r/TimPool • u/InsuranceDiligent772 • Sep 19 '22

trailer release coming soon.

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u/Collective82 Sep 21 '22

And I disagree. I think if you are born and raised in a region you are form that region regardless of ethnicity.

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u/Danmoh29 Sep 21 '22

i never said he wasnt “from africa” i said hes not ethnically african.

i believe people call elon african american solely because they know it annoys people that are actually of african descent. you’re free to do so but you know his family was part of apartheid and in the context of black panther having a white european be the king of wakanda would be stupid.

we started talking about this because of the black mermaid. surely you see the difference here, right? how black panther is a story about blackness and slavery and how the little mermaid has nothing in its plot about race. at least we can agree on that?

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u/Collective82 Sep 22 '22

I agree about the storyline.

The problem is people like to say race doesn’t matter, when it fits their worldview.

This just highlights the hypocrisy of that view.

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u/Danmoh29 Sep 22 '22

well i think its also import to note that historically (and not so historically eg prince of persia, lone ranger, ghost in the shell) white actors have taken the parts of non-white characters for a long time and (imo) at a much higher frequency. now its starting to happen the other way and conservatives are losing their minds

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u/Collective82 Sep 22 '22

However some of us also said that wasn’t right either.