re: Why does Hollywood keep race swapping iconic white characters?

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I wouldn't count Spiderman in this. Miles Morales was a comic book character first.

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While this is true, his creation in the comics was because of the same reason. They used the popularity of the spider-man name to launch a new minority character. This isn't uncommon. He just happens to be a really popular one because of the Spider-verse movie.

First, this is what I call waiting for your pitch:

matty3387
Metairie
Member since May 2018
4 posts

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Does it really matter?

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If you mean does it matter that they are doing this to all of this old entertainment, yes, it matters a lot. For starters, if it did not matter TO THEM they would not be doing it, right? If it did not matter what race or gender a character was, they would not be desperately attempting to swap them at every conceivable opportunity.

What I care about in all of these things in this topic is staying true to canon and lore. If a character was originally written as a black trans amputee, I'd be bothered if they decided to cast Brad Pitt in the role, or decided to "reimagine" the character as a white male if they did an animated adaptation. Likewise, if a character was written as a white straight male, having it suddenly become a black lesbian is an affront to the cannon of the story.

The problem is they have been largely successful in getting normal people so tired f the endless chaos that they're willingly throwing their hands in their air saying, "Whatever...it's just comic books, or movies, or TV," without understanding that politics is downstream from culture. by abandoning this, we give up the future entirely.

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They're looking to erase whiteness from history.

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So they are just going to draw in the dirt with a stick? Because they can’t use any technology invented by whites.

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I would kill to watch a movie or show about West African myth or a show about the Mali Empire. There's a lot of material there but Hollywood ignores it.

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Yup. It's not Thor's cannon's fault that Stan Lee decided to adapt Norse mythology and by doing so made Thor famous again. Taking that mythos and sticking black people in there to make it look more like today does not solve anything. where is today's Stan Lee who is creative and interested in creating their own new worlds in which to play?

Likewise, Tolkien was writing about a very specific place and thus his characters reflect that. Altering them to better appeal to today's activists only serves to ruin the man's actual vision and removes yet another opportunity from some modern creative from creating their own new story without limitations of a known world created by someone else.

Disney has plenty of non-white characters:

Mulan

Tiana

Moana

Pocahontas

Jasmine

Aladin

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Englishmen aren't just white males.

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For most of recorded history, they were in fact though.

It's ridiculous. You'd think the country was made up of 75% from that particular race. Where are the Latinos and Asians?

Btw there's one white commercial actor I wish would disappear, AT&T's Lily. So tired of seeing her. In fact I'd be happy if a woman of color would replace her, specifically Latina or Asian.

They are virtue signaling to appease the race industry.

They don't understand that the racialists will keep demanding more when you appease them.

The only way to make them go away is give them nothing and ignore them.

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Didn't realize James bond had been recast

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That's the dumbest one of all.

If they want a diverse Bond series, just create his children with different women. It wouldn't exactly stretch credibility.

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It makes up for all the white guys who played Indians.

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And who can forget the time John Wayne played Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror". Talk about bad casting....