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• • 04 Jul 06
  • 2:11 am

  What is far more important, is that Hollywood, in general, has actively, creatively, promoted a form of racist propaganda. Blaming the racist portrayals soley on the actors who take these roles is a facetious diversion. It is highly unrealistic to expect that when Hollywood racists limit ethnic men to only stereotypical roles, that universal boycot of accepting these roles could take place among starving actors. The testimonies of these actors are important in that they provide an important counter point of view. Hollywood has cast these men into two-dimensional villains and demeaning racial caricatures. Their testimony humanizes the actors. If one …

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• • 04 Jul 06
  • 11:33 am

  "First: This is a big deal to the people affected, but not to most others. Most of us have more pressing issues of our own to deal with. Second: It is apparently not a big enough problem to those involved to work at solving. " Well, thanks for being frank. Often in the past, in response to criticisms about mainstream media racism, the excuses & responses were often: being (willfully) ignorant of the problem, hostile denial, or that these sorts of racist portrayals are really what mainstream Americans want to see. Now it's basically: 'Ok, ok, so what? I don't care …

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• • 04 Jul 06
  • 5:31 pm

  hmm... So the American left should abandon its resistance towards racism? And that the rich and powerful actually "created" this "identity politics"? Was Martin Luther King sponsored by Exxon Mobile? ;-) I don't know why some people think that anti-racism and economic leftism are opposing issues. -- Unless the underlying dynamic is that economically disadvantaged white men are in favor of racism and suppression of non-white men. In that case, the more appropriate political label for that form of leftism is the White National Socialist Movement. It's funny that Hollywood should and often have adopted the same attitude of the Nazi …

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• • 05 Jul 06
  • 11:15 am

  First of all, if Danny Kaye, had to wear a Star of David on his lapel whenever he acted in movies, then I would agree with your comparison. However, that is not the case, and It is again a facetious argument. Asians, Blacks, Latinos, etc... are visible minorities. To make the point obvious, these ethnicities aren't "white." And merely swapping out Jewish for Swedish is not the same as intentionally refusing to cast Bruce Lee, and preferring a white actor for the the lead role of the Kung Fu TV series. Nor is it the same as the overwhelming trend of …

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