Jeez, bfred—have you not been reading the comments saying there are a a plethora of excellent Southern Asian dancers in Los Angeles?

With THAT hot take?

Missed the point?

My point exactly, brilliantmistake.

As a White Man? I’d rather not.

I see you’re deeply resentful of anybody not Just Like You getting the same kind of help you didn’t even have to ask for to get.

I’m beginning to think not, ohnoray.

Hey, Steve’s got the billy club and gas mask to prove he was there!

There’s a subreddit called https://www.reddit.com/r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM/ , where you often hear comments like that....

...Or, let’s bluesky here—why not just play the scene from the movie itself?

I haven’t watched the Oscars in years, but I’m mostly annoyed at how Godsawful Hollywood’s idea of “Bollywood dancing” is. 

Do you want a medal, or a chest to pin it on?

Good point, there.

I don’t see not—thanks to Trump the rest of the world does!

bfred, this the the same Academy that gave Green Book Picture.

But The Mystic Orient, it is a strange and large place, Frank Walker Barr. It covers exotic lands from Egypt to India to Vietnam to Japan, all very dangerous for the unwary to travel....

Why, when a Brown Person’s culture is being appropriated by White people again? It’s one thing to watch The Guild do a Bollywood pastiche with “Game On!” because they took the time and respect to do a pretty spot-on version on a tight budget—but watching the “Bollywood number” in Season One of SMASH or the annual…

That you think that way, and feel privileged enough to let fly with it, Maxleresistant?

(Suppose Sudeikis now knows what it’s like to be unexpectedly interrupted at a public event.)