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The Council of Conservative Citizens is NOT happy about the upcoming Thor movie. Apparently, they are disgusted that Thor’s hammer looks kind of silly Idris Elba is in it? But Idris Elba is the best! I wish he was my dad! This is from an article on the Council of Conservative Citizens’ website (via /Film):
Norse mythology gets multi-cultural remake in upcoming movie titled “Thor,” Marvel studios. It’s not enough that Marvel attacks conservatives values, now mythological Gods must be re-invented with black skin.
It seems that Marvel Studios believes that white people should have nothing that is unique to themselves. An upcoming movie, based on the comic book Thor, will give the Aesir an insulting multi-cultural make-over. One of the Gods will be played by Hip Hop DJ Elba.
HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHH. Holy cow. For one thing, I didn’t realize that Marvel Studios was ATTACKING conservatives values. I guess they’re referring to that scene in Iron Man 2 when Tony Stark testifies before Congress in an effort to repeal the estate tax? But man oh man, it is some intensely racist shit when you are mad that a black dude got cast as a tertiary character in a CGI popcorn movie based off of a COMIC BOOK. Eek!
Someone should tell them that there ain’t no nostalgia to this shit here. And then someone should board them up in the empties.
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RACISM IS EVIL!!!
wait is Stringer Bell actually a “hip hop dj”? I thought he was an actor from TV’s the Wire program
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS5x1f0KWZc
okay so he dj’ed one time but is he primarily known for that or is he primarily known for his acting?
Obviously, “hip hop dj” is more insidious and terrifying to the members of the Council of Conservative Christians than “respected and successful actor.”
Not quite as good as DJ Marlo Stanfield in the RC Cola room.
In charity, we should assume that this was their last exposure to the Negro and His Culture:
The Other-ness displayed is overwhelming.
Yeah, but in a really sloppy way. I’m guessing the intention was an “Afro-Carribean” hybrid by the color scheme, but it really just cribs from Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
#arthistorygum (did not think i would type that twice today)
“Hmmm…”
Again, no sarcasmo. Cameron is me and he agrees with what you’re saying.
Yeah because making Jesus a blue-eyed, fair-haired ,light-skinned guy makes total sense.
It aint easy bein whiiiiiite…
Oh my god I totally forgot Christianity is an all-white religion!
The Council of Conservative Christians didn’t.
Council of Conservative Citizens. You don’t have to be Christian to be racist. Duh!
Yeah, but who wants to worship a 4’10” dark skinned, Jewish hippie?
This guy!
Oh my god that dog is SO HUGE ha ha ha ha ha ha
I don’t know why I find this so funny, nor do I know why I laughed out loud (LoL’ed as the children say it) at your attempt to create a spider jizz meme, but goddamn, to me, you are a funny guy.
Dear Gabe/Monsters,
“Racist Marmaduke”, a Frank Lloyd Wrong production, is hilarious. Can this please become a recurring feature on Videogum?
I second this.
Definitely, especially now that “Marmaduke Explained” has jumped the shark.
I cannot understand why this doesn’t have MORE upvotes. or is videogum cyclical like the Mayan calendar, and this comment already 2012′d and is back up to 61? if that isn’t it I’m disappointed in people.
My mouth actually fell open after reading that quote. Well at least all the portrayals of Jesus in film and art have been accurate…………….wait a minute!
i can’t wait for the scene where thor keeps yelling “where’s wallace, aesir?! where’s wallace?!”
more like “Yo where wallace at?” actually that wasnt even his line FYI
thanks, steve. i stand corrected.
You stand with an erection?
THUNDERSTRIKE COMIN’
I can’t wait for the Council of Conservative Comic Book Nerds to release a statement protesting the omission of Thunderstrike’s ponytail and leather jacket from the movie.
Andrew’s going to love this!
At first I read this comment and was really sad that you thought I was a racist and that five people voted up and then I remembered The Andrew Show
This reminds me of a convo I had with someone who claimed Christians shouldn’t celebrate Halloween because its origins were pagan.
Me–”So what do you call the days of the week? They are pagan too.”
Them–”Pagan! No they’re not!”
