Re:James Bond books edited to remove racist references
by tsuujin on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:43AM
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It seems more like it’s poking fun at male chauvinism than racial stereotypes.
Re:James Bond books edited to remove racist references
by GenerocUsername on Sunday February 26, 2023 @12:14PM
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Yes but these days it is considered racist to publish ANYTHING that portrays POC in a negative mannor.
It is important for media consumers to only associate POCs with positive attributes
Re:James Bond books edited to remove racist references
by brookst on Sunday February 26, 2023 @12:33PM
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You’re sort of on to something. The idea is that after hundreds of years of having skin color implicitly indicate a whether a character is smart/dumb, good/evil, etc, people are over correcting and not wanting to highlight art that follows old stereotypes, even if the natural distribution of personalities means that realistically some black people will be awful.
In time it will even out. For now people are justifiably not wanting to argue about whether their poorly educated, highly violent, dishonest, obsequious black character is bravely demonstrating that all races can be terrible, and not just a lazy racist stereotype like we’ve seen over and over for the past hundreds of years.
Re:James Bond books edited to remove racist references
by GenerocUsername on Sunday February 26, 2023 @03:53PM
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Exactly. As with all things labeled 'equity' rather 'equallity', we are currently testing if two wrongs do in fact equal a right.
Re:James Bond books edited to remove racist references
by JesusLovesEwe on Sunday February 26, 2023 @12:28PM
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>It is important for media consumers to only associate POCs with positive attributes
They seem equally enthusiastic about ensuring everyone knows how evil Whites are. Chicken or egg situation.
Re:James Bond books edited to remove racist references
by FooBarBizBazz on Sunday February 26, 2023 @12:10PM
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Not disagreeing, but I noticed something: It's funny when we use the word "chauvinism" -- which means "belief in superiority" (whether in a natural "is" sense or a social "ought" sense) -- to instead mean "weakness and thirst".
Re:James Bond books edited to remove racist references
by petodo on Sunday February 26, 2023 @04:48PM
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It is, but I guess censors saw that strip club was in Harlem thus most of the patrons would be black, thus they are called pigs, thus it's racist. Quite a stretch to me, but only explanation why they changed it, unless they have problem with strip club visitors being called pigs which I think it's pretty appropriate even in 2023.
Re:James Bond books edited to remove racist references
by ravenstine on Sunday February 26, 2023 @12:06PM
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And they say that slippery slopes are just a fallacy.
"Another altered scene features Bond visiting Harlem in New York, where a salacious strip tease at a nightclub makes the male crowd, including 007, increasingly agitated.
The original passage read: “Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough. He felt his own hands gripping the tablecloth. His mouth was dry.”
The revised section replaces the pigs reference with: “Bond could sense the electric tension in the room.”
Not exactly sure why would it have different description in any night club, no matter what location (which I didn't even noticed at first).