Photo courtesy of Antonio MartÃnez
A guest post from Ian Coburn of www.lunchisnotadate.com
The other night I went to see Gran Torino with a couple friends. To call Clint Eastwood’s character a hardcore racist is an understatement; yet, despite his constant spewing of cliché racist rhetoric, the crowd spent the majority of the flick laughing at his comments. How is that possible? Did the staff hand us all white hoodies as we entered the theater?
We laughed because the comments were way over the top and continual, being uttered …
