Magenera said:
PirateRose said:
For every black actor, their is a dozen white actors. For every black hero there are a dozen white heroes. This does not reflect the consumer market. The reality is, white people are becoming the minority even in the United States. Our country is a melting pot of culture and race, and this country is just a portion of a world filled with many races other than white. Hollywood has even acknowledge that the Chinese consumer market is starting to take it's toll and are trying to figure out how to get more Asian actors into American made movies. They displayed these attempts with Iron Man 3 even, just look up the Chinese trailer! There are even studies suggesting white people don't watch movies or play video games as much as other races.
It is far more unrealistic to have yet another white hero, another white actor cast in the role, as opposed to having any person from any other race.
To cast a white person in the role of a character established as a person of color is wrong because white people already have a ton of white representation. You'd be taking out that one black role out to add another white role to the dozens that already exist.
Casting a black man for a character previously established as white, is fine, because we have tons of other white actors filling out white roles.
We white people are pretty secure from being oppressed and having our identities erased like we did to everyone else. Quit getting your privileged man boy dicks in a twist.
So basically it's not racist nor a problem as long as it is white's who is getting affected and targeted by this. But any other group and not only is there a problem but it's racist also.
Yes, in an ideal world, it would be equal to turn a black character white, as it would a white character black.
"In an ideal world, the perplexed complainers would have a point. Because in an ideal world there would be no racism now, there would have been no racism EVER. And there certainly wouldn't be centuries upon centuries of European colonialism and the intended systematic oppression, dehumanization, if not outright extermination of non-white peoples by white peoples. The poisonous legacy of which continues to shape the course of world events and day-to-day existence of all affected cultures to this day. No, in an ideal world, NONE of that would have ever happened, and thus, race-swapping a character in one direction WOULD be exactly the same as doing so in the other direction. BUT we don't live in an ideal world. We live in a ****** world, where all that stuff happened, and all the after effects still linger. And thus, yes, the quote-unquote "White Culture" losing one of the billions of viable white characters is NOT on any conceivable plane equal to taking away one of the already tiny, tiny handful of viable non-white characters. It would be swell if it was, but it isn't.
To some folks, what I'm saying here qualifies as, 'Political Correctness' Mostly because, to some folks EVERYTHING that threatens the sense of cultural privilege they don't want to admit still exists qualifies as, 'Political Correctness' Still, others might object more rationally. On the grounds that it verges on a double standard. To which I reply, 'Yes, it's a double standard.' Again, it's not an ideal world. Real world. ****** world. Double standards are damn near the only standards we have. But yeah, technically 'turning Goku white being a scandal, but turning Nick Fury into Samuel L. Jackson is kinda cool' IS a double standard. A tiny miniscule double standard. That exists as part of a broad long term cultural shift, meant to correct the long standing pervasive effects of a very, very, big cultural double standard. From the not-so-distant past. You know, that whole thing where one person was considered a person, while the other was considered property on the basis of their melanin levels. That whole thing, ringing a bell? Look, getting back to the inciting incident, the fact is, by ignoring the ethnic precedent of this ONE character, we got to see a unique performance given by a great actor. In the kind of role he otherwise probably would never have gotten to play. That's the uncomfortable truth at the heart of this. For hundreds upon hundreds of years, our culture was arranged to unfairly confer privlege and superiority on one race over all others. And one of the lasting results of that, is that both the quality and the quantity of interesting character roles available to minority actors is incredibly small. I mean, let's be blunt about this. Do you think all those really talented black actors, who keep turning up in Tyler Perry movies, WANT to be making freaking Tyler Perry movies? Probably not. But that's all Hollywood is offering them right now. Is the color-blind casting of a black Norse god, or a black Friar Tuck, or hell, maybe even a black Superman the perfect solution? No! Way, way, less than perfect. But you have to start somewhere."
