Clint Eastwood Goes Gunning for PC Killjoys by Saying We Should Laugh at Race-Based Jokes

But didn’t Clint Eastwood kinda succumb to this mentality during the prime of his acting days? Of course he can say it now that he won’t be making any more movies.

‘You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth otherwise you will be insulted as a racist.”

Way to go Mr. Eastwood, all the way; you even got the word “racist” correct. It is nothing but a petty insult, and a shut up word for the terminally stupid, and the perpetually aggrieved!

Again, way to go Mr. Eastwood!

Please all, enjoy this great Clint Eastwood clip; it is a perfect metaphor for “multicultural” life in the USA, 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awskKWzjlhk

John PM!

The fact is jokes about different races have never stopped being made by people in the media.The problem is that only ones which is made fun of are white people.

when I saw Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’, everybody in the audience was
laughing as he let the racial slurs going flying. “Spooks” and “Gooks” and “Zipperheads”. (Notice I respectably capitalized the first letters). We are all different, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The only programs I ever liked on BET were the stand-up comic programs. Why? Because the black comedians on those shows were never diffident about joking about race, including their fellow black people.

As an example, one such black comic, after assuring his “beautiful black brothers and sisters” how much he “loved” them, told them that nonetheless, “ain’t no WAY” he would want a world run by black people. His prime reason? One would never get one’s pizza delivered within any semblance of a reasonable time. The overwhelmingly black audience roared its approval and appreciation of his insight. Any white comic making the same joke would have ended his career the very instant he uttered those lines.

But didn’t Clint Eastwood kinda succumb to this mentality during the prime of his acting days? Of course he can say it now that he won’t be making any more movies.

Posted by Question Diversity at 5:55 PM on February 27

In Unforgiven, he cast Morgan Freeman as his best buddy and there’s no mention of his blackness at all in the movie, from what I remember, much less any prejudice or the kind of language Clint’s talking about. One would think that would not be the case in Oklahoma right after the Civil War. There’s a scene where a Will’s piss-n-vinegar hothead partner is cursing Freeman’s character, and he refers to him as an SOB or somesuch. I can think of something both less PC and more historically accurate for him to have called Freeman. Then there’s a scene where Freeman partakes of white prostitutes and nobody blinks, which I find unlikely at best.

So Eastwood insults our intelligence to be PC in at least one of his movies, but now he objects? If so, he should come clean. He did quite a bit of pandering with The Outlaw Josey Wales, too, though it seems that was a bit of chaff so he could fly under enemy radar (TOJW is a very un-PC movie overall).

Atty Gen Holder said we are “a nation of cowards” when it comes to race. He is wrong, but many white people have been shamed and cowed into a fear of being called “racist”. We must not compromise truth out of fear of the pc police.

Reply to Question Diversity: You are on to something here.

Watch most of Eastwood’s movies from the 70’s and 80’s and you will see how he always had a black buddy and was very P.C. overall.

Eastwood reminds me of another Hollywood “conservative”, Charlton Heston. Heston was a raving civil rights lunatic in his youth. He never made the connection between those social wedge issues and the ultimate growth and expansion of government into all areas of our life. Eastwood is similar. He may have conservative instincts, but what good does that do us this late in the game? It would have been nice to hear this back in the seventies. Of course, his Hollywood handlers back then would have thrown him to the lions.

By making complaints or jokes about the tendencies of various races, instead of remaining silent, overall violence is eventually lessened, because people get a more accurate picture of the state of mind of their fellow men.

When such statements are forbidden or socially punished to severely, it is the frustration due to a lack of understanding of each others sense of fair play and justice that causes much of the violence. At least when there are jokes and complaints made without fear, they can get a feel for each other’s mindset, and truces and settlements tend to get made.

Xenophon above: You are so correct. Heston was too stupid to realilze the assault on the Second Amendment and Right to own guns is caused by the Civil Rights he fought for while a young, vain and stupid actor.

The increase in crime, the protection of minorities, the special treatment of minorities and the constant demand and threats by minorities are behind the desire of the leadership to destroy the Bill of Rights.

Pre 1965 when America was naturally 95% WHITE, you could buy a gun anytime, anywhere and even through the mail. Noway today. With today’s “equality” religion, we whites have FEWER rights in the country we founded and built.

