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SJWs would flip their shit over this movie today


Just goes to show how much things have gone downhill in just 10 years. It's like an exponential P.C. shitstorm.

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Wasn't the point to show how non PC Walt was?

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You should know that SJWs will attack anything they possibly can, regardless of context. Remember when they were up in arms about Three Billboards? About how Sam Rockwell's character was slightly redeemed?

Some headlines/text that would most definitely pop up today...

"Conservative Clint Eastwood's new film portrays white racist male as hero."

"We should not make light of racism and racial slurs. This movie aims to make racists not only relatable, but heroic. There is nothing heroic about hate."

"Group calls for boycott of new Clint Eastwood film, where racist character is 'redeemed' and given hero treatment."

"Frankly, this movie is just disgusting. With this film, Clint Eastwood has aligned himself with the alt-right movement, and if he had any shred of decency, he would pull it out of theaters immediately."

"Is it time to look into whether or not Clint Eastwood is a racist himself? He agreed to direct this project, he agreed to sprout racist slurs and hateful slang, he agreed to have this horrendous character revered at the end. As a right-winger, this really shouldn't come as a surprise. In fact it wouldn't surprise me at all if we uncover ties to alt-right groups in the coming weeks."

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You should find yourself a street corner and a milk crate and continue your crusade there. Take it to the streets !

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He has a point though about sjws to be fair, lol.

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does he?
I see literally hundreds of posts from people all up in arms about things but its never SJWs , its people getting all angry *about* SJWs , like dis guy ^

Look at his example imagined headlines.
Have you ever seen headlines like that for any movie?
I've seen so little evidence of actual SJW noise , I'm beginning to think the whole thing is made up.

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Idk, I'm new to the sjw craze as I'm not from the West but they're nuts. And I have seen such over the top behavior/scenarios in Western media. It's like the west is imploding on itself.

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have you ? where?
all i see are white right wing pointy hat racists doing a "false flag" op and pretending to have "read somewhere" about an offended SJW so they can start yelling vitriol about it.

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Here, on YT, on Western media and their news outlets. I didn't like the new SW and some sjws were ranting it was anti women to not like it. There was also videos of sjws calling biologists NAZIS and crying because the female biologist stated there were physical differences between men and women. I also don't get why you call right wing (I assume you mean Republicans?) pointy hats when it's the democratic party that was and still are the KKK, segregationalist, pro slavery, who supported NAZI ideology and the apertheid, the Republicans were the ones fighting them every step of the way. Even now they're desecrating churches and are trying to kill as many Black babies as they can to keep the Black people at a minimum and keep blacks as slaves to the state, they don't want them to be educated, to have a voice, to make educated reasoning, they want to keep them on a tight leash on drugs on welfare illiterate jobless. Also these sjws are destroying women's dignity, image, their sport, their rights, their privacy and want every field to be dominated by men in sports and in the lockeroom. They're pretty scary. They're like a new NAZI party and are intent on also destroying the family unit and don't want men and women to unite to have a strong voice, they want them divided to subdue them, blm for example is a well known Marxist movement. I don't know what will happen to America and the West but I pray you guys resolve it, if not, don't bring it over here in Asia. We don't need this crazy made-up ideology thank you.

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These exact cancel culture sentiments are right here in the posts for this very movie. This is not something being imagined.

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only one person is claiming its inaprppraite - one of the actors in the film! (in the other thread)
and he probly just wants attention as career flagging

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No real point to a troll.

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Yes, anyone who posts something you personally don't like is a troll, claims the six-word-reply guy who has said nothing of any relevance to the topic.

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Trolling is not a topic.

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You know, I honestly can't tell if that's supposed to be humorous. Or whether you legitimately didn't understand that I was talking about the actual topic of this thread... you know, the thread that you're currently posting your extraneous and ironically trollish crap in. Better for you to claim it was some lame joke, I think.

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Troll should worry about what's good for troll, I think.

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High Five!!!

