If you go looking for bigotry and prejudices about Arabs and Muslims at the theaters you may not have to look further than “The Dictator”, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s newest satiric installment. Though premised on a mash up of popular dictators from around the world channeled into a single non-Arab-yet-very-Arab-dictator, the movie promotes a farContinue reading “Mirror, Mirror On the wall, who’s the Dictatoralist of them all?”
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“Hey Ganesh, I’m a human samosa”- Disney and Stereotypes
Used Karma – Jessie Disney has never been known for being “culturally sensitive”- look at some of the portrayals of various ethnicities in Disney cartoons and movies, you get the sense that instead of challenging stereotypes, Disney celebrates racism. As a kid I remember watching Aladdin and Jungle Book. (I admit, guilty pleasure, Disney isContinue reading ““Hey Ganesh, I’m a human samosa”- Disney and Stereotypes”