White Privilege

Yeah, what, you're Garak now?

You're okay now, I assume.

Well, the mangled stubs of her fingers still have enough flexibility to operate a keyboard, anyway.

edited 7th May '12 10:52:42 AM by Iaculus

*chuckle*

Oh, yes, the animal didn't get me I at least had the sense to hold my staring contest with a fence in between us, so all I got was a rather bad scare.

I know this is sounds kind of a well.... retarded to bright up. But has anyone noticed you only ever see white vampires in movies? I stuck me today I'll never once seen an asian Dracula.

Not exactly Dracula per se, but this is a Hong Kong take on Dracula-style vampires. It's quite descent.

That may have something to do with the fact that you generally see a disproportionate amount of white people in movies.

edited 8th May '12 3:03:03 AM by Iaculus

That and hollywood is hesitant about casting 'minorities' as monsters.

Tell that to the Yellow Peril and Scary Black Man archetypes.

Not in Asian cinemas however.

What about a black Dracula?

Surely you mean this black Dracula?

edited 8th May '12 3:44:12 AM by Iaculus

Well I'm sure Hollywood has grown out of using such tried and offensives serotypes in modern cinema.... Right?

edited 8th May '12 3:47:43 AM by joeyjojo

Meh. It's less common at least.

There's a black vampire antagonist in Twilight! And out of his little group of (two white one black) vampires, he doesn't even die first!

There's also a lot of hispanic vampires mentioned in flashback, but given that the setting of the flashback was Mexico, that's only to be expected. Only one is really fleshed out enough to count as any sort of full character, at least by Twilight standards.

And there's some south american vampires in book four. There's a lot more vampires named and shown in book four, so there's probably even more VOC, but none I can name off the top of my head. Of course, Twilight Vampires become paler than they were in life, so I suppose it wouldn't always be apparent.

edited 13th May '12 4:32:35 PM by Katrika

...is it weird that I immediately knew that VOC stood for "vampires of color"?

Normally I'd say yes, but given the context of the thread, possibly not.

@ .

So, does a black vampire feeding on a black person count as black on black crime?

...silence....

Meh, I thought it was clever.

Not in the Twilight books, it doesn't. Humans don't count as people.

But would they count as three-fifths of a person?

edited 13th May '12 8:24:11 PM by KingZeal

Maybe...as long as they know their place.

Did this thread start cracking jokes while I was away? Man, how times change.

As the thread turns man. As the thread turns.

Even liberal smuggness and conservative self righteous indignation get dull after a while.

edited 16th May '12 5:46:04 PM by joeyjojo

Really? Do remind Congress, they seem to have forgotten.