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RE: The Kong kerfuffle in the press
Thursday, December 15th, 2005 10:09 pmMaybe it's my bitchy nature, but I gotta wonder:
What the hell kind of mind looks at a 28-foot tall GORILLA and thinks "Black Person"?
I mean, seriously. These ninnies are going around yelling about racism, but what about the connection they're making in their heads? You know, I don't look at Kong and equate him with a black person. You know why? Because he's a fucking GORILLA. Gorillas are not black people. They're APES.
It's like the same kerfuffle that happened with LOTR, with the same idiot "social critics" (read: professional bitchers) who equated ORCS with black people. Nobody else was thinking that. Just the people claiming to represent black people. I don't know about you, but anyone who looks at huge, greasy, yellow-fanged, red-eyed, murdering berserker demons and thinks "Hey, those are black people!" sure as shit sounds like a racist to ME.
Same with Kong. I'm sorry, but no matter how much you'd like to think everything is about the particular issue that gets up your ass, it ain't. Sometimes things are just what they look like, in this case, a movie about a fucking GORILLA.
And for those who whine about the "natives" in the movie, and claim they're unrealistic: NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. Of course they're unrealistic - it's a goddamn FANTASY. It's fascinating to me that these people will zero in on that one aspect, and yet don't bitch about the presence of friggin' DINOSAURS. Or even, dare we say it, the fact that Kong himself is 28 FEET TALL.
You'd think these little facts would clue them in to the idea that we're not supposed to take any of this seriously. But nooooo. Out of all this wonderfully nonsensical thrill ride, they actually think people are going to take that ONE aspect of the film at face value.
Jesus Christ in a diamond tiara. These people really take the cake.
What the hell kind of mind looks at a 28-foot tall GORILLA and thinks "Black Person"?
I mean, seriously. These ninnies are going around yelling about racism, but what about the connection they're making in their heads? You know, I don't look at Kong and equate him with a black person. You know why? Because he's a fucking GORILLA. Gorillas are not black people. They're APES.
It's like the same kerfuffle that happened with LOTR, with the same idiot "social critics" (read: professional bitchers) who equated ORCS with black people. Nobody else was thinking that. Just the people claiming to represent black people. I don't know about you, but anyone who looks at huge, greasy, yellow-fanged, red-eyed, murdering berserker demons and thinks "Hey, those are black people!" sure as shit sounds like a racist to ME.
Same with Kong. I'm sorry, but no matter how much you'd like to think everything is about the particular issue that gets up your ass, it ain't. Sometimes things are just what they look like, in this case, a movie about a fucking GORILLA.
And for those who whine about the "natives" in the movie, and claim they're unrealistic: NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. Of course they're unrealistic - it's a goddamn FANTASY. It's fascinating to me that these people will zero in on that one aspect, and yet don't bitch about the presence of friggin' DINOSAURS. Or even, dare we say it, the fact that Kong himself is 28 FEET TALL.
You'd think these little facts would clue them in to the idea that we're not supposed to take any of this seriously. But nooooo. Out of all this wonderfully nonsensical thrill ride, they actually think people are going to take that ONE aspect of the film at face value.
Jesus Christ in a diamond tiara. These people really take the cake.
