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Topic	Marvel's Iron Fist show is taking a beating from critics [netflix]
Eddv 03/09/17 3:15:52 PM #81:	scarletspeed7 posted... Eddv posted... scarletspeed7 posted... That made no sense as a sentence or as a concept. Point blank? Iron Fist is a kinda racist archetype. heroic white karate guy beats up evil asian karate guys - its racist, no way around it. People put up with it because hes established beyond the archetype at this point within the comics. But this is a lot of viewers first foray with Danny, so they have no reason to put up with it, which is something some reviewers have chosen not to do. How is it racist that a white guy fights bad guys who HAPPEN to be Asian? This is why you can't just tell a cool story anymore. Why does the race matter? Here's why: it doesn't. If the story isn't presenting some form of racial bias (and it doesn't), then just chill the f*** out. Because it is. Race matters because we can't escape the context in which we live that race matters - in fact it matters more now than it did 30 years ago because we talk about it a lot more. That's how society and art work they can't be divorced from one another because by nature they inform one another. You could tell this story unproblematically if there werent such major issues of race ravaging our society. But there are. So its racially problematic if not out and out racist and that's going to be a legitimate criticism. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason http://i.imgur.com/chXIw06.jpg <cite>Eddv posted [p:874734825] in Marvel's I... [t:75088073]...</cite> <quote> <cite>scarletspeed7 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Eddv posted...</cite> <quote><cite>scarletspeed7 posted...</cite> <quote>That made no sense as a sentence or as a concept.</quote> Point blank? Iron Fist is a kinda racist archetype. heroic white karate guy beats up evil asian karate guys - its racist, no way around it. People put up with it because hes established beyond the archetype at this point within the comics. But this is a lot of viewers first foray with Danny, so they have no reason to put up with it, which is something some reviewers have chosen not to do.</quote> How is it racist that a white guy fights bad guys who HAPPEN to be Asian? This is why you can't just tell a cool story anymore. Why does the race matter? Here's why: it doesn't. If the story isn't presenting some form of racial bias (and it doesn't), then just chill the f*** out.</quote> Because it is. Race matters because we can't escape the context in which we live that race matters - in fact it matters more now than it did 30 years ago because we talk about it a lot more. That's how society and art work they can't be divorced from one another because by nature they inform one another. You could tell this story unproblematically if there werent such major issues of race ravaging our society. But there are. So its racially problematic if not out and out racist and that's going to be a legitimate criticism. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason http://i.imgur.com/chXIw06.jpg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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