1) Benedict Cumberbatch gave a phenomenal performance as Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek: Into Darkness.
2) The casting of a white man as Khan Noonien Singh in 2013 is HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC.
3) Both of these things can be true at the same time.
4) No, really; they can.
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Star Trek XII: Chekov Develops An Ulcer
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Wrath of Khan is a great movie, Ricardo Montalbán is a great actor, but using a Latino actor to portray an (in cannon) Indian Sikh character is appropriative.That said, as I said in the post that you’ve read in great detail “but given the whole immigration quota thing at the time, it would’ve been near impossible to get an Indian actor to play Khan, and it was tremendously progressive for its time”. Wrath of Khan is not a perfect movie. Khan is a great villain, but I was definitely made uncomfortable by the whole “big, bad, brown guy” trope.
Assuming you are the same anon as the one who posed the last two questions, I am wondering what your endgame is. You seem to be trying to corner me, but this is perhaps because your anonymous questions translate abrasively over the Internet. I am not trying to make this conversation private to hide whatever shameful claim I have made. If I’ve said something untoward, by all means call me out on it. However, I would appreciate a de-anon’d conversation for the sake of civility on both ends. Thanks.
Yes, effectively, I do have white passing privilege because I’m light-skinned. I’ve never denied that. I tend to get questions once people hear my first/full name.
Mi papá tiene 47 años= my dad is 47 years old
Mi papa tiene 47 anos= my potato has 47 assholes
I love spanish
A capital letter changes it even further:
Mi Papa tiene 47 anos = My pope has 47 anuses
literally the best post I have seen on this website
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THIS SCENE WAS LITERALLY THE TEXTBOOK DEFINITION
#you know it’s bad when you’re less progressive than a show from the 60’s
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Amazing.
“I keep a diary of all my thoughts and most of the time I don’t even think about what I’m writing. Like, when I write about my friends, when they make me angry.. but it doesn’t mean that I don’t love them.”
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