UP is wonderful, Up is emotional, UP is....racist?
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The place for intelligent communication is not Youtube. I decided a long time ago that Youtube is Troll central.
Its as racist as you want it to be. If you actively look for a specific context, you'll find it.
Like my boot up your ass: Some find it offensive, others call it a first date.
Assuming its offensive makes it offensive, asking me about my opinion before filling in the blanks will fix that. Ofcourse it might be ment offensive afterall, but you won't know for sure if you don't ask first.
My guess is that this racism statement is based on that person reading an article on WWII where Disney had connections with Nazi Germany which is the ultimate proof that everything Disney is racist ofcourse.... see what I just did there?
If you'd stop and think about everything you say just for a day you'd realize that you'll make more assumptions than you'd be aware of....dammit! see what I just did there... again!
See how easy it is to fill in the blanks of others?
I'll shut up now.
Like my boot up your ass: Some find it offensive, others call it a first date.
Assuming its offensive makes it offensive, asking me about my opinion before filling in the blanks will fix that. Ofcourse it might be ment offensive afterall, but you won't know for sure if you don't ask first.
My guess is that this racism statement is based on that person reading an article on WWII where Disney had connections with Nazi Germany which is the ultimate proof that everything Disney is racist ofcourse.... see what I just did there?
If you'd stop and think about everything you say just for a day you'd realize that you'll make more assumptions than you'd be aware of....dammit! see what I just did there... again!
See how easy it is to fill in the blanks of others?
I'll shut up now.
OK, you really have to go out of your way to see UP as racist.Jarcin said:
Most of these points of comments that are listed don't even make sense! Of course the dog is going to call the guy his master, he's a dog! The fact that that guy thinks the dog is suppost to represent black people just seems that he's trying to make the movie racist.
And the guy who says the kid is suppost to represent China helping us across the street, what is this, the 1800s? That sounds more like a political cartoon than racism. A little news flash for that guy, AMERICA DOES ACTUALLY OWE CHINA MONEY! The fact that he's sees that as racist makes me think that he's the one being racist here. Besides, I'm pretty sure that disney wasn't trying to make that kind of statement in a kid's movie.
And another thing, if your trying to say something was racist, try to confirm against what race. I'm pretty sure that the nurse he thought was Mexican is just white with a bad haircut (I could be wrong about that). And he doesn't even know if the kid is suppost to be chinese, japanese, or korean (I'm positive he wasn't north korean). Now, correct me if I'm wrong but that seems more racist than what he was trying to point out as racist.
He would do Al Sharpton proud finding racism in things that really aren't. People find sexual things in Disney movies (though in The Rescuers there is indeed a part that shows a topless woman for 2 non-sequential frames in a window while the heroes are riding on the back of a bird).
They're youtube comments. You should always take them with a bucketful full of salt, maybe even some cocaine.
The point isn't to make sense, the point is to troll the living hell out of everyone.
The point isn't to make sense, the point is to troll the living hell out of everyone.
.....Fail. All of those people just failed. I'm pretty sure it was an elaborate troll, but even if it wasn't they can get over themselves and maybe make an effort to end their narcissism and do something productive with their lives.
It didn't pop into you're head because you are a sane reasonable person. The racism that this moron probably sees everywhere exists only in his paranoid mind. The funny thing is he probably wouldn't know real racism if it was staring him in the face, like it is all the f-ing time whenever he looks in the mirror.
Ok i'll give you a quick heads up, if you say X people are Y, thats racist. This is because you are generalizing on a race of people. Even if you qualify it by saying "a lot of x people", its still generalizing. Now if you're giving a specific example thats fine, but it doesn't tell us anything about black people, nor could it.Yoshemo said:
Obvious, but can never be repeated enough:
I am well aware that anyone can be racist, and we probably all are to some degree. And the original YouTube commenter the OP quoted is clearly a conspiracy theorist who probably sees Casper the Friendly Ghost as KKK propaganda. But these angry white guys always argue that "why is it okay for blacks, Hispanics, etc. to celebrate their culture, but not white people?" It's because they have a culture. Whereas these deluded fools think that millions of people sharing a lack of melanin is some sort of basis for a "culture".
