Posted on 03/20/2021 6:21:24 AM PDT by NOBO2012
So here it is Caturday and this week’s narrative was the non-stop lamenting of Asian “hate crimes” on the rise, presumably by Trump supporters (who else?).
The media put an anti-Asian spin on the shootings at several Atlanta massage parlors before knowing any facts about the case and it became doctrine overnight. A pity that the facts, as usual, resulted in such a massive narrative failure.
Of course the real story here, were any “journalists” interested, is that these “massage parlors” are actually brothels staffed for the most part by sex-trafficked illegals. But the media would much prefer to talk about right-wing white supremacy than sex slaves, and that should be quite telling. The drumming of the anti-Asian hate crime drum serves two purposes: it keeps the myth of racist Trump supporters alive and rolls another special interest group into the D column.
So I watched Breakfast At Tiffany’s on TCM the other night. Hang with me here, my sleepless night, Caturday and Asian hate crimes are all related. Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together?
I tuned in before the movie actually started and had to sit through TCM’s gaggle of hosts post-viewing lecture on anti-Native American racism displayed in the previous movie, The Searchers. When they were done with that dead horse I had to sit through their pre-movie discussion of the racism about to be displayed in Breakfast At Tiffany’s. What racism in Breakfast At Tiffany’s you ask?Prejudice against black cats perhaps?
Having taken notes I am able to respond to that question: cultural appropriation, and stereotyping. Specifically, Mickey Rooney’s controversial, racially insensitive performance as Holly Golightly’s Japanese next-door neighbor.
Mickey Rooney’s portrayal of Mr. Yunioshi
The TCM talking heads promised to put all of this horror in context at the end of the movie. Fortunately I fell asleep before happened. Frankly the only context I find necessary is the realization that in 1961 we were a scant 20 years out from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and a good many families across America had lost loved ones at the hands of the Japanese. Given that, a bit of stereotyping in good fun doesn’t strike me as particularly harsh. I suppose it’s racially insensitive of me to think it might take more that a short 20 year window to forgive your mortal enemies.Is it just me?
That said, I will give TCM credit, at least they’ve found a way to air classic movies; if progressives were left to their own devices would simply cancel them altogether. TCM’s intent, of course, is noble:
Turner Classic Movies will be airing a handful of films deemed — by a modern lens — controversial or racially insensitive as part of a new series.
The series, titled “Reframed: Classic Films in the Rearview Mirror,” will include hits such as “Gone With the Wind” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” The films will be airing throughout March, with commentary from five TCM hosts.
I can’t wait to hear the discussion when they air Psycho where the “problematic” theme relates to depictions of transgender identity and gender fluidity in conjunction with mental illness and violence.
“Psycho,” which will be airing on March 25, the hosts talk about transgender identity in the film and the implications of equating gender fluidity and dressing in women’s clothes with mental illness and violence.
I mean really - just because one transgendered individual is a homicidal maniac doesn’t mean that all transgendered people are. Even a nitwit should be able to reach that conclusion.
Unfortunately our betters no longer trust their lessors-at-large to conclude that on their own. And once that happens, why, they’re going to have to impose and enforce all manner of rules, regulations, laws and mores against ‘hate crimes’ and other thought crimes.
It’s sort of like 1984 on steroids.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
Will they be editing out the scene at the end of the Film North by Northwest where the Train goes into the Tunnel?
That’s obviously a Rape reference.
I sat through the after-movie deconstruction of “The Searchers” as well, and all I could think was that they completely missed the point of the movie, the character of Ethan (an American version of the ronin, or Mifune-style samurai), how Scar is portrayed as Ethan’s moral equal, how the movie specifically distinguishes between the Noeki Commanche and other Native Americans (the way an honest movie today would distinguish between BLM thugs and African-Americans in general), how Debbie is not being murdered but euthanized—and all the moral questions surrounding euthanasia, etc. etc. etc.
Wokeness can only see through one electron-microscopic lens that only shows the “racism virus.” I wish Robert Osbourne could be brought back from the dead, since he would be more alive than these dead wokers.
I instantly thought of the Chinese gardener in "Chinatown" who says "bad for glass" when referring to the effect of salt water on green grass.
Jack Nicholson mildly mocks the gardener by saying, "Yeah, bad for glass."
Is "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway on the Bad Boy list now?
There are two scenes in the book where Hemingway uses the N-word to refer to a Black band drummer and to a Black boxer.
