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Topic	Greek Achilles to be played by a black person in new BBC/Netflix series.
s0nicfan 12/21/17 12:12:01 PM #42:	boxington posted... the TC was making an argument about how the casing was "mocking" Greek culture, though. they can take issue with the race of the actors, if they want, but a black actor and a white actor (who aren't Greek) don't add anymore to the culture than the other That's a fair point. My point was more that a white person not being of greek culture seems only to matter when using it to justify why they are just as qualified as a different race, but if I said my company was diverse because it had greek, german, english, etc people... I would be accused of being full of shit for calling an all white group diverse. It's the double standard that gets to people, and less so that a fictional character is being changed to a different race. We all know that happens all the time. It's being told "this change is good/fine, but if you change a black historical character to a white one that's bad" where people tend to get upset. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:892629295] in Greek Achi... [t:76122565]...</cite> <quote><cite>boxington posted...</cite> <quote>the TC was making an argument about how the casing was "mocking" Greek culture, though. they can take issue with the race of the actors, if they want, but a black actor and a white actor (who aren't Greek) don't add anymore to the culture than the other </quote> That's a fair point. My point was more that a white person not being of greek culture seems only to matter when using it to justify why they are just as qualified as a different race, but if I said my company was diverse because it had greek, german, english, etc people... I would be accused of being full of shit for calling an all white group diverse. It's the double standard that gets to people, and less so that a fictional character is being changed to a different race. We all know that happens all the time. It's being told "this change is good/fine, but if you change a black historical character to a white one that's bad" where people tend to get upset. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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