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re: How Hollywood’s ‘Alien’ and ‘Predator’ movies reinforce anti-Black racism

Posted on 8/22/20 at 4:17 pm to
Posted by Schmelly
Member since Jan 2014
14469 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 4:17 pm to
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Black women have been portrayed in contemporary white social and political culture as super-fertile


Art imitates life
Posted by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
81194 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 4:21 pm to
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TLDR. Predator is a badass just trying to survive. Aliens is just weird.



I was obsessed with Predator as a teen.
Posted by Yewkindewit
Near Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Apr 2012
20029 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 4:23 pm to
Black women are loud, prone to yell, argue, and talk over anyone trying to reason with them. That’s why they are prone to being arrested and handled roughly by the Police.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
22163 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 4:25 pm to
If you look at the Predator and see a violent, dread-locked black man, you might be a racist. If you look at the Alien mother and see a black woman spitting out kids, you might be a racist.
This post was edited on 8/22/20 at 6:56 pm
Posted by Cajun Tifoso
Lafayette, LA
Member since Sep 2010
2562 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 4:37 pm to
It is apparently the new game in academia - who can come up with the craziest shite and give it the gloss of a logical examination of a "problem."
Posted by LSU82BILL
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Member since Sep 2006
10321 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 4:57 pm to
I prefer to base my view of black people on the films written and directed by black men. You know, those inspiring films like Menace II Society and Boyz n The Hood reinforce such a positive image.
Posted by LSUTigersVCURams
Member since Jul 2014
21940 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 5:09 pm to
Watch the next thing that’s going to get cancelled is all the old Die Hard and Lethal Weapon and Stallone movies. For no other reason than that they portray white heterosexual males.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
22163 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 5:16 pm to
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Watch the next thing that’s going to get cancelled is all the old Die Hard and Lethal Weapon and Stallone movies. For no other reason than that they portray white heterosexual males.


They've already gone after them for toxic masculinity.
Posted by The Third Leg
Idiot Out Wandering Around
Member since May 2014
10046 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 5:25 pm to
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I prefer to base my view of black people on the films written and directed by black men. You know, those inspiring films like Menace II Society and Boyz n The Hood reinforce such a positive image.

Lol. The main character from Boyz n the Hood had an active father and was trying to be a productive member of society with good values.
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
56322 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 5:45 pm to
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The short answer is that we are dealing with a culture of domination. It is a culture that thrives on the sexualized demonization of Black people. Two examples of this are Ridley Scott’s Alien, which comports with the trope of Black women as alien breeders and Predator, written by brothers Jim and John Thomas, that riffs on images of Black men as dreadlocked, violent and superhuman.
All of the paranoid black guys from the 70's and their moron radio offspring are being taken seriously now. This is Obama's legacy. White devil. Chess is racist. shite most of us used to laugh about, blacks included. Now it's mainstream leftist orthodoxy.
Posted by cwil177
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2011
28429 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 6:07 pm to
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Although Black men are killed by the police more than any other group,

When you start with such a blatant lie it’s hard to take the rest of the piece seriously.
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 6:07 pm to
good

frick 'em
Posted by Hot Carl
Prayers up for 3
Member since Dec 2005
59070 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 6:07 pm to
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I prefer to base my view of black people on the films written and directed by black men. You know, those inspiring films like Menace II Society and Boyz n The Hood reinforce such a positive image.


Have you even seen Boyz n the Hood?
Posted by SanJoseTigerFan
San Jose, CA
Member since Feb 2013
1992 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 6:14 pm to
LINK

More whites than black killed by the police
Posted by Strannix
District 11
Member since Dec 2012
48904 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 6:17 pm to
Lol bruh is mad he look like predator with them dreads

Posted by McVick
Member since Jan 2011
4467 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 6:25 pm to
I still believe Alien was about feminism and bringing the fear of rape to the male audience.

The screenwriter of the movie is pretty adamant about it, and Ridley Scott made sure the protagonist was Sigourney Weaver.

Screenrant

Vice

The Irish Examiner
Posted by MDB
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2019
3077 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 6:34 pm to
So Will Smith was a racist in Independence Day while dragging the alien across the desert all the while whining about its dreadlocks and being ugly and smelly.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
134860 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 6:38 pm to
We wuz Predatorz
Posted by DemonKA3268
Parts Unknown
Member since Oct 2015
19194 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 6:53 pm to
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We wuz Predatorz


Didn’t someone call them “Super Predatorz” in the 90’s...?
Posted by ReauxlTide222
St. Petersburg
Member since Nov 2010
83459 posts
Posted on 8/22/20 at 7:17 pm to
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Man.. this is like some Ringer type babbling shite about movies that nobody had ever once thought about or tried to draw this conclusion from
This is why you’re part of the problem.
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