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[Anakin McFly]

Was he one of the Religion board posters? Or was it a different sequence of numbers? My memory is going.

Anyway, he's been making very angry racist posts over on The Dark Tower boards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1648190/boa ... 0D%3Cbr%3E

[CashRules]

That's the same one.

[CashRules]

Holy shit, I just realized from reading gogo's posts, he's Mutha! I hate fuckwits who deny being racist while saying the most racist shit imaginable. Not only should it not be illegal to kill those cretins, it should be a fucking requirement.

[Cassius Clay]

Why is that bitch everywhere? I like how he tried so hard to pretend not to be racist all that time(which was transparent to me). But, once he was banned he just let it all out.

It looks like he hasn't posted since Jan 2, so hopefully that means he's dead.

[Monk]

I'm so happy he's no longer here. He was terrible. He makes all kinds of racist and misogynistic comments on the Video Games board on IMDB too

[aels]

You know when you hate someone and lots of other people are like 'Oh no, they're fine, you're overreacting' and then they turn out to be the worst and you get to sit in the warm glow of vindication and cackle to yourself? That happens to me a lot. You're not spiteful and unfriendly if you turn out to be RIGHT ABOUT EVERYONE.

[aels]

P.S. This is how you 'defend' casting Idris Elba in The Dark Tower: it's Idris Elba. Idris Elba could play me in a biopic of my life and I would be excited that they managed to get Idris Elba. Idris Elba could play me on my first day of primary school and all of my friends and family would be like 'Ooh, he's very charismatic'.

[CashRules]

If everybody would just base their opinion of other people on what I say, everything would work out a lot better. It's happening again on RFS. I've been saying for over a year that the creature calling itself "AbsolutelyGorgeousGoz" is a moron. Slowly people are starting to come around to my way of thinking. Just agree with me in the first damn place and you never have to worry about changing your opinions.

[CashRules]

Idris Elba could play every lead part in every movie and TV show being made and do them all simultaneously and still have time to kiss a few babies and slap a few women on the ass for good luck.

[Unvoiced_Apollo]

P.S. This is how you 'defend' casting Idris Elba in The Dark Tower: it's Idris Elba. Idris Elba could play me in a biopic of my life and I would be excited that they managed to get Idris Elba. Idris Elba could play me on my first day of primary school and all of my friends and family would be like 'Ooh, he's very charismatic'.

Idris Elba could make a walking, talking Disneyfied cape buffalo sound awesome (and he does!)

[Anakin McFly]

Oh, gogo is/was here? That explains why I initially thought "oh yay, someone from the Pit" and then I actually read his posts.

@aels

Meanwhile I don't know why people are calling this PC casting. It's not like the filmmakers sat down and went, "Hey, you know what? Let's make Roland black!! yay diversity! *high-five* Now, who should we get? Will Smith? Denzel Washington? Ooh, Idris Elba?"

at least then their accusations would have some merit. But there were a few white guys being considered alongside Elba, and in the end they decided to go with him despite his race, not because of it. and srsly Roland isn't even from Earth and has no conception of our racial dynamics.

From the director:

For me, it just clicked. He's such a formidable man," says Arcel, who says he's been a fan of Elba's since The Wire. “I had to go to Idris and tell him my vision for the entire journey with Roland and the ka-tet. We discussed, who is this character? What's he about? What's his quest? What's his psychology? We tried to figure out if we saw the same guy. And we absolutely had all the same ideas and thoughts. He had a unique vision for who Roland would be."

From Stephen King:

The author, who raves about Elba's recent work in the child-soldier drama Beasts of No Nation, says he hopes fans of the books have no problem accepting a man of color as Roland. “For me the character is still the character. It's almost a Sergio Leone character, like 'the man with no name,'" King says. “He can be white or black, it makes no difference to me. I think it opens all kind of exciting possibilities for the backstory."

and from an article floating around:

But that's also why Roland being black can work so well, because it lets Detta's rage have two textures instead of a single one ... her hatred towards Roland can easily be rewritten as the hatred of a race traitor. Roland isn't African American, and his world has no concept of black and white, per se. He looks upon her hatred with a blank sort of incomprehension, a man raised in a world without that particular societal construct. It would be positively treasonous in her eyes, to see this man who doesn't care about race, who kneels to no one, and carries iron on his hips. All that unconscious privilege and power in Roland is exactly what being white means as a social construction, and so changing the color of his skin without the substance of his character would ironically make him even whiter to Detta's eyes. And it makes the statements about race in the story that much more powerful.