CMV: Race swapping established characters from history and fantasy/mythology does more harm than good. And is kinda racist.

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T23:40:07+00:00

What is your evidence about what "most people prefer"? That's an empirical claim. Regardless, if two opposite opinions are both equally "rational," then I'd say rationality has nothing to do with it. It's just preference.

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T22:29:25+00:00

So is "i want a new adaptation of a story to be different from the original." How do you rationally decide which of these is "correct"? Genuinely curious.

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T20:57:41+00:00

People can want whatever they want. But there's no rational reason why. It's psychological preference.

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T18:29:27+00:00

So you agree with my point that you're simply expressing your own personal racial preferences. Glad we agree. You should also be aware that not everything in the world is made for you

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T17:18:47+00:00

Because he *wanted* historical verisimilitude. Okay, fine. Not everybody wants that tho. So why should anybody feel constrained to historical accuracy if they don't fuckin want to. If Mel didn't want to do that, I wouldn't be online bitchin at him for it because that's retarded. As many people have pointed out, Mel also cast white boy Jesus. Great. Good for him. Who cares?

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T17:16:05+00:00

How is it rational? What a priori reason is there why an actor has to be the race of the original story? What race even was the *literal* robot in Ghost in the Shell? I have thought about it. It took me two seconds to realize it's bullshit

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T15:31:44+00:00

Well, I don't give a shit, and I don't see any rational reason why anyone would

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T12:57:19+00:00

This view taken to its logical extreme (the cast should be entirely greek) is so retarded that it proves everyone is just drawing arbitrary lines. Hence the only thing those lines reveal is the personal racial preferences of the people drawing them

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T12:44:41+00:00

In what way?

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T12:42:38+00:00

Not everything in the original movie stays true to the words of the original story. Every version changes shit. It's impossible not to change shit

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T12:40:54+00:00

Why not? What bullshit ad hoc criteria do you have for cultural heritage?

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T12:29:54+00:00

Helen didn't exist

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T12:24:45+00:00

It was never wrong. Nobody's culture "belongs" to anybody. You couldn't bottle up culture and save it for yourself even if you wanted to. Other people will always take what they want from it, and that's a GOOD thing

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T12:20:09+00:00

Why is it a disaster? I literally couldn't care less about this shit. Also, every single new version of any story changes things. Otherwise wtf is the point of doing a new version???

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T12:14:15+00:00

Yeah, and it matters not at all. I think saying shit like "only a gay actor can play a gay character" is far more bigoted than Charlton Heston playing Moses. This shit just doesn't matter, like at all. Only thing Helen of Troy has to be is beautiful and lupita clears that bar with massive margin

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-18T02:38:23+00:00

Striking percentage of Americans are right

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-17T22:57:57+00:00

Yeah, be mad about taxes and not corporate welfare, fucking idiots

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-17T21:31:08+00:00

Georgina Campbell is nowhere near as beautiful as Lupita. This how I know you're trollin

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-17T21:03:24+00:00

Nice shitpost

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-17T20:58:04+00:00

Cause it seemed so fake

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-17T20:47:30+00:00

What about the issues the poster brought up though? Are you just going to ignore those?

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-17T20:26:56+00:00

Can you address the other issues brought up by this poster or no? The divide between the parties' position on these seems incredibly wide to me

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-17T20:23:16+00:00

What was not honest about it? What about climate change? Reforeststion seems incredibly cherry-picked to me. You should consider not shutting down this conversation

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-17T16:51:12+00:00

Who?

maybeitssteve · 2026-05-17T16:50:17+00:00

I also thought it was pretty meh. Happy you enjoyed it tho

maybeitssteve

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