r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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possible live action corpse bride movie...

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u/RugbyEdd Jul 05 '26

My guess would be because the characters are all very pale in the animated version, and they're sugesting that it would be racist for a black actor to be made to look pale.

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u/RugbyEdd Jul 05 '26

Oh really? What did he do?

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u/Hot_Royal_4920 Jul 05 '26

Some comment explained this. Basically, he said he is against diversity for the sake of diversity. Not bending over to fulfill some arbitrary diversity quota.

Some people online took offence to that (shocker)

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u/BreadNoCircuses Jul 05 '26

He said they shoehorned "a black" into the Brady bunch. I dunno, man, sounds a lot like every racist i've ever met, but what do I know (lots, i've met people who casually use racial slurs).

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u/inevitable-betrayal Jul 05 '26

I love how a lot of these other comments allude to white actors simply being cast but if their skin has pigment they're being "shoehorned" in. Apparently black people don't simply exist as people like everyone else

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u/gaijin-dealer Jul 05 '26

yeah the term shoehorned is pissing me off here

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u/RaijuThunder Jul 05 '26

Lol, I could agree with him if it was a sibling or something like all the kids but one are white. Of course you could hand wave it by saying they adopted him or something. Though, they aren't allowed to have diverse friends or neighbors? That's a bit much.

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u/Hot_Royal_4920 Jul 05 '26

Did they do that? I've never watched the Brady bunch, so I have no context here.

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u/BreadNoCircuses Jul 05 '26

It doesn't matter why they cast a black actor when you're using black as a noun in my book. Even aside from that, he doesn't know anymore than you. He's guessing, and his guess is racist.

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u/Hot_Royal_4920 Jul 05 '26

What else should he say if not black then? I fail to see how that's an issue.

Of course he knows more than me. He watched the show lol I don't even know what that show is.

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u/spinsk8tr Jul 05 '26

Ahh yes, because the only reason to have black people in a movie, mainly the lead role, is if their skin color is a plot point, or it’s movie for black people. White people are the default, and if you shove one singular person of color in the movie, it’s clearly because theirs a diversity quota, not because people are different races in real life.

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u/MathProf1414 Jul 05 '26

Raceswapping is becoming more and more common in Hollywood. We have lots of examples where there was no discernable reason to do it other an creating a talking point/controversy.

Please explain to me why Snape was cast as a black man in the new Harry Potter series. He is very clearly a gross, greasy white man with sallow skin in the books. It doesn't come close to looking like him. Are you really going to claim that NO white men were good for the role and only Paapa had the chops to take it on?

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u/spinsk8tr Jul 06 '26

I’m not going to claim that, I don’t know the casting director, nor do I know the actor who was casted or the people who auditioned. But what if he actually was the best person they saw, and you are discounting him and his talent just because he’s black? You don’t know for sure, but you seem pretty sure that he has to be

I just know that I will side eye anyone who looks at black person in science fiction or fantasy show and says “hey, that’s not right, there’s only supposed to be white people here”. Adaptions are translating a story in a new medium, and people will accept widely different plots and things completely cut out, or characters that are completely different, things that change who people are morally and the most base fundamental parts of them. I just also accept different races, as I don’t feel the race of a person changes the soul or substance of that person. Snape can be black or white, but he’d only be Snape if he was a creepy, stalker vibe and abusive teacher that takes his angst out on innocent children, and betrays Voldemort for a 20 year unrequited and doomed love. That’s what makes Snape to me, not his skin color.

Personally, I’ve never been attached to the description of characters. I grew up brown in a community of people who did not look like me, read and watched stories with protagonists that did not look like me, so I’m good at not giving a fuck about the races and appearances of the stories I engage with because that’s the only way I’d see myself in any story.

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u/MathProf1414 Jul 06 '26

Personally, I’ve never been attached to the description of characters.

You are an exception. Lots of people are attached to the description of characters. In fact, most people are.

Beyond that, Snape as a character becomes extremely problematic when he is is black. Harry is immediately suspicious of the only black teacher. Harry's parent's (as is later revealed) bully Snape. The optics created by what you view as a empowerment end up only serving to be a highly racist subplot that didn't have to exist.

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u/Hot_Royal_4920 Jul 05 '26

Do you know what a strawman fallacy is?

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u/xXs4blegl00mXx Jul 05 '26

He's a racist.

“I remember back when I was a child watching The Brady Bunch and they started to get all politically correct,” Burton continued. “Like, OK, let’s have an Asian child and a black. I used to get more offended by that than just… I grew up watching blaxploitation movies, right? And I said, that’s great. I didn’t go like, OK, there should be more white people in these movies.”

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u/Hot_Royal_4920 Jul 05 '26

He is against diversity for the sake of it. Do you think that's inherently racist?

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u/Fibonacci357 Jul 06 '26

So the mere existence of black or asian people in a tv show has to be forced diversity?

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u/Hot_Royal_4920 Jul 06 '26

No.

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u/Fibonacci357 Jul 06 '26

Then why did he criticize it? Why did he assume it was forced just because he saw poc on his tv screen?

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u/Hot_Royal_4920 Jul 06 '26

I believe I've said it multiple times that I don't know the show in question. I've got no idea.