I’m not sure there were that many POC voice actors with that kind of range around in 1989 when auditions taking place.

You lack the ability to empathise with the struggles of others, got it.

I mean, I’d be happy for them to be getting any roles. We might be having a different conversation if the majority of white voice roles were taken by actors of colour. But that’s not the case.

Yeardley Smith voices exactly one character on ‘The Simpsons’; Julie Kavner just does Marge and the other Bouvier women. They’re clearly happy to hire people with limited range if they can do great work for those characters. Besides which, why are you assuming that the voice actors of colour out there are going to be…

How about the fact that actors of colour don’t get represented within the industry because roles they could go for have already been taken by white people.

I think the real problem is that until recently (last 10-15 years), the Voice Acting industry probably never even bothered to check and even then, it didn’t really matter. Voice acting in general seems to be a difficult industry to get into and the prominent PoC VAs I can think of were all actors of various status…

Because context is for pussies amirite?

When I was a kid, I would stay up to watch Conan, and was a big fan of The Simpsons. Harry Shearer came on and at some point does Dr Hibbert’s voice - I absolutely didn’t have the vocabulary or awareness of lack of diversity in voice-actors to fully understand/express why I was uncomfortable with what I just saw, but…

The enveloping cynicism of saying something like “this planet belongs to the bad players; this place has always been hell” is precisely the kind of sentiment that people like Donald Trump make use of. But I actually don’t think things have always been this bad, or at least not in this specific way: the idea that a…

If you didn’t know that all the actors on the Simpsons are white, you’re a fucking moron, and have literally no business commenting on the AVClub.

There’s this nihilist brand of “progressive” activist who thinks the only problem worth solving is whatever specific bumper-sticker catchphrase they’re currently talking about.

I’m sorry you’re incapable of working on two problems at once.

I think the general idea isn’t so much that Harry Shearer shouldn’t be allowed to play Dr Hibbert as maybe not every single character regardless of color needs to be played by a white person. If it were an occasional thing and POC were getting their fair share of voice work, it would be less of an issue.

Nice straw man you set up to argue with, but the problem it solves is the lack of representation in media. Are you still confused, or do you need a kindergartener to explain it to you?

I try to be a forgiving person, and I agree that we can’t be governed by people who supported and enabled Trump’s presidency.

I’d rather a truth and reconciliation comission. God willing, all this will be over with someday and we’ll have a quarter-million dead Americans or so and an economy in ruins. That’s bad, but I don’t know how I’m ever going to take anyone who supported this belligerent moron seriously anymore, which is basically…

Because then they won’t let you interview them again. 

Bernie Lost

Hey Bernie Bro, welcome to AV Club. I’m sorry your candidate lost the primary, but that has happened hundreds of times in this country and usually, the losers sulk a few days and then move on.

This is stupid and incorrect. Sanders lost that primary and this one. He just got less votes. He’d be great if he won, which is really debatable if he even could win the general, but he wouldn’t have been able to pass all the stuff he wants it’s just not practical within our system. And yeah our system sucks. Part of…