More diversity nonsense from Hollywood, Snow White is now brown.

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[–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yes, I am sure they just cast the best actress for the role. /s

The racism is that they purposely do this stuff now, and you have to be blind not to see it.

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I agree. I think it's called is "reverse racism" or in the UK "positive racism" to try to reach a wider audience that includes Hispanics and Blacks by selecting actors and actresses who are non-white or partially non-white (which is not fair to whites who might be more appropriate for the job). It's certainly manipulated. Selecting a brown "snow white" will draw a lot of attention, which may be what Disney wants, as a massive corporation that's trying to look inclusive, whilst focused only on $ from the wider audience. They won't lose white viewers, or users who are supposedly engaged in the so-called 'war on woke'.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The 'oh they just want a bigger audience' argument is such utter horseshit but I'll address one point: if it is the case that minorities just need to see themselves more in art to enjoy it and consume it then why wouldn't it be also true that the less whites see of themselves in art the less they will consume?

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Disney certainly considered this, which is part of the point of my last sentence. Whites in this demographic (who won't watch a movie that has non-whites) are few and unimportant. Though many of them were given a voice during the Trump presidency, and others were encouraged to be like them, there are so few of them. Also, the rate at which non-wites are having babies has for years outpaced the rate at which whites are having children. Disney also knows that there would be a negative response to them by the majority in the US were they to continue making movies mainly with whites in them. This is a decades-old trend for movie companies, to include non-whites.

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Selecting a brown "snow white" will draw a lot of attention, which may be what Disney wants, as a massive corporation that's trying to look inclusive, whilst focused only on $ from the wider audience. They won't lose white viewers, or users who are supposedly engaged in the so-called 'war on woke'.

It's pretty smart. The people offended enough to not watch will just promote the movie even more with their outrage.

The Gunslinger was black washed too but Idris Alba did a good job, he wasn't why it bombed.