Same with Eastwood. He sucked up to hollywood equality and “blacks are just like us” in his previous movies and now he wants to speak freely? We spoke FREELY in the 60’s, as I remember.

Two races can not co-exist. Ever.

Eastwood’s portrayal of a black man as being completely accepted in “Unforgiven” is the only false note in an otherwise brilliant film, but it’s so major that it almost ruins it for me. Freeman would have been addressed as “N” throughout the story, even by people who really liked him, because that was just the way back then. I like Eastwood, but it was really spineless of him not to portray that accurately.

Shame on you, Clint.

Also, Eastwood told Letterman last night that his next project will be about Nelson Mandela. Assuming it reaches completion, I’ve already decided to give it a skip.

I find it interesting that, on this website many people share their views of why liberals are wrong and that conservative/libertarian views are correct (myself included). Yet how are we to win anyone over to our side if we don’t allow for anyone to have made a mistake in the past? So Heston and Eastwood were liberals back in the day and wanted government intervention in all of our social ills. They are also people of Hollywood. The fact that they became conservative at all is a miracle living in Hollywood! Are we not to attain wisdom as we grow older. As far as Eastwood not making movies anymore, have you seen Gran Torino?

I recall once reading that the Soviet government, in the post-Stalin era, made it their business to keep up with the latest political jokes, because they wanted insight into what people were really thinking.

I discovered a long time ago; if you want to know the truth about what people are thinking; read ther magazines and publications.
Jet magazine opened my eyes to the truth about what the black race was thinkng. I haven’t been surprised by anything that they’ve done yet.
Political correctness has been a strong ally in their war on the white race. As long as we continue to bow to the false religion of “political correctness”; their power will continue to grow.
Political correctness needs to die. It will be the death knell of the white race if it does’nt.

Please let’s not look for any leaders in Hollywood to Speak out for people, the truth.

Hollywood is completely alien territory.

At best we’ll get some really old guy who finally feels he doesn’t have to be PC anymore and some of his old fans will get excited, want to run him for president, want to support another old Ronald Reagan.

No Thanks

We need a new start system, our stats, leaders can’t come from Hollywood.

And please, let’s not have anymore great hopes for Mel Gibson

“Atty Gen Holder said we are “a nation of cowards” when it comes to race.”
Yeah, let’s see how heroic holder might be - let him walk through the other side of DC at night unarmed and with no SS or bodyguards to keep him from getting jacked.
Sure, that’ll happen.

I agree with what Stateslave said; some people learn and grow, and there’s no point in demonizing them. And its unfortunate that excellent, brave writers like Heather McDonald (City Journal) are bashed - they wouldn’t be published at all if they were more outspoken than they already are.

Even Clint, when talking about Gran Torino, said that he didn’t have to worry about what he says because he was old. Children and old people are the only groups of people that will be honest and tell you what’s what. It’s the teens and adults that have to walk an eggshells because they have so much more to lose.

No great hopes for Mel Gibson? My only hope for him is that he will eventually stop making aweful “buddy” movies with Danny Glover and die in the loathesome obscurity he deserves.

The white Hollyweirdos less deserving of our admiration and money remain Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, but Gibson is quite icky.

Watch most of Eastwood’s movies from the 70’s and 80’s and you will see how he always had a black buddy and was very P.C. overall.

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Yes, he was always known to cast black actors in many of his films, although not always as heroes, and good guys. In his Dirty Harry films, it wasn’t at all unusual to see some of them cast as pimps and thieves, who he would aim magnum at, while calling them punks, and daring them to make his day. It could be, that he is feeling even less politically correct today, after Spike Lee aimed his verbal tirade at him. and I can’t blame him for that.

But didn’t Clint Eastwood kinda succumb to this mentality during the prime of his acting days? Of course he can say it now that he won’t be making any more movies.

Posted by Question Diversity at 5:55 PM on February 27

True…

But he’s saying it!

And we need it said.

I think it’s great that he said it.
It isn’t a lot, but it’s at least something, though admittedly a little late in coming.

A message to “Conflict” and “Observer”.

Stop with the Historical Hindsight After the Fact Judgements.

