Jesus, just watch the show again, you dorks. This thread is as nu-AV Club as it gets.

“Ohhhhh, I’ll just HAVE to re-watch this show I enjoyed and haven’t seen in years, woe is meeeeeee!  Guess I wont, and for reasons I now also no longer like the show!”

Wait, you’re seriously claiming this guy was your dad?

Well, sure, because it’s a self-fulfilling approach designed to make people feel better about their willfully chosen inaction/lack of opinion.

That is a golden age Superman-huge leap over a tall building of a false equivalency.

The intolerance of intolerance is not a problem.

With Kinja video gifs, just change the extension at the end of the address to .gif and you can link to it like a normal gif.

Yes, I am!

I think the idea that holding the creators/producers/etc. of animated shows to the expectation that they should cast more broadly and fairly for the characters that THEY THEMSELVES are creating is something that is going to drive down representation in the industry is faulty.

They’re the ones creating these minority cha…

“you’re demanding white actors to get booted from non-white roles and for those roles to be filled exclusively with actors who match the ethnicity of the character.”

That will, quite frankly, take too long and likely not change much.

Very few people are arguing for a hard fast rule that “character X can only be played voice actor X.” The argument is, “characters that are designed and written to represent very, very unrepresented characters should also be played by voice actors who…

I simply disagree with this, for lack of a better term, “casually altruistic” approach you seem to have towards this, that ultimately seems to fall back on the idea that the best person will end up with the job, and POC representation in voice acting needs little more than a nudging along of support. The playing field…

But very rarely is it an argument as narrow as “people should stick their own kind/etc.” when it comes to voice casting roles; that’s typically only thrown out there, IMO, as a counter-argument to people take issue with poor POC voice actor representation/lack of opportunities.

I’m not saying you’re necessarily doing this here, but I have noticed that Phil LaMarr as Samurai Jack gets brought up a LOT in these discussions, and it seems to be with the idea that it’s crazy to think of anyone but Phil LaMarr playing the character.

He couldn’t even fake looking like he’s not wracked with terror and disgust (and pain, maybe?) being on that set.

It was pretty big news at the time, so the idea that people actually in his same industry didn’t know doesn’t exactly fly. And hell, they even happily brought him back for the 2019 movie, so they had a second (34th?) chance to drop a really non-essential character and a really shitty person but didn didn’t.

Deadwood is…

“Imagine you worked on Deadwood.You’d probably be pretty proud of having helped produce what’s arguably a masterpiece. Imagine then if HBO decided to take it down because one of the regular cast turned out to be a paedophile?”

Arguably might be better than the reality that they willfully made the show from the jump …

Right; that just means they suffered more than one false negative. We’re finding that the current testing methods produce a significant number of false negatives AND positives.