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Mainstream media is shit tier, so good riddance I guess.
And that's cool, I'm guessing a lot of POC don't care who voices what. But you're not a black voice actor losing out on work to white people. I am an advocate of equality of opportunity opposed to equality of outcome wherever possible but I don't find it hard to believe there are still industries where representation is lower than it should be.Sorry to be very blunt on this but there is a constant back and forth I have whether the majority of the world has common sense or most are lacking it. As a black person, am I offended by a white person playing a black character? No, not at all.
I see variations of this argument trotted out a lot in the comment sections of Facebook, the BBC, Daily Mail etc. and I wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole on there because I feel people either don't know any better or are so deeply entrenched in their position that there's no point but that's not the case with you so I'll ask; do you seriously believe white people face the same discrimination as any other race?Where do you draw the line? Does Kratos have to be recast because it's a black person portraying a white person? Do these people even see the irony in taking a job from one person and handing it to someone of a specific race in the name of anti-racism?
I think this has always been the case, my experience of people is that they don't hold strong opinions or convictions, a lot of decisions are made by "the loudest voice in the room."it seems like the extreme voices of a seemingly minority of people are the ones that get listened to.
I don't know exactly, at a guess I would say the whole thing has been an unlikely alignment of circumstances. For example the killing (I nearly wrote "death"...) of George Floyd being brought to light during a time when the west was in lock-down. For some people that would genuinely have been the first time they learned how prevalent and institutionalised racism could be.How did this whole anti-racism movement go from protest against police brutality and other forms of obvious racism to this? Black people are not charity cases but it seems there are too many people on either side who think we are.
By specifically casting a person of colour in that role for a character do you not further drive divisions?
And the issue is so complex that I can barely begin to wrap my head around what an effective solution would be.What needs to happen is these underrepresented groups are given the pathway and impetus to be in the same positions as others. That takes time and requires fundamental change.
I also believe there's a contingent of content producers that hold up ridiculous outliers as examples of an issue to diminish its validity overall.In my experience, around half of clickbaity cancel culture/outrage articles reference tweets from trolls. Blatant trolls.
Not being on social media I imagine you're partially insulated from this but there's a comical number of (generally older) white people that conflate equality with discrimination and genuinely feel that white people receive the highest amount of racial discrimination.The answer being no to your question around white people suffering more discrimination than others.
It definitely is (assuming studios make this a policy) but the reason I brought it up is that while I am a proponent of opportunity over outcome I accept that there are concessions that may have to be made short term as a kind of bridge to building true equality, the "how" and "when" of which we can probably all agree is far from clear.And I am with you regarding the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. The situation I mentioned seems to be pointing more towards equality of outcome
Unrelated but as someone who grew up low-income I reflexively understood the negative connotation attached to the word charity but I got to thinking about what it means; helping the less fortunate.Black people are not charity cases
Looking at the 90s the core focus in sitcoms changed from family to friends, relies more heavily into situational and that delayed "finding ourselves" period that young adults (again, delayed) feel thrown into a world they don't know where they fit in (the coming of age story that was usually centered around 15/18).
What would you say the "average family" is today and what would be their inherent traits ?
That's... pretty ugly.
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
I wonder what the fuck happen with my Castle of Greyskull. I had it when I was a kid, at some point my mother told me that it was storaged "in your grandmother storage room", I check it ten years ago and it was no there. Same thing with lot of toys from back in the day. Everytime I try to find the truth about it I never have an answer. I think it is a parents consiracy all over the world and they sold it at ebay or something.