Teared up at end of American Sniper: "Great fucking movie & now I really want to kill some ragheads"

[kpete]

Eastwood film ‘American Sniper’ sets box office record while setting off flurry of racist tweets

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TheRaganBrock, whose timeline is loaded with paeans to Kyle and who saw the film earlier, tweeted, “Ngl teared up at the end of American Sniper. Great fucking movie and now I really want to kill some fucking ragheads.”

Reece Filon, who has since made his tweets unavailable, wrote, “America sniper made me appreciate soldiers 100x more and hate Muslims 1000000x more.”

Harshnewyorker wrote, “Nice to see a movie where the Arabs are portrayed for who they really are – vermin scum intent on destroying us. #Deblasio #AmericanSniper”

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In another tweet, since deleted, Dex Harmon wrote, “American sniper makes me wanna go shoot some fuckin Arabs” which was followed by artwork of three handguns.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/eastwood-film-american-sniper-sets-box-office-record-while-setting-off-flurry-of-racist-tweets/

[yeoman6987]

1. Amazing! What a horrible thing to say.

Although someone said that if you go to American Sniper and not Selma then you are racist so what can you do. Social media will bring out some posts that perhaps otherwise would not be mentioned....or maybe they would. Who knows.

[newfie11]

2. How many of these idiots even know an Arab

How many of these idiots have an IQ above 10?

[wildbilln864]

4. 0! n/t

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Ok, so they can all now go volunteer to go fight ISIS.

Unless, of course, they're simply chicken.

[KingCharlemagne]

10. Pshaw! Maybe, like Cheney, they simply have "other prioritities" :sarcasm: - nt

[Sunlei]

5. curious if they portrayed the real last 10 years of the 'snipers' life in the movie.

[arthritisR_US]

66. They didn't. nt

[HappyMe]

6. Dumbasses.

Dumbasses whose idiocy is fueled by twitting.

[Man from Pickens]

7. Mission Accomplished

This is precisely what war propaganda movies are made to do, whip up fervor in favor of mass murder and even genocide.

I'm getting to the point where I'm starting to regard those who are so easily influenced by propaganda to be something less than fully human. Either that, or I've got to downgrade my baseline of what I consider human by a LOT, and I'd rather not do that.

[Sunlei]

8. imo, I was embarrassed how our military pandered to that marksman eccentricities & made him into

some kind of mascot/ hero to his fellow troops.

Then when he was out of service, they continued to pander to him as he tried to find a real job that he could even fit into.

I hope our Military 'leadership' are not doing the same 'belt notching' body count, chest thumping with the drone pilots 'kills'.

[Scuba]

74. Bingo!

[benz380]

9. So a few of the viewers will leave the theatres looking to beat down a few Arabs on the street. n/t

[Renew Deal]

11. Why is it news that people hate the bad guys in a movie?

That movie could have had any enemy and the violent lunatics would have had the same reaction. Doesn't matter if they are "muslims", Russians, Koreans, Germans, or Icelanders.

[sibelian]

17. I see your point, but given that these fictional bad guys

are based on other real guys who are still in the real crosshairs and, incidentally, some of them are actually bad, there are some complications.

But I see your point.

[Renew Deal]

19. Yes, it's not straight forward

Do you remember the complaints about The Passion of the Christ? I don't think anything came out of it, but it had similar complaints.

[sibelian]

20. Vaguely... wasn't it that it was really grotesque?

I never saw it... I never have gone in for running off to see the latest freak-show.

[Renew Deal]

21. Besides the complaints about violence, the complaint was that it was anti-semitic

And that would generate negative reactions to Jewish people.

[sibelian]

24. Ah, I remember now.

Hmmm, I get the comparison but....hmmm...do I think we're more likely to start going toe to to with the Middle East because of American Snpier than go toe to toe with Israel because of the Passion?

I actually don't know. I don't think we go to war because of movies but humanity has a way of contemptuously tossing aside my faith in it as if I've insulted it.

[davidn3600]

22. Because we are not allowed to view Islam as "bad guys"

Many get angry when that religion is criticized. Why Islam gets a pass for every stupid thing they do is beyond my understanding. All religion is dangerous, in my view.

Boko Haram just recently sent a 10 year old girl into a market with a bomb. That's not some made up Hollywood crap. That shit is real. And it happens in real life. And we are not allowed to blame the religion at all?

And America didn't create Boko Haram, by the way. There would still be terrorists in this world regardless of our foreign policy. People have been slaughtering each other over religion in this world LONG before America was even founded.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/01/10/boko_uses_10_year_old_girl_as_suicide_bomber.html

[JonLP24]

36. It is stupid to blame the whole religion for it

Boko Hararm = Al-Qaeda = ISIS = monarchies of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, etc.

They are all followers of the Salafari-Wahabbi movement which came from an 18th century preacher. Petro dollars from the US-Saudi Arabia alliance certainly spread the Wahabbi movement. (They invest with the money they)

Who are the primary victims (I'm talking total numbers here)? Muslims.

