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Just. Use. Regular. Size. Units. Please I beg you

That is the most American measurement I’ve ever heard

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I’m really bad at conversations sorry if I’ve ever talked to you

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The entire musical for Hamilton is out there too, can't forget that

Vikings: Valhalla also made Haakon Sigurdsson, a real historical figure and ruler of Norway, from a white man to a black woman. They swapped race and gender to be more diverse

Okay pocahontas was a bad example I can't think of a character whose race was more pivotal to their story. And I strongly reject the idea that changing the race of a white character versus a non white character is the same, which seems to be the implication here

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These are good points but I think it’s unlikely people are going to want to stop making period films and TV about famous white historical figures. The thing is, this is already the practice in theater, that POC can play white roles freely, you can have women play Hamlet, whatever, so I don’t see why we can’t apply it to film too. I think some examples, like Queen Charlotte, do toe the line in that they’re based on a specific racist pseudohistorical account of Charlotte being black (she wasn’t) and risk legitimizing that, but I think Bridgerton could have presented things a little differently and been fine and, honestly, after a certain point it’s kind of on the audience if they’re taking history lessons from a show based on romance novels, a show that is often gleefully and deliberately anachronistic in other ways.

Where the OP example is stupid is that yeah, obviously, whitewashing POC roles is a different story and not the same thing, and it’s such a reflexive, no-thought-put-in-whatsoever approach to compare them. Especially in the case of stories like Pocahontas’ where her race is kind of important to her character, but also because as long as we still live in a world where white people are preferred for not only white roles but roles in general, it’s denying POC actors an opportunity to whitewash their roles, as well as, in the case of historical figures, whitewashing history.

You can’t approach this shit in a vacuum, like it’s purely about abstract principles. You have to take real world power relations into account.

The fact that their post (given the example chosen) is also likely motivated by being upset by the casting in Little Mermaid, where the protagonist is a mythological character is, also 🙄

Also incredibly ignorant to not recognize that white people playing POC (often in black/brown/yellowface) was the status quo in Hollywood for decades. (And it is still depressingly common in, say, opera.) The movement away from that is actually extremely recent.

That's a helluva lot of words just to say "it's OK when they do it"

I mean if you’re not very smart and don’t put much thought into these things, I can see why it looks that way!

No yea. I can tell you're hella smart, specially considering it's not that deep and could be literally boiled down to double standards and hypocrisy but no no, let's write a thesis to explain to these small brained mortals why I'm right and they're wrong.

I mean, I already explained why it isn’t “hypocrisy” or a “double standard” right here:

“You can’t approach this shit in a vacuum, like it’s purely about abstract principles. You have to take real-world power differentials into account.”

You haven’t come up with anything that engages with that or even demonstrates that you read/understood it. You’re just repeating the same shit where I’ve already explained why that’s wrong and is, frankly, demonstrating that you didn’t think about this too hard.

If the shoe fits, wear it.

I drawed you a picture with my small brain

“You can’t approach this shit in a vacuum, like it’s purely about abstract principles. You have to take real-world power differentials into account.”

Translation: “It’s okay when we do it. Because reasons.”

Tumblr now trying to hide it behind a "mature" label lol

Colourblind casting has been around for ages. Look it up. There are photos from Victorian times of black actors playing Shakespearean roles like King Lear.

The principle is that many characters have no stated race of skin colour in the text. We assume in a predominantly white culture that these characters are white by default, but they don't have to be. Nothing about Ariel or King Lear or Hamlet requires them to be played by a white actor, so actors of any race or skin colour can play them. On the other hand, Othello is textually a black man, and the story of Pocahontas is impossible to separate from her identity as a Native American woman.

Casting a black woman as a prominent white historical figure like Anne Boleyn is pushing it, and probably done to generate attention through controversy, but I don't think having a few poc in the supporting cast of Mary, Queen of Scots is a big deal. The main characters are all white. You'll be okay.

The Bridgerton thing is also questionable, but a black Queen Charlotte is such a common misconception that I'm willing to give them the benefit of doubt that the writers really believed it. These are the same people who apparently think regency ladies wore corsets. They did zero research.

The Cleopatra thing sucks because it was presented as a documentary. If they were doing Shakespeare's Cleopatra, it would be fine because Shakespeare's plays are highly fictionalized.

Vikings is garbage when it comes to historical accuracy in general. You should've complain about seeing a black woman if you're okay with Norsemen with undercuts wearing black leather fetish gear.

It's a nuanced issue, and if you take the rigid reductive stance that every character should be played by the same race forever, people are going to think you're ignorant and stupid. Race is not an objective reality. It's a completely artificial construct. Would you get this anal about hair colour? Or nationality? Would you care if a white character played by someone of German descent in the original was played by someone of Polish descent in remake? I'm almost certain you would not.

Actors should be cast based on their ability to play a cheracter as written first and foremost. Their look is of secondary importance at best.

Yeah I ain't reading all that but it's hilarious you think I'd take a lesson in anything from the mother fucking retard who jumped to Hitler's defense:

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AE getting dunked on is always worth it

The Disney version of Pocohantas is heavily fictionalized anyway.

You mean there wasn't really a talking tree and a raccoon that followed her everywhere? I feel lied to, next up you'll tell me Hunchback of Notre Dame doesn't follow the story of the book.

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Protesting the high school dress code that banned slacks for girls, Brooklyn c.1940

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Using soldier ants to stitch a wound in Africa.

Holding the edges of the cut together, a healer places a number of ants directly on the wound. Instinctively the insects bite down directly onto the flesh and lock their jaws, sealing the cut like a medical suture. 

The healer then cuts off the thoraxes and tails of the ants. The jaws remain in the skin for several days until the area is healed. Though the procedure is still being observed on the continent, it is slowly disappearing with the proliferation of hospitals and clinics.

Rushia as definitely not Rushia

there should be clams and scallops and mussels on the surface

they should float carefree throughthe air and eat nutrients in the air. and we should have big octopus on land we can farm like cattle. and crabd

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John Singer Sargent - Val d’Aosta:  A Man Fishing, c. 1907

Addison Gallery of American Art

Room 11, Star Motel, Manistique, Michigan July 8, 1973 Stephen Shore

We've all gotten just a bit too comfortable being jerks to strangers on the internet I think

So I've hidden this reply, both because it's obnoxious and because I don't want the person who wrote it being harassed for it, but I need you to understand: I don't know you. We are not friends. This is not fun or cute, we are not sharing a charming joke together. You are just being an asshole.

literally that is what the post is about, I am saying people should be less eager to jump on any chance to be snarky and rude to total strangers on the internet

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Or, with Mark Hamill's words: