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Gremlins are racist - Deo - 06-09-2008
Apparently green = black
Quote:Charges of racism
Despite its critical acclaim and popular success, Gremlins has been criticized as culturally insensitive. Some observers have commented that the film presents gremlins as African Americans, and in an unflattering manner. At the time of its release, some members of the African American community protested that the film was racist. These critics suggested that the creatures exhibit some of the worst stereotypical behavior attributed to blacks: wild, drunken, violent, murderous, seductive and lascivious. In Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies, Patricia Turner writes that the gremlins "reflect negative African-American stereotypes" in their dress and behavior. They are shown "devouring fried chicken with their hands", listening to black music, breakdancing, and wearing sunglasses after dark and big-apple slouch hats, a style common among African American males in the 1980s.
I for one have seen Gremlins dozens of times and never once did I think they were black stereotype representations.
Gremlins are racist - Talys - 06-09-2008
I think that quote is more racist than anything in the movie. . .
Gremlins are racist - Kirano - 06-09-2008
Haven't you heard? Everything is considered as racism now a days. It's pathetic.
Gremlins are racist - Deo - 06-09-2008
Quote:These critics suggested that the creatures exhibit some of the worst stereotypical behavior attributed to blacks: wild, drunken, violent, murderous, seductive and lascivious.
I'd think the critics are the racist ones to be honest.
Those are the worst stereotypical behavior attributes to -any- race of human beings.
Gremlins are racist - Saz - 06-09-2008
"devouring fried chicken with their hands"
xD
Gremlins are racist - Deo - 06-09-2008
I for one have never used a fork on fried chicken.
Gremlins are racist - Reijin - 06-09-2008
Deo Wrote:I for one have never used a fork on fried chicken.Well obviously every civilized being takes a fork and knife and cuts perfectly across the dotted lines on their fried chicken and would never do something as culturally barbaric as pick up such greasy dirty food with their *gasp* bare hands. Especially a gremlin. Which is obviously black.
Gremlins are racist - Deo - 06-09-2008
Technically they're Asian, you know.
Maybe they're Wangsters.
Gremlins are racist - Dehan - 06-09-2008
Kirano Wrote:It's pathetic.
OMFG Kirano called my race pathetic! RACIST!!
Seriously...Gremlins racist? Damn that's new lol I have to share this with my friends over some baked chicken and cantaloupes.
Gremlins are racist - Saz - 06-09-2008
Baked... chicken?
Gremlins are racist - Dehan - 06-09-2008
Yea, I just ate friend chicken and watermelon like five minutes ago...you got a problem with that? *picks up the phone to call Al Sharpton*
Gremlins are racist - Saz - 06-09-2008
Nevermind, for a second there I thought baked chicken meant boiled chicken...
Shut up.
Gremlins are racist - Deo - 06-09-2008
Who the fuck boils chicken? Seriously
Gremlins are racist - Saz - 06-09-2008
That's why I was all, "what?"
Gremlins are racist - Deo - 06-09-2008
Boil turkey fool
Gremlins are racist - Bardock - 06-09-2008
People spend too much time readings into things that aren't there.
Gremlins are racist - Deo - 06-09-2008
Thank you
Gremlins are racist - Raditzu - 06-09-2008
Bardock Wrote:People spend too much time readings into things that aren't there.
And they're stupid.
It's a nasty combo.
Gremlins are racist - Bojack - 06-09-2008
Leprechaun in The Hood, anyone?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mlufxatPxnA
Gremlins are racist - Deo - 06-10-2008
Doesn't he smoke mad reefer in that movie?
Fo' shizz?