I feel like even colonialist academics of the 30s would not say "it belongs in a museum" abt an idol protected by operational traps including a giant rolling boulder, maintained by the indigenous people. I feel like they would let that one go, out of self preservation at least
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Or, in other words: Indiana Jones isn't a pulp academic with the racist attitudes "of his times," he's a terrible academic in any era and also a mercenary who uses an incoherent racist justification to seek glory or money
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I feel like reading Doctor Aphra comics makes this really apparent, she's exactly like him except that she suffers consequences and gets kicked from academia
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Similarly, his pederasty isn't actually excused by anyone in his time, which is why his victim sets her bar on fire rather than willingly interact with him, is a self destructive alcoholic, and doesn't actually forgive him even after he helps her survive a Nazi kidnapping
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Huh. I missed all this, on my last rewatch I was just super distracted by him using a bunch of Arab children as human shields against Nazis
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In the finished movie there is no explicit confirmation that Marion was underage, just her yelling "I WAS A CHILD" at him (which if you want you can just interpret her as being of age but still too young for the relationship to be healthy, like 20 when he was 30)
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That said the official novelization just goes ahead and tells us she was 15 and he was 27
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