I’m assuming that you were liberally posting this definition to shut your colleagues and their supporters up when they were railing against Emma Stone playing a character whose ethnicity she didn’t actually share.

I’ve seen the available UK census data. I acknowledge that there were communities of black people in the UK at the time, but they numbered in the low one-thousands. My initial post was to call out someone for asking for a demographically and economically unrealistic contemporaneous representation of black people in a…

I take issue with calling it ‘tone-deafness’. It’s certainly, superficially evocative of US slavery simple for the use of the word ‘slave’, but that’s meeting a very low intellectual bar, one that doesn’t force anyone to actually examine their ideas. If taken to its logical conclusion, you might as well shut down an…