Me– “Sure. Day of the Sun. Day of the Moon. Thor’s Day. Odin’s Day. Frigg’s Day. Animist and pagan!”
Them– “…”
what’s a “convo”?
It’s much like a convoy but without the annoying “why”. Like, why are we going here instead of there. Or, why are we going at all. Or, why can’t we stop at this place that has wicked donuts and also this waitress I like to bang. No why’s. A convo is a convoy where every why has been replaced by a YES. Like, YES we are going here instead of there. And YES we are going because of YES. And YES we can’t stop at that place because of YES and if you feel the need to bang something, bang YES and YES will bang you back.
This short-lived phenomenon was popularized in a 1975 song, Convo by C. W. McCa.
For a second I thought you were riffing off the end of Joyce’s “Ulysses” with all those YES’s.
Oh, and I still sometimes say “Some folks call it a convoy” when I’m driving on the highway, just because.
You are painfully wise, ‘trew
Frigg’s Day is the new Humpday.
Steve resents the term “Frigg’s Day” and just wishes every would just grow up and call it “Fuck’s Day”
No sarcasmo, you have my respect and admiration.
Well, but you can’t argue that Christmas Trees and Easter Eggs are nothing but Christian. Straight-outta-the-Gospels
The Easter Bunny is in Leviticus, right? Part of the prophecy?
“Shellfish are gay.”
-Leviticus
R.I.P.
6,000 B.C. – Thor’s Release Date 2011
“And looking, they saw the stone rolled back. For it was very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a Giant Bunny sitting on the right side, clothed with a white robe: and they were astonished. Who says to them: Be not affrighted, you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified, and his many eggs. He is risen: the eggs are not here. I have hidden them beneath rock and grass. Go forth and find them”
I’m going to Hell. Thank goodness I only believe in Hel.
All the upvotes, Babs. All of them.
My imagination won’t stop making the eggs in this tableau the eggs from Alien. Everyone dies.
Why don’t you all go high-five some angels.
To be fair (to whom, I’m not entirely sure) this is regarding the Council of Conservative Citizens, not Christians. Let the racists be properly identified. As jerks. I kind of want to see that movie.
Also, they’re pretty clearly a white-pride organization masquerading as a political group. From the website:
“We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called “affirmative action” and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races.”
Cool downvotes! Go to the source article, this group is called The Council of Conservative Citizens. I think that’s kind of worth pointing out?
Dan, this wasn’t a reply to you. I’m so NERVOUS RIGHT NOW!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA what a bunch of assholes. Literally all I can say. Peabrains.
This international ‘effort to mix the races’ thing they talk about actually sounds rather cool. I’m going to start using it to refer to my own private sex life to make it sound more important!
Person #1: So I got laid last night!
Person #2: Well I took part in an international conspiracy to piss off white conservatives
Person #1: You should use contraceptives.
Why was this comment downvoted? It’s a fair correction.
Although I’m sure most of the members would identify as Christians, that’s not their name. And most of the comments have addressed their religion.
…still any white pride group (religiously motivated or otherwise) is a group of assholes.
Me thinks there’s a all-down-voter among us.
They are probably kind of racist too. Like not enough to act on it, but enough to say the word “bodega” with enough spite that when you hear it you kind of wonder “…Is this a racist I’m talking to?” But you wouldn’t actually be talking to him because he’s wuss-trolling and frowning in his room SO HARD and never leaves.
My guess is someone who got butthurt in the Clay Duke post.
I think so too. Exhibit A: You got downvoted for saying this.
Sidebar: The downvoting is really kind of a bummer because we struck a good bit of oil on this thread.
There have always been universal downvoters. How they choose to spend their time shouldn’t concern you. I’ve been reading this thing/place/community for a while now and at first I got pissed off when I got downvoted. I don’t know what happened between then and now, but now I just don’t give a shit. We are all grown-ups or, if we are not grown-ups, we are attracted to this site because we are surging youthfully towards grown-up-hood. (Fight the good fight, young monsters!) And, you know, getting pissed off about downvotes is just not a grown-up thing to do. So let it slide. None of this matters. We’re all just trying to enjoy ourselves, when it all comes down to it. So enjoy.
