You really have to hand it to WWII era minorities for NOT KILLING EVERYONE EVER.

[kjpepper]

I think I should start a blog about old movies/shorts that make you die a little bit inside while watching them. For poops and ha has and while recovering from losing my shit and cleaning like a maniac all day (nothing like bleach and coffee to kill brain cells!), I called up The Good Earth on TCM OnDemand.

Wow. I mean... wow. Somehow white actors made up to look Chinese (and cringe-inducingly badly to boot)? Bothers me worse than blackface. I feel like just to maximize the horror I need to wash this down with the "Gallivanting Around" sequence from Showboat on repeat for a while, with an additional chaser of Coal Black and de Sebbin Dwarfs.

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[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Oh, god. When I saw Coal Black for the first time, I felt like I had to take a shower to wash off the racism. What the bleeding blue FUCK.

I have not seen the others you mention. Perhaps this is a good thing.