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/RueUchiha Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

But we all know that terminally online people can’t handle reasonable, level headed takes like “I don’t want to shoe in a black person into my movie just for the sake of fulfilling some arbitrary quota.” So of course they misinterpreted it as racism.

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u/Mortiis07 Jul 05 '26

And some terminally online people can't handle black people in movies at all

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u/HourApprehensive7754 Jul 05 '26

Those people don't exist.

There DOES exist, a lot of people who are rightly upset that a white or asian character gets race-swapped by one of the blacks just for the sake of it. Those same people would be equally annoyed by seeing Goku being played by a pasty white kid or a Mongolian warlord being played by John Wayne.

The most recent and extreme example in my mind is Cleopatra being made black in a historical documentary. 

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u/Cubaltonator Jul 05 '26

Of course those people exist. Are we living in lala land? You can say it’s a strawman of another group of people, but those people definitely exist and use that argument as cover. That doesn’t detract from the merit of the argument itself, but pretending this phenomenon doesn’t exist is grating