This morning, as I was Twittering about the Twitterverse, a blogger that I follow and actually enjoy reading his articles on the WWE made a comment that I responded to:
Now I’m not one to tolerate shitty movies made by shitty people so when I recognized the Avatar: The Last Airbender reference, I replied (humorously I thought) with:
Apparently that’s racist while referring to an Asian basketball player as part of a mythical tribe of Fire wizards is not. I still don’t see the racism, but Mr. Stroud did.
See? Tired and Super Racist. This man is not only a blogger, but he’s an enlightened man who knows racism the moment he imagines it. Am I the only person who actually listened to any 50′s and 60′s Rock N Roll music in my life? Rama Lama Ding Dong never was and can never be a racial slur. It was in a freakin’ stupid song. Here, listen for yourself:
I defy you to find anything racist about that song. Making fun of someone’s name is simply that. It’s not hertiage based, I honestly couldn’t tell you where the bastard who ruins potentially good movies is from, I thought he was American born of Middle Eastern descent, but in looking it up I’ve found that he’s actually Indian. And a Hindu and probably a really decent person in his own right.
He’s just a terrible director. So, Mr. Stroud, if my making fun of his name labels me culturally stupid or racist in your mind, maybe you just need to relax a little bit and quit championing causes that don’t need champions. I didn’t say anything of the man’s heritage, upbringing, culture or color. I made fun of his name. Stroud doesn’t lend itself to too many little plays on words, so I can’t play with yours, but mine? Mothershead. Grow up with that name and see how many different variations of Mother Fucker you come across in 37 years.
And nobody was being racist. Nor were they being culturally stupid as you so eloquently put it. They were picking on my name being stupid sounding, period. I’ll leave it up to my comment section to let me know if seeing “M Night Shamalamadingdong” seems raycess to them.
