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The Academy Awards
JD:
Yay someone who agrees with me
KvP:
psssh whatever
Alex C:
Yeah, my post was really aimed more at Zombiedude, who seemed to be a bit put off by such a strong term as racist being applied to The Blind Side-- I had meant to make the point earlier but didn't really feel like editing it in after the fact. Anyway, racist is such a loaded word that I would almost prefer that the articles he linked would open with the term patronizing instead and build their way up to dropping the R bomb. It's a much less shrill conversation once you make it clear that nobody thinks Sandra Bullock keeps a white hood in her closet. Then again, watering down language is probably best avoided long term.
JD:
I'm more surprised than put off.
David_Dovey:
I think it probably has a lot to do with there seeming to be an disproportionate abundance of "White Messiah" films in the cinemas, and particularly in the awards this year? If any one of these films came out any other time it probably wouldn't be much of a kerfuffle, but between The Blind Side, Precious and Avatar (are there any I'm missing) it seems to be a pretty insidious trend of late, and one that seems to be receiving hecka plaudits. Obviously the overwhelmingly white, financially-well-off types who vote for Academy Awards respond well to seeing a white, financially-well-off types saving minorities from their own social ills. Whodathunkit?
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