[davidn3600]

42. But we blame all of Christianity when some nut blows up an abortion clinic

[kelliekat44]

44. No we don't, we don't even mention "Christianity." We blame mental illness or the government. nt

[JonLP24]

46. I don't agree with that

(not you, just the logic)

Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, etc we are all aware of the different sects of Christianity and I'd say The Door (Potter's House) doctrine is closer to the Wahabbi doctrine in terms of differences with the majority of rituals & beliefs of the overall the followers but a "convert or die" being a major difference between the two ultraconservative, orthodox sects.

I'm an Atheist or probably more Agnostic but it wouldn't make much sense for me to blame the extremist Christian since his interpretation motivated him to do that when Christianity also motivated people such as Martin Luther King or Martin Luther (who'd probably disagree with Lutherans calling themselves Lutherans rather than Christians).

[arthritisR_US]

68. Wow, somebody actually knows the crap we

in the western world have created.

[frylock]

61. remember when everyone wanted to kill Germans after seeing 'Die Hard'?

me neither.

[arthritisR_US]

67. I don't remember Die Hard but I do

remember their genocide.

[ND-Dem]

12. Well. Jane Fonda and Rob Lowe come out for American Sniper. Ironic.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/01/19/hollywood-split-over-american-sniper-success/


Personally I'd guess there's a fair amount of military supported bullshit in the guy's books. Jesse Ventura won a defamation lawsuit for something in one of his books which appeared to have been invented out of whole cloth.

And we know the military was responsible for a similar glorification of Jessica Lynch. Which she disavowed.

[JEB]

13. Fascist propoganda.

[DrDan]

14. from posts here this past week, I am quite confident those comments will be well-defended by

some DUers.

Free speech means one can say ANYTHING one pleases, according to some.

[sibelian]

16. Yes, sir, here I am to defend their right to say it. They CAN say it.

And rightly so.

Or would you prefer that we not know that these individuals think these things?

[DrDan]

23. not a fan of hate-speech myself

[sibelian]

25. Me neither.

But, being a dude of the dude-liking persuasion and the recipient of the term "faggot" on numerous occasions, it has dawned on me that if I really don't want people to say such things it would be better to get them to stop thinking them. And, if they can't say that they think them, I don't know that they think them and therefore cannot persuade that there are possibly good reasons for not thinking them.

My adherence to the principle may appear based in rugged Americana but is actually founded on a more prosaic foundation.

[DrDan]

29. that would certainly be preferrable - "get them to stop thinking them"

in the meantime, however, a more urgent need exists - keep these inciters-of-violence from inciting violence.

[sibelian]

38. Well, are these comments any more horrible or frequent

Than the usual things you see on youtube videos? Frankly, in comparison with the endless deluge of foulness on that site, these remrks are somewhat tame. Also, some of them HAVE diappeared.

[JonLP24]

37. I agree

though I wouldn't know what it would feel like to be on the receiving end with exceptions of being wrongly accused of being gay with that word used or it is a word often used by people angry with a male to insult them whether they know they aren't or not. But my point is I think it is far preferable to know where people stand and using these words or other derogatory insults out themselves which is more helpful than the closeted racists/bigots.

[frylock]

62. and Chris Kyle died defending your right to say that!

[JEB]

15. Unjust war of aggression

with a bunch of accompanying war crimes, torture, chemicals, depleted uranium.

[Octafish]

18. Ah, the power of art to inspire and elevate humanity.

Or, in the present examples, lower.

[L0oniX]

27. ...and some fret about violent video games.

[JonLP24]

50. Those are more about gameplay than anything else

The most controversial Grand Theft Auto series was controversial mainly due to its popularity which Rockstar has consistently raised the bar in what you can do GTA III came out in an era where games where basically "one long hallway" but there was also Smuggler's Run (also Rockstar) & Driver which allowed for more freedom.

However the series has mainly a liberal message in addition to its satire on American culture. "The American Dream" of GTA IV was terrific and had Weazel News (instead of Fox) reporting stories such as Jingoistic Act (instead of Patriot). However GTA 5 was a major drop-off in story but was a major, major upgrade in gameplay.

[Octafish]

56. The subliminal stuff is another thing.

But then these people had kids.

[whatchamacallit]

54. +1 n/t

[L0oniX]

26. Boots on the ground ...next.

[BlueCaliDem]

28. So, "The American Sniper" appeals to the lowest inside us and to racists. Wow. Good going there,

Clint.

And the Academy should be ASHAMED for nominated this hatefest against radical Islamists as some work of art.

[Dawson Leery]

48. Zero Dark Thirty went the same route.

After it received several nominations, including best film, the hard right rallied around the film and promoted it as patriotic propaganda.
The Academy looked carefully at the movie afterwords and decided against giving any awards to it.

