'Twilight' Author would only agree to casting black actor if he played a villain - Slit your wrists twi-hards

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Mormons not liking black people, gee, what a surprise.

To expand on this for those who may not know:

While Joseph Smith, Jr. was relatively egalitarian for his day, Brigham Young (the second prophet) was particularly racist. When Young took over the church, he banned Blacks from entering the priesthood (which is something all Mormon men are supposed to do; they have a volunteer clergy and will make up a position for a member if they don't have enough to go around). The justification was that, being the sons of Ham or whatever, they didn't have the character to be trusted with that.

Since the Mormons told the Blacks they were shifty trash and since they excluded them from a huge chunk of church life, and since the Mormons also lived way out in the far west, they naturally didn't gain many members among them.

The Church didn't abandon its rules until the 1970s, when the Federal government threatened to take away their tax-exempt status unless they changed their rules. The Church now likes to ignore that it ever happened and they present that cringey, diverse advertising appearance in their materials, but it would be safe to assume that there's still tons of Mormons who have a sharp hostility towards Blacks.

Latinos, on the other hand, they have a strange, positive fixation on that comes from their theology.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Mormons are vampires.

Mormons not liking black people, gee, what a surprise.

Where the fuck would you get the idea that Mormons are racist from?

To expand on this for those who may not know:

While Joseph Smith, Jr. was relatively egalitarian for his day, Brigham Young (the second prophet) was particularly racist. When Young took over the church, he banned Blacks from entering the priesthood (which is something all Mormon men are supposed to do; they have a volunteer clergy and will make up a position for a member if they don't have enough to go around). The justification was that, being the sons of Ham or whatever, they didn't have the character to be trusted with that.

Since the Mormons told the Blacks they were shifty trash and since they excluded them from a huge chunk of church life, and since the Mormons also lived way out in the far west, they naturally didn't gain many members among them.

The Church didn't abandon its rules until the 1970s, when the Federal government threatened to take away their tax-exempt status unless they changed their rules. The Church now likes to ignore that it ever happened and they present that cringey, diverse advertising appearance in their materials, but it would be safe to assume that there's still tons of Mormons who have a sharp hostility towards Blacks.

Latinos, on the other hand, they have a strange, positive fixation on that comes from their theology.

Dumb nigger.

 

[omori]

Case in point

 

[CitizenJane]

Why was the director trying to force Japanese people into a story about vampires in the first place? Do they speak in Moon Runes in Transylvania too?

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

Mormons are vampires.

Where the fuck would you get the idea that Mormons are racist from?


Dumb nigger.

I don't know the veracity of this cartoon, but supposedly, the black race are made from spirits who remained neutral in the War of Heaven that happened before the founding of Earth:

I'm not sure where they'd fit within the overall plan of salvation, but it seems apparent that, for a long time at least, the Mormons looked down on them for being moral inferiors.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I don't know the veracity of this cartoon, but supposedly, the black race are made from spirits who remained neutral in the War of Heaven that happened before the founding of Earth:

I'm not sure where they'd fit within the overall plan of salvation, but it seems apparent that, for a long time at least, the Mormons looked down on them for being moral inferiors.

Not exactly.

The angels who sided with Satan became demons.

The angels who fought for God became Mormons.

The angels who were neutral didn't become either.

So, Blacks are in the same category as 99% of humanity.

 

[Bread Fetishist]

To expand on this for those who may not know:

While Joseph Smith, Jr. was relatively egalitarian for his day, Brigham Young (the second prophet) was particularly racist. When Young took over the church, he banned Blacks from entering the priesthood (which is something all Mormon men are supposed to do; they have a volunteer clergy and will make up a position for a member if they don't have enough to go around). The justification was that, being the sons of Ham or whatever, they didn't have the character to be trusted with that.

Since the Mormons told the Blacks they were shifty trash and since they excluded them from a huge chunk of church life, and since the Mormons also lived way out in the far west, they naturally didn't gain many members among them.

The Church didn't abandon its rules until the 1970s, when the Federal government threatened to take away their tax-exempt status unless they changed their rules. The Church now likes to ignore that it ever happened and they present that cringey, diverse advertising appearance in their materials, but it would be safe to assume that there's still tons of Mormons who have a sharp hostility towards Blacks.

Latinos, on the other hand, they have a strange, positive fixation on that comes from their theology.

That suddenly makes this line in I Believe from The Book of Mormon a lot cleverer.

And I believe that in 1978 God changed his mind about black people

 

[frozenrunner]

You guys should really read the article, because while BET is certainly claiming the director said these things, the actual quotes they're using don't support it. The only actual claim to 'racism' is that Meyer didn't want characters who were white in the book, and were based on real white people she knew, to be racewashed for sake of diversity.

Unironically based and redpilled.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

the only other Twilight fans I've come across were weird, uncomfortable autist dudes. Odd

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

the only other Twilight fans I've come across were weird, uncomfortable autist dudes. Odd

Not the legions of moms who wanted to bone RPatz?

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Not the legions of moms who wanted to bone RPatz?

I live in a weird area, ok?

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I live in a weird area, ok?

I forgive you. Be glad you were spared lol

 

[StarkRavingMad]

A lot of nerds say that Twilight was the thing that killed Comic Con, and I'd have to agree.

Cons are hardly comic book conventions anymore. They're pop culture conventions now.

 

[Gordon Cole]

I remember people late last year were trying to revise Twilight hate as coming from dang, dirty white males who didn't let women have fun instead of Stephenie Meyer's weird Mormon approach to romance.

I take it this would put the kibosh on all that.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Lindsay Ellis did that Dear Stephanie Meyer video....

 

[millais]

I thought the Mormons are getting many of their converts in recent years by sending missionaries to Subsaharan Africa

 

[ProgKing of the North]

I thought the Mormons are getting many of their converts in recent years by sending missionaries to Subsaharan Africa

must've already converted all the Polynesians

 

[LordofTendons]

I remember people late last year were trying to revise Twilight hate as coming from dang, dirty white males who didn't let women have fun instead of Stephenie Meyer's weird Mormon approach to romance.

I take it this would put the kibosh on all that.

Twilight hate came from maybe two or three different places, but not really from men. White males for the most part took the girls and the Twilight moms to the movies and in some cases they even read the books. One guy had a blog called "that guy reading Twilight" or something to that effect so that he could ride Meyer's coattails when he published his own junk. In general it was women who didn't want other women to have fun.

I thought the Mormons are getting many of their converts in recent years by sending missionaries to Subsaharan Africa

I thought that was a musical by the South Park guys.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

It was definitely one of the first times I saw the actors genuinely despise the material they were working with. (Tho the infamous GoT table read still is still high on the list)

I'm suddenly reminded of the creepy baby gifs, like that Bradley Cooper War film, and Dakota Fanning throwing a baby in the fire or something.

Anna Kendrick forgot she was in that shit, and clearly Bryce Dallas Howard and Michael Shannon were only there for the $$$$$

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

‘Twilight’ Author Would Only Agree To Casting Black Actor If He Played A Villain

Director Catherine Hardwicke is spilling all the tea about author Stephanie Meyer.

www.bet.com

Crazy Mormon Stephanie Meyer was very very specific about what she wanted for her Twilight series in film. Director Catherine Hardwicke revealed that she wanted poc actors, for example a Japanese actress, but Meyer instead opted for a black guy to be the villain because racism. Said villain is described as "olive-skinned" (Katniss anyone?) in the books.

Her name is spelled Stephenie, for no reason in particular I figure. Did her parents really want a Stephen and just say screw it?

Anyhoo, you'd think a negro oriented publication would be sensitive to off-beat spellings of names.