rant · moment 14 of 19
Avatar Boycotts and the Meghan Markle Wedding Bombing Fantasy
from The Christmas Episode | The Tim Dillon Show #328 · #328
9 min
Tim discusses Native American and trans activist boycotts of Avatar over cultural appropriation and lack of trans representation among the Na'vi, then launches into an extended riff that real institutional change only comes through violence, imagining Meghan Markle detonating a bomb at her own royal wedding as the only 'legitimate' protest.
- Tim on why Native Americans are angry about Avatar and the colonial dynamic that created the poverty on reservations.
- Native reservations need an Andrew Tate figure to energize people, as America itself runs on narcissistic psychopaths offering false hope.
- Lakota activist says Avatar appropriates native culture to satisfy white savior complex and calls it 'no more blue face.'
- Trans activists are also boycotting Avatar, arguing future humans should be trans and the film promotes heterosexual assumptions.
- Tim questions whether the trans Avatar criticism is real or a troll, given arguments about Jake needing to be gay on an alien planet.
- Meghan Markle could only actually modernize the monarchy by blowing herself up at her wedding, not through interviews or Christmas gift boycotts.
- If Native Americans were serious about change, they would dress up as Avatars and kill people, the only method that works against entrenched power.
- The British Monarchy was built on centuries of unspeakable violence, so you can't reform it with snide comments or boycotts.
- Tim would genuinely respect Meghan Markle if she had detonated a bomb at her wedding and killed the entire royal family.
- If Native people actually painted themselves blue and murdered people at an Avatar premiere, that would signal they're serious about their grievances.
Meghan MarkleAvatarNative AmericansAndrew TateJames Cameron