Comments by "A.J. Hart" (@cobbler88) on "Top 10 Worst Whitewashed Movie Roles" video.

  1. Actually, blackwashing is much more prevalent than is whitewashing. The main reason (according to anecdotal Hollywood) seems to be that - even though a few folks might grouse a little - the overwhelming majority of white will just shrug and move on with their lives. Cast Tom Cruise as Black Panther and the entire black movie-going population of the U.S. would lose its collective shit. And keep in mind this is over a minor superhero none of them had even been aware of until "Civil War" came out.
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  2. SANNA: There is no such thing as reverse racism. There is only racism and everyone is capable of it. That being said, I'm not sure that swapping out races of characters necessarily constitutes racism. How people react to it, however, tends to be quite revealing about how much they choose to inject race into things.
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  3. AK: There is no such thing as reverse racism. It's simply racism like any other example.
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  4. I'm not quite sure, but does it qualify as irony or simply promoting a social agenda to choose to do a whitewashing video at a time when blackwashing is more prevalent? Those who have actually burned some calories examining this phenomenon in recent years (specifically substituting whites for blacks and blacks for whites) seem to believe that - even though a few white folks might grouse a little over changing the race of a character - the overwhelming majority of them just shrug off a race change and move on with their lives. At worst they ignore the movie entirely. Conversely, cast Liam Hemsworth as Black Panther and the entire black movie-going population of the U.S. would lose its collective shit. And keep in mind this is over a minor superhero almost none of them had even been aware of until "Civil War" came out. I don't believe that changing the race of a character actually constitutes racism. The promotion of a social agenda? Almost certainly. But not really racism. How people choose to react to such a thing, on the other hand, reveals how much of the world they choose to filter through a racial prism. Oh, and "reverse racism" is no more real than "social justice." There is only racism, and there is only justice. Adding any modifiers to those absolutes results in something less and completely foreign to the concepts those words embody.
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