{"id":1057,"date":"2010-01-11T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T20:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2010-01-11T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T20:42:46","slug":"avatar-racism-and-hollywood-ideologues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/11\/movies\/avatar-racism-and-hollywood-ideologues\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar, Racism, and Hollywood Ideologues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think the people on the left who are complaining that Avatar is racist realize that they are exposing their own racism?<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the people on the right who are moaning about the clich\u00e9s of corporate bad guys and American Indian analog good guys realize that if Hollywood films didn\u2019t reflect the world view of the people who make them they would be completely phony?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t live in either one of those ideological boxes, do yourself a favor and go see the film, preferably in 3-D.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Avatar%2C+Racism%2C+and+Hollywood+Ideologues\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/11\/movies\/avatar-racism-and-hollywood-ideologues\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think the people on the left who are complaining that Avatar is racist realize that they are exposing their own racism? Do you think the people on the right who are moaning about the clich\u00e9s of corporate bad guys and American Indian analog good guys realize that if Hollywood films didn\u2019t reflect the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/11\/movies\/avatar-racism-and-hollywood-ideologues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Avatar, Racism, and Hollywood Ideologues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwEq0-h3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}