XPost: alt.mexico, alt.movies   
   From: invalid@address.com   
      
   >>What stake do you have in smearing Mel Gibson?   
   >   
   >   
   > Absolutely none.   
   >   
   > Based on advanced previews of the elaborate sets and beautiful   
   > photography, my family and I went to the movie with hopeful   
   > expectations, but what we saw was an inaccurate hate-filled   
   > depiction of Native Americans.   
   >   
   > Not being christian or Jewish, we had never seen Passion Of   
   > The Christ and were only mildly aware of the controversy of how   
   > he portayed Jewish people in a negative light. But now we wonder   
   > if they might not have had a legitimate complaint after seeing how   
   > Mel Gibson smears the Maya people so viciously in Apocalypto.   
      
      
   Oh, I get it, you thought you'd see the politically correct,   
   sanitized version of the natives that Hollywood is so (in)famous   
   for, such as "Dancing With Wolves" where the white man is the evil   
   monster, and all the natives are saints. In reality, native   
   Americans were barbarians who liked to torture and murder anyone   
   outside their own tribe, who practiced slavery and cannibalism.   
   That's the way it was. When the Spanish came to the New World,   
   what they saw the natives doing turned their stomachs. That the   
   reason they were so merciless toward the natives. They regarded   
   them as demons from hell.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)