[ SECRET POST #2911 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2911 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 (same words, different image) - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[tabaqui]

Can someone explain to me the posts i saw (i think on Tumblr?) about Cumberbatch being cast as Dr. Strange being 'whitewashed'? He was a kid born to two people from Nebraska in the thirties (which pretty much screams white farmer to me) and all the art i saw, he was white.

So wth?

[(Anonymous)]

Those posts are by people who have never read the comic, i.e; idiots.

Ignore them. They have no idea what they are talking about. It's more or less, "He kind of looks Asian...kind of in some of the original drawings. Therefore; WHITEWASHING!"

[tabaqui]

Huh. How weird.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah if they'd gone with cultural appropriation they'd, well, they'd still be batshit crazy, but would at least have an argument that wasn't completely baseless right from the start.

[(Anonymous)]

He is white, but quite a lot of people were reasonably arguing that having an Asian or Middle Eastern Doctor Strange would help a lot with the rampant orientalism in his backstory. Unfortunately, other people then took that to mean that he *was* Asian or Middle Eastern in the comics and therefore the casting was whitewashing. Personally, I think there's a great tradition of European sorcery and alchemy to draw on, so I don't see any reason why the movies have to be racist, since it's not the 60s.

[tabaqui]

Huh.

So his 'powers' in the comics were kind of Eastern-origin kind of thing?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. In the comics he is taken in and trained by a Tibetan mystic. His whole style is based of vaguely Asian mysticism.

[tabaqui]

Well, considering the title was started in the early sixties, 'Eastern' philosophy and mysticism would have been very popular.

Thanks for the help - good to know!