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It’s weird how the reverse is somehow ok now. Anne Boleyn played by a black woman why not? Historical accurac? What even is that?? .
Edit: you’re all ignoring that most of the roles being blackwashed are not white, how is it ok for black culture to just appropriate our own ethnic figures?
Because people aren't depicting Jesus as a white Caucasian male?
If the skin colour isn't relevant to the story, it doesn't matter. If it is relevant, it does.
So I can hire Toby McGuire to play Sammy Davis jr and nobody will be mad?
Jesus was a Palestinian, so it’s ok to take Arab jobs and give em to black actors? Cleopatra was Greek/arab so I guess they can take their roles too.
It’s funny how everyone who isn’t black is suddenly white when it’s convenient. This isn’t black actors taking the roles of white Americans, it’s black actors playing Egyptians, Greeks, arabs, latinos, Asians. Are all those people white??
It is different, if color of skin is a relevant part of the context of the story. Having John Brown played by a black man would be equally misleading.
For Anne Boleyn's story on the other hand, racism did not play a part, because it wasn't even invented yet.
Did… did you just say racism wasnt a thing in 1530s Tudor England?
...ok hol' up.
Racism wasn't invented before 1536, the year she got beheaded? The Portuguese had already transported the first slave ship to Brazil 10yr earlier, even if we pretend there was complete racial harmony before the transatlantic slave trade began, which is an absolutely insane thing to pretend, that still started before her death. Not to mention the fact that racism (and slavery no less) has been around since long before "transatlantic" was even a concept.
Slavery existed previously, and certainly xenophobia did. Those things are as old as time, nondoubt about it. But racism is something more specific: it's an attempt to use pseudoscience to justify how you can simultaneously consider "all people are equal" (a core belief of the age of enlightenment) while also maintaining stark inequality and slavery (an economic reality of the time).
White people were never opressed and there is no danger of erasing white people and their achievements from history, so yes, the reverse is very ok.
As someone loves history, it’s not ok. Especially when the “white” people being erased aren’t even white. Cleopatra wasn’t white but she’s sure as hell wasn’t black. A lot of the characters being turned black are Greek, Latino, Irish, Italian, Arab, Asian. So is that ok? For a black actor to get the job of every other race? Why not a blank woman playing pancho villa? Maybe get idris alba to play the Dali lama.
See? That is your problem. You and I care about History. The people who are okay with erasing white people based it all on political ideology that is educated on extremely cherry picked and narrow history factoids and examples along with an unhealthy dose of presentism. Sticking with objectivity is not their goal. Most of them are not even aware they are doing that as they are just parroting ideas that others in their echo chambers tell them. I know a bunch of kids at my local Uni who say the same thing and they get it either from the same professors who push the same thing or social media. Primary Sourcing is not something they do as it would prove them wrong.
Erasing the culture is the goal, despite the fact that they blame others of doing what they themselves are doing as a distraction.
How many more comments until you start blabbering about "ThE gReAt RePLaCeMenT"?
What are you talking about? Stop projecting, friend.
Do tell us about this great replacement theory you brought up.
Yes, there are too many Black actors in Hollywood movies. You can barely find any roles for white actors these days. I fondly recall roles where white actors could do their jobs, like Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
It’s funny how Latino, Arab, Asian, Greek, actors are suddenly “white” when convenient.
Ok where is all this black washing of Asian, arab, latino, etc figures? If anything they get white washed as much as black figures do or are reduced to stereotypes with zero depth.
Only thing that comes to mind is Jada Pinkett's shitty Netflix series that no one watched
Sounds like you’re being emotional and treating racism like a competition. Can’t really have a reasonable conversation with you if that’s the case
Or you could just give me examples of famous figures of the ethnicities you mentioned being represented as black. I've yet to see Miyamoto Musashi, Santa Ana, Buddha, Alexander the Great, or Saladin played by Morgan Freeman or Idris Elba
You are trying and failing to make up drama where there is none. So again, for you:
It's not okay for a white person to play a black person from history.
It's very ok for a POC to play a white person from history.
Deal with it 🤷🏻
This works when you're being cheeky about it, like with Hamilton. You're just cherry-picking.
This works when you're being cheeky about it, like with Hamilton. You're just cherry-picking.
It’s funny how arabs, latinos, asians, North Africans, Italians, Greeks are suddenly “white” when it’s convenient to you.
You need to study history then. Even if you mean oppressed in the US your narrative is wrong:
https://www.lagazzettaitaliana.com/history-culture/8996-america-land-of-liberty-prejudice-against-italians-in-the-early-20th-century
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1206&context=qc_pubs
https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/italian-americans-and-their-communities-of-cleveland/chapter/chapter-6-anti-italian-sentiment-in-america/
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/25/archives/polishamericans-mounting-counterdrive-against-stereotyping.html
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/104973239200200205
and so on....
Oh and they were opressed because they were white yes? Like black people were for their """race"""?
They weren't. You are being silly.
if you have read the articles and studies i posted you would know that, in case of italians, they weren't considered "white". But keep parroting your narrative if it makes you feel better about your double standards.
Blocked.
Lmao that was literally my point? But sure, be like that.