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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

After I saw James Cameron's comments about the Lakota people "if they had a time window they would have simply fought harder against their oppressors" I want him to fuck off forever and never touch a camera or script ever again.

“This was a driving force for me in the writing of Avatar,” Cameron reportedly added. “I couldn’t help but think that if they [the Lakota Sioux] had had a time-window and they could see the future… and they could see their kids committing suicide at the highest suicide rates in the nation… because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society – which is what is happening now – they would have fought a lot harder.”

Like seriously go fuck yourself James.

[–] stinky@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

I get that. Watching what he did during the Abyss was convincing enough for me to say he’s not a good person. He puts his “art” above human life and treating people with dignity.

But I think the quote, charitably speaking, meant how today the indigenous people live a poor life because of the actions of the white suprematist state. I’m somewhat inclined to give him that charity because I know he was there fighting for indigenous rights in Brazil. And there’s the clear pro-indigenous narrative in the Avatar movies. So, it seems like he’s a “white saviour” type at best which is obviously problematic but in a different way than that quote.

And I can be totally wrong about this. I haven’t looked into it anymore than this. Maybe he really feels it’s the indigenous people’s fault they got genocided for not fighting harder. In which case, yeah, get fucked Cameron.

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