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MurielHorseflesh t1_j6oqjih wrote

Farrakhan is a piece of shit who is currently pushing Scientology on all the Nation of Islam groups out there. Farrakhan’s views on just about everything are dumb bullshit mixed with irrational hatred

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ty_kanye_vcool t1_j6oqa45 wrote

What I’m getting from these details is that the film is exactly as bad as the ads make it look, for the exact reasons we all surmised.

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ArchDucky t1_j6ordnu wrote

Its not even remotely funny. Which is fucking weird for a comedy.

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canoeonmyback t1_j6ov3wo wrote

The movie had funny parts but was generally a disappointment considering I expected hill and Murphy to make a truly funny movie, but everything in this article rings true.

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onemanclic t1_j6p3akd wrote

I thought the movie made a big stink of Farrakhan's views and the fact that they are upsetting to a lot of people. But the movie was about a Nation of Islam follower, which is not a small amount of people, so they also spoke of their reverence to him.

The point of this movie is to talk about the cross-racial/religious/cultural divides. If that's what we're calling normalization, then that is what it will take to address the issues of Farrakhan and his beliefs.

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BuddyXLilly t1_j6oygm9 wrote

Shut that off once they started making drake references!

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Huevos___Rancheros t1_j6op569 wrote

I think there might be a slight bias here

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YugiPlaysEsperCntrl t1_j6ou5bo wrote

The bias being not wanting wanting lazily written caricatures based on negative stereotypes of Jewish people. Sure, bias.

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mykleins t1_j6pk1fp wrote

I mean Eddie Murphy’s character was also a lazily written caricature of a pro-black black man who they also made into the primary antagonist. Seems like the insensitivity around portrayed identities goes both ways.

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