The groups use to go by the name “White Citizens Councils” (for real). Trent Lott and current Mississippi Governor and Boss Hogg impersonator Haley Barbour have spoken at their meetings.
We should all not worry about downvotes because later on it all evens out and there are upvotes and it just looks super weird that everyone is concerned about it.
Word.
Wait, a Christian group is up in arms about the historical accuracy of a DIFFERENT religious mythology?
According to their own belief system, these mythological figures necessarily DIDN’T EXIST, right?
Just wanted to be clear about that.
Im still confused as to why Christians care about the potrayal of mythological Gods? Is this something new they’ve thrown into the bible to attract the zune gen?
Thanks for changing Gabe and making us all look stupid(er)!
Is there one place where I can say “Fuck You,” to Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, The Council of Conservative Christians, the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, etc. and know that I will be heard? It’s exhausting writing it over and over again in separate emails.
Try to crash the stage on ‘Dancing With The Stars’ or somehow manage to end up on Fox News.
As a nerd of color, Idris Elba and Tadanobu Asano are the only two reasons I am going to see this film. If that makes me racist, I don’t even care.
You had me at “nerd of color”.
Two words: Natalie Portman. She is in this. More of a reason than racial solidarity with hip hop djs. Although I still havent seen the V is for Vendetta the movie yet also starring my future bride Natalie Portman so maybe I’m a hypocrite?
The CCC don’t say anything about how they feel about Tadanobu Asano playing Hogun the Grim; maybe it’s because Hogun isn’t an Aesir like the other Asgardians; maybe it’s because they should all shut up and die.
I guess calling Elba a “hip hop boogeyman” would have been a little TOO blatant?
I don’t think they’re aware enough to articulate that. When I was in school and read things, I think I read a thing about this. Something, something bel hooks.
Really? Downvotes for bel hooks?
It seems like the downvote monster is back on the prowl.
Hide yo kids, hide yo thumbs.
And hide your fragile egos too
They downvotin’ errbody out here!
I just like to imagine that these people actually just think Hip Hop DJ is a euphemism for “black guy.” Like when I was a kid I thought it was “for all intensive purposes.” Like that, but with racism.
as in, “we got a little bit lost on the way over and wound up driving through an all-Hip-Hop DJ neighborhood…I was like, honey, pleeease do not run out of gas right now”
NO ONE downvotes bel hooks.
Looks like Steve/Gabe is fucking with us… Again. To be fair, we’re a pretty easy target
Maybe you should let this one go, conservative Christians. You’re already embroiled in the War on Christmas and starting another war under sketchy pretenses could result in a quagmire.
But two wars has worked so well for them before…
Note how they don’t even make mention of the fact that he was nominated for a golden globe this week..but for his work in music….
does this mean The Council of Conservative Christians hasn’t heard the new Kanye album? it’s pretty good.
To be fair, have you met Nordic people? They are pretty much THE WHITEST. They spawned Bjork, if that’s any indication.
I, for one, am glad that somebody is standing up and for the vast, defenseless viking population.
It’s 9:00 PM. Do you know where your Norse God is?
“History’s most famous Rapists/Pillagers were white dammit!!!” -The Council of Conservative Citizens
It’s hard being this white. Have you ever tried to buy sunblock that actually keeps you from turning bright red immediately upon leaving your home with skin this white? You don’t understand their problems, blue man!
On second thought they are probably bright red from all the yelling at the outside world that also happens immediately upon leaving their homes…
My boss the other day was telling us how excited he was for the new Thor movie. He continued on and began discussing the whole Norse mythology, etc. etc., until he finally asked, “Wait, who’s the head guy? What’s his name?” And aftwer much thought he landed on, “… ZEUS! That’s it! Zeus was the head guy!”
As a giant mythology dork, All I can say is
My boss is a treasure trove of this stuff. He likes to feign interest in other cultures, but be does so in that kind of offensive way where he asked a few Jewish coworkers “So what’s Chanukah all about?” and made them explain most of the Jewish religions during a pitch meeting.
Err. Holidays, Jewish holidays. Bear with me folks, I’m on disk two of my English Rosetta Stone software.
So your boss is basically David Brent.
PRECISELY!
This was the only example in recorded history of someone requiring an explanation of anything Jewish. I say this as one of the many Jews who runs Hollywood.
