JCC Native American actors walk off set of Adam Sandler movie

It wasn't genocide, because back in the 15th century the term hadn't been made legal by the United Nations. Duh.

Now you have to imagine a caption, South Park-style, reading "This is actually what Turkey says about Armenia".

 

But the UN does recognise the plight now? The plight being able to post spoilers without spoiler tags, that is.

 

Really, it's a huge gaff from Ender, something I don't associate with him whatsoever. It's baffling. I consider Ender a dearest of friends. But native Americans not subject to genocide? Whaaaaat?

 

I follow a few activist-y Native Americans on Twitter and realized there was a s storm happening over a movie but didn't know the details until now.
Pretty sad but not surprising.

 

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Perhaps Rob Schneider could fill one of the roles.

 

If this is the catalyst that finally kills the career of Adam Sandler then the offending jokes were worth it.

 

I absolutely love satire, it's one of my favorite forms of comedy. American Dad is good satire. The Colbert Report is fantastic satire. This is not good satire, this is just dumb.

 

Well said, GrandAdmiralJello. I have nothing really to add.

 

Here's the best way of putting it:

The famous camp fire scene from Blazing Saddles is funny because its humour is embedded in an age where standards in hygiene, culinary and bonding between people was much simpler. The food was rudimentary, an evening around the fire was as commonplace as a night in front of the television is in 2015 while baked beans caused the symptom we're all aware of. Start writing joke now.

The extent of Adam Sandler's humour is that the fart joke is funny because someone farted. That's it.

 

This is completely indefensible. Per the article, they refused to budge on details as small as the characters' hairstyles. I somehow doubt that these details were critical to the humor. Rather, it suggests that they were just out to mock stereotypical Indians.

 

Wow you have been "angry" at the treatment of Armenians for "years." Those sure are some hefty credentials that empower you to make the call on whether Native Americans have been the victim of a genocide.

I know you're a an armchair genocide aficionado, but have you consulted what any actual genocide scholars have said regarding Native Americans? I know you're angry on behalf of Armenians, but have you actually asked any Armenians, or anyone else subject to a group that you in your almighty powers have deemed worthy of the term "genocide" about how they feel about what happened to Native Americans and the application of that term? Whether they feel it waters down the term to apply it? You're comfortable calling what happened to Aborigines in Australia genocide, but not what happened to Native Americans?

I'm asking and I genuinely want an answer: what makes you think you are qualified to deny that term to Native Americans?

 

Reminder that Adam Sandler wins people's choice awards for comedy like every year

 

I thought that was hyperbole but I looked it up and he's won every year since at least 2011, which is when I gave up in exasperation.


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He has won 9 times and this year was his fifth in an unbroken streak

Kill yourselves now while you still can

 

How is this possible? Adam Sandler doesn't even make a movie every year to stay in the running. What.

 

Comedy was never Adam Sandler's strong point.

 

First of all, its an Adam Sandler "movie" so I'm not surprised in the slightest at his completely tone-deaf "humor." When was the last time he made a movie that actually funny?

Second, I totally agree with this and couldn't have said it better myself. The destruction of First Nations cultures in North America is unequivocally an act of genocide and cultural cleansing..

 

wocky, adam sandler's people's choice award this year was for Blended with Dru Berrymore

he won for Jack and Jill one year. that was the movie where he cross dressed to play his own twin sister

really what's horrifying about the whole thing (to me) is that the guy's movies (for the last 5 years at least) are basically blatant cash-grab scams. like he casts like 10 of his comedian buddies in cameo roles and the plot is a threadbare framework for product placement (the coke picture from earlier in this thread) and fart jokes

its basically a big "**** you" to the movie-going public, and yet they consistently vote him awards for it (i assume anyone can vote in the people's choice awards from teh name, not sure about that tho)

 

i mean i think it's just a certain kind of people who vote for that kind of thing. people who watch a lot of reality tv probably.

 

or maybe it's just like an online thing and you can vote as many times as you want, and it's just sandler himself, constantly on his phone, voting for himself in the people's choice awards. and literally no one else in the world cares so he keeps winning.

 

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