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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.
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I think that quote is more racist than anything in the movie. . .
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Haven't you heard? Everything is considered as racism now a days. It's pathetic.
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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.
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"devouring fried chicken with their hands"
xD
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I for one have never used a fork on fried chicken.
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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.
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06-09-2008, 07:29 PM
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Technically they're Asian, you know.
Maybe they're Wangsters.
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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.
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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*
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Nevermind, for a second there I thought baked chicken meant boiled chicken...
Shut up.
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Who the fuck boils chicken? Seriously
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That's why I was all, "what?"
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Boil turkey fool
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People spend too much time readings into things that aren't there.
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Thank you
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Bardock Wrote:People spend too much time readings into things that aren't there.
And they're stupid.
It's a nasty combo.
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Doesn't he smoke mad reefer in that movie?
Fo' shizz?
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