Ughhhhh, “…someone participating in a pitch meeting requiring an explanation of something Jewish.”
When I was visiting the Parthenon, it was all I could to stop myself correcting people explaining to their children and significant others about Venus and Mars and (I kid you not) how Athena was Zeus’s wife.
Uh, why did you stop yourself? I mean, sure it’s dickish, but only if they want to be wrong. I love being corrected.
I love going to museums and eavesdropping on parents misinforming their children about exhibits. Second favorite: parents who are giving their small children accurate info only by cribbing it in surreptitious glances at the plaques, so the kids will just think “Wow, Dad knows everything!”
Okay, the second favorite is awesome. So long as the kid is still young enough to pick up on it, because once they figure it out, if the dad still does it, it is depressing for everyone.
is your third favorite when parents get abortions?
Only when it is done in museums. Even then it is only fourth, behind if it turns out the cafeteria has reasonable prices on cake.
I do the second favorite to friends, now. It’s amazing how many people just don’t read the plaques.
have you tried doing the third favorite?
Steve, I’ve grown to love you, but the abortion thing is wearing very thin. It’s not that it’s offensive – I’ve laughed at my fair share of abortion jokes – but you’re lacking context in most of them. More often than not, you just say the word “abortion” to get a response.
Work the abortion angle by all means. But give us a punchline. Again, it’s not the content that I have a problem with, it’s the context. Although much of your laughs come from your trollishness, you’ve transcended that. You’re better than saying the word “abortion” and leaving it cold.
Jesus, did I just try to talk comedy ethics with Steve Winwood? Again, goodnight.
I enjoy the works of Ingmar Bergman and I enjoy you. You’ve accumulated enough kudos (to appropriate the vernacular of the Dwellers of Nasqueron, in a pointless demonstration of what a nerd I am) that even if you’d said something dumb it wouldn’t matter too much.
Debates about comedy ethics are what being human is all about, I think, unless fortune cookies have LIED to me all these years, but they haven’t, I’m pretty sure, THOSE TWO-FACED BASTARDS! YOU COOKIES, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?! YOU HAVE NOT EARNED THE RIGHT TO JUDGE ME!!!
It’s like Steve heard people saying abortion jokes were never funny, and in a misguided attempt to prove them wrong he makes abortion jokes any moment he can, never realizing that he’s actually lending more credence to the argument he is trying to work against.
I’m a huge comic book nerd, so staying true to the source material is a really big thing for me. However, even though I stopped and realized who Elba was, I was actually more excited. Elba is a great actor and I’m sure they hired him not to piss off a bunch of shitty back-asswards groups, but because he does what he does best (“Product, mawfuckaz. Product.”). Also: Really, Council of Conservative Christians? You waited until now to take a stand at Marvel Comics? Even though virtually all of their flagship characters were created by two Jewish men in the 1960′s? You guys are racist pieces of dogshit.
I refuse to think “staying true to the source material” should ever mean “keeping the character’s race intact.” Are you saying that if it wasn’t Idris Elba but rather like, Tyler Perry, you would object based on sticking to source material? And not based on Tyler Perry sucking? Wait, Tyler Perry is too easy for this question. What if it was Will Smith?
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Moshbuu, I’m assuming you didn’t know that when Mark Millar wrote “The Ultimates” in Marvel’s Ultimate line of comic books he had Nick Fury fashioned to look like Samuel L. Jackson b/c he felt he was today’s badass. He actually asked Jackson if he could use his likeness in the books. Volumes 1 & 2 are a great read.
I also agree in principle, but I think it may be a little bit different in the comic book medium. The reason being is that instead of opening a novel without illustrations, the mind is open to depict what a character looks like (unless he/she has an ethnic last name or description). But when you open a comic, you are given a character that is already designed by an artist and writer and can be the blueprint for a character for the next 50 years, such as Thor. There are a lot of comic fans who grew up with these characters since childhood, and the slightest change such as a blue instead of red cape or giving them organic web-shooters (nerd!) can upset someone very easily. And I can understand some people who are a little irked at the fact that Elba’s character is not white in the movie. And it’s definitely not because of some bullshit that it’s an attack on the white race blah blah blah racist racist racist shut up. That group is filth. Also: I don’t want to see Will Smith as any comic book character. Hancock was stupid.
