un juez*, puedes negarte a dejarlos pasar. Pídeles que dejen cualquier información en tu puerta.
-Si entran por la fuerza, no te resistas. Dile a todos en la residencia que guarden silencio.
-Si te arrestan, guarda silencio y no firmes nada hasta que hables con un abogado.
*Una orden administrativa de ICE (Forma I-200, I-205) no les permite entrar a tu hogar sin consentimiento
literally is there a better example than this of the clickbait-industrial complex laying waste to craft….like no wonder the acting is so flat no one knows even the basic plot of the movie they’re filming
On April 14, io9’s James Whitbrook published a large collection of stories the actors in Avengers: Endgame have shared on the film’s press tour, about just how little they actually understood about the movie they were making. Like … take this story from Brie Larson (who plays Captain Marvel), which ran in Inquirer:
I flew to Atlanta for my first day on Endgame. I had no idea what I was shooting, what the movie was. I didn’t know if anybody else was in a scene with me. I didn’t know anything.
And it’s not until you show up that you get your pages for the day. But you only get your part. So it was like a scene that was completely black redacted, and then just my one line. I’m very excited to talk about this once the movie is out, because I can’t give the details away.
And fans are surprised when characterization is inconsistent or nonsensical? They’re hiring award-winning talent and then filming them playing mad-libs instead of actively collaborating with their costars.
Intuitively, killing the surprise seems like it should make a narrative less enjoyable. Yet research has found that having extra information about artworks can make them more satisfying, as can the predictability of an experience.
That last addition, tho. Especially when combined with the absolute focus on not allowing any leaks to get out, the stories they’re making are ones that are making people pants-shittingly terrified… not that the story will take unexpected turns that are shocking within the narrative, but that the story will let them down.
The only way to actually enjoy a movie these days is to already know that it won’t do that. That the story at the very least respects your investment in it. Because so many don’t.
I’m the sort of person who takes a sneak peek at the last page of a book they just started reading, and I live for spoilers. But I understand not everyone does. And I think it’s important to respect that and to help people avoid spoilers if they don’t want to see them.
However, when Marvel or the makers of the Fantastic Beasts movies run their #ProtectTheSecrets campaigns, they couldn’t care less about spoilerphobic fans. They only care about owning the fannish discourse surrounding their products. And about making as many people as possible flock into the cinema to see them, obviously. (A rigorous anti-spoiler policy usually implies that the studio doesn’t think the movie is good enough to convince audiences to see it based on its own merits.) While the latter is regrettable, I find the former a more worrying development. Harry Potter and the Marvel universe are examples of an individual / an individual corporate entity claiming ownership over the entirety of a fictional universe, rather than a creative community, and constantly feeling the need to secure their hold on it by controlling how the rest of the world interacts with it.
Like, if you’re that paranoid that spoilers will *ruin* your story, you’re basically admitting to everyone that your story has no value beyond shock value.
“But … but if people find out anything it will destroy the experience” YES WE GET IT YOU’RE A SHITTY WRITER.
It’s fun to go into a movie without knowing what’s going to happen, but I like that to be my choice. I was totally spoiled for the first Avengers movie - at midnight that first time I felt like I wasn’t watching it as much as anticipating each beat. I chose to go into each subsequent Marvel movie unspoiled. And Endgame was fun to watch because I loved being surprised by what I was surprised by.
The worst thing about it was Captain Marvel. It’s not surprising to learn that they hamstrung Brie Larson like they did. How in the world can she, an academy award winning actress, work her craft in those conditions? Crazy.
