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My favorite racist movie!

posted 17 years ago by jtpaladin
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Sure this was a racist movie but it had so much positivity and was a good comedy that it's easy to ignore the racist comments made by Whoopie, Smith, etc.

So while a film made with the roles reversed could never be made in Hollywood, bigoted language is OK as long as the victims are White. Imagine if some independent studio tried to reverse the roles. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would be boycotting this film and trying to bankrupt or shakedown the studio involved, including whoever distributed the film.

I'm just glad it was a fun movie.

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[–] EponineSabrina 15 years ago

They could reverse the roles but it would be a very different movie. Look at "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" vs. the remake "Guess Who". The original has a white girl bringing her black bf to meet her parents so it is a serious movie exploring racism. The remake had a black girl bringing home her white bf so it is a comedy existing primarily to poke fun at white people.

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[–] JeromeSilberman1 10 years ago

racist? go hug a tree liberal.People like you divide the black and white.

[–] ADz-83 8 years ago

He's talking about a double standard/role reversal and in fact the point is making is against the divide you're referring to. The point is a good one and obviously goes way over your head.

[–] pypsqweek 10 years ago

This wasn't a racist movie. The people in this movie were prejudice and it tackled with certain misconception and stereotypes.

[–] ADz-83 8 years ago

So reverse everybody's race in this movie and you're saying it would still not be racist? Of course it would be. Or at least that is the way it would be viewed or condemned as by black people or some whites feeling they need to be "offended" on behalf of others.

[–] Rinn13 (167) a year ago

You got that wrong, bro. Whoopi's character, among several other derogatory remarks about whites, at one point literally mumbles "I do NOT like white people!". Are you seriously saying that was just "prejudice", and not racism? Or do you subscribe to that "only white people can be racist" bullshit?

I love Whoopi, but her character was written to be, until she suddenly flips and likes him later in the film, an obnoxious anti-white racist. The very definition of racism, is bigotry towards someone based on their ethnicity or skin color.

And just for fun, do imagine the scene where the daughter reveals she looked up her father, and tells her mom the "worst part", is that he's white. And then they both act super upset that he's white. You play that in reverse, with a white mom and daughter acting disgusted that it turns out her father is black, you can bet your ass people would scream to the heavens "THAT'S RACIST!" So what's good for the goose, is in fact good for the gander.

If things would "seem racist" if the characters were white, then they're racist when the characters are "POC".

[–] Rinn13 (167) a year ago

The writing really did make Whoopi's mother character seem like a terribly unlikable bitch early in the film. I'm not sure why they would write her that way, especially when Whoopi allegedly had Carrie Fisher (not for the first time) "doctor" some of her dialogue. Which means she and Carrie came up with some of the garbage her character says. Not a great look.