Conservatism is neither perfect nor the answer to the Worlds problems. It is merely a political and social preference among a group of people. And it has to be said that there WERE legitimate, or what were at least perceived to be, legitimate complaints against Conservative values, which were seen, rightly, as being too narrow, rigid, and parochial.
I think Conservatism has contributed mightily to our problems today, and the Left has merely exploited it, and we are ALL suffering the consequences. Forget Clint Eastwood, the RIGHT should own up to its part in our current cultural crisis. But it probably won’t, which is why I often go out of my way here to distance myself from it.
The Left is THE problem today, no question. But the answer in NO WAY will EVER come from the Right. That is not to say that they aren’t sometimes capable of making some astute observations, so no one should confuse the issue by suggesting I am saying otherwise.
The Right was so easily subdued by the Left exactly because the Right is merely the Polarized opposite of the Left, and always was. After all, they both come from the same Culture, ie; The West. Maybe the word we are looking for isn’t “Revolution” (which only leaves us with the same damned thing we started off with) but Transcendence. Transcendene from what?
Well, the Right and the Left!

The only ethnic jokes that are allowed are insults toward the descendants of Scotch-Irish patriots living in West Virginia and Kentucky. We are considered so trashy that even illeagal aliens look down on us. Last week at a bar in DC I heard two black congressional aids talking about my brothers. One asked the other Gucci shod black urban professional what a West Virginia virgin was. The other guy didn`t know. So this liberal elitist said, ” A five year old track star who can outrun her father and brothers.” If I had told a black joke like that, the FBI would have arrested me.
Charles B. Tiffany
Kissimmee, Florida

American liberals are cowards when it comes to race. They allow themselves and their children to be treated like dirt and they will not stand up and defend themselves. They instead get on their knees and support their oppressors.

“…It could be, that he is feeling even less politically correct today, after Spike Lee aimed his verbal tirade at him…”

Posted by Anonymous at 8:00 PM on March 1

Although spike lee is a vicious, anti-White racist, I am not aware of any attack (it would have to be verbal as spike lee is a dwarf) directed at Eastwood.

If you have any information about a lee-generated rant against Eastwood, by all means post it.

Spike lee did, however, launch a tirade against Charlton Heston, at that time the director of the National Rifle Association.

Here’s the reference from an article by Larry Elder entitled, “Millionaire spike lee: Victim of the White Man”:

“…The Academy Award-nominated director said that the National Rifle Association ‘should be disbanded’ and that someone should take its president, actor Charlton Heston, and ‘shoot him with a .44-caliber Bulldog.’…”

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2065

I didn’t hear of any loud calls to boycott lee’s movies or for the MSM to censure this cretin in any way. Could you imagine if Heston (or Eastwood for that matter) had called for someone to shoot lee? His career would have ended on the spot.

BTW: I too refuse to capitalize the names of those for whom I have no respect.

Bon

I think these are the Spike Lee/Clint Eastwood references someone was referring too.
Lee: Eastwood Omitted Black Troops in WWII Films and Italian War Veterans Denounce ‘Insulting’ Spike Lee Film.
Pardon me if twenty other people answer your same question.

I bumped into this clip on youtube when looking for a different Clint Eastwood clip “Clint Eastwood vs. Spike Lee” (http://tinyurl.com/c43gjc).

Re: Clint Eastwood, I’ve always loved the guy. He’s Harry Dirty for goodness sake, sure he’s a jazz fan (not that there’s anything wrong with that) but surely his positives balance him out. To be in Hollywood it’s not a matter of being a liberal or not, it’s more so “how liberal are you”.
Sean Penn Tries Again for State Milk Day or Maddona going for a walk.
It’s a deviant world.

Clint Eastwood is a old school tough guy, who are a dying breed.
Eastwood reminds me of the late Jack Palance who was still doing one armed push up’s in his 70’s (http://tinyurl.com/arf3ml) or guys like Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin and Chuck Connors.
Us younger white males (I’m 36) don’t have many ‘complete’ tough white male role models in movies these days, well they’re dwindling.

