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⌈ Secret Post #2078 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

God, the deflecting and shoddy genetics in this comment.

"Yeah, yeah, POC, the discriminatory casting sucks, but take your righteous anger out on another fandom and let me enjoy the movie without being pestered by all the racism, gawsh!"

Please, by all means, let us know when us simple colored folk have your permission to be upset about prejudice, thank you very much.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly what do you have to be annoyed at it? Because you thought the characters were non-white and the casting directors thought differently? As pointed out, there was good reason to think so.

Like...the idea that you think that they are supposed to be non-white and that the movie is racist for depicting them as white is what is making people just be out-and-out hostile where they wouldn't have been.

The only thing you can maybe take direct umbrage with is the casting director specifically barring a non-white character playing Katniss.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I dislike discriminatory casting, but in the case of the THG I believe the author stated that Katniss was white. That's that, I'm sorry, but if you don't like it, blame this one on the author. This isn't like a situation where the characters are CONFIRMED to be PoC (like with The Last Airbender) but made white by the casting people; that's is a completely different situation. Be pissed at the right people.

That being said, if it's the the future, it's not unlikely that most people would be mixed. And I agree the anon above you doesn't know shit about genetics, clearly they have never seen a mixed person in their life.

/mixed kid

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

She didn't state Katniss was white, that she can be, but given that she purposely made people from the Seam, including her father, racially ambiguous, I kinda have to call bullshit with it. If there wasn't a history of White authors being perfectly okay with Hollywood Whitewashing their main characters (if not all like that movie 21), because I would be okay with that.

Sure there are authors like Ursula K. Le Guin who called out the Whitewashing of her characters in Earthsea, but a startling number go with the tide by trying to excuse it with having the "personality" or "acting chops" until that little lie gets blown up when the casting call only ask for White girls. For a more current example, Issac Marion, the author of Warm Bodies, okayed the whitewashing of a supporting character who was biracial and visibly brown for a pale white girl.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, honestly, that's why I feel that sometimes it'd just be better if Characters of Color were written by PoC. There are exceptions to the rule, like Le Guin, of course.

You see, most of the people I see, are vying for white authors to make Characters of Color, while I think it'd be much better if that time and attention was dedicated to trying to support PoC-writers and get their works more publicity.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

so basically, "don't even bother trying, whitey, us ~PoC~ are too special for you to understand"


gotcha

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Pretty much.

White person writes a book about a POC where race is an important issue and source of identity.
Response: "Why do stories about POC always have to center around race?"

White person writes a book about a POC where race isn't an important issue and source of identity.
Response: "Why are POC characters always written like white people with white people issues?"

White person writes a book without POC main characters.
Response: "This book is racist for not including POC characters."