Hi there,
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ccr1633 — 9 years ago(April 06, 2016 07:33 PM)
cma-billings wrote:
The issue is that racism isn't just about hateful portrayals and comments and discrimination towards a racial group. By having white actors made up to play other races, it perpetuates the issue that is denying actors who are actually of that race from obtaining roles for the same.
Rubbish. Nobody would have been as funny in this part as Peter Sellers. He was the best actor for the job.
Social Justice Warriors need to settle on their definition of racism. SJW's are fond of the bogus definition that only those with "power" can be racist. This of course is a smoke screen to give black Americans (this phony definition was invented in the USA) carte blanche to be as racist as they wish without repercussions. The British empire was out of India by the time this film was made, and Indians in England weren't particularly marginalized, so Sellers playing a coconut wasn't racist. Q.E.D. -
Underdog_73 — 9 years ago(May 20, 2016 10:08 PM)
Is Peter Sellers playing an Indian, racist?
No.
No offense, but the question doesn't really deserve more of an answer (though I'm about to blather on). Racism requires the belief that one's race is superior. Do you see that happening here? At the very least, there also needs to be some kind of discrimination or prejudice. That also isn't happening.
Again, no offense, but people need to stop throwing around the term racism when they have no clue what it means.
Nowadays, people want to inflame the masses by crying racism where none exists. Just because you may incorrectly find something insulting, distasteful, offensive, or disrespectful, it doesn't mean it's racist.
By the way, nothing in the film is insulting, distasteful, offensive, or disrespectful toward other races.
I'm curious why you would even ask such a question. Again, nothing about this is racist, but I'm at a loss as to what you could possibly interpret as insulting. You should really take a minute and reevaluate some of your opinions and beliefs. Finding discrimination where none exists is what keeps it alive. That's all people like you accomplish. No offense.
Let me guess, you also find Apu from The Simpsons a racist interpretation? I say this sarcastically, yet hope it's not true. Again, at worst it would be discriminatory, though it's not.