And re Charlton Heston most of my peers think of his as ‘Ben Hur’, ‘the cold dead hands guy’(http://tinyurl.com/65gf6g
)and the racist guy interviewed by Michael Moore(http://tinyurl.com/ap6ba4).
I was surprised myself to learn that he stood next to MLK in Washington when he delivered the “I have a dream speech”.
I notice whites don’t really get much credit when fighting for civil rights when all is said and done. But if you say anything against it, well you know how it goes.

“If I had told a black joke like that, the FBI would have arrested me.”

Yes, and for being a coward and not telling the two “gentlemen” that you were offended, Eric Holder should arrest you for being a coward.

Although spike lee is a vicious, anti-White racist, I am not aware of any attack (it would have to be verbal as spike lee is a dwarf) directed at Eastwood.

If you have any information about a lee-generated rant against Eastwood, by all means post it.

Spike lee did, however, launch a tirade against Charlton Heston, at that time the director of the National Rifle Association.

Here’s the reference from an article by Larry Elder entitled, “Millionaire spike lee: Victim of the White Man”:

“…The Academy Award-nominated director said that the National Rifle Association ‘should be disbanded’ and that someone should take its president, actor Charlton Heston, and ‘shoot him with a .44-caliber Bulldog.’…”

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2065

I didn’t hear of any loud calls to boycott lee’s movies or for the MSM to censure this cretin in any way. Could you imagine if Heston (or Eastwood for that matter) had called for someone to shoot lee? His career would have ended on the spot.

BTW: I too refuse to capitalize the names of those for whom I have no respect.

Bon

Posted by BonBon at 5:56 PM on March 2
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While at Cannes film festival, Spike Lee decided to take a few swipes at Eastwood for intentionally leaving blacks out of his 2 WWII films, which were based on true stories. One was Flags of our fathers, that centered around the men who raised the flag there, and the other was Letters from Iwo Jima, about the Imperial Japanese Army. Lee made it sound as if black soldiers played a crucial role there, and that Eastwood intentionally slighted blacks, by leaving them out of both films.

Clint fired back in that Eastwood style of his, that Spike Lee needed to “Shut his face”, and stated outright, that blacks never fought at Iwo jima, and that the only role they served was to deliver artillery.

Lee was also looking to promote his heavily fictionalized flop, Miracle at St Anna, but only made a fool of himself in the process. Here is the link to what Lee said below.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/cannes/article3972316.ece

“the descendants of Scotch-Irish patriots”

WHy do people insist on calling this made up religious sub group of Irish people “Scotch-Irish”, despite DNA testing proving the majority of the planters in Ulster were of Anglo Saxon stock from the then English territories of Ayrshire and Cumbria?

Sorry, but that really gets my dander up.

After watching Gran Torino I cannot help but think that Clint Eastwood is as multicultural as the rest of them. While it is true that he calls the Hmong names he later says he’s got more in common with them than his own family and ends up dying to save an Asian boy. He’s also painted as the hateful old bastard that has to be mean to everyone just because he speaks his mind (like telling his son to stop selling foreign cars and buy a Ford).

I don’t know if “Scotch Irish” is a genetically accurate description, Conan, but it’s been in common use for centuries. I don’t get bugged when people call my group “Germans” instead of “Deutsch”, I just accept the fact that they’re ignorant and move on.

“Clint Eastwood {snip} says the world would be a better place if we could still laugh at inoffensive jokes about different races.”

Why “inoffensive”? The freedom to be offended comes with free speech. You either have it or you don’t. Americans, in theory, have it. Englishmen can now be jailed for seven years for publicly stating an illegal thought.

How interesting that our illegal thoughts, known as “hate speech”, are all related to artificial globalist taboos concerning race and culture. Eastwood’s comments are no more than a sneeze against a hurricane.

A “civil rights” official recently stated that white males were not covered by “civil rights” laws. I have no reason to doubt her judgement. I resent what eric holder said about whites being “moral cowards” for not cowering about “race”. I hereby state that I will NO LONGER give up my right to “freedom of association”. Since the “civil rights” laws don’t apply to me, I will choose who I associate with, both in business and in personal matters. There is NO WAY that I will EVER be forced to deal with anyone that I don’t want to ANYMORE.
If ALL (or most) white males do the same, we would be a force to be reckoned with.