ghettoperson wrote:
M.O.A.B wrote:
One thing I truly hate is when something occurs in a program, done for comedic effect without any racial intent, and is branded by groups who for some reason establish a connection and call out racism or stereotypes. E.g the twin robots in the new Transformers. That was done for laughs and not racism, yet several people think it was some sort of shot at certain groups, even though they established it was stereotyping (meaning they obviously must have thought of that stereotype as well to point it out).
I dislike racism as much as any person who thinks, but there are cases where one group will get more support or attention for anything deemed slightly racist than another, and that's what I think is wrong. If there's meant to be some whole equality thing going on, all racism needs to be treated the same, whether its done against whites, blacks, asians, hispanics or penguins.
Actual racism though with malicious intent, and not stuff done as banter or for good-hearted jokes (see Blazing Saddles).
If that was meant to be black they didn't do a very good job stereotyping them. I thought they were rednecks.
There was a review I read (can't find it now) but it said they were racist because they spoke in street slang, couldn't read, one had a gold tooth and they apparently looked like gorillas.