Racist Thing of the Week: … Lord of the Rings??

author: elainechen category: administrative, calling 'em out, entertainment and stuff tags: date: January 14th, 2009

If you squint hard enough, you may be able to make them out!

Some food for thought: So all the “evil” men in this movie just so happen to be indigenous men of color who can’t communicate in any comprehensible language and unfairly ride oliphaunts that crush and destroy all the “good men” of Middle Earth, who just so happen to be entirely composed of white men?? What up with that, Peter Jackson? No men of Rohan and Gondor happen to be men of color? Now that Aragorn’s king, he better check in on diversifying those ranks of his. Sure, he’s got hobbits, elves, dwarves, and wizards as friends, but c’mon, you couldn’t find any other minority man? Or even WOMAN? Talk about a lack of diversity.

And man, Gandalf: you’re such a white supremacist.

(Yeah. This is how I spent my winter break. 12+ hours of Extended Edition footage on a wide-screen HD TV: glorious. Despite how racist Lord of the Rings may be, however, I still love it. Epic fight scenes! Go Frodo!)

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author: admin category: administrative tags: date: November 2nd, 2008

So this is going to be an attempt at a new launch of the hardboiled blog! I know we really really tried to keep it up to date on the front of our page, but for awhile the posts stayed at “9-11-08″ for months, with the same youtube video linked on the front. Sorry about that.

But now with the awesome help of wordpress, it’ll perhaps be a lot easier to update, manage, and organize our blog. It’s a little inconvenient, we know, to have to click on the link to come to this website, but hopefully you’ll still find our posts SO INTERESTING that you can’t NOT click to read our blog! :)

Keep checking back here and our hardboiled staffers will be sure to continuously update this baby with new and spiffy things! Thanks for reading!

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