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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Indiana Jones is straight up a villain protagonist, and given that it's George Lucas, I think it's reasonable to infer that he knows this
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Wasn't Lucas the one who wanted Marion to have been even younger, like 12, when Indy seduced her? From the way he talks about it, it doesn't sound like he would have seen that as villainous behavior.
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I dunno, it's really hard for me not to see not just that but basically everything Indy does in Raiders besides killing Nazis as evil, and contrasting with other 1970s content, I feel like my ethics are more in line with "the times" than his
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I mean Marion directly calls him out on it in Raiders
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail
Other than about (literally) fucking her, where?
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