“If you have to have someone who looks like you in the media in order for you to relate then maybe you’re the one who’s racist”
“children don’t see/care about race”
“Color doesn’t matter! It’s about the actor/story!”
“there are bigger issues to talk about than representation”
“they whitewashed because they need to make a profit and attract their target audience”
“historical accuracy”
“It’s a European fairytale/story so of course the characters will be white!”
“whitewashing isn’t real”
“they considered and picked the best actor for the job”
(The best actor? More like the best we can do at this time.)
(It’s not the best actor when you exclude a racially ambiguous role to one race.)
“why do we need minorities in European stories!? they wouldn’t do a story about Africa with white actors!”
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