Because EVERYTHING is racist.
The left has long hated Clint Eastwood for mocking his lordship Barack Obama during the infamous “empty chair” skit at the 2012 Republican National Convention and they have been out for his scalp ever since.
The legendary actor/director whose most famous characters included the man with no name from the Sergio Leone western trilogy capped off by epic The Good The Bad And The Ugly and the hard-assed police detective Dirty Harry Calahan has been targeted for another one of his roles, retired autoworker and Korean war vet Walt Kowalski in the 2008 movie Gran Torino.
In the movie, the crusty Kowalski tosses around the sort of ethnic references that were once commonplace as terms of endearment and befriends a young Asian boy who attempts to steal his prized Ford Gran Torino as an initiation into a violent street gang. Walt warms to the family of Hmong immigrants, eventually sacrificing his own life to save them from the gang.
With the latest false construct of the left being the bullshit war on Asians, Eastwood’s Gran Torino co-star Bee Vang who played the teenaged Thao Vang Lor penned an op-ed for NBC News denouncing the film and whining about the ethnic “slurs” and the evil white devil’s insensitivity.
‘Gran Torino’ Star Bee Vang Denounces Film’s Anti-Asian Slurs https://t.co/V9HtzyAJvB
— Variety (@Variety) February 18, 2021
According to Vang; “At the time, there was a lot of discussion about whether the movie’s slurs were insensitive and gratuitous or simply “harmless jokes.” I found it unnerving, the laughter that the slurs elicited in theaters with predominantly white audiences. And it was always white people who would say, “Can’t you take a joke?”
He continued “Today, I shudder at the thought of what that meant. More than a decade later, the anti-Asian racism that was once disguised as good-natured humor has been revealed for what it is, thanks to Covid-19.”
Vang’s op-ed was originally published in February but has gotten new life after Democrats and the media purveyors of anti-white hate pounded on the actions of a lunatic who killed eight people last month in a rampage at three Atlanta-area “rub-n-tug” massage parlors and the phony hysteria is a smokescreen for the reality that Asians are overwhelmingly the victims of crimes by black perpetrators.
Once again, the Chinese government’s pervasive and pernicious influence on domestic media and culture and the relentless pushing of the false narrative that facts like that COVID came from China is racist has found another eager mouthpiece in Vang. It would be easy to just throw a pity party for this dude’s hurt feelings
With America devolving into an intolerant authoritarian state where free speech is under constant assault and easily offended snowflakes with persecution complexes have been carrying the day, the old school movie icon Eastwood is simply unacceptable. His films are routinely snubbed by the Hollywood elite and the award ceremonies where they show up with political speeches to jack each other off on national television and in the case of his latest on wrongly accused Richard Jewell, a full-blown smear campaign was launched to discredit the film.
Eastwood couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the squishy psyches and fragile feelings of what he referred to as the “pussy generation” and keeps on putting out quality movies in defiance of the mob.
That being said, better get your copy of Gran Torino on DVD now before it ends up disappeared or butchered beyond recognition.
