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[SilentRacoon]

For shame Eastwood, for shame.

 

[bionic77]

I'm not giving old men a pass, because you can be old and still be a decent human being.

You can also be old and become a different person entirely because of a mental illness that was no fault of your own.

 

[DOWN]

'When I grew up as a straight white male, we made sure no one had the power to point out racism'

 

[Glass Shark]

Old man thinks obviously racist stuff isn't racist. Shocking.

 

[rhandino]

‘Oh, well, that’s racist,’ and they’re making a big hoodoo out of it. Just f—king get over it. It’s a sad time in history.”

 

[Red]

Well Clint's right. Trump is onto something. And whatever it is he's holding it tight as he can as he and his poll numbers plummet. FiveThirtyEight has him at less than 9% on the now cast. And sure that's not the most predictive metric. But remember he was leading this thing a week ago.

 

[SaganIsGOAT]

Clint Eastwood is the perfect example of a human who got too old.

haha

racist old white man says that people should stop being pussies and just get over racism

interesting

 

[Caelus]

I agree with him on the get over it part.

So we should just 'get over' instances of racism? This really begs explanation. Or maybe not.

 

[Arrogant Bastard]

Don't do this Clint.

Do what, he's been doing it for a while.

 

[fr0st]

Clint Eastwood is the perfect example of a human who got too old.

Other old people aren't like him though.

 

[Empyrean Heaven]

Whelp, not seeing Sully now. Not that I would anyway. Still amazes me Tom Hanks signed onto that since he's politically the opposite end from Eastwood.

 

[SaganIsGOAT]

Other old people aren't like him though.

it's a Bill Burr joke lol

 

[mephixto]

We gonna be 80 or more someday and something we believe now as forbiden or taboo gona me a normal thing, most will be against it, the few will still believe is bad but undestand that times change and accept it.

Have some empathy for your future 80's self.

Time has passed and we have better undestanding and tolerance for most of the things that were considered bad decades ago, it gonna happend to us.

 

[Ivan 3414]

Morgan Freeman sort your boy out, shit.

The same Morgan Freeman who said racism will cease to exist when everyone stops talking about it?

 

[Crayons]

Whatever happened to the good old days when I could be openly racist, sexist, and homophobic and no one would mind? America really is going down the tubes. Minorities need to just suck it up and vote for Trump, he'll make America great again (for old white men like myself)

 

[ActWan]

From the Director of American Sniper, ya'll.

 

[MMarston]

Clint Eastwood is racist.

News at 11.

The irony is that we're talking about the same guy behind Letters from Iwo Jima and Gran Torino

 

[gruenel]

Reality sucks sometimes.

Well I'll try my best not to become a racist fuck in 50 years.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Clint Eastwood is an 80 year old white man who has lived most of his life rich and privelaged. Consider me shocked that he's totally out of touch with why the kind of rhetoric that idiots like Trump preach is kinda hard for some people (you know, the ones that aren't fortunate enough to be rich and white) is a little hard to 'get over'. He can go fuck right off a cliff.

 

[SaganIsGOAT]

god dammit lol I can't believe they did that

I also can't believe I saw this film in theaters.

 

[FinalStageBoss]

Fuck off you old shit bag.

 

[Netherscourge]

Does it pee and cry too?

Spoiler

(asking about Eastwood)

 

[ChryZ]

No! You don't just get over it, because if you do, then you end up with a "Trump situation".

EDIT: e.g. https://vp.nyt.com/video/2016/07/17/41314_1_offensive-trump_wg_360p.mp4

 

[Darksol]

I enjoy a lot of his movies but I don't think I'll be sad when he dies.

 

[Bold One]

He's old and doesnt give a fuck!

 

[Officerrob]

Old rich white guy just so happens to be an ignorant crotchety fuck, not exactly shocking news

 

[wumster3000]

Fuck you Clint.

 

[Greddleok]

Kinda gross how many replies are essentially "lol old person"

 

[BotoxAgent]

Kinda gross how many replies are essentially "lol old person"

get over it!

 

[dabig2]

Fuck you, Clint. My afro-Cuban grandfather is a couple years older than you so he grew up around the same era. And he definitely viewed it as racist back then considering he was a constant victim of that shit.

 

[Beartruck]

Eastwood has always been a huge asshole. Back in the 70's and 80's, he put pressure on execs to basically blacklist one of his ex's.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

In my days we called them upstanding citizens amirite?

 

[WedgeX]

You know what was a sad time in history, Eastwood?

When directors could direct themselves raping women characters and claiming they enjoyed it.

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

Kinda gross how many replies are essentially "lol old person"

Yes, that's what's really bad here.

 

[NeonBlack]

Kinda gross how many replies are essentially "lol old person"

Are you trying to make us PC? They're only speaking their mind.

 

[Man Called Aerodynamics]

"Both sides do it" and "he's just not politically correct". It's like a greatest hits of terrible arguments for Trump.

 

[Two Words]

I wish somebody had said to him "Clint, when you grew up, society was trying its hardest to keep black people away from white people in all ways possible."

 

[ISOM]

Kinda gross how many replies are essentially "lol old person"

Eastwood would tell you to get over it.

 

[ebullientprism]

"When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.”

Seriously. You cant even call black people niggers nowadays without being called a racist.

 

[iamaustrian]

people admire the star/hero character without realising that, in reality, their idolized "super"man is just a racist old fuck. (see also John Wayne)

the only "good ol times" I can agree with is with videogames.
VGs were just more videogames(=fun) back in the 8/16bit days.

 

[davepoobond]

This is the guy that directed Gran Torino?

 

[Africanus]

While I don't condone his point of view, I pretty much agree with this. There will come a time when the people getting worked up about this are the ones being castigated for their views by a younger generation.

Instead of getting annoyed about it I prefer to look at it as a sign of progress. We are a product of our time, whether we like it or not.

You know there are old progressives right?

One's age is not an excuse for their viewpoint.

 

[Toa TAK]

This is the guy that directed Gran Torino?

Well he did talk to a chair.

 

[Movement]

Well Clint's right. Trump is onto something. And whatever it is he's holding it tight as he can as he and his poll numbers plummet. FiveThirtyEight has him at less than 9% on the now cast. And sure that's not the most predictive metric. But remember he was leading this thing a week ago.

The important information in the now cast is the strength of the lead. Hilary is polling at almost 8 points ahead of Trump. She's gained a significant amount of ground during this Trump implosion

 

[Ponn]

We gonna be 80 or more someday and something we believe now as forbiden or taboo gona me a normal thing, most will be against it, the few will still believe is bad but undestand that times change and accept it.

Have some empathy for your future 80's self.

Time has passed and we have better undestanding and tolerance for most of the things that were considered bad decades ago, it gonna happend to us.

The problem is they still hold influence. Many people take 'respect your elders' as follow their lead. They vote and even control a huge chunk of our political system. It's hard to just "tolerate" it when its jammed down your throats and frames your politics.

 

[Nibel]

Kinda gross how many replies are essentially "lol old person"

Get over it

 

[Kinyou]

Maybe he should rewatch Gran Torino

 

[HStallion]

Maybe he should rewatch Gran Torino

You should watch the director's cut where he goes on an ethnic cleansing spree.

 

[Dick Justice]

...because secretly everybody’s getting tired of political correctness, kissing up.”

A.K.A "Now I get to be a racist shitbag openly without worrying about being ostracised by the general public!"

 

[John Dunbar]

to be honest, i did not think eastwood would live to see another election after talking to that chair.