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Ok so you are 100% ok with casting Michelle Mosalakae (pictured below) as Snow White but not a tanned white actress?
If a media company in any country with a not white population wants to make a show about Snow White do they need to import a pale skinned actress? Is that the expectation? How exactly does this work in your mind globally?
Do you not see how weird you are being?
Do you not see how little this matters?
Why do you not apply these same standards universally?
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The point of Snow White was her beauty. Same as Helen of Troy. If you insist on linking white skin with the concept of beauty you are just blatantly racist. Which you are. Just because the original author had racist/classist/misogynistic beliefs originally does not require us to preserve those beliefs in the present to share in the stories created. You don't own or control stories.
Indeed. They surround me every day. They even haunt me about things that happened weeks ago. Dem bigots gon' rise up like a zombie to necro threads. It is VERY scary.
Whoa! Take it slow there valiant Knight fighting the good social justice cause.... them bigot authors of yore keeping you up all night hey?
MAMMA there's a bigot under my bed!
Another near miss.
Will Smith was asked to star as Neo in The Matrix. He refused.
What were the Wachowski brothers thinking. All other casting was spot on.
I thought she brought a lot to the role.Erika Elleniak in Under Siege?