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Jamie Foxx Says Leonardo DiCaprio Stopped Reading ‘Django Unchained’ Due to Script’s Racial Slurs. Then Samuel L Jackson Told Him: ‘Say That S— Motherf—er!’ (variety.com)
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Jamie Foxx says Leonardo DiCaprio did not want to say the N-word so much while reading "Django Unchained," but Samuel L Jackson told him otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

F.d. signifier talks about this in one of his videos. Don't remember which and can't find it. But as I recall his take was that it's weird to be OK with playing a hyper-racist slaver right up until you have to say the n-word. Not to say DiCaprio is a bad person or whatever, but it's a good point.

[–] Soulg 37 points 5 months ago

I don't think it's that weird. Acting is just playing a character. But then even when doing that, looking at your black friends/ colleagues and calling them that, if you're a normal person, would still be difficult.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

what point it that exactly, people have a limit to what things they can force themselves to be comfortable with while play acting? this is faux intellectualism and buffoonery writ large lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

what point it that exactly

That it's a mirror for the way white liberals behave. Obsess over language while ignoring structural racism & denying material benefits to black people.

This reply is not for the person I'm replying to; I thought someone else stumbling on this might want clarification but I'm not continuing a discussion with someone who throws insults at me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t MLK specifically call out white liberals as the biggest obstacle to equality?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

From Letter from Birmingham Jail

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

the way white liberals behave. Obsess over language

Spot on. Don't fucking start me.

[–] Syntha 2 points 5 months ago

Not surprised that this braindead take comes from f.d. signifier