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I’m donating money to Continue the ST Timeline charity lol
Definitely qualifies as misuse
I’m donating money to Continue the ST Timeline charity lol
What would you call US actions in Afghanistan though? "white hero battles evil natives and enables the saving of enslaved native children" pretty much described the US/European allies and Taliban didn't it?
And what's happening right now on that front in terms of the US/allies withdrawal and Afghan govt's ability to hold off the Taliban as aid groups and many Afghan people are nervous about withdrawl - "ineptitude or inability of natives to help themselves, especially so since the villagers plead with him for his help."
There's this whole thing around the "white savior" but we didn't see any black or brown saviors (inclduing in the region) rushing in to help Afghan civilians or those girls who wanted school, right?
So should Indy have stayed home? Maybe in this woke era, he, and in the real world the US and the West generally, should. Maybe people would rather have no help than a white savior?
Indiana Jones: We weren't brought here. Our plane crashed.
Willie: [nodding and smiling] It crashed.
Shaman of Maypore: [laughing] No, no, no. We prayed to Shiva to help us find the stone. It was Shiva who made you fall from sky. So you will go to Pankot Palace... and find Shivalinga... and bring back to us. Bring back to us. Bring back to us.
Willie: [about the Sankara Stone] You could have kept it.
Indiana Jones: Nah, it would of just been another rock collecting dust.
Willie: Yeah, but it would have given you your fortune and glory.
Holy crap, I never even thought of that.
I just thought the idol was considered, lost, so Indy, the good natured hero, found it. I never considered the idea that the natives knew the location of the idol and just left it alone because it was protected by the traps and because it was where it belonged. Oh dear. See, this is why you can't overanalyze these things.
He took the dart. Crude but effective. He thought of the Hovitos, their legendary fierceness, their historic attachment to the Temple. They were superstitious enough to stay away from the Temple itself, but definitely jealous enough to kill anybody else who went there.
Indy looked in the direction of the warriors. "And the Hovitos expect you to hand the idol over to them?"
"Quite," Belloq said.
Indy laughed. "Naive of them."
"As you say," Belloq remarked. "If only you spoke their language, you could advise them otherwise, of course."
Belloq: Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away. And you thought I'd given up.
[Indy reaches for his gun, but pauses and hands over his gun when the warriors draw back their weapons]
Belloq: You chose the wrong friends. This time it will cost you.
Indiana: Too bad the Hovitos don't know you the way I do, Belloq.
[hands over the prized idol to Belloq]
Belloq: Yes, too bad. You could warn them... if only you spoke Hovitos.
Laughable.No one has a problem with natural organic diversity what they have a problem with is forced diversity huge difference.
Just go back to Leia, Marion, Ripley, Sarah Connor, Lewis (Robocop), female warriors in Road Warrior, Turner in Beyond Thunderdome, Laurie Halloween, Alice F13th part 1 I can keep going, Arnold in Different Strokes lol to see it done right.
I can tell you as a brasilian arab I don’t need you or anyone else protecting my feelings when Arnold in True Lies takes out terrorist arabs.
It’s ridiculous Cameron won’t release that movie for that stupid reason.
I’m not saying your intentions are bad but please stop worrying about protecting me I am perfectly capable of defending myself and that is something I don’t need protection from.
I don’t need my established movie heroes to look or be like me that’s freaking boring I want them to be who they are so Luke, Superman, Lando, Blade, and Ripley are perfect as they are!
I don’t need Arnold from Different Strokes to be a white female kid he is perfect as he is.
That’s natural organic diversity.
I had no idea that Indy recovered the fertility idol later on. It must have been in a novel or comic?
So the descendants got their idol back, but Indy defeated them all to give it back to the museum. Damn.
and we definetly do not need statues of people in history that supported segregation , slavery or any other types of suppression. Those statues were put in place as reminders of people who fought for slavery, and to keep that thought in the heads of the people whom had to walk by it daily.....to remind them that they are surrounded by people whom would glorify those days.... it’s nonsense. Why are there no statues of the slaves whom suffered during that time? Only the leaders and soldiers whom defended (and lost) those ideals.
Spoiler:If you take it to the extreme you'd have to knock down many of the great buildings in the western world, because they were built on the proceeds from slavery. The same would apply to the Middle East too.
Should the rest of the Colosseum in Rome be demolished because it was a place where murder and animal cruelty took place for public spectacle?
The concentration camps remain as reminders of the evil that people are capable of.
I think the statues of the likes of slavers should remain, but clearly marked for who they were. Not as memorials to great people, but warnings from history that these things should not be tolerated again. They become symbols of disgrace, rather than glory.
History is messy.
We look back at it now with our accumulated knowledge and judgment based on ethics, and it's hard to understand how the Roman Empire, as highly civilised as it was, allowed itself to be so brutal. Likewise with the British Empire, or the building of the United States.
The hope is that we learn from the atrocities of the past. Though I don't put much hope on that because humans revert too easily to values we thought should've been banished.
Germany had no statues of Hitler because they know it’s inappropriate.
There was a more specific reason for that, and it's the same reason why there was no tomb. In 1945 the Allies, and likely most Germans by then, didn't want there to be any focal point for a rebirth of Nazi ideology. No memorials for the man who, at the end, ordered the destruction of Berlin out of spite because he blamed the people for his own failure.
Laughable.
The people whom worry about SJW will NEVER allownatural diversity.....the instant a female or a person of color shows up in a film TRAILER as a major character the usual suspects already dumping on it and claiming forced diversity......and cancel culture.
it’s all over the place all the time.
But we have dedicated Statue sections in this Forum.
Knock them over. Bust them to pieces in your home. Spray paint them. Be ashamed of them. There is no place for these symbols of toxic masculinity such as Indiana Jones, Luke Skywalker, etc.
Knock them over. Bust them to pieces in your home. Spray paint them. Be ashamed of them. There is no place for these symbols of toxic masculinity such as Indiana Jones....
Compared to Indy, 50 is still young. To put it in perspective, Short Round is in his 50's.Which is worse having older than KOTCS Indy fight a bad guy his age or a young big bad guy.
When I say young he can still be in his 40s which is still super young when compared to Indy lol
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