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2006-12-07 Caribbean-Latin America
Maya say Gibson movie portrays them as savages
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Posted by .com 2006-12-07 03:29|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I am stunned is someone saying Gibson's is racist!

Posted by Bernardz 2006-12-07 07:41||   2006-12-07 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Maya say Gibson movie portrays them as savages

Well, welcome to the tribe buddy. We've been putting up with the same image assassination for a half century. To paraphrase a Greek moralist, it all depends upon who's ox is being gored doesn't it. Guess Hollywood is running out of the white European Nazis to flog as the boggy man in order to turn a profit.
Posted by Procopius2k 2006-12-07 08:34||   2006-12-07 08:34|| Front Page Top

#3 What people weren't savages at one time? Stonehenge wasn't designed at MIT.
Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-07 09:26||   2006-12-07 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Maya say Gibson movie portrays them as savages

Um, they were.

So were my ancestors. Gettin' nekkid, painted blue and waving swords about does not sound civilized to me, and I wouldn't get all whiny if somebody made a movie about them.

In fact, it would be pretty cool.
Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats  2006-12-07 09:26||   2006-12-07 09:26|| Front Page Top

#5 When I see the word "indigenous" in a story, I consider it my personal signal to move along, as I already know what will follow....
Posted by tu3031 2006-12-07 09:30||   2006-12-07 09:30|| Front Page Top

#6 The boggy man, Procop? Is that likey "Swamp Thing" or something?
Posted by BA 2006-12-07 09:49||   2006-12-07 09:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Hmmm...ah...scratch...you're right. Got to get another shot of coffee.
Posted by Procopius2k 2006-12-07 10:01||   2006-12-07 10:01|| Front Page Top

#8 The next time Gibson gets pulled over he better pray the cops aren’t Mayan.
Posted by DepotGuy 2006-12-07 10:12||   2006-12-07 10:12|| Front Page Top

#9 lol, Depot. Quite the mental image I just had there, lol!
Posted by BA 2006-12-07 10:17||   2006-12-07 10:17|| Front Page Top

#10 "Um, yeah...but what's your point?"
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-12-07 12:29||   2006-12-07 12:29|| Front Page Top

#11 I heard that he once portrayed the Scots as savages and the English and the Irish. Gosh I think that just about EVERY culture was savage at one time. Welcome to the savage world my mayan friends. If someone knows a culture that at one time didn't act savage please point them out to me.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-12-07 13:15||   2006-12-07 13:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Except for that Revolution thingy, I wuz gonna say DA FRENCH, CS!
Posted by BA 2006-12-07 14:03||   2006-12-07 14:03|| Front Page Top

#13 I like to point out that the Conquistadores were mercenaries who had fought in some of the bloodiest, nastiest and most merciless combat Europe had seen for quite a while. But when they arrived in the new world, what they saw was so utterly horrifying, so unabashedly murderous, and carnage on such scale that the clear and unambiguous feeling among them was "This must be destroyed."

It is rare that a soldier sees something so repugnant, so evil, that they are willing to sacrifice their very lives so that it might be destroyed. But this was one of those times.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-12-07 14:07||   2006-12-07 14:07|| Front Page Top

#14 Yer all amateur pikers. Oh, and all this land, all of it, belongs to me 'n my tribe. You can have the swampy bits of Der Nederlands and the crusty bits created by Kilaueia, that shit's new.
/Alley Oop
Posted by .com 2006-12-07 14:11||   2006-12-07 14:11|| Front Page Top

#15 I prefer to be called a noble savage, thank you very much. All kidding a side. Now-a-days everyone looks to be offended. These people have got to be running low on I.Q. - unless their still performing human sacrifices to Quatzylcatyl or whatever then the moccasin fits, either way they need to lighten up....it's called a period piece morons!
Posted by Broadhead6 2006-12-07 14:59||   2006-12-07 14:59|| Front Page Top

#16 I like to point out that the Conquistadores were mercenaries who had fought in some of the bloodiest, nastiest and most merciless combat Europe had seen for quite a while. But when they arrived in the new world, what they saw was so utterly horrifying, so unabashedly murderous, and carnage on such scale that the clear and unambiguous feeling among them was "This must be destroyed."

I do believe that at one point Cortez and his men had ~40,000 native soldiers from other city states who helped them against the Aztecs.

The Aztecs were not well liked by their neighbors.
Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats  2006-12-07 15:15||   2006-12-07 15:15|| Front Page Top

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