{"id":1781845,"date":"2022-12-20T14:47:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781845"},"modified":"2022-12-20T14:47:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:47:57","slug":"film-critic-ridiculed-after-accusing-avatar-2-of-cultural-appropriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/film-critic-ridiculed-after-accusing-avatar-2-of-cultural-appropriation\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Critic Ridiculed After Accusing \u2018Avatar 2\u2019 Of \u2018Cultural Appropriation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffilm-critic-ridiculed-after-accusing-avatar-2-of-cultural-appropriation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781845&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rotten Tomatoes film critic Kathia Woods was roundly mocked on Twitter after she claimed that the \u201cAvatar\u201d sequel was guilty of \u201ccultural appropriation\u201d of \u201cpeople of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woods, who writes for the Philadelphia Tribune and sometimes for NBC, called out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/james-cameron\">James Cameron\u2019s<\/a> \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water,\u201d because of white actors playing the roles of the fictional native alien race of Na\u2019vi\u2019s who are blue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/avatar-2-guilty-cultural-appropriation-film-critic-claims-ridiculed-tweet\">Fox News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point we gotta talk about the cultural appropriation of Avatar and white actors are cos playing (sic) as poc [people of color],\u201d Woods tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a mess and so not necessary &#038; no amount of visual effects\/GCI is gonna erase that,\u201d she added. \u201cBad Lace fronts\/ Dry synthetic braids. Jesus fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the Film and TV critic was mocked for comparing the blue aliens in the fictional film to \u201cpeople of color,\u201d Woods locked her Twitter account and made it private. However, several outlets caught the remarks before responses to her account were limited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJames Cameron didn\u2019t even try to find native blue people to play these roles smh,\u201d one reporter jokingly tweeted, along with a link to Woods\u2019s tweet.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">James Cameron didn&#8217;t even try to find native blue people to play these roles smh <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/84ibJzGlh2\">https:\/\/t.co\/84ibJzGlh2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewKerrNC\/status\/1604851579437215744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another joked in his tweet, \u201cIt\u2019s true. It\u2019s disgusting James Cameron didn\u2019t cast any actual Na\u2019vi actors in a movie about the Na\u2019vi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">it&#8217;s true. it&#8217;s disgusting james cameron didn&#8217;t cast any actual na&#8217;vi actors in a movie about the na&#8217;vi. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6ZxlXxO9mS\">https:\/\/t.co\/6ZxlXxO9mS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BecketAdams\/status\/1604864206876119040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, no we don\u2019t have to talk about it,\u201d another shared.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No, no we don\u2019t have to talk about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aHBoHxnNn4\">https:\/\/t.co\/aHBoHxnNn4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anna James Zeigler (@ajzeigler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajzeigler\/status\/1604862977118801921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And they weren\u2019t the only ones who had thoughts about the critic\u2019s accusations about a fantasy world of aliens.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Only nine-foot tall blue aliens can play nine-foot tall blue aliens in movies, apparently. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fxf8J2u5Lm\">https:\/\/t.co\/Fxf8J2u5Lm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan O&#8217;Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanODonnellShow\/status\/1604853378667974658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re so woke you start grouping made up aliens in with actual people of color,\u201d another writer wrote. \u201cLike this is so offensive, what the heck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point we gotta talk about how wokeness and people like Kathia Woods are ruining the entertainment industry with takes like this,\u201d one person <a href=\"https:\/\/ussanews.com\/2022\/12\/19\/film-critic-locks-down-twitter-account-after-being-mocked-for-saying-white-people-portraying-blue-aliens-in-avatar-movie-is-cultural-appropriation\/\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cPeople so bitter they cannot enjoy a fantasy film and it\u2019s (sic) message. Americans and their rabid race politics infecting the western world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome on you must know this is ridiculous, right? It\u2019s a sci-fi movie,\u201d another added. \u201cWe know the inspiration behind it, but it doesn\u2019t represent them. These are supposed to be blue aliens; nothing more, nothing less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woods later unlocked her Twitter account and responded to the backlash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/activists-rage-at-james-cameron-for-promoting-avatar-2-with-live-dolphin-show\">Activists Rage At James Cameron For Promoting \u2018Avatar 2\u2019 With Live Dolphin\u00a0Show<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rotten Tomatoes film critic Kathia Woods was roundly mocked on Twitter after she claimed that the \u201cAvatar\u201d sequel was guilty of \u201ccultural appropriation\u201d of \u201cpeople of color.\u201d Woods, who writes for the Philadelphia Tribune and sometimes for NBC, called out James Cameron\u2019s \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water,\u201d because of white actors playing the roles of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1781848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10642,7811,9663,4262,10643,4887,6202,5336,10644,6195],"class_list":["post-1781845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-cultural","tag-avatar","tag-9663","tag-accusing","tag-appropriation","tag-critic","tag-daily","tag-film","tag-ridiculed","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}