Some film critic is calling Avatar racist because the blue people on the planet are "tribal", and it is a white man who saves them....
But here is my question... who is the white man saving the blue people from? Why, other white men, of course!
So how can that be racist? It's the story of a bunch of techno-loaded people invading the land of some aborigines, just as happened in the past on Earth, and those techno-geeks had the most technology, so they were able to massacre the indigenous populations. The indigenous populations had no chance.
So what is so racist about showing a "white man" realizing that what his people are doing is wrong, and try to help the indigenous population fight back?
It's not as if the two populations were equal in armament, so that it was only the "brains" of the white man that saved the stupid and inferior blue people. No, the blue people don't have the kind of armament that the invaders do, so they needed help.
But some people...and I'm pretty sure this reviewer was white...just want to find racism wherever they look.
What the movie really is about, is a castigation of the European explorer and how he took over every country he found, at the expense of the indigenous population! With a little nod to those individuals who didn't believe what they were doing was right, and attempted to protect the rights of those individuals...until finally enough of the Europeans had their consciousness raised, and started making amends for what their ancestors had done.
The minority will get nothing that the majority does not give it. Just ask the women in any Muslim country, if you can find them, hidden as they are in their own homes or behind burkhas that cover their entire faces. Blacks in the US today would not be where they are - in an unsegregated country where anyone with a good education can get a good job - if the white majority in the late 1960s and 1970s had not given it to them. Why? Of course this backfired when the welfare system was created that gave women more money if there was no husband in the picture....which destroyed black families and got us started on the descent into the welfare state and the entitlement generation - of blacks and whites and every other minority that comes here solely to get into our welfare system - who are sucking this nation dry.
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"and every other minority that comes here solely to get into our welfare system - who are sucking this nation dry."
Just wanted to let you know why I'm no longer following your blog. When engaging in deep thought on Race issues - perhaps perpetuating inflammatory untruths undermines anything else of value you have to offer.
I suppose I could have been clearer.. I'm not talking about those people who come here - legally - in search of a better life, I'm talking about those individuals who come here solely to get into our welfare system. That's not every illegal immigrant, but it is certainly a significnt proportion of them. After all, if they had something to offer this country, they'd be able to get in legally.
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