Avatar: Glorious or Racist Schlock?
Culture Gabfest
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Is This the Most Racist Movie or Titanic?
"I was furious coming out of it, just furious about how high in its own supply this movie seemed," says Roxanne Jones. "The idea that these native people are existing a primitive state and therefore pre-technological state ... It's entirely a white colonial projection onto non-European, non-industrial peoples", she adds. 'This whole three plus hour movie is him learning that one eight minute lesson,' asks CNN Films' John Defterios. "[Avatar] can't really be seen as an avatar for blue people anymore because now he's a blue person among other blue people who meet up with the teal people.'
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