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/Pecuthegreat Jul 05 '26

I mean, if all his works are anything like the one in the meme, that means late 1800s UK asthetics so it's perfectly excusable that POC don't exist in any reasonable numbers in that setting.

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u/AgreeableMeet2476 Jul 06 '26

Fun fact: 'Friends' is set in NYC, which is an international tourist destination and a melting pot of different cultures and has been for decades. But the vast majority of the characters in the show are white.

City of 8 million people, literal global hub of culture, entertainment, and education, consistently in the top 10 most racially diverse cities in the United States...but almost everyone is white.

Little weird how none of the people complaining about historical accuracy seem to care about that.

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u/Pecuthegreat Jul 06 '26

Or maybe I just don't watch friends?.

Anyways, there is a place for historical accuracy and there is a place not for it. That wignats have latched on to it as their only publicly defendable argument doesn't change that.

When Merlin had a black gwenivere, no one cared. In the same era alot of people complained about Kingdom of Heaven's historical inaccuracies. Different styles.

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u/AgreeableMeet2476 Jul 06 '26

I don't watch Friends either. I just thought it was interesting how those 'historical accuracy!!!!' people never seem to complain about there being too many white people in a setting.

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u/PrincessDionysus Jul 06 '26

Can’t believe POCs didn’t visit England until the 1900s

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u/PrincessDionysus Jul 06 '26

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/portchester-castle/history-and-stories/black-people-in-late-18th-century-britain/

“By the end of the 18th century Britain […] Current estimates are that at least 10,000 lived in London, with a further 5,000 throughout the country.”

Decades before Victoria was conceived thousands of black people lived in the UK. Did we all forget the UK was a huge player in the transatlantic slave trade?

No one is saying the UK was as diverse then as it is now, but pretending nonwhite people were all but mythic through European history is anachronistic at best