'Team America: World Police' Condemned: Enormously Bigoted Rubbish
By the Glorious Revolutionary Federation of Fortune 500 Killers
The Glorious Revolutionary Federation of Fortune 500 Killers and its Asian-American Radical Caucus condemned the new film “Team America: World Police” and characterized it as “bigoted and racist trash that nobody should help support.”
“After conferring with sympathizers, we feel completely comfortable making this assessment,” said a Federation spokesperson.
The film belittles AIDS victims, essentializes Arabs as “terrorists,” and makes fun of the speech patterns of people of Asiatic descent through a caricature of North Korean dictator and Stalinist reactionary Kim Jong-il.
“There are many ways to satirize insightfully a scumbag like Kim Jong-il—but deferring to racist—and worse, trite and boring—depictions of speech patterns does not fall into this category,” said the Federation. “It is amusing that so many American (and white) audience members get a kick out of this, given that most students in Asian countries routinely outpace their European and American counterparts academically and frequently have a better command of grammar.”
Some misinterpreted a communiqué last week blasting Sean Penn, who condemned “Team America’s” reactionary filmmakers Trey Parker and Matt Stone for allegedly encouraging voter apathy, as support for the filmmakers.
“Utter garbage,” said a Federation spokesperson in response. “‘Team America’ epitomizes a real decline among some quarters of American humor. There is now a current school of comedy that cowardly defers to a ‘we offend anybody’ line, one where anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic criticism is brushed off as ‘politically correct.’ It is a sad betrayal of comedians like Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, and Dick Gregory, who harnessed the power of humor against state-condoned and institutional racism, the death penalty, and American militarism-jingoism—and went to jail for it.”
The Federation also condemned major media for “lack of diversity in reviewers” and said that the “overwhelming white heterosexual male composition of film reviewers often translates into blind spots.”
Do not see this rubbish.
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