Poll Suggestion: Racist Characters

Danny Glover in The Color Purple! He was mean to the bone!

Topher Grace in blacKkklansman https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7349662/me...

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FYC: Officer Bell, If Beale Street Could Talk https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7125860/...

FYC: Duke Purdy from Rosewood: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120036/mediaviewer/rm3608552960

'Good one and tough choice. FYC:Byron De La Beckwith: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116410/mediaviewer/rm556830208?ft0=name&fv0=nm0000249&ft1=imag...*Deputy Pell from 'Mississippi Burning' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095647/mediaviewer/rm2524844288?ft0=name&fv0=nm0000374&ft1=ima... Pino from 'Do the Right Thing' (worse than father, who I was glad to see on the list but is more nuanced and complicated than his son) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/mediaviewer/rm2189299968?ft0=name&fv0=nm0001806&ft1=ima...Gerry Conway from 'imperium' (I submitted a photo to Imperium's photo gallery (still frames) that isn't up yet (or there's this that's not as good for a poll) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4781612/mediaviewer/rm1294861056

Hey Paok, That better photo of the character from 'Imperium' was already approved and is up:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4781612/mediaviewer/rm4119303169

It feels like some highly notorious fictional NSDAP/Schutzstaffel/Getapo members are missing thus far. If they are to be let out, on account of cliche level or notoriety level, please indicate the exception in the description. Off the top of my head, Hans Landa would be among the worst among them. There is also the non-fictional Amon Göth. Mind you, it was, in a sense, every Reich employee's state-sanctioned job to be racist and white supremacist, including extending to a domestic context, so it is understandable if they do not count, but naturally the trollish ones with a strong emotional, religious or even pseudoscientific commitment to the movement stood out.

All right, a few comments:The question:You obviously mean the most despicable racist? So there shouldn't be any "good guys" in the list, no matter how racist or bigoted they are, they go through an arc that ends up redeeming them, so they can't be put in the same basket with characters we're supposed to hate.Characters to remove:  1/ Gillepsie (Steiger) is not racist, he's prejudiced and his attitude reflects the mentality of his town, there are so many truly racist characters in the film that Gillepsie comes the closest to a good guy, which he is, all it takes is that journey with Tibbs to let his better self emerge. By the way since the question is about the racist we like the least, obviously the good guys are off. A similar example is Zeus (Jackson) in Die Hard With a Vengeance.2/ Stephen (Jackson) is a sellout, not a racist, he embodies the racism of his Master, since you've got the Master, no need to have his servant. Stephen doesn't make any skull speech, he's just the right-hand man of a racist man but we don't know for sure whether he's driven by his hatred toward Blacks or his love for his Master.3/ Albert (Glover) is a misogynistic prick and a bully but not a racist. 4/ Worley (Hopper) makes a speech about Sicilians having "Black" blood to upset the Mafioso (Walken) and accelerate his death, if anything, Walken is the racist one but his racism is only anecdotical in the story, there's no need to have both.5/ Kowalski belongs to a poll about racist characters we actually like, which means they're not so racist, there's no way someone can watch the whole movie and end up hating Walt, so he doesn't belong to this poll, from the way the question is asked. Same with Ryan (Dillon) in Crash. Both Walt and Ryan are heroic in the film.6/ Pino in Do The Right Thing doesn't display a worse racism than any of the major protagonists, they're all equally prejudiced and racist to some extent but it's unfair to cast that stone on him, I think there must be a standout racist character in a film to really include him in your list.Title:There should be a second adjective, either "Memorable" or "Despicable" racist characters, the title put like that with these two words make it look like a poll-tribute to racist characters, there should be either a neutral or a subjective term to show that this is an anti-homage to bad characters, which takes me back to the second argument, no good guys.FYCJuror 10Amon Goeth (or maybe you should specify non-Nazi or KKK characters)

meRLE https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1520211/mediaviewer/rm3585179648

FYC:Gov. George Wallace (from 'Selma') https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020072/mediaviewer/rm1783496192?ft0=name&fv0=nm0000619&ft1=ima...Officer Krauss (from 'Detroit')https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5390504/mediaviewer/rm1013938944?ft0=name&fv0=nm2401020&ft1=ima...ORhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt5390504/mediaviewer/rm545152000?ft0=name&fv0=nm2401020&ft1=imag...Velma Von Tussle (from 'Hairspray')https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427327/mediaviewer/rm1669044480?ft0=name&fv0=nm0000201&ft1=ima...

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Paok, I'm assuming you want to keep Goeth and Hitler, which makes a lot of sense, but I think you should really add "anti-Semitic" to the intro (and possibly the title), as well. The Nazis may have called Jews an inferior race but that doesn't mean that Jews actually constitute a race. Also, some of the other characters are not only racist but virulently anti-Semitic, as well, as the two so often go together (for instance, with any KKK member, Nazi, Neo-Nazi, or White Supremicist). I think it would be remiss to not include "anti-Semitic." 

Once again are we voting for the character we judge the most morally reprehensible? Or the one we consider the most racist according to our own definition of the term? Or are we simply voting for the best performance as a racist character? What is our basis of judgement exactly: unlikability or racism? Suppose someone gives his vote to that bigoted gal from "The Help", would that mean that the voter consider Hitler less unlikable which means more likable than her? Also Derek Vinyard becomes a good guy at the end... that alone make him less unlikable than the others...

  Live Pollhttps://www.imdb.com/poll/Rr03T9O4_-w/