Racism?


It can't be a coincidence that most of the characters that "madden" our man are non-white people. Initially, we see him getting disturbed by the laughter of black girls, then many times he looks at other black people in hatred. The guy at the grocery is a Korean man, who insists on not giving 50 cents. The two guys who try to rob him are Mexicans. And we see Michael Douglad yelling at them like "Learn our language well. Write yur message in our language. You come to my country and blah blah." And the same man, when confronted by the sick ideeas of the bald Nazi guy, says that he does not agree with the Nazi guy's ideas and that he thinks people should have freedom in America. Moreover, in the end, the same guy is showed as an "ordinary man" gradually sickened and destroyed by a sick society. I can't really understand that.

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It shows the white working class beginning to blame immigration and minorities for the economic destruction by the Reagan Administrartion. Is the film racist? No. the protagonist? Probably a little. What falling down showed was the migration of white working class men from unions, Democratic politics, steady lives with a home and pension, to the full on crazies that brought us Trump today. A former union member with a middle class life, money for kids' college and a pension, is now a confederate flag flying, build a wall and make Mexico pay senior citizen who wants to make sure Obama keeps his government hands off his Medicare. It shows a sad midpoint between "Reagan Democrats" and "Trump Republicans" while the Southern Strategy was implemented. It's quite sad in that way.

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There are degrees and extremes of prejudice and racism. Most white people who are prejudiced complain in private about fears of illegal immigration, new immigrant groups not learning English, black people are getting preferential treatment, that their neighborhood and country is changing etc. but they are not sympathetic to fringe white nationalist groups that are calling for violence against minorities and hoping to instigate racial warfare. There is a difference between D-Fens and the neo-Nazi shop owner.

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I think that D-fence is fighting against the world, it does not matter if he meets on his way a Korean, a Mexican a white or black person.

I do not think that he had something specific against the black girl in the bus, on the contrary he could not bear to be with the nazi guy. He was extreme frustated whit his life and, e.g, if a Korean man can not speak right English with him this frustation just increase, not to mention if two persons from, probably, Mexico or somewhere else from Latin America are trying to steal him.

I do not think he is racist but he has not problem to say what he thinks (wrong or not) to anybody.

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What about the black kid showing him how to use a bazooka?

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He was sympathetic to the African American protester as well as the African American kid who talked to him while he loaded the bazooka.

That said, we are not meant to glorify his actions. He is an unhinged man who was obviously scared and frustrated but decided to deal with these feelings in a violent manner. I think it's up to the viewer whether or not to feel sorry for him at the end and even if the viewer does, that should not be seen as justification for his actions.

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It's a movie. If you're that sensitive & triggered by make believe stories recorded on film, you probably need to be a shut in who needs to live in an institution or a broom closet with ear plugs & a blindfold. What an absolute weenie!

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Why did you leave out the rich old white men he victimized on the golf course? Didn't fit your narrative?

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no its not a coincidence and its not racist it is simply realistic. its sjw warriors like you that ruined modern cinema

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The movie makes it clear he's not a "racist." Stop following the media's dog whistles and start thinking for yourself.

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