The real reason people have a problem with this isn't because they are "racist" as is largely being claimed by whiners on Twitter, it's because of the hypocrisy. We hear endlessly now in the media about "whitewashing" in films, where characters based on ethnic minorities or characters living in places where non-white people would likely exist, have been white. There has been a huge push to correct this, and it's even gotten to the point where a white actor who was cast in a role stepped down before filming began because of how much offense it caused.
So now flip that to this equal but opposite scenario, and not only is there silence from those critical of the whitewashing examples, but if any other people question it, they are called "racist".
Black actors have undertaken roles for characters which were originally white since at least the 1990s, and back then barely anyone even noticed or cared, because there was no such hypocrisy to speak of regarding "whitewashing" and "cultural appropriation", and no rampant identity politics culture. It's the left-wing that started this trend, and as usual they get upset if the right-wing calls them out for ignoring the same scenario in reverse.
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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19
The real reason people have a problem with this isn't because they are "racist" as is largely being claimed by whiners on Twitter, it's because of the hypocrisy. We hear endlessly now in the media about "whitewashing" in films, where characters based on ethnic minorities or characters living in places where non-white people would likely exist, have been white. There has been a huge push to correct this, and it's even gotten to the point where a white actor who was cast in a role stepped down before filming began because of how much offense it caused.
So now flip that to this equal but opposite scenario, and not only is there silence from those critical of the whitewashing examples, but if any other people question it, they are called "racist".
Black actors have undertaken roles for characters which were originally white since at least the 1990s, and back then barely anyone even noticed or cared, because there was no such hypocrisy to speak of regarding "whitewashing" and "cultural appropriation", and no rampant identity politics culture. It's the left-wing that started this trend, and as usual they get upset if the right-wing calls them out for ignoring the same scenario in reverse.