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minus-squareIusedtobeanalien@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down6·8 hours agoAny actor should be able to play any role regardless of race or gender. Anything else is systemic discrimination. “You can’t play shakespeare because you’re black!” screams the basement dwelling internet troll at the kenyan shakespeare society.
minus-squarebridgeburner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 hours agoSo from ur PoV, it would also then be fine if for example a white actor would play MLK in a movie about him?
minus-squareIusedtobeanalien@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 hours agoI won’t be happy until a big Nigerian woman plays Sir Winston Churchill
minus-squareRagnvaldG@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 hours agoHe would just be a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
minus-squareleave_it_blank@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoYou’re implying that the next Black Panther could be played by Tom Cruise. I’m not sure I’d be happy about that.
minus-squareIusedtobeanalien@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoI was thinking vanilla ice But yeah
Any actor should be able to play any role regardless of race or gender. Anything else is systemic discrimination.
“You can’t play shakespeare because you’re black!” screams the basement dwelling internet troll at the kenyan shakespeare society.
So from ur PoV, it would also then be fine if for example a white actor would play MLK in a movie about him?
I won’t be happy until a big Nigerian woman plays Sir Winston Churchill
He would just be a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
You’re implying that the next Black Panther could be played by Tom Cruise. I’m not sure I’d be happy about that.
I was thinking vanilla ice
But yeah