Review: 'Lone Ranger' perpetuates racism and stereotypes

Imagine you are a progressive person (this shouldn't be hard for the SocialistWorker.org audience), and you are sitting through a 149-minute "children's film" made in 2013 where white people toss out the n-word on a regular basis, without any protest or acknowledgement, so many times you lose count.

Hearing these racist slurs go unchecked would make you want to organize a walkout of the film, or at least storm out in disgust and cause a scene.

This is basically what happens in the new movie version of The Lone Ranger--but because a different group endures the abuse, the reaction is different. You look around, surrounded by families with children, and instead of people crying after immensely brutal scenes of slaughter, death and violence, the audience is goaded to laugh and feel entertained by Tonto, an iconic stereotypical Indian sidekick, with his broken English and "red-face."