Current Events > Dodgeball is a classic film, but is it also really racist?

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lilORANG
03/17/24 6:44:46 PM
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There's a team called the kamekazes led by Toyota Suzuki and they wear sumo diapers and slap each other's bellies and then there's a team called Skillz that Killz which is black dudes in baggy tracksuits who lose bc they are too busy breakdancing.

Oh, and all the lesbian jokes

Solid flick tho.

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Rosstin316
03/17/24 6:46:01 PM
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Product of its time.

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Jagr_68
03/17/24 6:46:36 PM
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Topic is about as useful as a cock flavored lollipop.

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SauI_Goodman
03/17/24 6:47:11 PM
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Is op gonna say back to the future is racist for "the jits" aka fujitsu-san.

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AceVanquish
03/17/24 6:47:47 PM
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released before Resident Evil 5, so its over

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LukaDoncic77
03/17/24 6:48:44 PM
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are people really this soft where they find every little thing offensive?
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Punished_Blinx
03/17/24 6:51:04 PM
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If you can dodge racism accusations you can dodge a ball

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bigtiggie23
03/17/24 6:52:45 PM
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The Milfs team in the tournament should've had some screentime.

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Rosstin316
03/17/24 6:56:47 PM
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Oh thats me grabbing the bull by the horns, its the approach I take to business. Its a metaphor.
Oh I get it.
But that actually happened.

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radical_rhino
03/17/24 7:01:07 PM
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Baseketball did it first.

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lilORANG
03/17/24 7:01:17 PM
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That visual gag when White opens the briefcase

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Naysaspace
03/17/24 7:01:57 PM
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lets erase all media that doesn't conform to 2024 standards! --some crazy person somewhere, unironically

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ANort
03/17/24 7:02:05 PM
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Punished_Blinx posted...
If you can dodge racism accusations you can dodge a ball
I read this in his voice.

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mybbqrules
03/17/24 7:05:17 PM
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Rosstin316 posted...
Product of its time.
This.

The early 2000's were really something.

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mybbqrules
03/17/24 7:06:04 PM
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Naysaspace posted...
lets erase all media that doesn't conform to 2024 standards! --some crazy person somewhere, unironically
Not what was said, but keep outing yourself.

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DD_Divine
03/17/24 7:15:06 PM
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lilORANG posted...
That visual gag when White opens the briefcase

at the time my good buddy was working at a bank and especially liked that joke.

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SauI_Goodman
03/17/24 7:17:09 PM
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ANort posted...
I read this in his voice.
*throws racism at nerdy kid*
*nerdy kid doesn't even attempt to dodge, gets hit in the face*

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lilORANG
03/17/24 7:58:17 PM
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Hey crotch stain

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jediknight0056
03/17/24 8:11:38 PM
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Suzuki Toyota Oshinawa***
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McMarbles
03/17/24 8:12:35 PM
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Naysaspace posted...
lets erase all media that doesn't conform to 2024 standards! --some crazy person somewhere, unironically
You can like something while acknowledging that some aspects of it have aged like warm mayonnaise.

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archizzy
03/17/24 8:14:42 PM
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LukaDoncic77 posted...
are people really this soft where they find every little thing offensive?

Yes.

When I talk about some of the favorite films of my youth in the 80's you would be surprised how many people call many of those movies problematic and denounce them now like they are the scourge of the Earth. They even put warnings on before the movies on some cable channels now before playing them. i wouldn't be shocked to see them completely pulled in my lifetime.

Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, Porky's, the list goes on and on. People shit all over these now and get mad because people still like them.

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Irony
03/17/24 8:17:10 PM
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No because the Skillz That Kill team had a white guy

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ItsNotA2Mer
03/17/24 8:18:31 PM
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Jagr_68 posted...
Topic is about as useful as a cock flavored lollipop.

*fans self furiously* Oooh, tell me more...

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lilORANG
03/17/24 8:27:41 PM
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You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?

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cjsdowg
03/17/24 8:32:50 PM
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Besides the Creepy stuff White Goodman saved more lives than that gym don't really give shit about their people getting healthy .

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Torgo
03/17/24 8:33:54 PM
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Some of what people think is over-sensitivity is just changing tastes.

I never found HEY LOOK AT STEREOTYPE ASIAN HAHA! - to be that funny.

It's just a lazy gag that no longer works in a modern movie because Asians are not "exotic outsiders" like they were to the majority western white American audience in eras past.

So my take it I am against removing and re-editing movies to change gags and elements that "haven't aged well" but I see no reason to demand we keep using the same lazy and out of touch gags in new movies as a means to virtue signal.

