Everyone's a little bit racist...

[trinityvixen]

Racists suck. But stupid racists are hilarious. Case in point: there is a conservative hate group that is actually hating on the upcoming Marvel movie Thor (our May Movie, folks!). Not because the trailer made it look like another $200M exercise in mediocrity. (True fact: at least half that budget was spent on replacing sets that Anthony Hopkins had devoured.) They're protesting because Idris Elba in it.

Personally, I'd protest any movie that doesn't have Idris Elba in it. (HOTT.) Give this man allllll the roles in Hollywood, kthanxbai.

Here's a great take-down of the racists' claims. Look, racism is bad. But with a little more of this kind of racism, we might just kill the whole evil, malingering cancer of racism outright. Bad day to be a racist if these guys are your spokesmen. And I say men, because, let's face it, only a bunch of white dudes would get this far up their own assholes about Idris Elba. (Because they secretly wish it were Idris Elba up there.)

Comments

[lnbw.livejournal.com]

I love that there's a picture of them. I wish the organization posted all their mailing addresses so I could send them all cards that say, "Seriously? No, SERIOUSLY??"

The captions on that post continue to be A+.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I love the captions. I really wish they'd gone on to point out that one of the Warriors Three (entirely made up by Marvel even more than with what they did to Thor) is, like, Asian or something. OH NOES, THE GUY THAT MARVEL MADE UP TO BE NORSE IS ASIAN DOES NOT COMPUTE DOES NOT COMPUTE.

I love that picture of them, too. No wonder they have such hard-ons for the Nordic people. I'd want six-plus feet of Nordic man if I were a five-foot troll. I'm not, and I still want it. I still want Idris Elba, too, so maybe the solution to their racism is to be sluttish?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Clearly, they were descended from the axe-wielding berserkers whose "religion" is all they are trying to protect. As someone pointed out in comments on an article referencing the one I linked to above, a bunch of white, conservative Christians are getting awfully worked up over the representation of pagan gods in cinema...

[avram]

Well, British (and German) pseudo-scientific race-fetishists have always had a hard-on for the Nordics. I guess the American branch has inherited that.

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

He's a deity. He's not *supposed* to look like the people who made him up: he's supposed to be something supernatural. Dark skin in a culture of blond hair, light skinned people would fit the bill.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

He's not real! End of story! He's even less real than a deity because he's one as filtered through the lens of comic books!

No one has seriously prayed to or worshiped or anything else anyone like what this guy may be passingly based off of in several hundred years. I think we can stop worrying about the people in Norway/Sweden/Finland who patently couldn't give a shit.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

I think thanks to the CCC I'm required by law to watch Thor..... maybe more than once ^.^

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No better revenge than doing well, eh?

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Yup ^_^ Well that and if they are going to stand for the near opposite of my values, I should pretty much do the opposite of anything to ask of the public ^_^

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Ah, this group is a descendant of the old White Citizens Council, the "respectable" anti-desegregation group (as opposed to the declasse Klan).

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Wow, so they're really, really bootleg Klansmen? Why am I not surprised?

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, these guys are extreme even for modern-day conservative groups. I'm sure a lot of right-wingers will denounce Idris Elba's casting as "political correctness gone amok" or something like that. But boycotting the movie? Saying it's a threat to America's "European-American heritage"? To blatant for mainstream conservatives.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I would think so. These guys make it hard for people to spout off what is actually racist talk ("political correctness gone amok" is code for "We want more white people, not less, in our movies" in this case) as if it's not, in fact, racist. Which it is.

Of course, reactionary trolls got all over the threads for the articles about this going, "Oh? How come we have to take it when you put a black guy in for a white guy, but cast all the kids as white in the Last Airbender movie and suddenly it's raaaaaacism!!!!????"

To which I rightly reply with :P

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

See, there was nothing inherently wrong with casting white kids for Last Airbender--the problem was that they apparently were only cast for being white, since their acting made Tommy Wiseau look talented by comparison. Race blind casting works both ways, yes?

But anyways, the Conservative Citizens Council is conservative like the Westboro Baptist Church is baptist. I object to the implications of the phrase "conservative hate group," in that these guys are just Klansmen with no place in the American political discourse.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I object to the implications of the phrase "conservative hate group

Their politics are conservative. Fine, point taken, I won't (not that I was) lump them in with all people right of center (who are all technically conservative).

But, dude? THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU. Relaaaaaaax.

[mclittlebitch.livejournal.com]

I actually didn't know Idris Elba was going to be in Thor, but now that I do it's pushed my likelihood of seeing it from 'maybe' to 'definitely'. Opposite effect from that intended, racists!

I'm gonna go watch his guest appearance in a video of skaterdudes lipsyncing Total Eclipse of the Heart (http://vimeo.com/15960101) in praise of his awesome.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Victory for us non-racists!

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

This is just hilarious.
I also now have a strong desire to link ---> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackVikings