@japhroaig fat-fingered the DNS again?
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If you are asserting that Hollywood has a long history of marginalizing or caricaturing certain groups, then how can I deny an obvious truth? But don’t I also think that the reasons for this are complex and deep, and for example the use of Jewish and Italian actors in the 1930s to portray Native Americans falling off their horses while being shot by Western heroes represents such a complex matrix of problems that the portrayal of one marginalized ethnic group by another slightly-less-marginalized ethnic group was a relatively tiny piece of the problem?
But doesn’t your second sentence here speak to the first? Isn’t part of the solution to develop and showcase talent as part of the diversification of the industry, and isn’t that happening sometimes?
Did you see Aloha? Would you believe that here in Hawaii the discussion of the film was more nuanced than the discussion elsewhere in the country?
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Is it because I cried about it, since a dearth glut of polls tends to break my dumb browser?
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Uhg, isn’t white meat the worst meat?
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Worse than chitterlings, even?
Because don’t I think that intestines are a body part that should never be eaten, unless under absolute duress?
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Did I ever say it wasn’t? [quote=“d_r, post:1078, topic:76536”]
the portrayal of one marginalized ethnic group by another slightly-less-marginalized ethnic group was a relatively tiny piece of the problem?
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Agreed, but at the root it’s still white supremacy that’s the problem, no? Doesn’t the structures set up by white supremacy reinforce, not binaries, but hierarchies, which allow more privileged groups within that hierarchy to exploit less privileged groups? Don’t I understand that? But at the end of the day, shouldn’t we still oppose whitewashing, such as in this case we’re discussing? If people don’t comment on such things, how will people in Hollywood know that we demand better casting choices that better reflect a diverse society?
Aren’t I afraid I haven’t?
Why wouldn’t I believe that? Wouldn’t I assume that the discussion centered on Hawaii’s diverse population and the relationship between Native Hawaiians and all the other groups of people who were there as a by product of Western imperialism and capitalism?
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I can totally believe that, can’t I?
Isnt that how it’s generally pronounced despite being spelled so differently?
And isn’t the English language weird, when it gives us words that sound NOTHING like how they are spelled?
Like for instance, bologna?
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But in the case of the '30s movies, wasn’t it more a matter of convenience than white supremacy? And weren’t the directors themselves often immigrants or from marginalized groups?
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Wouldn’t I assume that the discussion centered on Hawaii’s diverse population and the relationship between Native Hawaiians and all the other groups of people who were there as a by product of Western imperialism and capitalism?[/quote]
Then would you be surprised to learn that local criticisms of the movie, which after all featured several sovereignty activists playing themselves in major and sympathetic roles, were largely free from this particular jab?
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When there are no polls your dumb browser breaks?
If it keeps on pollin’ browser’s goin’ to break
If it keeps on pollin’ browser’s goin’ to break
When the browser breaks I’ll have no net to read.
Mean old browser taught me to weep and moan
Lord mean old browser taught me to weep and moan
Got what it takes to make a mountain woman leave his home
Oh well oh well oh well.
Don’t it make you feel bad
When you’re tryin’ to find your way home
You don’t know which way to go?
If you’re goin’ down South
They go no work to do,
If you don’t know about Chicago.
Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good,
Now, cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good,
When the browser breaks, mama, you got to move.
All last night read the browser and moaned,
All last night read the browser and moaned,
Thinkin’ ‘bout me baby and my happy home.
Going, go’n’ to Chicago,
Go’n’ to Chicago,
Sorry but I can’t take you.
Going down, going down now, going down
going down now, going down, going down, going down, going down
Going down, going down now, going down
going down now, going down
going down now, going down
Going d-d-d-d-down
Woo woo
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Don’t tell you me go in for skinless sausages? Or even - GASP - artificial casings? WITH ALL OF THOSE CHEMICALS?!?!?
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Who said or even implied that I personally eat ANY of that crap?
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Wouldn’t a soy dog in a natural casing go well with my bacon topped veggie burger aesthetic?
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Um, not to be Captain Obvious, but doesn’t the bacon negate the healthy aspect of eating a veggie burger in the first place?
Unless of course, it’s something like turkey bacon; in which case, it’s just disgusting?
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Whoops, did I use the wrong word or what? Didn’t I mean glut? Durrrrr?
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Why did I think that was a good idea?
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Don’t we call that mortadella? And didn’t Sophia Loren make a movie about it?
Can someone other than me make the obligatory off-color jokes about this poster?
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Is that a sausage stuck between them, or is he just REALLY happy to see her?
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Why did I think THAT was a good idea?
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Hey, can one of you english blokes be a luv and help translate?
Is “May taste like ass in anything above homeopathic levels” the correct English to American translation for the phrase in red?
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Isn’t that English for ‘mix with copious slatherings of eel jelly and tripe’?
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