With the release of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, the legacy of racism continues to marginalize indigenous people. Is it possible that White Liberals who mean to save indigenous people actually look down on them, and believe that they could never raise themselves from their ‘pitiful’ condition. Is the message of Avatar just racism in blue?
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8 replies on “Avatar, The Way of Whiter: James Cameron’s Savior Complex is Just Racism in Blue”
There’s a theory out there based on modern genetic and archeological studies that suggests that today’s Native Americans were not indigenous. Instead, they hailed from Central Asia during A.D. 25 / 800. Jump ahead to 2:36 for the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aotCCNxgjeY
Skin color is not magical. No one is supreme based upon the amount of melanin in their skin. It’s the heart that breeds prejudice and all other sorts of evil. I’m so over this inane narrative.
That said, I didn’t like the first Avatar movie, so I don’t plan on watching the second. Having a pregnant woman six months along fighting as a warrior is just stupid, so I have no reason to believe the rest of the movie is any good.
Zo’s referral to Indians, or comically, injuns, and even Bill’s reference to Native Americans feels wrong. About 10 years ago, knowing that America and Americans were a name brought to the area and people from Europe, same with the term Indians, I began to call the folks who were here before the “others” came and settled as…. “Indigenous Peoples of this Land Mass”.
It’s a little long and a bit silly, and purposefully so, and I’ll always insert it into a conversation with great emphasis, usually right after a progressive makes a comment about Native Americans.
But having reconsidered the migration across the ice bridge at the Bearing Strait, I’ve come to think that the early peoples of this land mass were just settlers too.
As to Avatar, I won’t see it. James Cameron has enough dollars. How much help in the world, particularly with the homeless in Southern California, or in the IPOTLM communities across America, could he have done with a Billion Movie Production dollars for housing, medical care, long term solutions.
You say “White Supremacy” like it’s a bad thing.
That was a lot of fun, gents. The comment about the different animals together in video only happening due to human intervention is brilliant.
Those Wolf rescue places that bottle feed wolf cubs and then the cub tolerates that specific human makes some people think that wolves will not tear them apart. Fun fact: that bottle fed wolf would tear YOU apart, just not the guy that bonded with him. And not when it is well fed.
Contrarian here. After reading “Guns, Germs, and Steel”, Jared Diamond’s amazingly eye-opening “explanation” of how – essentially – average IQ, average talent, average strength, white Europeans took over the world, it would be difficult not to use people familiar with the battle techniques and tools of warfare who’ve deserted the other side. The culture of the Americas was nearly destroyed by germs way before the military conquest occurred. Smallpox, measles, cholera, and even bird flu tore the civilization apart. When the Spanish came through what used to be near what is now St. Louis, there were remnants of a city that may have had 4 million people and was now deserted. Imagine what the effect illness had on the stratification of jobs in cities, the planting, harvesting, and distribution of food, trade, etc. Illness put the Americas back to tribalism before the militaries of the Europeans/Colonists came through.
Without the help of sympathetic deserters of the invaders, it would be impossible to defend themselves. But there needed to be thousands more.
BTW, horse culture radically altered the war landscape of the plains Indians. Horses were brought over to the Americas from the Spanish. The Comanche mastered the horse and swept through other tribes in a bloody, horrific conquest that rivaled the white man’s.
We’ve always referred to Avatar as Dances with Smurfs.
As a contrarian of long standing, my knee jerk reaction to some loony woman telling me to boycott something because I’m irredeemably racist, is to go out and buy it. But I immediately stop myself because I remember why I decided not to go see Avatar II. It’s because Avatar I (aka Dances with Smurfs) was so so ridiculous. Talk about a lack of imagination – could they really not come up with a better name for a rare element than unobtainium? So virtue signaling Loony Woman is half right; don’t waste your time, but not for the reason she gave.
Dances with Smurfs!!! Love it. Good job I wasn’t drinking tea when I read that (yeah, I know, it’s might be shocking, I’m not drinking tea 100% of the time, just 70/75%).