'Racism Needs Your Help to Survive': Thor Director's Tongue-in-Cheek Video

'Racism Needs Your Help to Survive': Thor Director's Tongue-in-Cheek Video

p“You don’t have to be a full-on racist, just being a tiny bit racist is enough,” Kiwi director Taika Waititi says in a video for the New Zealand Human Rights Commission.pp“Racism needs your help to survive.”ppThe New Zealander of the Year, known for What We Do in the Shadows and the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok, launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign on June 14 for those “suffering in silence” from racism. Race Relations Commissioner Susan Devoy, speaking with Radio NZa, said one in three formal complaints to the Human Rights Commission were about racial discrimination.ppShe said Waititi was an obvious choice for the “Give Nothing to Racism” campaign and said he took a day off from working on Thor to shoot this video. The campaign sitea states that “racism starts small and is a light feeder” and the sarcastic humour used by Waititi could “stop casual racism from growing into something more extreme.


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