Pachycephalosaurus: Jurassic World’s ‘Racist’ Dinosaur

The Guardian ^

[nickcarraway]

Age: Extinct, since the Late Cretaceous.

Appearance: Thick-headed dinosaur, hence the name, which means “thick-headed lizard”.

Thick-headed as in stupid? Well, they weren’t clever, but it’s really because they had spiky, domed skulls to protect their tiny brains. They’re dinosaurs.

What else are they like? Socially aggressive, accidentally racist.

How can a dinosaur be racist? It’s due to their appearance in the blockbuster Jurassic World.

From what I’ve seen, the dinosaurs in Jurassic World are equal-opportunity devourers.

True, but early on in the film, after some pachycephalosauruses have escaped their sector, a character utters the line: “The pachys are out of containment.”

So what? It sounds as if she’s saying: “The Pakis are out of containment.”

That’s not what she’s saying, though. No.

Did the whole context of the film not make it clear that she was talking about some dinosaurs? It did, but the line has still caused a bit of a stir. The Coventry comedian Guzzy Bear, in the guise of a comic character called Mobeen, posted a video calling for a boycott of the film.

I was boycotting it anyway, because it’s about dinosaurs. Since then a lot of people have taken to Twitter to express outrage at the very notion of a “pakisaurus”.

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Woody Allen lampooned this kind of stuff, complaining that a gentile acquaintance was pretending to say, “Didjoo?” (Did you) but was in fact spitting “Jew!” at him.
Emily Litella had some trouble with ‘Soviet jewelry’ and some other comic milked “juice”.

A “Pakisaurus” wearing a Confederate flag tee shirt. The entire left has jumped the shark in their risibility.
All we can do is mock them, at least until the GOP-e finally does a groin check and discovers a pair of ‘nads.

[Verginius Rufus]

Alexander definitely got into Pakistan and a short distance into post-1947 India. He defeated the local king Porus at the Hydaspes River (identified with the Jhelum R. in the Punjab), and was forced to turn back at the Hyphasis (Beas) by the Macedonians’ refusal to march further east. That is east of Lahore, Pakistan, inside present-day India. He then took his troops on a river fleet down the Indus River. Some of his troops sailed by sea from the mouth of the river to Mesopotamia while Alexander marched with the rest across the Gedrosian desert.