You're as badas The PC crybabies too, though, reacting to nonexistent arguments because you just KNOW everybody's thinking "that damned racist Ethan, how could he be so mean towards that nice Chief Cicatriz?!".
First, Cicatriz and the Comanches might have a right to consider the white man encroaching on his native prairies a bad thing. That point aside...
The main idea of he film is to show how useful men like Ethan were ( a more violent and primitive mindset) in fulfilling manifest destiny, but how once the West is settled, they have not much use for them, they don't belong "in the house", as the final shot indcates. P point being, even the whites knew the racism of Ethan (they held it themselves), and that, combined with his violent outlook, made it unlikely that Ethan would fit not society.
I find it a bit ridiculous to try to make a point of the Indians' racism, since they were just fight in whomever showed up in their homeland. But if it blows your skirt up...
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cfwente
8 years ago
It may be worth noting that the Comanche weren't "defending their homeland". They were nomadic marauders out of Minnesota and made a living killing tribes who were defending their homeland as the Comanche migrated south. They murdered, stole and sold captives as slaves in Mexico.
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vinidici
8 years ago
Ariana_ChochaGrande, for the sake of argument let's just take for a given that all persons of European descent who settled in the New World are completely evil, genocidal monsters and that their modern day descendants are no better (not a difficult point of view to take in some quarters of minority groups and their highly publicized "inherently and irredeemably racist" views.) Got it? Good! Now, forging ahead:
So does this mean that ALL Native American persons who ever lived from 1492 to the 20th Century were a bunch of peace and harmony-loving, warm and fuzzy guys? That tribes DIDN'T war against other tribes? That tribes never raided, pillaged and plundered other tribes? That there never was a branch of the Comanche who were pirates of the plains? All just because all American persons of European descent are "hellspawn" according to sources such as I referred to, above?
Sorry, I don't buy it. The Comanche in this story were the bad guys. Scar and his cronies got what was coming to him. Ethan's hatred was centered on Scar and his band, not toward all Indian tribes with whom it's implied he'd had trade and working relations.
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