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So did they use the word "Jihad" in the new Dune movie or what? (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I can see how they got away with not saying any Arabic terms in the last movie, but come on, are they really gonna ret-con the whole vocabulary of the setting to avoid upsetting some cracker groypers?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (9 children)

i mean there's also the people who would correctly point out the orientalist appropriation of random arab cultural elements

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

That's a shallow reading. Herbert engaged very seriously with Islamic philosophy and the dynamics of colonialism; nothing about it was random. A white guy borrowing any elements from another culture is not sufficient to demonstrate orientalism, especially when he so obviously takes the side of the Future Arabs against Future Honkeys.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I think I'm gonna make a new handle offa yer joke there if that's ok

I need an alt and "Future Honkey" dovetails nicely with my love of bad puns and its proximity to gay space communism. Do you mind?