PhoenixRising |
03-13-2021 05:25 PM |
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Originally Posted by wickedrum
(Post 103515605)
so you don't want to mix with people who aren't your 'kind'? :confused:
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No, that's not it, Rita. :facepalm: "Woke" people always say "stay in your lane" in regards to this nonsense about "cultural appropriation," yet no one has any issue with co-opting our stuff for the purpose of "diversity." Gods of Egypt casts Gerard Butler as Set and social media goes ape crazy, saying that it's inappropriate for a white European actor to be cast as an Egyptian god(even though Egyptian gods had animal heads), yet they have no issue with casting Tessa Thompson as a Valkyrie from Norse mythology, and any opposition to that casting is considered "racist." No, more like hypocrisy. But then the woke police on social media lose their minds again when Gal Gadot is cast as Cleopatra, insisting that an African or Egyptian actress should've been cast in the role, completely clueless to the fact that Cleopatra was Greek, not African or Egyptian. :rolleyes: And sum1 is already pissed about the casting of Gilgamesh(or The Forgotten One) for The Eternals, who is supposed to be a Mesopotamian mythological character, but they cast a Korean actor to play him. :facepalm:
That's what I mean. It's ridiculous. How about instead of trying to funnel everyone into one platform, where too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth, everyone has their own platform to tell their own stories? This is what Denzel Washington said when asked about diversity in film and whether or not it begins with casting, and he replied, "It begins with writing. We have to write our own scripts, create our own characters, tell our own stories."
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