[BlueCaliDem]

49. Let's hope they have that same epiphany on American Sniper. eom

[Dawson Leery]

52. It will be sad

if this racist redneck is given recognition against Martin Luther King and Alan Turing.

[calimary]

58. Or Stephen Hawking.

[arthritisR_US]

69. Indeed! nt

[Politicalboi]

30. Did the sniper bring that empty chair with him?

I bet old Clint is smiling now.He'll now see the monsters he's created.

[Dawson Leery]

31. The far right is full of racist thugs.

This is to be all but expected and a propaganda piece such as this movie will only inflame their hatred.

[muntrv]

32. These bums also say the same thing about "Birth Of A Nation."

[stillwaiting]

33. Wow. Sounds like that's one movie I don't need to see.

That's no surprise since Hollywood puts out so very few movies that I want to see these days.

[muntrv]

34. Draft these guys to fight ISIS!

[muntrv]

35. AHEM!!!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/clint-eastwood-i-was-going-754761

Clint Eastwood: "I Was Against Going Into the War in Iraq"

8:01 AM PST 12/8/2014 by Scott

The director of 'American Sniper' says he also had "a big question" about America going into Afghanistan

"I was against going into the war in Iraq since I figured we would probably trip over ourselves in some way," Clint Eastwood revealed after screening his new film American Sniper on Saturday at the Academy of Motion Picture Artists and Sciences' Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

"I had a big question when we went into Afghanistan," he also said, explaining, "Did anybody ever study the history of Afghanistan, not only with the British, but the Russians? There was a Russian general named Vivikov, who was the commander for 10 years there, and I thought, 'Did anybody ever...?' So I called a friend of mine who was over there for many years and knew this general. I said, 'Did anybody from our government ever go and research it like you would a movie? You know, can we film here?' And they said, 'No, they never did.' Vivikov is deceased now, but at the time I thought, 'Wouldn't a logical person go out and do a little research and say, 'How would you do this, Mr. Vivikov? What did you do wrong? And what are we doing wrong? Give us at least a hint.'"

[2naSalit]

39. Sounds like he's still talking

to the chair.

This propaganda tool (this movie) is being used as a recruitment tool... since they can't pull off another 9/11.

[MrMickeysMom]

41. Talking and humping it...

[2naSalit]

45. Snort!

[Octafish]

57. Touchdown!

Is that Ted Cruz?

[MrMickeysMom]

65. Ha! Ha! Ha!

Now, my dear… Ted would be slapped down by his Jeebus script writers, if he succumbed to the devil that way.

[olddots]

40. Mr. Eastwood's agenda is to make hit movies .

What is popularity all about ? mass hysteria ? war is mass hysteria at its worse .

nice one Dirty Harry !

[Runningdawg]

43. Nothing but the latest

propaganda piece. I am surprised they don't have recruiters lining the theater lobbies. Of course a lot might be surprised, the military requires more than a taste for blood, you have to have a certain IQ and pass a physical and psych test. That culls the heard, but not nearly enough. I look for private Christian armies to pop up to fill the gap. Isn't that what a "well-regulated militia" is supposed to do?? Funny, for all their bravado, I find it hard to believe many would give up that 500K a year job, organic foods, modern conveniences, their McMansions and vacation homes, wives, girlfriends and mistresses to sit in some shit hole waiting to die.

[glasshouses]

47. They should join the miltary then

Chances are we will be in another ground war in Iraq

[Initech]

51. Wannabe Rambos.

They talk a lot of shit but would they ever sign up? Hell no!

[Agnosticsherbet]

53. Wholesome entertainment for the entire family.

The family that preys together,
and slays together,
stays together.

[whatchamacallit]

55. Can't miss this review

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026101714#post15

[yuiyoshida]

59. Right wingers are so afraid...

They want to kill people, they want there to be No-go-Zones, they want to tear down Chinatowns,...it must be hell to wake up each day and find a new target for their hatred!

How do they live like this? Looking at life from out of their backsides.

[Terra Alta]

60. Gotta love keyboard warriors.

They will talk the talk but won't walk the walk. If there were a draft and these dumbass rednecks were drafted to fight ISIL or al-Qaeda, they would pull a Ted Nugent and literally shit their pants.

[arthritisR_US]

71. Nailed it! TY. nt

[Skidmore]

64. How did you get that from the OP?

The whole post is quoting what others have tweeted or remarks made by others and, as far as I can tell, the OP is not stating these are her views.

[miyazaki]

70. Maybe Clint ought to make a follow up about the sniper "Juba".

Similar to the release of "Letters from Iwo Jima". Ya right.

[arthritisR_US]

72. What are you talking about? nt

[miyazaki]

73. Juba supposedly was an infamous Iraqi sniper

taking American lives. A single entity or a conglomeration isn't known. But the videos
are real enough and terrible.

Clint showcased opposing enemies in two separate WW2 films a few years back.