Comments | jedifreac: It sucks to be right. It sucks to be right.

jedifreac

It sucks to be right. It sucks to be right.

Jun 30, 2010 01:11

Yesterday and today, Paramount screened The Last Airbender to Racebending.com for free as kind of an olive branch, and also to show us just how diverse the movie is--to prove us wrong. I'm a big bundle of emotions right now, I guess. Here's the conversation I had with Ken about the movie, since he is better at 'splainin feelings and stuff ( Read more... )

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sainfoin_fields June 30 2010, 18:53:11 UTC

Wow, I... want to throw up. I'm sorry you had to sit through that.

heather June 30 2010, 20:41:03 UTC

Ugh, this fucking hurts.

poisontaster June 30 2010, 21:42:30 UTC

Thanks for writing this up. DNW.

black_samvara June 30 2010, 23:29:13 UTC

Thanks for the write-up - and thanks for sitting through it :)

mecurtin June 30 2010, 23:30:17 UTC

In the Festival of Fail that is this project, the overarching thing I just can't get over is this ( ... )

jedifreac July 1 2010, 04:35:58 UTC

Conversely, MNS proves that you don't have to be a white boy to fail like one.

I'm sorry, but what the hell does that mean? I hope you're kidding. Even coming at this from the framework of anti-racism and in-group bias, "you don't have to be a white boy to fail like one" is a very prejudiced statement.

mecurtin July 1 2010, 13:01:09 UTC

I was being ironic. Sarcastic? Multi-layered? Over-subtle, clearly. Sorry about that.

Less pithily, MNS proves that you don't have to be a privileged white American male to fail in the way PWAMs are often called out for failing.