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2006-09-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Korora 2006-09-23 10:58|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is Scrappleface, right?

Nobody that stupid could exit within a hundred miles of MIT.

Posted by Bobby 2006-09-23 15:46|| 2006-09-23 15:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Zinn and Chomsky - liberal Boston's answer to Lennon & McCartney?

Posted by Raj 2006-09-23 16:20|| 2006-09-23 16:20|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm pretty sure it's satire, guys. LOL

Posted by lotp 2006-09-23 16:30|| 2006-09-23 16:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Satire or no, I give you five words:

DANGEROUS QUANTITIES OF SPARE TIME

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-09-23 17:04|| 2006-09-23 17:04|| Front Page Top

#5 exist. Exist within 100 miles... Sheesh.

Posted by Bobby 2006-09-23 17:28|| 2006-09-23 17:28|| Front Page Top

#6 That's a HILARIOUS piece of satire!!

Does anyone remember when the Star Wars Episode IV prequel came out, people ran around (seriously) saying it was racist because the trade federation looked and sounded a bit 'japanese', and the gungans sounded stoopid and 'black'.
Despite them all being aliens.

alien latex and cgi.

You will note this kind of 'your racist' threat in movie criticism HAS changed the landscape.

In the biggest blight on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy films was that he gave the Orcs British accents.

This is despite that he made massive attempts to stay close to the book with elvish. The elves spoke elvish.

The orcs should have spoken orcish, full of harsh sounds like 'grishnakh' and 'lugburz' and 'garn' and weilded curved swords like scimitars.

A different race they would have sounded linguistically very different to the British-accented hobbits.

But he obviously didn't want to be accused of being 'racist' if anybody decided they looked too Turkish or middle eastern or any other variety of human.

So make them sound British and violate the books (Tolkein was fascinated with languages and took great pains to make the internal logic and language families of his books make sense.

That's also why Hollywood won't make a terrorist fictional flick with middle eastern terrorists after 9/11: That arnold schwartzenegger film was the last one i can remember, made before 9/11.

Now the villains must be neo-nazis, or white businessmen or corporations or the US government, or a rogue officer in the police or military, white of course.

Because nobody can call you racist then, right?

Posted by anon1 2006-09-23 23:53|| 2006-09-23 23:53|| Front Page Top

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