Sympathetic bigots in media

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Is there any sort of media out there where your protagonist is bigoted in any shape or form, and portrayed in a good light? And i don't mean in a "Learns that racism is bad in the end" kinda type, i mean more like "Good person, also unashamedly racist"

Bonus Q: Do you think there could be an audience for these kinda characters?
 
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Ethan Edwards might be the greatest. Hates Comanches to the point of shooting out their eyes to prevent them entering their afterlife. Loves his niece/daughter (there's debate on this) enough that he brings her back home to her family after she's been abducted and in all probability raped (not explicitly stated because it was the 50s) by the Comanches and then leaves the homestead because he doesn't really belong with the 'civilized' people.

The whole film of The Searchers is essentially about how civilization needs men like that to get to the point of prosperity but when civilization gets to a certain point it abandons men like that and considers them barbarians.


Also, any WWII Pacific Theater movie worth its salt...
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This is pretty rare. You would have to look into something that was made before 60s. I guess in the lord of the rings they don't like nigger orcs or regard fellow non-niggers as equal.
 
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Ethan Edwards might be the greatest. Hates Comanches to the point of shooting out their eyes to prevent them entering their afterlife. Loves his niece/daughter (there's debate on this) enough that he brings her back home to her family after she's been abducted and in all probability raped (not explicitly stated because it was the 50s) by the Comanches and then leaves the homestead because he doesn't really belong with the 'civilized' people.

The whole film of The Searchers is essentially about how civilization needs men like that to get to the point of prosperity but when civilization gets to a certain point it abandons men like that and considers them barbarians.


Also, any WWII Pacific Theater movie worth its salt should show the Allied troops hating the Japanese for very good reasons. Eugene Sledge remarked on seeing how a group of Marines had been mutilated by the Japanese after a battle that any sympathy he felt for them dried up at that point.
 
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Also, any WWII Pacific Theater movie worth its salt should show the Allied troops hating the Japanese for very good reasons. Eugene Sledge remarked on seeing how a group of Marines had been mutilated by the Japanese after a battle that any sympathy he felt for them dried up at that point.
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Was going to mention the Pacific War American/Japanese relationship. They don't go much farther than "Jap" if even that far in modern films, but a hatred of the Japanese is usually a staple of films centered around the American side of the war.
 
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Was going to mention the Pacific War American/Japanese relationship. They don't go much farther than "Jap" if even that far in modern films, but a hatred of the Japanese is usually a staple of films centered around the American side of the war.
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As I understand it, it wasn't at all limited to Americans. Any country that was subjugated by the Japanese- China, the Phillipines, etc- had a distinct hatred of their brand of total warfare.
 
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The Shadow said:
Ethan Edwards might be the greatest. Hates Comanches to the point of shooting out their eyes to prevent them entering their afterlife. Loves his niece/daughter (there's debate on this) enough that he brings her back home to her family after she's been abducted and in all probability raped (not explicitly stated because it was the 50s) by the Comanches and then leaves the homestead because he doesn't really belong with the 'civilized' people.

The whole film of The Searchers is essentially about how civilization needs men like that to get to the point of prosperity but when civilization gets to a certain point it abandons men like that and considers them barbarians.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ye_WN8ksoxg
Also, any WWII Pacific Theater movie worth its salt should show the Allied troops hating the Japanese for very good reasons. Eugene Sledge remarked on seeing how a group of Marines had been mutilated by the Japanese after a battle that any sympathy he felt for them dried up at that point.
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Really wanna watch this now
 
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