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5:48 pm - 01/17/2013

'Zero Dark Thirty makes me hate muslims'

The fil Zero Dark Thirty s now showing in theaters nationwide and reactions are starting to appear on social networks. Here are some collected on the tumblr site dapsandhugs:

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While the film has obviously found its supporters, backlash against i continues to grow. Yesterday, director Kathryn Bigelow defended her film from charges it promotes torture in an Op-Ed for th Los Angeles Times Bigelow claimed artistic license writing, "those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement." While this is obviously true, the film goes further than depiction. As Deepa Kumar wrote he film promotes extra judicial killing and the drone warfare that has become the hallmark of the Obama administration's "war on terror."

More disgusting tweets at Source 1, I don't have anything else to say.

Source 1 , Source 2
elmith 17th-Jan-2013 11:04 pm (UTC)
Well, she could have shown the pakistanis that participated in finding Bin Laden, just saying.
wheresandrae 17th-Jan-2013 11:05 pm (UTC)
You're right. But that wasn't going to keep these racist twats from being racist twats
ediesedgwick 17th-Jan-2013 11:09 pm (UTC)
No, but maybe racist media has something to do with how many people think racism is acceptable and how much racism is normalized in our culture....
ediesedgwick 17th-Jan-2013 11:07 pm (UTC)
IT'S JUST A MOVIE GEEZ! I mean god, you can't just expect a filmmaker who defends herself from controversy with "historical accuracy" to be, like, historically accurate.
winonaforever 17th-Jan-2013 11:09 pm (UTC)
<333
silkchemise 17th-Jan-2013 11:13 pm (UTC)
this
hrhobo 17th-Jan-2013 11:34 pm (UTC)
i don't know if that one guy was supposed to be pakistani, but there was only 1 brown person that worked with/for maya pretty much throughout the whole movie. idk if they ever said his name tho :/ i know bigelow wanted this to be about a woman behind this manhunt, but i wish she did more with him. I mean he did a fuck-load of stuff in the movie, but we never got to know him like we did the white characters.
deja_vu822 18th-Jan-2013 12:14 am (UTC)
i thought she did? i thought that's who the crew who discovered the compound were.
calcified 18th-Jan-2013 12:32 am (UTC)
One of the main characters helping Jessica was brown.......
bellyroomfan 18th-Jan-2013 09:15 pm (UTC)
and so fucking hot! i am sorry, his attractiveness was one of the things that carried me through the movie tbh cause shit was it intense.
cammiec 18th-Jan-2013 12:38 am (UTC)
idk, she did show all those people taking notes of the car that lead to bin Laden's compound
lovefifteen 18th-Jan-2013 06:20 am (UTC)
yeah, the movie showed that a TON of ppl were informants and helping the US as well...ppl choose what they want to see and remember. it's not like these idiots walked into zdt and came out prejudiced
michelleantonia 18th-Jan-2013 10:00 am (UTC)
haha THISSSSS
omgmar 19th-Jan-2013 06:43 am (UTC)
a+
mjspice 18th-Jan-2013 12:22 pm (UTC)
Even if they did, these idiots still won't know the difference between a Pakistani & Arab. XP
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