Tarantino cop hate endorsed by Joyce Carol Oates
Quentin Tarantino has drawn much criticism for his loutish and lack-witted hate smear of American police during the Oct. 24 NYC #RiseUpOctober event.
According to Tarantino, police are "murderers," an epithet he repeated for rabble-rousing effect: "When I see murders, I do not stand by," he bellowed to a milling, placard-wielding mob. "I have to call a murder a murder, and I have to call the murderers the murderers!"
Author Joyce Carol Oates took to twitter recently, oddly defending Tarantino and venting her own distasteful anti-police bigotry:
Oates was creative -- if deceptively so. Tarantino had publicly smeared police in general as "murderers." But the upholding author dismissed inconvenient, objective reality, reinventing the director's broad-brush attack as courageous, respectable criticism merely and exclusively of brutality.
But Oates wasn't done. Her next post came soon after.
Again, her bilous imagining is not at all tethered to reality. In her fanciful interpretation, all police standing up for themselves against Tarantino's vile group slander are "defending police brutality."
Oates's pro-Tarantino/anti-police tweeting attracted the critical notice of USA Today.
Critics of Tarantino's foul-hearted rant now include police officials and nationwide units. Some 1000 units and 241,000 individual officers are participating in a boycott of Tarantino's films for The Weinstein Company. Departments in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere have called for box office retribution.
Members of the director's own family joined the growing chorus decrying the news camera-strutting anti-cop blusterer who became wealthy by churning out cookie cutter ultra-violent cinema.
Tarantino's father Tony and cousin Frank Gucciardi have each criticized the director in recent media coverage. Gucciardi is a former NYPD officer who was nearly killed in the line of duty. He is permanently disabled as a result.
In Quentin Tarantino's umbrella blaming of all law enforcement officers, Gucciardi is a "murderer." And Oates seems to agree.
Quentin Tarantino, Joyce Carol Oates, and Harvey Weinstein were all contacted for comment. None responded.
Quentin Tarantino has drawn much criticism for his loutish and lack-witted hate smear of American police during the Oct. 24 NYC #RiseUpOctober event.
According to Tarantino, police are "murderers," an epithet he repeated for rabble-rousing effect: "When I see murders, I do not stand by," he bellowed to a milling, placard-wielding mob. "I have to call a murder a murder, and I have to call the murderers the murderers!"
Author Joyce Carol Oates took to twitter recently, oddly defending Tarantino and venting her own distasteful anti-police bigotry:
It should not require unusual courage to protest police brutality as Quentin Tarantino has done but, evidently, it does.
Oates was creative -- if deceptively so. Tarantino had publicly smeared police in general as "murderers." But the upholding author dismissed inconvenient, objective reality, reinventing the director's broad-brush attack as courageous, respectable criticism merely and exclusively of brutality.
But Oates wasn't done. Her next post came soon after.
Ironic that police defending police brutality plan to boycott violent Tarantino films.
Again, her bilous imagining is not at all tethered to reality. In her fanciful interpretation, all police standing up for themselves against Tarantino's vile group slander are "defending police brutality."
Oates's pro-Tarantino/anti-police tweeting attracted the critical notice of USA Today.
Critics of Tarantino's foul-hearted rant now include police officials and nationwide units. Some 1000 units and 241,000 individual officers are participating in a boycott of Tarantino's films for The Weinstein Company. Departments in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere have called for box office retribution.
Members of the director's own family joined the growing chorus decrying the news camera-strutting anti-cop blusterer who became wealthy by churning out cookie cutter ultra-violent cinema.
Tarantino's father Tony and cousin Frank Gucciardi have each criticized the director in recent media coverage. Gucciardi is a former NYPD officer who was nearly killed in the line of duty. He is permanently disabled as a result.
In Quentin Tarantino's umbrella blaming of all law enforcement officers, Gucciardi is a "murderer." And Oates seems to agree.
Quentin Tarantino, Joyce Carol Oates, and Harvey Weinstein were all contacted for comment. None responded.
posted by DC Larson at
November 01, 2015
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