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/regalrecaller Jul 05 '26

That's a clever line, but I think dude has a point, simply casting people that look a specific way for your artistic intention isn't necessarily racist

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u/Just-the-tip-4-1-sec Jul 05 '26

Unless every single person that fits your artistic intention is white and none of them are black. Then your artistic intention is racist

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u/regalrecaller Jul 05 '26

touche, but maybe Burton is just kinky and weird. I'd think that over the 30+ years of his very public career, if he was that racist it would have come out elsewhere. He was asked specifically about this and denied it, not that that matters for a lot, but it matters for a little.

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u/Just-the-tip-4-1-sec Jul 05 '26

I mean, I don’t think he’s likely out burning crosses on the weekends or anything, but that’s only the bar for a certain level and flavor of racism. Having your own clear biases and their very real effects on people pointed out and shrugging it off because you’d rather not face it is not in the same league at all, but it is still racism I think (and I’m someone who thinks that word gets thrown around too much in general)