I’m sorry, but are you asking us to be outraged that a black person was cast in a white role while whitewashing runs rampant in movies? WTF?

But you can have an Asian character who isn’t a stereotype. It’s not a prerequisite of being an Asian character.

I’m a white woman. And for the most part I always thought I was fairly aware (i wont say woke because I fucking hate that saying) but years years ago I was in a relationship with an aboriginal man and was really slapped in the face with what his reality was. Everywhere we went the racism was there. grocery store,…

Intent/malicious doesn’t matter....that’s one of the things many white and straight people don’t get. You can be well intentioned, but still be a dick. The bigoted results of policy or a behavior...they’re the same whether it’s on purpose or not. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons Cho decided to share now. She’s had…

I thought parts of it definitely came across as Tilda attempting to get absolution from Cho—that’s a problem for obvious reasons. I also thought Cho’s emails read as being exceedingly polite, almost the way you talk to someone when you’re kind of trying to make it their idea...? Like, I don’t know, maybe do this...?…

I think this is where you have a privilege that I don’t. As a white person, please do, please talk to other white people about race whether they “get it” or not. As a black woman, most of the time when I talk to people who don’t “get it” (and I do), I just get shit on most of the time. Some of the comments that I’ve…

The goal was to be diverse and avoid outdated stereotypes that are offensive today.

It doesn’t have to be demanding to be a burden. When someone’s politely asking questions, it can still feel like a burden if you feel like there is no way you can pull out of the conversation without being a) perceived as negative, b) letting down your people, or c) missing an opportunity to educate someone.

Hell, if…

a rich white woman asked an asian woman she isn’t close to to explain how something is racist to her and how to solve the problem. if you don’t see the issue with that, I don’t know what to tell you. you have all the power of the internet to figure out why that is a really ignorant and shitty thing for someone to do,…

The way I see it, there are a lot of parallels between this situation and the situation of a guy pulling aside a woman at work and asking her “could you explain this ‘feminism’ thing to me? I want to do the right thing but I haven’t heard much about these ‘microaggressions’ and ‘intersectionality’ among my white male…

Yeah, I mean honestly, because there aren’t enough films about 55 year white Scottish women living the Highlands, she totally understands lack of representation so it’s okay for her to play a character that should have been Tibetan? Really?

She is also falling into the old habit of saying “I want to have a conversation” when what she means to say is “I want you to tell me that what I am doing is okay.”

Well I have lots of conversations with my white friends who absolutely get it that are productive and honest. I was specifically talking about in my comment the tendency for white people (and yes, I know not all white people) to be resistant to looking at an issue from a historical perspective, and I think that’s…

I was with Tilda until she didn’t seem to grasp that you could still cast an Asian actor in a role as long as the character was updated to avoid the stereotypes in the original text. She seemed to think that it was an either/or situation, which is certainly not true.

I think that both things are true: MC did mischaracterize the interaction and TS was too quick to brush off her role in (and benefit from) whitewashing. TS comes across at once open to concerns, but at the same time very much closed off to them. She is adamant that she is someone who values diversity and that be…

Cho’s view doesn’t make Swinton sound malicious at all. I’d say that’s some white fragility afoot. Chi portrayed Swinton as a hapless white person trying to make themselves feel better about some whitewashing she participated in. The emails don’t contradict that. Swinton just goes on and on about how the whitewashing…

Well, here’s how these conversations feel as a person of color. A white person reaches out to you sometimes - as the only POC that they know. “Hey, can you explain this one thing to me?” Like, I’m Mexican-American, so they might say, for example, “Hey, can you tell me why people think Speedy Gonzales was a negative…

Maybe it was unfair, but also unfair that roles are regularly rewritten and given to white actors, and no one is ever actually responsible for this. Cho’s fed up, and I get why.

Except Tilda does a weird, insensible thing when she says, “I’m a Scottish woman of 55 who lives in the Highlands. There’s precious little projected on contemporary cinema screens that means a great deal to my life, if truth be told.”

While I agree Cho’s characterization is off, Tilda is also missing the mark in these emails. Tilda is benefiting from the whitewashing of a character, but won’t look at the historical significance of this because she personally doesn’t feel that way. As a person of color, that is definitely one of the most aggravating…