Adam Sandler And The Ridiculous Six

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The Movie of Adam Sandler, The Ridiculous Six, is just racist towards the Native Americans. The jokes that are made towards them is complete white wash mentality. What many people don’t know is that many native actors walked off the set due to insults to women and elders. The actors, who were primarily from the Navajo nation, left the set after the satirical western’s script repeatedly insulted the culture and misrepresented Apache Culture. For example, some of the disrespect the movie did towards to the Native women was the names such as Beaver’s Breath and No Bra. However, the racism was not just there but also how the actress portraying an Apache women was squatting and urinating while smoking a peace pipe, and feathers inappropriately

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