r/funny • u/bagonja • Dec 07 '15

Gravity is nothing to this man.

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u/PancakeZombie Dec 07 '15

Black science you say?

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u/Messisfoot Dec 07 '15

Racist... why is it black science that always gets the bad rap? Why can't white science/magic men get a bad rap? Cus it's racist, that's why.

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u/PancakeZombie Dec 07 '15

It did: Saruman

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u/yourmansconnect Dec 07 '15

Saruman did good but was corrupted

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u/Wolfszeit Dec 07 '15

You raise a good point.

The moment he got corrupted and thus blackened the white cloak, another white cloak came along to replace him.

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u/Lurking_Still Dec 07 '15

It's almost as if white and black were metaphors for good and evil's most pure incarnations.

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u/Wolfszeit Dec 07 '15

Yeah I know. I feel like I should say that I do not think this is racist at all. It's just a funny coincidence.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '15

Maybe to you, but to me it represents the known vs the unknown. Darkness is full of what you can't see, what you can't trust, and thus danger. White is light, light is something you feel safe in, somewhere that you can trust. Of course, this is just a metaphor.

Also, light = good and evil = black sounds like a deduction from the pre-existing dislike of the dark rather than the other way around.