By: Emily Papleux

The live action remake of Mulan was something most Disney fans were looking forward to, but there are many things that most of the audience does not know about this movie, or what it represents. No matter how much people or companies promote this movie, the best thing to do, is just not watch the movie at all.

Liu Yifei, the actress who plays Mulan, shared a post by a Beijing newspaper in August of 2019, and expressed her support for the Hong Kong police. “I support Hong Kong’s police; you can all attack me now”. She bluntly and publicly approves of this police brutality on Weibo, a popular Chinese social media platform. Currently, the Hong Kong police was brutalizing its citizens due to pro-democracy protests Chinese communists.

Though not reported by the media, there is a modern-day holocaust happening right now, at this very moment, in Xinjiang. Muslims are being held in concentration camps and forced to eat pork and drink wine. They are being imprisoned and raped, not to mention the fact that the number of Muslims being held in these camps, have surpassed the number of Jews that were being held in Germany. They call these, Re-education camps, which is a simple cover-up to hide their ethnic genocide. But how does this tragedy relate to Mulan? Mulan (2020) was filmed extensively in XinJiang. They even gave a special thanks to the CPC Xinjiang Region Committee in the credits. “because Disney kowtows to Beijing, and because Liu Yifei openly and proudly endorses police brutality in Hong Kong, I urge everyone who believes in human rights to #BoycottMulan,” Joshua Wong states on twitter. Many human rights activists have stood up to this movie and joined the #boycottMulan, but not enough to publicly bring attention to the crisis happening in Xinjiang, or to blind-sighted fans, unaware of what they are supporting.

Bringing attention to this matter is beyond critical. Not only to the movie, but to what is happening this second. People need to know what exactly they are supporting, and what exactly is going on in the world right now. With such an inspiring story line of a brave young women who stands up to oppression, this remake was the glow-down of the century.