Toxic fandom when white actors play people of color from reality: 🤷
Toxic fandom when a cartoon character changes to a darker hue or a sea cryptid is less pale: 🤯🤬🧨🔫🗡🚮
There’s a new Superman series out where Lois Lane has a slightly darker skin tone, isn’t there? And, from what I gather, it’s very popular.
A part of me initially felt “Why don’t they just make these characters match their old appearance?” Then I realized, we’ve been recycling the same media properties a hundred times, and they all started in an age when we depicted everyone as being white (and once in a while, had a racially charged stereotype as a token character). So maybe just like some properties get emotionally darker, maybe we can tweak a few to be skintone-darker and not lose anything.
New Lois does seem pretty hot to me.
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I don’t know about black, but John Wayne as Genghis Khan was pretty fucking egregious, to name one example…
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You’re kidding right? Please Google “whitewashing”
Just “whitewashing” on its own isn’t a great stretch term. Whitewashing in film is better.
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Can you not educate yourself? Also the “race swapped” argument is so old and tiresome. If you still don’t understand privileges and systemic racism, the read a book please
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so you CAN use google? then why do you expect other people on the internet to educate you? why is it my job to “answer your question” when you’re obviously old enough to research on your own. “systematic racism is a problem brought on by the Democratic party.” what a joke. systemic racism is everywhere and we’re all growing up in it. if you still trying to play the “horseshoe” card of “but there’s racism against whites”, then i’m clearly not the person to convince you you’re wrong. i just hope you start asking questions and looking around for answers instead of playing the “gotcha” game on the internet with strangers.
i don’t need to answer your questions. it’s YOUR job to educate yourself once you’re out of school (and even in school). it’s your job to question your own priviledges and your own role in the whole system. i am on my journey, educating myself and anyone who’s actually reflecting and looking for answers. seems like you’re not doing that. you’re just looking to prove what you already believe to be true. good luck
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Damn, imagine having the urge to go to the internet just to announce that you are too racist to watch some cartoon.
I don’t know, bigots?
Guess who is a useless POS?
tell me
Read the title
Oh, is this the thread where we get angry at being reminded that black people exist? Cool, cool.
I’m skipping it because it’s a Netflix adaptation, and they have a history of just being awful…
The seasons they’ve released so far have been excellent.
It’s honestly really damn good
Didn’t they turn an evil character (possibly dracula servant or something) black and Muslim and it was considered one the best character in the show or is it another show ?
Ah. I see they’ve arrived on Lemmy. Sure, it was inevitable from the start, but it was pleasant to forget about them for a few weeks. For a brief moment, we were almost 9gag free.
oh no why is nobody watching our show :(
