debate on the ethics of race swapping

[Pancake Batterer]

Historically, theatre productions were performed by a troop of actors and if you didn’t have a black guy to play Othello or a woman to play Juliet, you’d just use a white guy. I don’t have a problem if a small production or an independent film race-swaps people because of logistical constraints.

Hollywood movies have 10’s if not not 100’s of millions of dollars in their budgets and so the excuse of “we couldn’t find a black guy to play Othello” doesn’t really apply when you can literally buy somebody with that much money.

There’s really no excuse for not casting somebody who looks like the character in modern Hollywood.

The fact that studios don’t want to put any effort into buying IPs with brown characters is true and honest evidence of the studios’ racism. They then try to play the billion-dollar-company equivalent of “I’m not racist! I have black friends!” by casting brown people as white characters instead of, you know, actually trying to promote the creative works of brown people so that the entire issue of race-baiting and race-swapping could be avoided.

It’s like they’re telling us that HBO couldn’t find a script for a cartoon that didn’t involve changing the races of 3 of the 4 human members of Mystery Inc.? Why couldn’t they remake Static Shock or something instead… oh wait. Because a story about a black kid in the city becoming a hero and fighting crime probably goes against HBO’s agenda.

 

[Nick Gars]

The idea per se is "harmless" as long race isn't important for the character, it's the obvious malice and sake of muh diversity and having less white people behind it that's annoying

Pretty much this. Comics are a good of example of where it should work just fine, as a heros "name" is more often a title than anything. If you have worthwhile stories to actually tell that aren't just "lol whitey bad, fuck nerds, negro power!", having Batman or Ironman be black, asian, Latino, ect for a time wouldn't matter at all. It's the malicious nature of why it's done that makes it so unlikeable and insulting.

That "Velma" show is a perfect example. The cast wasn't "diversified" to tell engaging stories or show interesting concepts, it was done because Scooby-Doo is considered a "white people icon" and "fuck white people" and they're blatant about it with the writing. Completely reskining the original show and calling it "Pitty-Boo's Hood Hijinks" while actually keeping with the theme would of been less blatantly insulting. This touches on another reason the "race swapping" shit is so annoying...


The people doing it cannot create, they can only destroy.

 

[Matajudios]

Hey, how about you come back to the site in a year, pal? Get some time on the site, and also learn how to spell "oppressed".

wow you mistyped one letter, let me just ignore the entire argument. At this point, Hymiewood is, self-admittedly, creatively dead inside and pushing out the x remake, rerun and prequel, solely driven by greed.
So, of course, they would rather defile the classics instead of creating new "diverse" shows. If they cared so much about diversity, they wouldn't exclusively hire their cousins. It's all fellow Whites at the CEO level.
The only good thing about the last years has been all those media faggots eating each other over nonsense like this. That's entertainment.

 

[The Ugly One]

A remake of the live action Little Mermaid where that ugly, wall-eyed negress gets race-swapped for a pretty, white redhead would be an improvement.

 

[Wesley Willis]

The same studios engaged in whitewashing also do race swapping. There is no consistency, it's almost focus group / algorithmic at this point.