At the risk of being labeled a racist yet again, I’m here to pit people who are hypersensitive to anything that can possibly be perceived or interpreted as any kind of insult.
In this case, it’s people who think LEGO’s “Jabba’s Palace” toy is insensitive because it resembles a mosque - inasmuch as it has a main round building and a tower.
I’d say the LEGO toy looks a lot more like Jabba’s palace from ROTJ than it does the Hagia Sophia. The tower doesn’t quite match up to Jabba’s palace, but it doesn’t match the HS either.
If someone wants to get pissy about it, they ought to be yelling at George Lucas. Or maybe Jabba. Or maybe they should just STFU.
You should’ve pitted Lego for being a bunch of pussies and giving more muslims the idea that if they don’t like something they can throw a hissy fit and get it banned from the world.
Wanna see some Lego racism, take a look at their Pirates of the Caribbean Lego set. I know it’s based on a movie chockablock with racism, but still, you’re gonna make your only* black Legos with bones in their noses? Seriously?
edit: okay, apparently the bone is in their hair, not their nose.
They didn’t cave. The set was already scheduled to go out of production at the end of the year. All Lego did here was issue an empty apology and continue on about their business as if nothing had happened.
Colonials did not call the Indians “Native Americans.”
I guide historical walking tours and do Revolutionary War era reenacting in my home town, which was once the home of the Wampanoags.
Seventeen years ago, I started out calling the natives “Indians.” In time, I heard suggestions that we really should refer to them as “Native Americans,” so, partly because I work for an official government office, I started calling them “Native Americans.”
Until I heard that the Indians don’t much like to be called “Native Americans”–from an elder Indian leader himself, in fact. And, of course, the people living in the 1770s time period I reenact didn’t call them “Native Americans” either.
So I call them Indians again, despite the looks I sometimes get from the soccer moms who are chaperoning their kids’ field trips.
It does look similar, but I’m surprised this is the focus of the outrage. Why aren’t morbidly obese Republicans up in arms over being stereotyped so offensively?
The offensive thing isn’t that LEGO was implying that Jabba the Hutt is Muslim. They were implying he was a Turk!! Which is highly offensive, because we all know that Jabba was Greek.
