• moakley@lemmy.world
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    You can’t just do the movie-goer equivalent of “I can’t be racist because I have a black friend”. That doesn’t matter.

    I’m going to assume you believe the following: Disney understands that casting non-white actors as white characters (based on prior depictions) is going to be controversial.

    You assume incorrectly. Their choices are only controversial to chuds. It’s not controversial to anyone without that same ragebait agenda. Chuds happen to be an extremely loud minority, but they don’t buy tickets to children’s princess movies.

    This whole thing is just silly. You think they hired Rachel Zegler not because she was arguably the biggest breakthrough young actress that year and had just won a Golden Globe for her first ever film, but because her skin tone is two shades darker than a 90 year old cartoon? Seriously? You really think that?

    Be serious for a moment, because that’s obviously ridiculous.

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      You can’t just do the movie-goer equivalent of “I can’t be racist because I have a black friend”.

      Fucking watch me lol.

      Their choices are only controversial to chuds.

      Either they anticipate controversy or not.

      You think they hired Rachel Zegler because [thing]?

      Don’t strawman me. I told you what I think.

      be serious for a moment

      Can you retire this?

      “You can’t ACTUALLY be serious” is not a compelling argument. I already told you in my last post that I am sincere in what I believe


      You claim you don’t believe:

      Disney understands that casting non-white actors as white characters (based on prior depictions) is going to be controversial.

      Let me enlighten you.

      Disney was aware of the backlash for years and kept the casting

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        None of that contradicts what I said. Of course they’re aware of the outsized backlash from the incel community. Of course they need to prepare their stars against the disgusting threats of your cohort. That doesn’t mean the South Park demographic has any financial weight behind it when it comes to Disney Princess movies.

        And none of that even begins to suggest that they actual benefit from the anti-hype, and as I already pointed out, there’s a significant financial disincentive to cast a Black lead, because it loses the Chinese market.

        So you’re just really bad at arguing. Your whole premise is easily dismissed by thinking about it for like a second. You just want to hate on Black Ariel for some reason you refuse to name, and you think that makes you clever. It doesn’t.

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          Of course they need to prepare their stars against the disgusting threats of your cohort.

          I stopped reading here. You won. I’m out. Bye.