Graffiti on ‘Homeland,’ Unnoticed by Producers, Calls Show Racist • Hacker News Board

Re: Graffiti on ‘Homeland,’ Unnoticed by Producers, Calls Show Racist

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Post by JoeAltmaier » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 4:39 AM UTC

unknownzero wrote: post #21

This is the best hack I've seen on Hacker News in months and it doesn't even involve a computer. Great job to everyone involved in pulling it off, even if the casual viewers didn't notice.

Wasn't there an old black-and-white movie set in Africa, where a Zulu warrior comes onscreen to tell the Chief something about the plot in subtitles? And what he says in Zulu is "I'm not being paid enough for being in this movie!"

Re: Graffiti on ‘Homeland,’ Unnoticed by Producers, Calls Show Racist

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Post by bengalister » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 5:15 AM UTC

draw_down wrote: post #108

I thought this was funny, and striking: https://twitter.com/sandman_leb/status/579021886845243392

The Hollywood biased or caricatural vision is not exclusive to the middle East.

You should see also how France and French are depicted in US comedies and TV series. Usually people are dressed like in the 50's, streets filled with cars of the 50's, hotels are filthy, and actors speak some words of French that is barely understandable. I don't see such stereotypical clichés with England.

Re: Graffiti on ‘Homeland,’ Unnoticed by Producers, Calls Show Racist

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Post by ajeet_dhaliwal » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 5:48 PM UTC

unknownzero wrote: post #21

This is the best hack I've seen on Hacker News in months and it doesn't even involve a computer. Great job to everyone involved in pulling it off, even if the casual viewers didn't notice.

Agreed, great story. Now we just need a copycat to get hired onto Blue Bloods and do the same thing. Add a 'is dumb' to that one too perhaps. A good place might be on a fridge magnet of a house the main guy usually barges into without regard.

Re: Graffiti on ‘Homeland,’ Unnoticed by Producers, Calls Show Racist

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Post by ashwinaj » Sat, Oct 17, 2015, 3:57 AM UTC

intopieces wrote: post #148

ashwinaj wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why are the creators of the show absolved of their personal responsibility regarding the impact of their actions? Because they aren't democratically elected public officials, they're just making a TV show from private funding. And watching the TV show is optional. > If a company poisons the local reservoir with their chemical run-off, are they morally able to say, "Well, they shouldn't have drank that water. They k…

>And watching the TV show is optional. We're not talking about the viewers of the show, we're talking about the people (Muslims, Arabs, etc) who are affected by the people who choose to watch the show -- that is, the impact on the culture that racism has. >Would you propose to curtail the right to free speech? We already do. The FCC does this. But I'm not suggesting that there be a law against it -- though other coun…

The Bill Cosby show/Fresh prince of Bel Air showed African Americans in the non-sterotypical manner. How did that work out? Outliers don't mean they work in all cases. Again, I point to the fact that these are societal problems, you can't criticize writers and producers of a TV show with this burden. They aren't incarnations of Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. They're just trying to make money, it's a TV show for the umpteenth time.