Do you honestly believe that Cumberbatch used ‘coloreds’ as a deliberate attempt to denigrate POC in a discussion about the lack of working opportunities for black actors in the UK vs the US? That was the quote in question:

Sweetie...no one called her racist if that’s what you take from my comment...well that your problem

It’s a GOOD thing he isn’t getting his daily briefings, ala the Twilight Zone, It’s a Good Life.

You’ve forgotten my favorite, and most obvious, one: when Gwyneth Paltrow took an photo of Kanye and Jay-Z performing in Paris and captioned it “n****s in Paris”. Like, even with the asterisks, not okay.

Well they moved the secret base of the ancient one from Tibet to Nepal so boom, right there the big problem with China is resolved.

I think it would have been more interesting to make Dr. Strange be not-white than Baron Mordo. A Latino or Middleastern actor for instance would not greatly change the look but would…

China is playing life and death, Drumpf is playing reality talk show host. This is getting worse by the day.

oh, that i understand, i just find it criminally ignorant of studios to display this attitude so prominently and think everyone else is just ok with it.

I’ll probably be opening myself up to some abuse here with this opinion, but I’m with you on that one. They were in a tricky situation with the character of The Ancient One to begin with. The original version in the comics was a racial stereotype, it would have been insensitive to use it. Then they had the issue of…

They weirdly did the same exact same thing *with Chiwetel Ejiofor* in The Martian. The logic seems to be, if we make multiple source material Asian characters not Asian, and make most characters white but one non-main character Black, we aren’t racist! Hollywood needs to get it together.

Dumb. Taking shit out of context STILL does not make Swinton racist in this case.

has there been any real discussion of the karl mordo character, written as white, being played by chiwetel ejiofor in the film?

There is a reason that Hollywood makes movies.

Quelle surprise a rich white woman fails to understand why Asians are mad about her playing a role that was originally written for an Asian. And then proceeds to pull and Asian version of I have a black friend.

This does not surprise me in the slightest. There are just certain people who you can tell are like that and Swinton definitely has those vibes. It’s like when Taylor Swift touched the weekends hair, or when Tina Fey had trouble naming  latinos in show business, or when Sherlock Holmes (aka animorphs face) used the…

Oh, gods, no.
That’s the difference between taking your stapler and taking your car.

Sure, but taking an ocean data recorder is not the same as bringing down a Predator or other UAV.

It also held it’s first live fire drills. This message is loud and clear.

They’re probably wondering why the US and Britain have been allowed to expand over the decades, but they aren’t. They are a superpower now, so they want to expand. I don’t agree with what they are doing, but I can understand why they might be inclined to not see our side of the argument.

Re “islands”: American allies are also building artificial islands in the South China Sea; in fact they have been doing it for a lot longer. But guess what? You don’t hear about it in MSM.

Looks like dismissing the one china policy is already having consequences.