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seriousfic) wrote2008-12-11 12:25 pm
seriousfic) wrote2008-12-11 12:25 pm
Avatar: The First (of many) Honkeys
Once upon a time, there was an Avatar movie. And people were cast to star in said Avatar movie. And then the casting information was posted on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
scans_daily. And, as is the custom of their people, there was a WANKSPLOSION!!!
Speculation on why the WANKSPLOSION!!! followed Porn Week will be done by dirtier minds than my own.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shananagin?
Apparently, when you make a series about Eskimo-analogs meeting a Tibetan-analog and then them going on the run from Japanese-analogs, then cast white people as everyone, some people get upset. Highlights!
1. i like how he did the casting call in texas. REALLY? REALLY?! was there a "no minorities allowed" sign on the door?!!
Actually, and this is a little-known fact, but back in 2006 the law banning minorities from setting foot in Texas was repealed. Before then they had to wear whiteface to avoid the thousand-strong mobs of Klansmen that roamed after dark, but now they can herd cattle and mine for oil just like all the white folk! It worked out great, because now all the straight people who were banned from San Francisco could move in.
2. M. Night Shyamalan as the Cabbage Salesman. Unfortunately,I don't think he doesn't have that much of a sense of humor about himself. But it would be cool.
3.
(What, Jason Statham wasn't available?)
The worst part of this is that it's a kid's movie. Kids don't care if their heroes are white or brown or giant alien robots. I grew up in the 80s and you know who the absolute biggest, coolest, women-want-him-men-want-to-be-him badass was? Mr. T!
Kids aren't racist. It's when they grow up and go to marketing school with a bunch of other rich white kids and listen to harmless black jokes and don't invite the Asian guy to the weekend party because he's probably busy studying and then they get a job at a movie studio and cast only white people because that's what sells, it's not because they're racist, no, it's those ignorant people in flyover countries who I have to sell to, they're the racist, I have a lot of black friends, I watched Crash!... it's then that they're racist motherfuckers.
scans_daily. And, as is the custom of their people, there was a WANKSPLOSION!!!Speculation on why the WANKSPLOSION!!! followed Porn Week will be done by dirtier minds than my own.
shananagin?Apparently, when you make a series about Eskimo-analogs meeting a Tibetan-analog and then them going on the run from Japanese-analogs, then cast white people as everyone, some people get upset. Highlights!
1. i like how he did the casting call in texas. REALLY? REALLY?! was there a "no minorities allowed" sign on the door?!!
Actually, and this is a little-known fact, but back in 2006 the law banning minorities from setting foot in Texas was repealed. Before then they had to wear whiteface to avoid the thousand-strong mobs of Klansmen that roamed after dark, but now they can herd cattle and mine for oil just like all the white folk! It worked out great, because now all the straight people who were banned from San Francisco could move in.
2. M. Night Shyamalan as the Cabbage Salesman. Unfortunately,
3.
(What, Jason Statham wasn't available?)
The worst part of this is that it's a kid's movie. Kids don't care if their heroes are white or brown or giant alien robots. I grew up in the 80s and you know who the absolute biggest, coolest, women-want-him-men-want-to-be-him badass was? Mr. T!
Kids aren't racist. It's when they grow up and go to marketing school with a bunch of other rich white kids and listen to harmless black jokes and don't invite the Asian guy to the weekend party because he's probably busy studying and then they get a job at a movie studio and cast only white people because that's what sells, it's not because they're racist, no, it's those ignorant people in flyover countries who I have to sell to, they're the racist, I have a lot of black friends, I watched Crash!... it's then that they're racist motherfuckers.