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I was just thinking the same thing about "Married with Children" the other day. I was watching some of Al's best lines/moments on Youtube. These days, I don't think anyone would even take the pitch meeting on that show. It was just too funny. Too non-PC.

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Nope. The only person flippin' here is you.

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Maul,

You act like a SJW flipping your shit.

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You say that like it makes any sense whatsoever.

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SJWs have never flipped their shit. SJWs dont even exist.
Anti SJW warriors* are the ones constantly flipping their shit
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*somewhat akin to bigfoot hunters in that they never find any evidence

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Although the general message of the film is good, it really doesn't hold up. Apparently all that Vietnamese kid needed to do was walk into a construction office and ask for a job while having no training or experience in the construction industry or having the necessary tools. The film should have focused more on job-killing government interventions and regulations in the marketplace rather than individuals' desires to work for a living. There are a lot of good people who want to work but have legitimate difficulties finding jobs.

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Oh, Maul. Those accursed SJW’s have gotten you all riled up and...*ahem*, TRIGGERED, haven’t they?

Your post is stupid, surprise surprise. Notice how Gran Turismo has caused ZERO controversy in recent years? That’s probably because those pesky SJW’s don’t give a shit. If it was really that worthy of a “PC shitstorm” the movie would be banned. But hey, it isn’t. In fact, I’ve never heard a SINGLE liberal complain about Walt Kowalski’s dialog. I have, however, heard tons and tons of right wingers complaining how “this movie could never happened today thanks to them Obamers”, and you be one of em,

People have been offended for eons, this shit didn’t just start in 2014.

And this is a pretty good movie too. The acting isn’t good from the secondary characters but Eastwood does a great job as always and the film delivers a unique message: it isn’t what you say, but what you do. I think most people with a brain understand that before starting a shistorm, which is why most leftists have never complained about Gran Torino. Hope you’re enjoying your quarantine, you now have plenty of time to rant about blue haired millennials while jerking off to anime cat girls.

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Ha - let 'em try to cancel it. This movie is far too loved and Clint Eastwood far too beloved for that to happen. Like trying to cancel Blazing Saddles - just not gonna happen.

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they arnt trying to cancel it.
As always, its someone on your side who started the thread saying pretty much the same thing.

There has been no input from "they" .

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This is an imaginary scenario that I doubt will happen, since it would've already happened. No need to get mad about until it actually happens. Unless this is some kind of precognitive complaint.

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The movie was released in 2008. I said this would happen if it was released today, not 10+ years ago. That was kind of the entire point of my post, which was made abundantly clear. Hello?

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Hello. What I'm saying is, because it is a supposition and not an actuality, then there's no basis for your post. You yourself just pointed out that this was released over ten years ago. So what's the problem? Your post has no point.

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Wow. That's really all I have to say - wow. If you can't determine the simple point behind what was posted here, that's literally spelled out in the initial post, I have nothing else to say to you.

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I cant determine your simple point either.
My best guess is , you wanted to fuel up an Anti-SJW bitching session , so , because there werent any posts , on any film boards saying "I'm offended this shouldt be allowed , i want it cancelled" , you decided to go ahead and have a guess what they might say ,and just speak on their behalf.

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Add another "wow" to the mix. This forum is kind of dead in terms of even remotely intelligent responses, isn't it?

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ok , lets start again , so we know where we're up to . you said 2 things in your OP:
"SJWs would flip their shit over this movie today"
"Just goes to show how much things have gone downhill in just 10 years. It's like an exponential P.C. shitstorm."

I disagree with both of those statements
Did SJWs flip their shit over that green book film? it was basically the same thing.
Have you any evidence of SJWs flipping their shit anywhere ?
It does not 'go to show how things have gone downhill in ten years' ,
Your crazy imaginings of what so called SJWs might do , does not count as "goes to show"

Can you back up any of your OP or elaborate in any way?




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THESE SJWS WOULD REALLY LOSE THEIR SHIT IF DEEP THROAT CAME OUT TODAY...OR SONG OF THE SOUTH...OR WAIT...YOURE AN IDIOT.🙂

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