My favorite troll of the moment
OK, so I was looking up Garfield on the IMDB. There’s no need to get into why.
There, I found a discussion thread titled this film is racist,
Anyone notice that Garfield has black stripes, but his owner is white? Makes you think.
When a respondent asked “And that’s racist…..how?” the original poster replied “The stripes are black, the owner of the cat is white. It doesn’t take a genius to see the implications.”
His work done, the troll saId no more. But the thread generated dozens of responses, most from people rising to the bait.
In general, I hate to encourage trolling (then again, I also find it hard to get worked up over it occurring on IMDB discussion threads on Garfield.)
But this was nicely done.
=v= Wot? No flaming comments to this posting? I'm shocked.
This is only me making stuff up, but I think the black-and-white prison uniform motif in O Brother, Where Art Thou? reflects the racial tapestry of America and of the musical styles that inspired that movie.
As far as Garfield is concerned, I think we'd do better to focus on (1) his orange stripes and (2) the relationship between Bert and Ernie, in which the yellow man keeps the orange man down.
Posted by Jym on August 5 2004 08:35