If you want to be proud of being German, Polish, Greek, Irish, Norwegian--or even American, go right ahead. But white's just a skin colour.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and 100-150 years ago there were Irish-Americans (AKA "micks"), German-Americans (AKA "krauts"), Polish-Americans (AKA "polacks"), Italian-Americans (AKA "wops")--oh wait, they're all still there.
What the hell is white culture? There's Irish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Italian, French and Welsh culture, among others. But what the hell is white culture?
It's my understanding that in most English-speaking nations of the developed world, Chambers of Commerce are voluntary networks formed by businesses that want to be members. So private business interests pay for it. My late uncle was the president of the local Italian-Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Guess what--all the members were white.Dragunai said:
Why would you want to be proud of your skin colour, which is ultimately an accident of birth? What the hell is this "white culture" these people are yelling about?
I am well aware that anyone can be racist, and we probably all are to some degree. And the original YouTube commenter the OP quoted is clearly a conspiracy theorist who probably sees Casper the Friendly Ghost as KKK propaganda. But these angry white guys always argue that "why is it okay for blacks, Hispanics, etc. to celebrate their culture, but not white people?" It's because they have a culture. Whereas these deluded fools think that millions of people sharing a lack of melanin is some sort of basis for a "culture".
If you want to be proud of being German, Polish, Greek, Irish, Norwegian--or even American, go right ahead. But white's just a skin colour.
Ad that that talking dog is absolutely hilarious and you've got UP. I seriously loved that movie and mostly anything else Pixar has made.Nintendolover222 said:
Sometimes a dog calling his master for master is simply a dog, sometimes a dog calling his master master is a symbol that he's a dog, in the last scenario it usually involves that the dog is a dog.
Youtube is the place where you go to see retards with web connection, an urge to swear and poor grammar.
Funnily enough, people have tried to prove that Disney is the work of the devil. So, accusing Pixar of racist overtones is like throwing a toothpick at a tank. I don't know where these crazy people come from, but none of 'em appear to have affected Disney in any way at all.
I'm pretty sure Up is about as innocent as it gets. But then, some people spot racism in everything. Because some people are fucking retarded.
But you see I'm being racist there because when I say 'some' I really mean 'black' because I'm an evil racist, of course! /retarded conspiracy theory
Anyone badmouthing Pixar needs a good ol' treatment of sledgehammer to the knees. No one messes with my Pixar!
But you see I'm being racist there because when I say 'some' I really mean 'black' because I'm an evil racist, of course! /retarded conspiracy theory
Anyone badmouthing Pixar needs a good ol' treatment of sledgehammer to the knees. No one messes with my Pixar!
I say people are looking WAY too deeply into these things. This is disney and pixar we're talking about, not some indie producer trying to make a name for themselves. Dug calls Muntz and Carl master...I don't know, maybe cause he's a DOG? It wouldn't be a stretch to think that a dog who can talk would call their owner master, especially when the previous owner was an authoritative explorer. The idea of Russel representing China and Kevin South American is a stretch that would break the worlds biggest rubber band. Russel is a boy scout knock off trying to earn a merit badge so he can see his father again [something I kinda wish the movie had done a bit better, though I guess Carl makes for the father figure], and Kevin is a freakin bird, a mother bird trying to protect her children. Call that representing something but it sure isn't racism.
As much as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the beast resides there too.
Wanna know who else is racist? the answer is simple, renegade419
What if there really are no undertones and the movie really is just good clean fun? renegade419 may just be seeing his own interpretation of it all and in so doing makes it as racist as he feels it is.
Its like when some colored people will retort to any sort of negativity from a white man and say he's being racist when he could just have a valid reason to be negative regarding a subject.
renegade419 needs to lighten UP
Wanna know who else is racist? the answer is simple, renegade419
What if there really are no undertones and the movie really is just good clean fun? renegade419 may just be seeing his own interpretation of it all and in so doing makes it as racist as he feels it is.
Its like when some colored people will retort to any sort of negativity from a white man and say he's being racist when he could just have a valid reason to be negative regarding a subject.
renegade419 needs to lighten UP