If you can't make movies about blind people without casting famous sighted people then maybe the system is…bad?

You do realize actors don't actually drive unless the whole car is in the shot? The car is attached to a truck and dragged along behind it. That's why the actors never, say, crash because they're looking away from the road, or hit a cameraman.

god it's impossible to read this sentence in anyone's voice besides h bomberguy's

You're assuming the problem that no one was talking, when in reality the problem is no one was listening.

If you want to act in movies you shouldn't chose to become a serial killer or a pedophile.

you my friend are under a huge misapprehension about what blackface is

I mean sure. But more importantly, snarky jokes aside, claiming "they're mentally ill/disabled!" any time someone's a jerk really just makes the mentally ill and disabled look bad.

He's doing a better job of it than you.

We're upset with a system that keeps people from depicting even those like themselves in the name of expediency and profit.

You know, that reminds me, I can remember a prominent disabled actor—Joe Dougherty. He was the original voice of Porky Pig, fired and replaced with Mel Blanc because Doughterty took too much time in the recording booth.

I've actually seen a lot of disabled people claim that they'd have no problem with a Daredevil stunt double being sighted so long as the primary actor was blind. Which makes sense; after all, stunt doubles are there to do things too dangerous for most folks, sighted or not.

The perceived lack of complaints against Tom Hanks is more due to disability advocates not having the platform then they do now.

fuck you're right, i forgot it's impossible to be mad at someone for multiple things at the same time

At the rate we're going we're never actually gonna find out.

I mean, you could argue that most blackface depictions aren't depicting black culture, or even something approximating it; the humanizing it engaged in resulted in outrageous stereotypes that persist to this day.

If you don't hire a famous person you'll make the money sad! And that's, y'know, way worse than upsetting actual people.

I genuinely don't. What's the difference between a sighted person memorizing their blocking and a blind person?

Everyone knows actors don't engage in rote memorization. That's why all movie characters hold scripts at all times.

Being rich, narcissistic, and insulated from the real world isn't a developmental disability.

If we start being considerate of one group of people's desires to tell their own stories, what's next, being considerate of other groups of people's desires to tell their own stories? And what of the people with no disadvantages in life that'll be put out of work? Won't someone think of the abled people!