INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM: Short Round Actor Ke Huy Quan Hits Back At Claims The Movie Is Racist

@Matchesz - most of those female characters you have a problem with are probably older than you. Feels like you are the one searching to be offended

@OmegaDaGrodd - People also gotta be mature and honest enough to realize that noone [frick]ing knows what is and isn't offensive or racist, as these things are not at all carved in stone and there is no universally accepted consensus nor could there ever be one. Sensibilities are wildly different, highly controversial and ALWAYS change. They change from person to person, from place to place and obviously they change over time. Even just today people can't make up their minds whether words like "queer" or "latinx" are highly offensive or super progressive, because obviously there is no universal truth to it.

That's why I think it's important to ALWAYS view things in context, including the time it's from, and to go by intention rather than tropes or stereotypes. And no, I don't think that Temple of Doom was intended to express the belief that ethnicity decides a persons traits or superiority/inferiority to others, which is the actual definition of racism.

Treating racism as some convenient throwaway buzzword to condemn people doesn't do anything to fix the issue, but instead ensures that society will continue to give power to labels such as ethnicity. And that effectively stops us from ever coming to terms with our past and ourselves.

@OmegaDaGrodd - No one cares about your self righteous stance, as a half black half Egyptian minority get over yourself, I love all that old shit, they don't offend me because I know it's a different time and I'm able to understand that it's just a movie filmed & written within the parameters of its time 🤷🏾‍♂️

@Shmokey20 -

1. You cared enough about my stance to write an entire paragraph about it, so maybe investigate that contradiction

2. Nothing about my comment has anything to do with being "offended" or even loving stuff with racism in it, and funny enough, you seem to be fully aware that the stuff had racism in it, but you don't want to use the word so you tip toe around that by calling it "a movie filmed & written within the parameters of its time"

Own it, brother

@Drace24 -

"People also gotta be mature and honest enough to realize that noone [frick]ing knows what is and isn't offensive or racist"

Bud, PLENTY of people understand what is and isn't racist in many many different forms of context. More importantly, we as a society have progressed to the point where you can consult countless sources to understand the implications and effects of how different races are portrayed. All anyone has to do is do the work, hope for the best and most importantly, be ready to apologize if they miss the mark

And that last bit is the kicker, because all you have to do is glance around this very comment section to see that most people you're likely to label as "not knowing" what's racist are the very people who don't like to acknowledge racism, and are far more interested in broadly dismissing claims of its existence than actively doing the work to understand it, because if they acknowledged and understood it they would feel compelled to apologize for enjoying it or things with it, as well as perhaps even feeling the need to apologize for furthering it in some way shape or form. No one wants to admit they were wrong or that they were ignorant of something

@OmegaDaGrodd - "Bud, PLENTY of people understand what is and isn't racist in many many different forms of context."

And who exactly are these enlightened beings that possess impossible knowledge? And why have they not yet managed to publish a guideline for political correctness that everyone, even within minorities, can agree with?

"More importantly, we as a society have progressed to the point where you can consult countless sources to understand the implications and effects of how different races are portrayed."

Yeah, sources written by individuals. That are always contradicted by other individuals who all have their own opinions. And of course they do. That's how people work! By nature we don't agree on anything because no matter what label you attach to us, we'll never be one and the same. That's what diversity means! All people are different people. No group is a hive-mind. And no one person, even if it's some professor with a book deal or a self-appointed "ally" with a social media following gets to speak for an entire group. Not even individual members of that group get to speak for their entire group.

"All anyone has to do is do the work, hope for the best and most importantly, be ready to apologize if they miss the mark"

*sigh* ...Okay. As a member of several minorities who has frequently been on the receiving end of abuse from my own supposed allies who talk just like this, can I just say what complete and utter self-indulgent horseshit that is?
Sure, fixing a world with 8 billion people, each with their own opinions and unique emotional baggage, is that easy! Navigating the increasingly complex minefield of social interactions is such a breeze, really! You just need to follow these 10 simple steps and you too can be all!

Everyone who thinks that has either not grasped the true nature of the issue at hand or is only in it for the self-patting or both. It is a gross oversimplification designed not to achieve social progress, but to provide a solution that seems easy and convenient and to make you feel better/superior to others who don't use it. It's like these "as seen on TV ads" but for white guilt.
I'm disabled. Do you think I know how to fix ableism? Do you think I could objectively identify what is and isn't ableism? Of course not! I only know that I disagree quite often with people who claim that they do. The things I've read that are supposedly politically correct ways to talk to disabled people are honestly just patronizing and merely a different way to be insulting. And I know not everyone will agree with me - and that's the point!

"all you have to do is glance around this very comment section to see that most people you're likely to label as "not knowing" what's racist are the very people who don't like to acknowledge racism"

Nice of you to assume what I'm "likely" to argue. But the strawmanning aside, I'm not arguing that racism isn't real. I'm arguing that there is no *objective* truth to what is and isn't racist, which is a fundamentally subjective question. And people who treat it as if it weren't are very much part of the problem. They may not be racist, but they sure as shit aren't tolerant either.

@GeneralZod - he's a faux progressive keyboard warrior. Spare yourself.

@AnthonyVonGeek - Cultists live to be offended, the movie's age has nothing to do with it.

@TanukiTrooper - What was racist in Temple of Doom? It's been a long time since I've seen it.