POLL: Skids, Mudflap. Racist?

[STL]

Don't see an issue at all. Some people are way too sensitive. This is a heartless action flick, remember. If it even aspired to be more than that then maybe there could be cause for concern.

As it stands, they're two retards. Would we be having this conversation if two black characters had actually played the role in a similar flick? Just b/c they're robots people are trying to impute way too much into them and who they're supposed to represent.

[sifun]

i just voted yes because i just want to spite everyone who said no. hahahah
in actual fact my real vote would be no.

[turbonegro39]

nope... kids at gateway plaza in warrnambool hang there pants low and have there hats crooked talk like that.

[Golden Phoenix]

I voted yes

Lets face it, the are playing up a stereotype and making fun of it.
But I don't care. It isn't supposed to be serious. It's a joke.
I laugh and think little else of it other then "haha. That was funny"

[i_amtrunks]

I voted no, as I took the twins as being more of a stereotype of teens from "the street" (not Sesame Street), rather than being racist.

[Saintly]

damn it! i voted incorrectly!

EDIT: I hit the down button one too many times and clicked submit!

[1AZRAEL1]

It is supposed to be funny and not taken seriously.

I mean damn, anyone here seen Metalocalypse?
That is a piss take on metalheads (I for one am a big metalhead) and I think it is bloody hilarious.

What about Simpsons hmmm? Apu is the clerk at a convenience store, and he's an Indian. Is that not stereotypical?

People in this day and age take things too friggin seriously and wear there hearts in their sleeves.

(Edited bad words out sorry )

[Sky Shadow]

If people are going to get up in arms about this then the portrayal of Jetfire could be seen as equally ageist and its treatment of Alice was sexist. Personally, I didn't realise/think Skids and Mudflap were even meant to be black, I just saw them as robots that chose to cringeworthily emulate aspects of a particular culture, in the way Ali G does - that they were 'wigga' Transformers who didn't really know what they were doing or that they were embarrassing themselves. When it comes to the movie's treatment of characters who are actually African American, like Sergeant Epps, I'd say it presents him as an upstanding and capable human being.

[GoktimusPrime]

I voted no. They're no more offensive to black people than say the Neimoidians in Star Wars are to Asians.


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[SilverDragon]

I think one could call Skids and Mudflap more tryhards than anything else. That may be why they act the way they did.

Also, I don't think they'd be THAT negative, given that Mudflap punched his way out of Devastator. In my view, if he really was supposed to be a racist stereotype, he'd be crapping himself and having to be rescued by Bumblebee.