Quote: M Fnord wrote:
NEWSFLASH: They are complaining, jackass! That's the key of
the complaint - they took not-white characters and cast them with very white actors. It amazes me that somebody who waves the leftie flag
as hard as you doesn't seem to give a shit about institutional bigotry. I guess since Shyamalan's one of Those People it's okay?
You weren't. All you cared about was "Asians". Which Inuit aren't. Also, the Avatar characters are fictional two-dimensional drawings from a
nonexistent world that is not Earth and who have genetically inheritable magic powers. They do not have a human ethnicity, and therefore I care a lot more
about the ability of the actor to portray them than I do about where his/her ancestors came from. So too, apparently, does the director.
I love how you start with "picking white actors is RACIST!", hear "the guy who picked them wasn't white", and then come back with
"Well, for thinking that's okay you're obviously RACIST". Because only a racist would think a guy probably isn't racist against his own
race, I guess. Whereas the people who think all Asians are generically interchangeable aren't racist even a little bit, of course.
Being generally left-leaning does not mean I have to jump up and wave the "OMG Discrimination" flag at every given opportunity. Particularly in this
case, and the Dragonball case, where all the people whining about discrimination are being more racist than the people they're complaining about.