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Film critic Kathia Woods offered what many called an “offensive” and “racist” take on Twitter Sunday night by claiming that the “Avatar” film series<\/a> is an example of “cultural appropriation.”<\/p>\n

“Avatar: The Way of Water,” the long-awaited sequel to James Cameron\u2019s 2009 film “Avatar,” officially hit theaters on Friday after several delays and nearly five years of production. Since “Avatar” is the highest-grossing film of all time with more than $2.8 billion in global ticket sales, anticipation was high for what the sequel could bring.<\/p>\n

However, Woods offered a less excited perspective of the film, suggesting that it\u2019s an example of “cultural appropriation” with White actors portraying the fictional alien race the Na\u2019vi.<\/p>\n

“At some point we gotta talk about the cultural appropriation of Avatar and white actors are cos playing as poc. It\u2019s just a mess and so not necessary & no amount of visual effects\/CGI is gonna erase that. Bad Lace fronts\/Dry synthetic braids. Jesus fix it,” Woods tweeted.<\/p>\n

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After several social media users mocked and attacked the tweet shortly afterwards for claiming that playing alien characters is somehow “appropriation,” Woods made her Twitter account private.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“James Cameron didn’t even try to find native blue people to play these roles smh,” Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Andrew Kerr tweeted.<\/p>\n

Washington Examiner columnist Becket Adams agreed, writing, “it’s true. it’s disgusting james cameron didn’t cast any actual na’vi actors in a movie about the na’vi.”<\/p>\n

“No, no we don\u2019t have to talk about it,” The Federalist writer Anna James Ziegler wrote.<\/p>\n

Libertarian writer Hannah Cox tweeted, “When you’re so woke you start grouping made up aliens in with actual people of color. Like this is so offensive, what the heck.”<\/p>\n

European Conservative contributor Alberto Miguel Fernandez, “Assume this is a parody account. James Cameron<\/a> is \u2018culturally appropriating\u2019 because he didn’t hire any blue people? And even worse when you learn that the original script for #Avatar was written by the decidedly non-blue Cameron.”<\/p>\n

“Only nine-foot tall blue aliens can play nine-foot tall blue aliens in movies, apparently,” radio host Dan O\u2019Donnell joked.<\/p>\n

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Although Woods attacked “Avatar: The Way of Water” for having “White actors” portraying “people of color” characters, the film actually features several non-White characters playing the alien characters including Emmy-nominated actress CCH Pounder and Zoe Salda\u00f1a, who<\/a> reprises her role as “Neytiri” in the sequel.<\/p>\n

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While Woods limited replies to her tweets, she eventually responded to backlash from her opinion, claiming that “some people on the right” were the only ones angry.<\/p>\n

“Apparently I made some people on the right mad with my Avatar tweet to the point someone email me. Thank you,” Woods wrote on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/avatar-2-guilty-cultural-appropriation-film-critic-claims-ridiculed-tweet <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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