Would you edit Mickey Rooney out of Breakfast at Tiffany's?

No, people don't assume that. But when a white man plays an Asian man as a grotesque buck-toothed slanty-eyed less-than-human, they tend to view that as bad.

No one objects to Mr. Yunioshi because he's "over-acted". There are many radically over-acted characters who are beloved. Mr. Yunioshi is nothing more than an ugly insult...

 

Which people are those?

 

Damn right. Razerx really thinks showing people with English accents as villains - which happens occasionally, but not all that often - is worse than Mr. Yunioshi???

 

Those straw men I hear so much about, I think...

 

Having English people as villians is Hollywood's idea of a non offensive thus safe choice.

 

Straw men is just another term for token isn't it? Don't just cast people in token roles but give them dimensions.

 

And your point is...?

An English villain is nothing like Mr. Yunioshi. If people said it was okay to portray English as villains but not Japanese, you might have a point, but no one argues that movies can never have Asian villains.

People simply think that Mr. Yunioshi is a gross caricature than dehumanizes Asians.

Last time I looked, no one viewed Hans Gruber as a negative statement about Brits...

 

No, it's not. You might want to consult a dictionary.

 

People like me.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

 

I see the movie as somewhat of a farce and Yunioshi is a comic character.

 

So YOU "assume any non White character or person requires to be coddled and protected as if we are Jesus tending the flock"

So you are denouncing your own point of view????

 

I'll be damned if I can figure out which way his arguments are going!

 

Maybe this is all a put-on? Ya got me.

 

What really makes me sad is that there are people out there that think this kind of stuff is just hilarrrious. Remember some of the pictures that went around when President Obama was elected. And that was 50 years later.

 

Even then, he has to get both sides of the story.