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lilORANG
03/17/24 8:58:37 PM
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Get in there nice and deep like

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Voidgolem
03/17/24 9:00:54 PM
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Humor was different back then. Not good. Not Bad. Just different.

It probably wouldn't have done particularly well today

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thronedfire2
03/17/24 9:02:20 PM
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it reminds me of shaolin soccer

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ellis123
03/17/24 9:04:49 PM
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archizzy posted...
Yes.

When I talk about some of the favorite films of my youth in the 80's you would be surprised how many people call many of those movies problematic and denounce them now like they are the scourge of the Earth. They even put warnings on before the movies on some cable channels now before playing them. i wouldn't be shocked to see them completely pulled in my lifetime.

Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, Porky's, the list goes on and on. People shit all over these now and get mad because people still like them.
Then don't get so offended just because someone points it out.

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trappedunderice
03/17/24 9:05:18 PM
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Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because its sterile and I like the taste.
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ellis123
03/17/24 9:05:43 PM
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trappedunderice posted...
Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because its sterile and I like the taste.
Better be safe than sorry.

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archizzy
03/17/24 9:06:11 PM
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ellis123 posted...
Then don't get so offended just because someone points it out.

I'm not offended. It's just something as an avid movie watcher that I have noticed popping up more and more lately. I just took note of it. It doesn't offend me.

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Guide
03/17/24 9:06:37 PM
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Racial jokes aren't inherently against the race in question.

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archizzy
03/17/24 9:07:56 PM
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Also, there are a lot of parts of Dodgeball I like but to me one of the best things that brought an honest to goodness chuckle was David Hasselhoff yelling at the German team. If you know the background info about him being super popular in Germany I thought it was pretty funny.

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ellis123
03/17/24 9:09:18 PM
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archizzy posted...
I'm not offended. It's just something as an avid movie watcher that I have noticed popping up more and more lately. I just took note of it. It doesn't offend me.
Then the answer was actually "no." Just because someone is pointing out something problematic doesn't mean they are offended, as you have just observed.

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LukaDoncic77
03/18/24 5:18:08 AM
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McMarbles posted...
You can like something while acknowledging that some aspects of it have aged like warm mayonnaise.

apparently you cant because if you do like it, you too are also racist/misogynist, etc.
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Dark_Arbron
03/18/24 5:24:29 AM
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LukaDoncic77 posted...
apparently you cant because if you do like it, you too are also racist/misogynist, etc.

I have yet to see an accusation of this nature levied at me because of some old movie I like because it happens to have a racist or sexist joke in it. We all know it happened. We shrug and move on.

I like Dirty Harry and Gran Torino. No one calls me racist (or in DHs case, fascist) for it.

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YugiNoob
03/18/24 5:36:55 AM
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I'm full Japanese and don't take offense to the Kamikazes. Some people might, but meh, I find that I'm much happier not being offended by anything related to my race.

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LeoRavus
03/18/24 5:38:35 AM
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That was around the time Chappelle Show was blowing up and full on SJW mode hadn't switched on yet. Honestly white people are more offended by this kind of shit than the races in question. Native Americans don't even mind being called Indians.

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Notti
03/21/24 7:48:37 AM
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Don't play Mike tysons punch out, arcade edition

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ffmasterjose
03/21/24 7:53:49 AM
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They must masturbate alot Cotton!
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Sufferedphoenix
03/23/24 12:52:59 AM
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Dark_Arbron posted...
I have yet to see an accusation of this nature levied at me because of some old movie I like because it happens to have a racist or sexist joke in it. We all know it happened. We shrug and move on.

I like Dirty Harry and Gran Torino. No one calls me racist (or in DHs case, fascist) for it.

Wasn't gran torino actually a anti racist message. Clints character starts off racist but that kid and by extension his family grows on him.

Watch some of the special features on the DVD if you got it. Clint has a segment on talking their people and culture and how they went out of their way to get real people from that culture instead of actors that where just passable looking

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Robot2600
03/23/24 12:54:26 AM
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it's just dodgeball bruh

i dont think dodgeball: the film is the problem

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Weezy_Tha_Don
03/23/24 1:11:13 AM
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cram it up your cram hole tc

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k1zzl3_82
03/23/24 2:06:57 AM
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I think if anything it was offensive to pirates

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Phenomenal_one
03/23/24 2:27:01 AM
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LukaDoncic77 posted...
are people really this soft where they find every little thing offensive?

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Bass_X0
03/23/24 2:39:20 AM
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Naysaspace posted...
lets erase all media that doesn't conform to 2024 standards! --some crazy person somewhere, unironically

2020s media we think is acceptable today wont conform to 2050s standards.

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