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Friday the 13th (2009) is one of the best films of the Aughties
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It seems like he has been explaining his fairly succinct reading of the characters in context with the rest of the film for the past page and a half, which didn't include anywhere how they are A-OK (in fact looked like he was making the opposite point).
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Jan 23, 2014 17:02
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"They represent a repetition of deeply ingrained systemic racism inherent in late-capitalist liberal democracy" isn't much of a defense of racist caricatures.
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Jan 23, 2014 17:13
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He is saying the these racist caricatures are criticisms of liberal democracy. That they aren't excusable is the exact, ironic point.
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Jan 23, 2014 20:10
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No Your Other Left posted:And Krangdar, you're being intentionally obtuse. Normalizing racist imagery is damaging to a work's audience, and the intended audience People start forming opinions about these sorts of things long before they can fully articulate them, and those... things are entirely unsuited for a film like this, or indeed for any work that's not actively and explicitly criticizing the people who would support using them. What would constitute 'active and explicit' criticism and why/how is that different form the Transformers project? That the twins are racists stereotypes is the entire point, an overt criticism of "the people who would support using them" (even if that would include Michael Bay) is toothless and apologetic. The entire underlying economic and social structure is what supports and maintains them in the real world, Transformers is a virtual expression of this.
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