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Ballistic90 wrote: I'm sorry, but I'm associating their behavior and appearance with well entrenched and defined stereotypes created in the late 1800's stereotypes of the 'coon' and 'sambo' during the Jim Crow days. These were used for social control, and they meet all the criteria, EXCEPT for the skin color itself. A 'coon' was shiftless, lazy, selfish, stupid and would often fight with other 'coons'. That fits these two robots to a 't'. Mixed with the big buck teeth, a gold tooth, and big ears and they are nothing but a racial stereotype. THAT is my point.
Antron wrote:You know, if Spike Lee would have been the director it would be fresh, hip, and cultural. But since Mike is a white guy, it's offensive and stereo typing. Any one look at the President lately? Can we quit playing the race card already. My question is "How long before Al Sharpton starts attacking this AWESOME movie?"
Shadowman wrote:I will put forth the theory that it was the internet itself trying to punch him in the face.
Ballistic90 wrote:I'm still saying that the twins are racist
Cyber Bishop wrote:Lately there have been quite a few posters that we get a lot of complaints about for various things like;
1) Flaming
2) Baiting
3) Trolling
4) Lack of respect
AND THE BIG ONE…
5) Forcing their opinions on others
I and the rest of the staff are tired of these situations.
We are not trying to censor anyone or play Gestapo, there is a general lack of respect going on and it will stop.
It is ok to disagree with ones opinion; HOWEVER forcing your opinion on others and flaming them for it is not acceptable.
Example
User 1: I liked the transformers movie and what Bay did to them
User2: I don’t care what you like, bay sucks and so do you for liking him
If this was the “real world” your teeth would be knocked out for telling something like that to someone. This is not acceptable conduct.
How things like that should be handled..
User 1: I liked the transformers movie and what Bay did to them
User2: That is your opinion, I don’t like bay or his work and that is my opinion
See, much better. No hostility and the convo can continue with everyone talking and discussing like mature people.
Baiting and trolling is self explanatory, there is no reason for someone to follow someone else around and argue with them in every thread they post in.
The rules are here http://www.seibertron.com/forums/viewto ... =9614&sid=
This will not be tolerated anymore and it could end up with users being perma-banned from Seibertron.
Lousy_Autobot_Lover wrote:I find it odd that people would over-analyze this movie for racist undertones instead of Star Trek.
Ballistic90 wrote:First, I can tell that you are a white man by what you just said. To you, it's theoretical. To others, it's real life. It doesn't affect everyone the same way.
rpetras wrote:When I saw the film, nothing about these two struck me as a black stereotype.
They were a lot more like mountain folk from the Ozarks or something. More like the Looney Tunes guys that were always feuding.
Autobobby1 wrote:If you really want to know who Skidz and Mudflap are imitating, go watch Malibu's Most Wanted.
Yuckmouth wrote:Hmmm I don't think I really cared too much about the "culture" they were portraying but I thought the language from them was a little off color. Sure, sure it's PG-13 and sure sure they're learning their language from the WWW but I don't know how great it was to hear them call someone a P**** and talk about "getting up in that ***". I get that the target demographic is the 13-25 crowd and all that but holy cow were there a lot of kids in the theatre when I went to see it.
Personally I would have been ok with the characters exactly how they were minus some of the language and I think that that is what bothered some of the critics and that is the really "offensive" part of it. I mean, it's Hasbro's toy line, so it's still clearly aimed at kids. Hopefully I won't get a Skids or Mudflap Power Bot where you can press the button and they call you a p**** or say "Oh mother...."
See what I mean?
Prime Riblet wrote:There is a huge amount of "but this" and "but that" and "but whatever"....concerning the language of this movie.
It is a movie that has an appropriate rating that reflects exactly what is in the film. The meaning of this rating is also expressed very clearly BEFORE the movie starts. If grownups are offended by the language...well, that is too bad. If parents are worried about the language that their little kids heard during the show.....then they really should have refrained from letting the children watch. There are TWO warnings for the movie before it is watched. It is PG-13; that's the first warning. Then, while people are sitting and waiting, and the previews are done there is a second warning that has the rating AND a brief description of what material in the movie could be offensive and why. There is simply no excuse if people neglect to notice these countermeasures.
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