All Black comic book characters should be replaced with white actors for film adaptations

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  1. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    Donald Trump?
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  2. 14thDoctor

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    Again, what's being erased? First, all the other white versions of those characters still exist. Second, most older "white" aren't so much intentionally white, as ethnicity wasn't important to the plot and whiteness was simply the default in those days.

    Third, go fuck yourself. :shrug:
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  3. markb

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    So sorry I'm down on the outrage over your funny books, Captain Butthurt. Maybe you should go have a lolly and a root beer float to wash the bitterness away.

    That's a good boy!
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  4. K.

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    Well, you're the only one here using it; so go ahead and tell us what it means to you and why you think it is a useful and valid concept.
  5. TheBurgerKing

    TheBurgerKing The Monarch of Flavor

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    I don't see it as either a useful or valid concept. What it is is a manufactured excuse for race baiters and the perpetually offended to use to continue their vile actions.
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  6. K.

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    Then how about you rephrase your point without it?
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    TheBurgerKing The Monarch of Flavor

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    But my point was refuting someone who brought the concept up a few pages ago. Also nice tactic, "Now make your point without referencing the original subject matter of your point". Such original, many effective. Wow.
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  8. K.

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    Where?

    Only because you said it was useless. I originally asked you to explain the subject matter; you chos to distance yourself from it.
  9. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    If Hollywood had their way they wouldn't cast any white people, but because most people associate Peter Parker with Spider-Man and not Miles Morales, they have no choice. The diversity police did what they could though to minimize the white people, but unfortunately for them, RDJ is as much Iron Man as Hugh Jackman is Wolverine. I'm sure they'll get Miles Morales in the next reboot.
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  10. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Yeah....cuz that's a thing that exists.
    Black people have had it so easy in Hollywood.
    From 1915 onward, it was a frigging Candyland.
    :rolleyes:
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  11. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    I didn't say it was, but now they are so obsessed with diversity, they're turning white characters black. How long before they reduce white characters to the same roles black characters had back in the day? If you want a representative cast, guess what, you still have to have white people too.
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  12. K.

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    Can you name a single movie without white leads?
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  13. 14thDoctor

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    Don Cheadle has openly talked about how no one would fund his Miles Davis bio until he gave Miles a (fictional) white best friend. :shrug:
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  14. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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  16. 14thDoctor

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    Can you name a single movie with only white leads? I'll wait. :borg:
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  19. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    You know who's afraid of shit like this?
    The Klan.
    That's right off a Klan pamphlet.
    Their propaganda isn't "Nyah haha haa!! We're evil racists!! Muuhahaa!! Eeeviil!!".
    No, it's paranoid white-victim horseshit like you just spouted.
    Way to go, dummy.
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    What's sad is anyone thinking of Janeway as a symbol of gender equality. :jayzus:
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  21. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Do you believe having a diverse cast means including white people?
  22. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Yep.
    And there'll be whites in Spidey, so simmer down.
    The white genocide hasn't happened just yet.
  23. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    The Beeps wrote Janeway as poorly as they did Archer who followed her.

    There's your equality :diacanu:
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  24. 14thDoctor

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    You know how I know your position is morally bankrupt? This is how. :async:
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  25. tafkats

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    As in, to refer to people who actually HAVE been subject to real cultural erasure, as opposed to the indignation of some insecure white dude who's mad about only 93% of the world being about him instead of 97%?
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  26. Tuttle

    Tuttle Listen kid, we're all in it together.

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    Hmm.
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  27. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Can anyone explain why a clearly white character would be cast by a black girl?
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  28. mburtonk

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    Because why not?
  29. markb

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    Can you clearly explain why it shouldn't?
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  30. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    Actually a lot of it is market driven as over seas sales make up a big part of studio profits.