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> a Black family Right, it's just that one Black family. It's not that the Creative Diversity Network found that BAME (Black and Minority Ethnic) on-screen rep

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• bellyfullofbac 5y ago
  Sorry, your comment is quite pathetic and betrays your racism. (What a great way for me to persuade you to think different, huh?) One: Are those actresses not British? Oh, gotta be white, and what other properties do they need, to be British? Two, they are playing characters in fictional stories. From what I can gather from a quick search, Shakespeare based his plays on real historical characters, but with fictional stories. (Maybe since you're a person who likes his heritage, you can tell me whether that's an accurate depiction of what Shakespeare did.). Just like the Titanic is real but the story of Jack and Rose were made up, and they're probably not based on real passengers. Even if there were 2 actual passengers with their names, if the story is made up, why should someone be able to change the story but not change the race of the character? Quoting those percentages is just sad, what, only 14% "BAME" are allowed since there's only 14% of BAME Brits? (Gotta love that people just lump the non-whites as "Others", although there are Blacks, Asians, etc, etc). If you want to use this logic, maybe there should be a massive firing of NBA stars because currently black athletes are over-represented with 74% compared to black population being 14.7% of the total US population. I've got no problems with Scarlett Johansson playing a Japanese cyborg in the fictional story Ghost in the Shell (and surprise, I actually am allowed to have a problem with it), I find it a bit curious when people demand representation in lists like Oscar nominations or "Best books I read last year" Bill Gates likes to publish such a list every year, and one comment that irked me was a woman saying "Why are all the books in your list by white males?". My logic is, what if those were the books that he actually liked the best, and they happened to be all by white males? It would make no sense for him to have to fill a quota with a non-white-male writer. Or what if the plurality of people agree the best 5 directors/actors/etc in a particular year were all white (or they could also be all black and Asian, although then whiteys like you will moan...). Here's a tip, if the only thing you've got to be proud of is your nationality, or your race, you're probably harboring some deep insecurities. If I said "The British did some horrible things in their colonies." you'd say "Wasn't me, those were some men who are now long dead.". In reverse, when you say "Brits conquered the world once.", those were some dead men, not you. Find your pride in your accomplishments, not in a property like skin color or nationality.
  • MikeUt 5y ago
    > Find your pride in your accomplishments, not in a property like skin color or nationality. And if I don't care about pride, but preserving my kin? Should I keep my mouth shut while the media claims my country was always diverse*, there is nothing to preserve? Do you know I am not British? That my country was at one point divided among several others, that even forbade us from using our language in the territory they took? It was rallying around our ethnicity that allowed us to present a united front, and survive as a people. Without what you hastily call racism, we would have been absorbed into neighboring countries with hostile regimes. In many nearby places, these exact conditions led to genocides. *Please spare me the argument that, because ethnicity is fuzzy at the edges, it means people are completely interchangeable, and there is no difference between a Britain with 10% or 50% ethnic Indians.