Less Than Meets The Expectation

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A year ago I posted this:

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It was an article about Michael Bay, racism, and Transformers.

I'm no longer concerned with spoilers, so I'll just cut to the chase.

In the first Transformers live action film (2007) Michael Bay included a bunch of coons, a noble savage, and he killed the black autobot first. Yeah.  He

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But for a minute, I’m going to take him at his word, and consider, “what if these characters really are for kids, and what if they really are just robots who are wannabe gangstas who learned it all from the internet?” Certainly, there are plenty of wannabe gangstas in the world who learned it from media. Sometimes their wish comes true, and they can conduct themselves as the gangstas of media are portrayed. In fact, the media representation of gangsta - indeed the worst parts of that archetype - has been fed to us steadily for over 15 years, and it has become a part of American cultural fabric. Sure. I buy that