I’m glad i have all the original uncut classic movies burned in and ripped to my NAS
@seanmdav
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Frankly I get a shock every now and then myself, e.g Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney singing and dancing to a black-face chorus, the ubiquitous black servant saying something like "Yowza Boss", Mae West surrounded by attendants obviously of Afro-European descent and affecting the obligatory mindless expressions, both facial and verbal.
Yep, it's cringe-worthy all right.
It's certainly an improvement to see people of African descent portrayed as people, intelligent people, but it's no improvement to watch the baizuos behave like mindless, slobbering morons whose overwrought histrionics reveal their own inner struggles with the racism which they protest too much, like reformed alcoholics convinced that the lust for demon rum must be expunged from every human breast, including those of us who don't have a problem with it, as they obviously do.
of course it is...but us simple-minded uneducated masses need to be “woke” to those obvious facts.....but then again...sometimes an inkblot is just an inkblot and it takes a warped mind with a PHD to convince us otherwise........../s
So we are on Asian hate now? We are done with abortion? Cause I took a nap and I think I missed somthing.
I think TCM had a problem with Hitchcock’s earlier Movie “Rope”. Can’t remember why. It was a pretty weird Movie.
Hitchcock tried to make it look like it was one long Scene with no separate Takes.
Are there any Hitchcock Statues that the Left can pull down?
Re: like reformed alcoholics expunging demon rum
Spot on!
Perfect comparison.
Wait until the woke crowd learns that John Lennon (writer of their beloved international anthem “Imagine”) recorded and released a song called “Woman in the N-word of the World.”
Not only recorded it and released it, but released it as a single to be played on radio stations. And it actually did chart (#57 Billboard)!
So time to ban all Beatles music! And any radio station that played it needs to be closed down.
MSM is NOT covering the many.... many anti-Asian criminal acts being conducted by AntiFA and BLM in Portland,OR and in Seattle. They are the ones doing this...
Understand that the Chi-Coms are trying to engender support for themselves by making real victims of Chinese Americans who are not communists... but everyday people. This is the game and the propaganda, and they expect the JoeBama/Haira@@ admin to carry that water..
Which they did yesterday in Atlanta— Two separate aircraft flew to Dobbins AFB.... on a 757 Call signed Air Force 2... the other a 747 call sign 8-8808 and NOT Air Force 1 thus the element of the miitary controlled by the chi-coms does not recognize JoeBama as President (he flew on the 747). Why did they BOTH have to be there? Because Haira@@ is being promoted and is constantly hovering in camera view behind aside JoeBama.... as being the “real” power. This is how the Communists run. We are being staged with Kremlin wall line up of the “power sharing” ... and being massaged into accepting this harridan.
Things are not what they seem, and the MSM cannot control what will happen. No-one, not even the dems want Haira@@ Round Heels... and they are disintegrating into loudmouth totalitarian congressional crap that is not held up by the public.
Flied lice? It’s fried rice, you plick.
**Mickey Rooney’s portrayal of Mr. Yunioshi***
Saw it. They are actors, getting paid to pretend to be someone they are not.
The best actors have often portrayed other races.
James Mason as the Chinese Ambassador in GENGHIS KHAN.
Robert Morley as the Emperor of China in the same movie.
Flora Robson as Elizabeth I, and as the Dowager Empress of China.
Alfonso Bedoya (We don’ need no stinkin badges) as a Chinese merchant in THE BLACK ROSE
Victor Jory as a Tuareg tribesman in VALLEY OF THE KINGS.
And many many others.
It certainly is Orwellian the direction of anti-white assuming
all anti-Asian crimes are being done by whites.... they are NOT.... BLM and AntiFA are in on this together continuing to work for the Communists, at the behest of the Chi-Coms who OWN the JoeBama admin, and the media on their payroll.
Not going to wash. The massage parlors are staffed and trafficked in illegal aliens (chinese and otherwise) and... there is a pedophilia angle to this as well. Hence the open borders Soros crap to let the already raped innocents into the country for ... sale.
But not JW as GK. That was bad casting.
***I can’t wait to hear the discussion when they air Psycho where the “problematic” theme relates to depictions of transgender identity and gender fluidity in conjunction with mental illness and violence.***
I got 30 days in Facebook jail for saying that there was no difference between Norman Bates (PSYCHO), who put on his mother’s dress,
Ed Gein(a REAL psycho), who put on a woman’s skin, and a tranny who whacks off parts to become a woman.
WHAM! Instant 30 days suspension!
Valentine’s day is past but Mark Zuckerberg must still have a heart on for his trannys.
***Flied lice? It’s fried rice, you plick.***
Brings back memories of a JAX BEER cartoon commercial from 60 years ago.
Anyone remember JAX?
Bad casting! Yes it was!
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