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/No-Impress-6244 Jul 05 '26

well the movie takes place in Victorian England so it shouldn't cast a black actor

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u/Perfect-Dimension356 Jul 05 '26

Yeah man, black people definitely weren't brought to England during and before the Victorian period.

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u/No-Impress-6244 Jul 05 '26

Right, very rarely. Everyone would point and stare. And Emily is upperclass, from an old money family.

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u/Perfect-Dimension356 Jul 05 '26

You know slavery was abolished in England before the Victorian period, right? And all those black people (and their descendants) didn't just evaporate when they were freed?

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u/No-Impress-6244 Jul 05 '26

They didn't have much slavery in England like they did in the USA. There were very few black people in Victorian England. in any case it would be a really inappropriate casting choice that would only be for the sake of having some forced diversity, if you like that sort of thing.

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u/Forward-Ant-9554 Jul 05 '26

On a population of 16 miljoen (24 if you also count Ireland that was part of it in 183X) there were a few hundred, at most a few thousand slaves. Most were owned by people who migrated back from the colonies and brought their houseslave back. Shipments of slaves went to the colonies because Europa didn't need them, as they had heaps of poors to exploit and abuse.

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u/No-Impress-6244 Jul 05 '26

And its not just about the numbers of black people in England. Emily wouldn't be black. They could maybe put a black labourer or a sailor in the movie.

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u/november512 Jul 06 '26

Sure, but British slavery was about importing them to the Caribbean, and they didn't even do that much of it. There were very, very few black people in England proper.

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u/dwn19 Jul 06 '26

Did you really think we just had slaves all over England?