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Yeah! The real problem is those darn A.V. Club comment sections!

And I'd rather hold the industry that creates such an environment to higher standards than just go along with people who would rather be safe than right.

I get that the story needed to be changed. It's an adaptation, and adaptation literally means change. But it's not like they were constrained to change it in a certain way. They get to make the decisions of what to change, and deciding to change things in a way that makes it easier to cast white roles does eliminate…

I did appreciate your post! It was a great example of imagined persecution. It's like you know how I truly feel deep in my deepest heart of hearts.

If it's different, it feels different in the same way that you can take the arrowhead off of an arrow and still shoot someone with an unsharpened dowel. Like they found a way to justify it in a more subtle, ignorable way, but still just kept doing the same thing without offending the people who weren't affected by it.

Changing the whole backstory of the movie so that it does not require an Asian lead IS whitewashing.

Ooh ooh, I know this one: "maybe japanese people don't like seeing scarjo act in movies?"

Financial decisions are not mutually exclusive from political decisions. There's no such thing as "more" of a decision. Everything is balancing one value against another and the decision is about how much to weight each value. Choosing to make a decision based more on finance than on politics is a political (and…

Maybe I, an actual real Asian-American literally telling you what I think (and repeating the opinions of many others like me) could carry more weight than hypothetical people's opinions?

It can't possibly be more tedious than caring about other people caring about something you find tedious.

My problem with it isn't about violating canon or whether it's "allowed" by the magical canon overlords. It's that the decision to make her white (and it is a decision, no matter how ingrained into society the idea that neutral=white is) is implicitly political and ultimately hurtful.

The argument that this movie wouldn't be made without Scarlett Johansson in the lead is kind of like saying "Sure, whitewashing is bad, but it's just so gosh darn convenient, so I guess we can give it a pass this time."

It's the American Dream: "Anyone can do anything, but it sure helps to be rich, white, and nonthreatening"

Because there's no way that correlating race and success could result in racism, or a feedback loop of race leading to success leading to high grossing actors and actresses leading to race leading to success…

Just because a character has special eyes, doesn't make them white. Have you watched any anime? The character designs all have a variety of shapes and shades and types of skin, hair, eyes, whatever, but that doesn't automatically make them white. In most cases, it makes them neutral, which still doesn't make them…

So if there's no identity, then why not use an Asian actress? Or, anyone other than white? White does not equal default or neutral, which is a big underlying problem behind whitewashing.

Not gonna lie, that sounds kind of diminishing.

What's "Talking By Chris Fawning"?

Sounds like it wasn't enough to get them off their tractors.