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This movie is racist

posted 2 years ago by Heisenberg (6730)
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Every man in the movie is paired with a girl of exactly the same skintone and racial features as him. It looks very odd for San Francisco in 1982.

But it becomes ludicrous when this happens:
Ganz is ordering 2 whores over the phone, one for himself and one for Billy, his Native American colleague.

He gets himself a white blonde girl. What the fuck is up with the need to get Billy an indian whore?
With all the possible choices available, not to mention the limitations of finding an indian whore for the service he called, does he really need to get Billy an indian girl? He doesn't even ask Billy for his preference.

The movie takes it one step further, by having a clearly white girl with an "indian" hairdo pose as said indian whore later on (maybe that was what the service could organize, given the likely difficulty of finding a real indian whore on such a short notice- the movie doesn't clarify).

[–] BourbonKing (5788) 2 years ago

LOL
it's funny you bring up Billy, played by Sonny Landham, who himself was a Mestizo but also a White Racist Southerner. In fact, millions of Confederatti Southerners are Mestizos but they carry their Rapist Scot-Irish surnames from waay back.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 2 years ago

I didn't know he was a racist in real life.
I wonder if he also asked for women of strictly one specific type.
From what I read now, he probably didn't want any Arabs.
Racists are so stupid it's unbelievable!

[–] MaximRecoil (4846) 8 months ago

"Every man in the movie is paired with a girl of exactly the same skintone and racial features as him. It looks very odd for San Francisco in 1982."

No, it doesn't. Interracial relationships have always been very much the exception rather than the rule, no matter where you go. As for "every man in the movie," that sure sounds like a lot doesn't it? How many men are you actually talking about? Four? Either way, you're not even correct. Margot Rose played Billy Bear's girlfriend, Casey, and she's about as Indian as Danny DeVito.

Also, even if this movie "is racist" as you claim, so what? Unless you can name a victim of this movie's alleged racism (a victim being defined as someone whose rights were violated), then it's an utter non-issue. And no, someone being offended doesn't make them a victim, obviously, since there's no such thing as a "right to universal inoffensiveness."

[–] moviechatterer (16326) 8 months ago

What a load of trolling drivel perpetuating the myth that 21C "snowflakes" are easily offended and need to see bi-racial couples everywhere .

At least I assume it is, I only read the first line.
I only clicked on the movie in trending to see if my hunch that the latest thread would be someone pretend race bitching was correct and who it was.

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[–] Heisenberg (6730) 8 months ago

Especially racism.

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[–] Heisenberg (6730) 8 months ago

But even more so when it is there but racists wanna pretend that they don't see it.

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[–] Heisenberg (6730) 8 months ago

Save your trolling on my thread, no one cares.

[–] EleazarHisSon (769) 8 months ago

Some white call girls will not see non-white men.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 8 months ago

I didn't know that. That's quite racist.
What is the logic there?
Does a dick feel different if you change the color?

[–] EleazarHisSon (769) 8 months ago

I guess the logic is that they don't want to risk losing their white customers. Once a white woman has slept with a non-white, she might be considered 'soiled' and 'damaged goods'. Not that there is much logic in that. It's not as if it's suddenly moral to prostitute yourself to a specific group.

[–] BKB (11305) 8 months ago

You're just now discovering this movie is Racist and entertainingly so after 40 Plus years?? 😂 I mean, everyone laughed back then" Black people, white people, no division over it like you'd see in 2024 and Eddie Murphy was only 19 and on top of the world when this was made

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 8 months ago

I laugh now.
I didn't discover shit.
I only wrote a post.
Everything I wrote is still valid now as it was in 1982.

[–] BKB (11305) 8 months ago

Ok, no one posts a thread about a movie that's 40 plus years old being Racist unless they're Gen Z and have never seen nor discovered this movie until now?? No way dude.. 😂 They should show this movie in classes in High school and Universities in 2024 and see what the reaction would be??

[–] [deleted] 8 months ago

Thank God for Gen Z. Nobody even knew what race-skism was until they arrived to enlighten the world.

[–] BKB (11305) 8 months ago

💯

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 8 months ago

I have seen 48hrs before you, deepshit.
And probably way more times than you.

I write about whatever movie I want whenever I want, don't have to see it for the first time like morons like you do and run to post ther "reaction" for other children to share.
Go back to tiktok and 4chan, loser.

[–] BKB (11305) 8 months ago

Yeah.. Um, I don't think that's the case, but whatever helps you sleep at night dude.. I think you're some kid who just discovered this movie, was outraged at the blatant Racism in the movie and decided to vent your frustrations over it.. Yeah, I'm going to go with that option.. 🤔

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 8 months ago

Cool, it's clear that you live in an alternative reality fueled by irrational delusions.
Just add this one to your list.

I have watched 48hrs at least a dozen times.
I first saw it in 1986.
I saw Another 48hrs in the theatre in 1990.
Go back to your lame ass mama's basement to post other lies about Trump now.

[–] ccr1633 (1538) 8 months ago

Dumb take. 48 Hrs. had a racist character. That's all there is to it. Given the number of responses you've gotten, I'd say this was a fairly successful troll.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 8 months ago

Why is my post a fairly successful "troll" and what is dumb here other than your reply?

Care to comment about WHAT I WROTE and not what you think I wrote?

[–] ccr1633 (1538) 8 months ago

You wrote that the movie is racist, which is dumb. If that were true then every single movie with a racist character would have to be labeled a "racist movie," which is something entirely separate from a "racist movie" that promotes racism in some way or other. Do you revisit your troll posts forever or do you quit eventually?

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 8 months ago

Did you even read what I wrote?
I explained the reason why I found the movie racist, and it has 0 to do with the intended racism in it.
Must be too difficult for you to read 7 lines of text.