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Quentin Tarantino: the new face of #BlackLivesMatter
Hot Air.com ^ | October 25, 2015 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 10/25/2015 11:37:58 AM PDT by Kaslin

Normally if I heard about Quentin Tarantino being on the streets of New York City and there were discussions of cops and shootings and violence I would simply assume he was working on his next film. This week, however, he was out there under just such conditions but the cameras belonged to the local news media and the script was written by the Black Lives Matter movement. Tarantino himself wasn’t being shy in the least and readily adopted the rhetoric of the worst aspects of these protesters, railing on about “murdering cops” as he promoted yet another hashtag… #RiseUpOctober (Yahoo News)

Oscar-winning director Quentin Tarantino was among hundreds of people from across the United States who marched in New York on Saturday against perceived police brutality.

Campaigners say that police unfairly profile black and Latino men, and criticize what they see as the militarization of law enforcement forces in the US.

“This is not being dealt with in anyway at all. That’s why we are out here. If it was being dealt with, then these murdering cops would be in jail or at least be facing charges,” said Tarantino, whose hit films include “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction.”

It’s a shame to see somebody who has produced so many amazing movies falling into the trap of trying to transfer his fame into political activism on the wrong side of the debate. It’s also somewhat ironic, considering that Tarantino has buttered his bread spinning tales about precisely the sort of crime that police have to deal with in the real world on a daily basis. In fact, Tarantino has a long history of defending violence in his movies while claiming that nobody is really responsible when it happens in the real world. And he has long held that the violence of criminals, such as depicted in his films, is one of the worst aspects of America.

“Violence is just one of many things you can do in movies,” he said. “People ask me, ‘Where does all this violence come from in your movies?’ I say, ‘Where does all this dancing come from in Stanley Donen movies?’ If you ask me how I feel about violence in real life, well, I have a lot of feelings about it. It’s one of the worst aspects of America. In movies, violence is cool. I like it.”

Quentin should check in on what some of his new friends are doing around the rest of the nation and how that’s going to impact his message. Oddly enough, the St. Paul – Minneapolis area has managed to become the focal point of the BLM movement this year rather than New York or St. Lois. And out there the protesters have taken to fighting against the classification of the murder of police as a hate crime. I’m not one who supports the idea of laws against so called “hate crimes” in America, but if you must have them then I think an attack on a uniform which represents the barrier between order and mayhem is about as hateful as it gets.

Tarantino might also want to consider how quickly the nation is growing sick of the violent actions and rhetoric of the movement, particularly since they’ve been alienating most of their natural allies of late. Out in Los Angeles, BLM protesters have been shutting down city council meetings and even chased the Mayor out of his own house through the back gate. And we’re talking about a mayor who is about as sympathetic toward the Social Justice Warriors as any elected official in the nation. This led the Democrat coalition to briefly consider changing their rules for attendance at council meetings just so they could get some work done.

Every new video showing the chants of “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon” is separating the BLM crowd from the mainstream of society. If Tarantino envisions a future where he’s still earning a living in his original chosen field he may want to pick his friends more wisely.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; bluelivesmatter; hollywood; losangeles; media; movies; newyorkcity; protests; publicity; publicitystunt; quentintarantino; quentintarentino; violence
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1 posted on 10/25/2015 11:37:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

In HollyWeird they say there is No Such Thing as “BAD publicity...

Even if you get there being terminally stupid...

And why???

The LIVs want to take care of their “heroes”, really they are “mental proxies” for what they think their lives are about

Hillary and her followers, no matter how bizarre it is Woman against Men...

In their minds...

The Battlefield


2 posted on 10/25/2015 11:45:53 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: Kaslin

Tarantino is aching to be arrested so he, too, can be “down for the struggle.”


3 posted on 10/25/2015 11:47:35 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

Guess he isn’t into “Dead N@gger Storage.”


4 posted on 10/25/2015 11:48:55 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin
Why do actors and directors pull these types of stunts just weeks before their films open?

Someone needs to teach them the principles of marketing.

5 posted on 10/25/2015 11:49:19 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Kaslin

People like Tarentino can be masterfully brilliant at one thing, and dumber than dogsh!t in the next. I rest my case.


6 posted on 10/25/2015 11:50:32 AM PDT by W. (I piss fire and acid upon the militant muslims as they pray to their baby-raping god!)
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To: Kaslin
Just shut up and make me some coffee.


7 posted on 10/25/2015 11:54:04 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: dfwgator
Guess he isn’t into “Dead N@gger Storage.”

That's why he brought in The Wolf.

8 posted on 10/25/2015 11:55:59 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Kaslin

Tarantino is a typical liberal who is obsessed with white guilt. This is apparent in almost all his movies, especially with “Django Unchained”.


9 posted on 10/25/2015 11:56:35 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Businessmen use their own money to succeed. Politicians take other people's money and fail.)
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To: Kaslin

10 posted on 10/25/2015 12:00:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin
Tarantino... that's Italian isn't it?


11 posted on 10/25/2015 12:29:38 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: Kaslin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8p_NGuQq6Q

Watch this:

Video of BLACK MOM ‘ Peggy Hubbard ‘ talks about Ferguson, protests and the black lives crowd.


12 posted on 10/25/2015 12:34:04 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Kaslin
If you ask me how I feel about violence in real life, well, I have a lot of feelings about it.

Wow, he's so articulate, such a deep thinker!

13 posted on 10/25/2015 12:52:53 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("... so many times that my memories are worn." ~John Prine)
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To: Kaslin

English, MFer, do you speak it?


14 posted on 10/25/2015 1:00:49 PM PDT by real saxophonist (YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: Kaslin

His movies are way too bloody and violent for me. Nein Danke! On top of that, he looks like Popeye with a Ted Koppel hair transplant. Okay, that wasn’t nice.


15 posted on 10/25/2015 1:04:08 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

That is a cool flick, and that is the best scene. I do not think that Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken appeared in any other movie together than that scene in True Romance. Correct me if I am wrong.


16 posted on 10/25/2015 1:09:06 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Treason is as treason does, demons is as demUNs does.)
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To: lee martell
I won't be as delicate as you.

Tarantino has been the ugliest man in the entertainment milleu for years, beating out by a mile second-placer Nick Nolte, then Seal, then Elton John, then Woody Allen by a mile. His face is just in time for Halloween.

Now we know that his ugliness is more than skin deep, also.

Boycott every bit of the commie/radical cr*p he produces.

Leni

17 posted on 10/25/2015 1:22:57 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: MikeSteelBe

Another great scene is where Christian slater goes into the drug dealer’s den to buy the girl’s freedom and gives him an envelope that is empty, then proceeds to kill everyone in the place.


18 posted on 10/25/2015 1:24:03 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (Sprinkles are for winners.)
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To: dragnet2

She had it right


19 posted on 10/25/2015 1:53:55 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Larry Lucido

Lots of cream, lots of sugar


20 posted on 10/25/2015 2:40:18 PM PDT by Jeff Vader
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