There’s a lot more to a character than what they look like though, and if there’s a black actor who audition for a white part and just nails everything else, I want that actor playing the part.
I definitely agree with you, but you may have a little bit of trouble explaining that to the creator or the long-term fan base.
Hulk so confused where he stands on issue.
I don’t know, feminist Hulk recently tweeted that she Hulk Smashes for all forms of social justice!
I think you misspelled the group’s name, it’s actually Kouncil of Konservative Kitizens.
awww, I want a kitizen
the new green lantern is white….
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
Hold up everybody, what if Marvel really does have a deep-seated hatred of conservative ideals? Maybe the X-Men are a metaphor for civil rights? Maybe Iron Man’s secret propaganda is that rich people could help others instead of getting plastered and having heart problems? And I don’t think Ayn Rand would approve of Uncle Ben’s idea that “with great power comes great responsibility.” The “Invisible Woman?” Seriously? Feminazi alert! Holy shit, my whole childhood was an inculcation against the white man’s heritage.
Now I feel weird about being more of a DC guy. Am I a conservative idealouge?
Well, you got… um… Batman?
You know, from hereon in, no matter what, that is going to be my default method of consolation.
Decontexualized awesome lines are my favorite thing,
I suppose we could make that argument based on Superman, but then where does Image come in? Anarchists?
I’m a DC guy first and foremost, and now that I think about it, they have:
-the illegal alien (from Krypton)
-Wonder Woman’s island that gets along fine without men
-a coalition of sector cops led by blue and white little guardians… like the UN, but intergalactic
-Aquaman? Come on, DC, the oceans are for polluting, not protecting!
However, Batman is a weird mix of libertarian/fascist. Though I can’t help but like him the best. Sort of like Jack Donaghy.
I feel much, much better now. Except for Aquaman. I swear, it’s possible to make him a great character.
Oh, downvotes. I know that a negative person with way too much time is just running rampant in the threads, but whenever there are downvotes for no reason, I like to imagine someone being really, really, really irrationally upset at a topic: Nerds! Comic book nerds! I hate you! Oh, how I ruled over you in middle school, and even high school. I laughed at those teachers who said nerds would one day be happier, more successful than I, a popular kid. How I scoffed! How wrong I was, oh how wrong I was. Now, back to (insert profession here, because at this point in my life I can’t really think of a profession that implies miserable failure since in all the ones I was taught to look down upon as a child, I have found happy, successful people — I’m looking at you Tom, janitor at my old college.)
More fuel for my theory!
isn’t most intelligent entertainment pretty much right on about how stupid conservatism is? I mean, if you’re so fucking stupid that you think a black actor can’t play a god, then you probably are kind of right to feel threatened by this.
feel threatened stupid assholes. be very sad and uncomfortable. it’s nice that you’re sad.
It’s nice that these assholes let us all know when they feel threatened. They might as well be wearing a sash that says “Don’t date me, non-garbage people!” across the front.
(Mother is a killer movie, pun definitely intended)
Those poor white people! They have NOTHING! Won’t somebody think of the white people??
Stories like this always make me think of my favorite Preacher panel (about racist dickbags):
Preacher!
PREACHERRRRRRRR!
Aren’t these dudes supposed to be starring in next summer’s Captain America movie?
ask yourself that question next time you’re alone
As the bad guys, I mean.
So…this movie about the Norse gods, in particular one Norse god with long flowing blonde locks of hair who gets around by just flinging his giant hammer into the air and holding onto it, so he can fly…who ends up coming down to Earth and joining a clan of costumed superheroes called The Avengers…
This was all realistic and authentic, until they cast a black dude as one of those Norse gods up in Asgard? Just checking.
Also, rascism and white supremacy are ‘conservative values’? I mean, I always suspected this was the case, but I didn’t think they’d ever be so upfront about it. Yes, this is what we value. Good old-fashioned American racism.
I heard they original cast Daddy Yankee as Odin.
The really offensive part is that these characters are gods and they are casting mortals to play them!
Plagiarist commenter!