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Post #617517

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darth_ender
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Let's all say something nice about George Lucas. No insults allowed.
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Date created
3-Jan-2013, 9:36 AM

Bingowings said:

Must everything not Christian caucasian America be satanic or in need of a white American saviour?

At least KOTCS didn't have missionaries in a cauldron danced around by black cannibals.

In Raiders Sallah was a real character with real concerns but in TLC he was a comedy Arab.

Was Indy more exciting when his friends were real or when his friends were national cartoons?  

Salah was certainly a better character in ROTLA.  But how is his comedy racist?  Marcus Brody was even more silly and utterly idiotic at times.  He was a white character.  Henry Jones, Sr. was pretty silly too.  Maybe he was perpetuating a stereotype against Scots.  I'm not saying there aren't valid criticisms of movies with racist content.  Many films make me cringe or at least worry.  But I think that the cure isn't simply making only whites idiots.  We need to spread the idiocy around.  Not everything must be taken in the context that there is a racist hidden message, though I feel so much of our society looks for exactly that.