Posted under Movies & Political Correctness & Race
Norwegian blogger Fjordman on Avatar:
Basically, the white characters [in Avatar] are portrayed as brutal, greedy and insensitive beasts who rape the environment and destroy other cultures with a smile in the search for profit. The main antagonist is the white Colonel Quaritch, a brute who hardly possesses a single positive character trait. The final climax of the movie is when he screams “How does it feel to betray your race?” to the protagonist while he is trying to murder him. Although a few of the white characters such as Jake Sully are portrayed in a more redeeming light this is only because they totally reject their own civilization and join the other team in the fight. In other words: the only good whites are the ones who utterly turn their backs on their own destructive and evil culture. As reviewer Armond White put it, “Avatar is the corniest movie ever made about the white man’s need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.”
Of course, back in the real world whites are among the most self-critical and least ethnocentric people on Earth, and have been so for a long time. Whites are also disproportionately represented in the environmental movement whereas many “diverse” Third World peoples couldn’t care less about the environment. But why let the truth get in the way of making a good anti-white movie? The fact that quite a few among the predominantly white audience cheered for this movie shows that anti-white hatred and stereotypes have become so widespread and accepted that most people cannot even see it, least of all whites themselves.
Update: Here’s Patrick Cleburne’s take on Avatar, which he considers “simply another anti-white diatribe.”
Kirt Higdon on 29 Dec 2009 at 4:22 am #
Avatar is a magnificent and entertaining film; the beauty of its cinematography will set the standard for years to come. I think the plot lends itself to many prejudiced interpretations. Some liberatarians on lewrockwell.com see it as a defense of property rights. Monotheists have criticized it for being a defense of pantheism. So now it is criticized for being anti-white although the American invaders are depicted as including black soldiers.
My own take is that it is based on the white European conquest of North America, but set in a science fiction fantasy future where the Indians are allowed to win. This is an easy and in a sense patronizing film for whites to make. Few of them will leaving for Europe voluntarily or otherwise and the Indians are not going to make a comeback anytime soon. I saw it in a family group of five; three of us (all white) really enjoyed it, one (my oldest son) was more critical, and his girlfriend, racially mixed black and white, was most critical.
roho on 29 Dec 2009 at 12:44 pm #
A pathetic high tech attempt to plagerize “Dancing With Wolves” and “Pocahontis”.
Same old sameold………..Whites should learn from those that created NOTHING.
Bede on 29 Dec 2009 at 2:12 pm #
Cleburne’s observation about the casting:
Weaver on 29 Dec 2009 at 8:05 pm #
Without question it’s an anti-Western film, which I’m not going to see.
I found this interesting:
Tolkien’s Elven language drew on Welsh.
The language of Avatar revealed:
Weaver on 30 Dec 2009 at 2:40 am #
300 dollars to create amazing 4 minute film: Ataque de Pánico!
Apparently it doesn’t cost much to fight the culture war.
Bede on 30 Dec 2009 at 3:07 am #
Weaver is correct, from what I’ve read, about the non-Western influence of the alien language in Avatar.
It annoys me when people in the MSM compare this movie to Tolkien.
Tolkien spent most of his life creating Middle Earth, its languages (influenced by Germanic and Celtic languages), and his stories. He created a uniquely European mythology and devoted 40+ years of his life doing so.
Cameron, on the other hand, had a five-hour roundtable with linguists where they “hammered out” the alien language. This itself tells of the shallowness of this movie.
Shade Law on 02 Jan 2010 at 9:25 pm #
It would seem no one has heard of “Blackwater” and “KBR.” These recent companies (of which OUR Government hired as Military Mercenaries) do exactly as Avatar suggest, leaving OUR real Military in a horrible situation. Sorry, reality is harsher than fantasy any day. It’s no longer about race kind folks, it’s about dignity, respect, and caring about lives. That should go across all color lines, it should, but generally doesn’t. Too bad.
Steve on 03 Jan 2010 at 8:50 pm #
How is “Norm Spellman” intended to be Jewish? The last name “Spellman” is a common English last name. I’d guess 9 out of 10 Spellmans aren’t Jewish, if not more.
John on 03 Feb 2010 at 2:57 am #
At a fundamental level the film is about the “culture” of death versus the culture of life.
It is obvious which side in the film represents the “culture” of death.
Via their critique of the culture of the Navi and their explicit/implicit support of the techno-barbarian invaders, the so called conservative critics, including those who pretend to be religious, are telling the world that they are fully paid up supporters of the “culture” of death