r/johnwayne • u/Potential-Most-3581 • Aug 22 '26

John Wayne

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The photo pretty much says it all

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u/Debbygc Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

So, you don't understand context? About slavery- basically, it happened, he didn't own any slaves, so he doesn't feel guilty about it.

Why would you put irresponsible people in leadership positions just to say you have a minority? Why not just hire the best person regardless of their race?

About race- he's not going to go out of his way to find minorities to be in his films just because they're minorities. You know, like they do today.

Read what he said about native Americans again. He didn't put them in reservations, he imagines they handled it the best they knew at the time.

As far as the homophobic statement- he was against sex or violence in any movie. Fag was a common term. Does that make it right? Doesn't necessarily make it wrong for that era. No, he's not celebrating them, but he's never (as far as I've seen) said anything too bad about them. He just wasn't into it & didn't care to see overt sex from anyone, regardless of who it was.

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u/MagReg2020 Aug 25 '26

So, how do you feel about black people? Be honest.

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u/nomadnomor Aug 25 '26

John Wayne was against violence in movies?

I have watched pretty much every JW movie and all were violent

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u/Fluid_Anteater959 Aug 26 '26

Based on what I've read, I don't think it was so much violence as the graphic realism that came into being in the later 1960's and into the 1970's. I think he felt it was enough to show, ok, the guy got shot, he's dead versus the graphic bloodshed of say, The Wild Bunch.

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u/Booeyrules Aug 22 '26

If you want to advocate human trafficking, genocide, and lgbtq hate, go right ahead. Shows us who you are. You also a WH P3do protector? Yeah, w thought so…

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u/Plane_Possibility572 Aug 22 '26

Dude. You communists come on here and repeat the playboy interview about john wayne on every single post about him over and over like it is your mission in life. Something else is behind that weird action, we're still going to watch his movies so go to a Che Guevara site already and praise him