Our culture is diseased now but damn the post-9/11 zeitgeist was cursed as hell

  • space_comrade [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Eh it's a bit skeevy but not the single most islamophobic thing you've ever seen, it was actually pretty tame all things considered.

    • booty [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      yeah the joke is mostly "haha he does a funny voice" and "lol hes made of bones and freaked out about it"

      i guess the point is the character actually being a muslim terrorist is barely part of the joke. he just needed a persona that screams "this is a Bad Guy" and that's what came to mind for americans back then. if he was making the same character in 2023 it would be Andrei the Dead Russian