https://x.com/THR/status/1777453524319903789
Billy Dee Williams Says Actors Should Be Allowed to Wear Blackface https://t.co/lBgth8MbaS
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) April 8, 2024
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actors should be allowed to do black face. actors should be allowed to do anything they want when acting. this social media liberal idea of
you aren't allowed to play a disabled/queer/foreign/colored/etc character if you aren't disabled/queer/foreign/colored/etc!
bugs the shit out of me.
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On this day, we all became actors.
But yes, it's even more r-slurred as you see where the lines are. You just have to be Asian to play Asian, but ignore just how many different types of Asian there are and also that they mostly hate each other.
Let actors act.
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My favorite is pointing out that kind of mentality leads to casting r-slurs in the R-slur roles, which then is exploitation of r-slurs, which is theoretically bad LOL
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When they should be casting downs syndrome bros in Chad roles in comedies.
We need a version of "Old School" where it's Shane Gillis and a bunch of his brethren being frat stars, and just play it straight
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But then if a character is a cishet white male, he should also be played by a disabled/queer/foreign/colored/etc for "representation"
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wrong. characters can't be straight white males. it's current fricking year, bigot.
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