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Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.
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Avatar imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America’s foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.

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…Avatar appears to be the first sci-fi film in which a white person adopt the avatar (form) of a “non-white” person [=alien]. What was the motivation for doing so? Escaping physical disability (Jake Sully was paralysed)? Infiltrating “the Other” so as to understand it and colonise it more effectively? Perhaps both. However, there is the possibility that Avatar is (also) a re-telling of the John Brown story: white man turns “race traitor” (as Newitz points out) and fights against The Race [=White Supremacists (Racists)].

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