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Phantom_Nook posted...

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The characters from Batman continuity are white, Robert De Niro is white, and the asshole victims realistically have to be white. Of the remaining cast, any role that could realistically go to a black actor is played by one -- psychiatrist, record keeper, love interest, the woman on the bus who confronts Arthur Fleck about his laughing fits, etc.

There are about four or five minor roles played by black actors. It's a little tokenistic if you ask me -- because they are small roles -- but at least the film is trying to be inclusive.

A film made by conservatives likely would've seen the single mother as a blonde or brunette (i.e. white). And one or two of the other minor roles occupied by black actors would've gone to a white actor.