Breaking WHITE

Odradek

racism

Obā-san

Young actress Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) accidentally runs over a stray white German Shepherd dog one night. After the dog is treated by a vet, Julie takes him home while trying to find his owners. A rapist breaks into her house and tries to attack her, but the dog protects her so she decides to adopt him, against the wishes of her boyfriend (Jameson Parker). Unbeknownst to her, the dog was trained by a white racist to attack any and all black people on sight. It sneaks out of the house one night and kills a black trashman in an attack. Later, when Julie takes the dog to work with her, it attacks a black actress on the set.

Realizing something is not right with the dog, Julie takes him to a dog trainer, Carruthers (Burl Ives), who tells her to kill the dog. Another dog trainer named Keys (Paul Winfield), who is black himself, undertakes re-educating the dog as a personal challenge. He dons protective gear and keeps the dog in a large enclosure, taking him out on a chain and exposing himself to the dog each day and making sure he is the only one to feed or care for the dog.

The dog manages to escape, and kills an elderly black man in a church, after which Keys manages to recover him, and opts not to turn the dog in to the authorities, but to continue the training, over Julie's protests. He warns her that the training has reached a critical point, where the dog might be cured or go insane. He believes that curing the dog will discourage white racists from training dogs like this, though there is no indication in the story that this is any kind of national problem (the film is set well after the civil rights era the original novel was set in).

After a lengthy time, it seems as if the dog is cured, in that he is now friendly towards Keys. Julie confronts the dog's original owner, who has come to claim him, and who presumably trained him to attack black people. She angrily tells him the dog has been cured by a black man in front of his grandchildren, who only know the dog as a loving family pet.

As Julie and Keys celebrate their victory, the dog brutally attacks Carruthers, who is white, and whom the dog had not previously shown aggression towards--no explanation for this is given, but the implication is that the dog's programming has somehow been reversed, though that was never Keys' intention. To save his employer's life, Keys is forced to shoot the dog, and the film ends with the image of his body lying in the center of the training enclosure.

Misery

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Obā-san

Amen Breaking

Imipolex G

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Fossilmaiden

You Got Barium In My Meth!: Season 3

Viani

Fossilmaiden said:

You Got Barium In My Meth!: Season 3

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Viani

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Justice4243

So, if I understand the move's premise, correctly. It's that trying to break someone of racism is more likely to end in death and insanity, so it's simply better to shoot racists.

I guess I'm OK with the premise. 

Mr. Darcy

Uh, execution is hardly a just penalty for racism. Or for anything but homicide.

glennmagusharvey

Dirty Pillows said:

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I'm Glenn Magus Harvey, and I approve of this gameplay method.

Tachyon

Mr. Darcy said:

Uh, execution is hardly a just penalty for racism. Or for anything but homicide.

to be fair the dog was homicidal as well as racist so if the dog represents human racists the crime represented was murder

not that i think the death penalty is ever acceptable but yeah

Justice4243

Mr. Darcy said:

Uh, execution is hardly a just penalty for racism. Or for anything but homicide.

Sorry, Mr. Darcy. But you heard the confusing movie plot summary. It's time to shoot racists before they start going out and mauling the elderly.

Obā-san

The point of the movie is that, while you can stop people from being racist, you cannot stop them from being hateful

glennmagusharvey

Can I instead race shmups and cast Old on malls?

glennmagusharvey

What if they are stirp malls?

Tachyon

Justice42 said:

Sorry, Mr. Darcy. But you heard the confusing movie plot summary. It's time to shoot racists before they start going out and mauling the elderly.

Ahem

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this has been a public service announcement on behalf of IA Richards

Justice4243

Pangur Bán said:

The point of the movie is that, while you can stop people from being racist, you cannot stop them from being hateful

Well, too late.

I'm already in Texas where finding guns and racists should be a cinch, also I have a corporate card...

...I'm not sure if my rental Prius is a really bad car for this or a really appropriate one...

Tachyon

The important point is that your rental Prius does not have a vocal range between the C one octave below middle C and the A above middle C.

Mr. Darcy

Tachyon said:

to be fair the dog was homicidal as well as racist so if the dog represents human racists the crime represented was murder

not that i think the death penalty is ever acceptable but yeah

Right, it was a murder dog. I guess I was also thinking of Django Unchained, where Our Hero is blameless for killing any racist in his way.

Oh and I'm not for the death penalty either. While death is the just penalty for killing, wrongful conviction is too common and justice should be tempered by mercy, not treated as an absolute.

glennmagusharvey

Can we Texas?

Justice4243

Mr. Darcy said:

 justice should be tempered by mercy, not treated as an absolute.

DISAGREE! I'M TOO AWESOME TO BE DELUDED!

...We're figuring out awesome based on how much "My Little Pony" merchandise we all own, right?

Mr. Darcy

Wouldn't only Rainbow Dash merchandise count?

glennmagusharvey

JUSTICE IS TOO AWESOME TO BE DILUTED

Justice4243

RACISM!

Justice4243

Mr. Darcy said:

Wouldn't only Rainbow Dash merchandise count?

It's cooler than the rest, but only by 20%.

glennmagusharvey

JUSTICE!

Mr. Darcy

^ I don't know why people made a bigger deal out of the buffalo episode than this one.

And bigger than the way mules are treated.

And the way cows are treated.

Justice4243

I have scales.

And a sword.

I don't think I'd look as good in that plate-mail, though.

Justice4243

Mr. Darcy said:

^ I don't know why people made a bigger deal out of the buffalo episode than this one.

And bigger than the way mules are treated.

And the way cows are treated.

Sheep are basically imprisoned. 

Pony's are on top, bitches, and the further you are from one, the less likely you are to be a citizen.

Justice4243

...

OK, yeah, this is kinda fucked up...

Mr. Darcy

Over a Barrel actually stood out for how most of the mane cast took the buffalo's side against their own species once they explained the injustice.

Justice4243

PRINCESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE MURDERS COW AND PIG THEN EATS THEM, EQUESTRIA STRUGGLED TO CARE.

THERE ARE, LIKE, THREE BON-BONS OR SWEETIE DROPS OR MAYBE COMBINATIONS OF BOTH EVERYWHERE YOU GO.

WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?

glennmagusharvey

Tachyon

Mr. Darcy said:

Right, it was a murder dog. I guess I was also thinking of Django Unchained, where Our Hero is blameless for killing any racist in his way.

eh, i'd say slavery and torture are murder-tier offences

that and, y'know, taking moral lessons from Quentin Tarantino movies is probably a bad idea in general

Justice4243

...And that's why I'm not allowed to dance to "Stuck in the Middle With You", anymore.

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Tachyon said: Mr. Darcy said:Right, it was a murder dog. I guess I was also thinking of Django Unchained, where Our Hero is blameless for killing any racist in his way.


eh, i'd say slavery and torture are murder-tier offences

that and, y'know, taking moral lessons from Quentin Tarantino movies is probably a bad idea in general


I remember that David Duke was pissed at Inglourious Basterds.  This isn't particularly relevant, really, but I'm reminded of it and I don't know why.