Jan 8, 2010

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Avatar the Movie:
“How does it feel to be a race traitor?”

A friend tricked me into seeing the new movie, Avatar, and sort of waited , grinning I think, for my reaction.First, let me warm up your neurons a bit. Think Tarzan, Bladerunner, The Last Samurai, fantasy comic books, Pocahontas, made for TV movies, and especially Edmund Connelly on “Reel Bad White” movies. Think tree-huggers, New Age old Liberals chanting and swaying;...

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Jan 3, 2010

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The Aryan Values of Avatar

The film Avatar is a huge commercial and cultural success. In White Nationalist circles, however, the blockbuster often is labeled as anti-white. (See here, here, and here for examples.) This interpretation of the film illustrates four problems currently manifest in the White Nationalist movement:The tendency to see only skin color when discussing race;A lack of knowledge...

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Dec 23, 2009

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The Meaning of Avatar

To a certain degree a book, a poem, or a movie can mean what we want them to mean. That is, in addition to the objective thing, there is our subjective reception of it. If a poem, particularly, means something to me, then I am satisfied with that meaning even if the poet had no intention of conveying such a meaning, or would be appalled that anyone would interpret it that way.This...

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Dec 21, 2009

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Avatar:
Why do Pandorans get to be Traditionalists?

The blockbuster film Avatar has just been released. It’s about a group of humans who wish to mine the resources of the planet Pandora. The humans are portrayed as white, industrial society imperialists and the Pandorans as pre-industrial, close to nature indigenes. One of the whites is rescued by a Pandoran woman, taken up by the tribe and learns to love their traditional...

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