Diversity Casting Controversies

Not sure why you’re being downvoted because you have a point. Remember the controversy that ensued when a black girl was cast as Rue in the Hunger Games movie?https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/white-until-prov...

Characters in modern takes on historical media have always been heavily modified. Why is editing their gender or skin tone not okay?Also, can't you just scroll past a carousel representing a genre you're not interested in? Are other carousels for things like musicals woke too?

People were up in arms before a single episode aired, because they saw a fictional species (dwarf) had dark skin. many of those people have now pivoted their arguments against the show to being about pacing, writing (note: I’m in no way implying this is you, I haven’t seen any LotR series opinions on HN) - but the racist stuff has already occurred

Doesn’t that seem useful though? Isn’t that why I’m forced to read “This movie was made a time when racial stereotypes were different and not well considered” or whatever on old movies?I think talking to a legit trained LLM from a different era would be rad. But… this seems the opposite of Gemini making black lady popes and Native American Nazis… that these views wouldn’t really be “allowed” (published by anyone that wants AI funding money).

Nothing is racist about inventing a fantasy race in a fantasy world. One of the reasons we have fantasy and science fiction is it allows us to discuss difficult real world topics in a setting that hopefully avoids the real world biases.I think what people find racist about this situation is that the scenario is obviously mirroring black slavery (fine, it still needs to be discussed), and that the race the authors chose to stand in for blacks are a racial caricature of blacks (monkeys, real w

the original text clearly states that some of the people that are black in the show are white. It doesn't matter that the author is involved, if you are a racist why do you care that the author has been bought to conform to 'the message'.

Outdated racist stereotypes aside, how are we meant to interpret the scene you're setting?

All the other references to seriously heinous and potentially more destructive things don't seem to bother not much anyone or at least can not be used to rile up controversy to the same degree as racist imagery or references. It seems to be ok to glorify killing or at least portray it in totally acceptable or neutral light but any reference to possible prejudice or separation or claims of inferiority of certain groups or species compared to others is a no go?In the light of america'

In what way is the fictional portrayal of a fictional primitive people discriminatory?

Turns out people don't like it when you take something not about being woke, and make it about being woke. Amazon should hurry up and learn their lesson. If they want a show about being gay they should just make one, don't rewrite an existing story to shoehorn it, and if you want black and brown fantasy characters, don't appropriate something cobbled out of anglo-saxon mythology to do it.