{"id":10343,"date":"2009-06-26T12:32:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=10343"},"modified":"2009-08-12T22:29:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T03:29:13","slug":"jar-jar-bots-skids-and-mudflap-in-transformers-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/26\/jar-jar-bots-skids-and-mudflap-in-transformers-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jar Jar Bots? Skids and Mudflap in Transformers Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/Movies\/story?id=7930007&amp;page=1\">ABC News<\/a>, &#8220;<em>Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen<\/em> &#8230; is taking fire for its comic relief: a pair of slang-spewing, illiterate Chevy hatchbacks named Skids and Mudflap&#8230; the robot duo is being labeled a racist caricature.&#8221; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090625\/ap_en_mo\/us_film_transformers_jar_jar_again\">Yahoo News,<\/a> &#8220;They&#8217;re forced to acknowledge that they can&#8217;t read. One has a gold tooth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10345\" title=\"ADDITION Film Transformers-Jar Jar Again\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/captd1356857fbd24fffafd49d60a807d702addition_film_transformers_jar_jar_again_nyet640.jpg\" alt=\"ADDITION Film Transformers-Jar Jar Again\" width=\"399\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/captd1356857fbd24fffafd49d60a807d702addition_film_transformers_jar_jar_again_nyet640.jpg 399w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/06\/captd1356857fbd24fffafd49d60a807d702addition_film_transformers_jar_jar_again_nyet640-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/>I haven&#8217;t seen the movie, so it&#8217;s difficult to comment directly, but I wonder if this another example of the dehumanizing racial stereotypes. Michael Bay, the director, largely dismisses the concerns. &#8220;Listen, you&#8217;re going to have your naysayers on anything,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s like is everything going to be melba toast? It takes all forms and shapes and sizes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ABC News, &#8220;Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen &#8230; is taking fire for its comic relief: a pair of slang-spewing, illiterate Chevy hatchbacks named Skids and Mudflap&#8230; the robot duo is being labeled a racist caricature.&#8221; According to Yahoo News, &#8220;They&#8217;re forced to acknowledge that they can&#8217;t read. One has a gold tooth.&#8221; I haven&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,343,285,1760],"class_list":["post-10343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-media","tag-tvmovies","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11720,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions\/11720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}