Can't see a point when it isn't there. If your point is that I'm a racist troll, then my answer is this: actually know me as a person beyond you bleating like a baby because i don't like a movie you like and think art should be judged as art alone. short of that, your opinion has zero credibility. Period.

I must say, your smug assuming a total stranger is racist because they didn't like a movie you liked is utterly fascinating in its absurd immaturity and reactonism.

It was directed at me as an assumption of callous racist indifference to the current situations in this country, which is utterly insane of a conclusion to draw based on (again, again, again) my dislike of this film.

If you're wrong to make that assumption instead of seeing the point, then it is.

No, if you got 'racist troll' from what I wrote, clearly you're doing it wrong. Or do you think throwing such insulting assumptions at a stranger is steeped in the deepest of logic?

And I disagree that it was a brilliant film, which to you makes me a racist. I suppose I'm anti-robot for disliking Transformers?

You insulted me massively, you threw out all sorts of putrid assumptions about my character for having an opinion different than you. And I'm a stranger. Pot, meet kettle.

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Yes, and I never said otherwise. But you assumed all sorts of racial bullshit about a total stranger based on his plea for the art to speak for itself, and for him simply disliking a film. That's counter-productive. I think there's systemic reasons why more black filmmakers aren't out there, and it goes back to the…

THANK YOU. Not sure why that's a hard point to fathom, but apparently it is.

Yep, that's me! You called it! You should be my biographer, since you know so much about me.

I disliked a film. When that equals racism, let me know.

Yep, and clearly I meant it in a racial fashion. <——Note heavy sarcasm.

Is it possible, just maybe a little bit, that the better films were simply the white-made ones? Or are you arguing that POC are simply incapable of anything less than artistic excellence? Because if that's the case, there's a certain Tyler Perry I'd like to direct you towards.

It has no bearing on MY feelings about real-life situations, and that was the implication, that my dislike of Selma was somehow indicative of some great reservoir of apathy towards the plight of POC in this country (hint: no apathy here). At the end of the day, we're talking about a film. Just that. A film.

Again, disliking a film does not equal racism. Literally nothing in my original post was racist. Try again.

Again, nice way to respond to someone having an opinion you dislike.

Boy, that's a civil way to react to someone having a different opinion than you. Nice going on missing my point entirely.

It's true. It's just mix and match adhering to a boilerplate formula. He needs to shake it up a little.

How about rewarding the art itself, not the minority status of whomever was involved in making it?